Re: problem with "ipkg update" with familiar-gpe v0.6.1

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 05:09 pm, Mildred Frisco wrote:
> i can't get past the "ipkg update" problem with familiar v0.7 and it
> seems that many users are having this problem

I'm not at all sure what problem you're referring to here.

> i think the network is set-up already because i can ping some hosts from
> the iPAQ, and the gateway is also working

Can you ping remote hosts by name (ie. is your DNS set up and working)?

> i haven't done anything about ipfw/masquerading

In that case, how is your iPAQ able to access the "outside world"? Are you
using bridging?

> how do i know what's the default setting for this on familiar?

I'm not sure what you are really asking here. If you're not going to use
bridging, then you need to set up forwarding/masquerading on the host that
the iPAQ is connected to. The only part of this that has anything to do with
Familiar is the iPAQ's IP address.

> but when i run ipkg update
>
> # ipkg update
> Downloading
> http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.6.1/base/armv4l/Packages
> Setting environment variable: http_proxy = http://202.90.128.5:3128
> Setting environment variable: ftp_proxy = http://202.90.128.5:3128
> (... long wait, so i decided to Ctrl. C)

Could it just be a slow connection? Maybe the download was working, just
slowly.

> Downloading http://familiar.handhelds.org/feeds/timezones/Packages
> Setting environment variable: http_proxy = http://202.90.128.5:3128
> Setting environment variable: ftp_proxy = http://202.90.128.5:3128
> updated list of timezone packages at /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/timezones

Presumably this is a much smaller download.

> i guess, it was able to connect only to the timezones packages, but i
> repeated ipkg update and there was no response anymore.

What do you mean "no response"? Does your iPAQ just hang when you enter an
ipkg command, or what?

> how do i solve this?

If you can get back to the "Downloading
http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.6.1/base/armv4l/Packages"
message and wait until you get another message, it might give you a better
idea of what's going on.
Received on Thu Aug 07 2003 - 07:52:49 EDT