Has anybody ever installed and used the Familiar linux Distribution in a PDA.?
I have been trying to do so in my IPAQ H3650 based on howtos in www.handhelds.org & familiar.handhelds.org I succeeded in loading the basic bootloader image, overwriting the FLASH from WINCE to the basic linux kernel and drivers/shell et-cetera package using minicom and a serial line from my regular GNU box. However, my CF wireless card (Zonet CF1100) was not detected by the kernel at all (although the pcmcia modules are loaded, as I saw in the output of "lsmod"). I tried to load up many generic drivers (the aironet ones) but none worked and sent some rather intimidating error messages to "dmesg". Needless to say, "iwconfig" still gives nothing. The handhelds.org website lists CF cards that have been reported to work with familiar, but I'm afraid of dishing out green for an extra CF card (They're BLOODY expensive!) only to see it zonk out in linux. Has anybody succeeded in getting a CF card to work using Familiar Linux in an IPAQ? If so, do be a good chap and let us all know. Analabha Roy ________________________________________________________________________ Analabha Roy Graduate Student Department Of Physics, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1600, Austin, Texas 78712-0264, United States emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Home Page: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
