Re: hi, and driver for Sparklan WCFM-100 CF?

Thanks Marcus for both messages.
A pity: I bought a CF card which is not yet supported. Does anybody know how
to get a supported CF card? Do you know anyone obtainable from Spain? 2nd
hand or new...

Foldable keyboard: I followed the indications in that message and wiki page
(thanks for the link), but I could'nt manage to make it work.I tried with
both settings in /etc/kbdd.conf :

port: /dev/tts/0
type: foldable

 or

port: /dev/ttySA0
type: foldable

and rebooting (soft reboot through the button below the ipaq)

However, some strange thing is that each time (after the new file was saved
on the SD card ext2 partition where familiar 0.8.4 was placed), after
rebooting with haret, etc. at "Settings > Keys and Buttons > external
keyboard", it wasn't set to type "foldable" (that's what it is according to
the wiki page, since it's the serial hp original foldable keyboard, spanish
version). I always set that to "serial", and "foldable", and after saving
(with admin passowrd, etc.), no effect. And when I go back again to have a
look at that setting, it says again as if no type is defined.
¿?

I might be doing something wrong? Maybe the spanish version is not
supported?

Xavi

P.s: When I edit that file (/etc/kbdd.conf), I do it setting the sd card to
a desktop computer, copying the file to the harddisk, and as root, edit with
"gedit" (utf-8 by default), and save again, and copy it over the SD card
again. (I say so in case it matters to some mistake I might be doing... file
seems to be owned by root root anyways, after the edit...)

2008/6/29 Marcus Brown <marcusbrutus_at_internode.on.net>:

> Hi Xavi,
>
> I suspect you will find that the drivers for the Sparklan card are far
> too recent for the 2.6.15 (?) kernel in Familiar 0.8.4.
> Ref:
>
> http://projects.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-users/2007-November/000904.html
>
> Marcus.
>
> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 15:27 +0200, Xavier de Pedro wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I'm newbie using ipaq devices (as well as compiling from source), and I
> > got a second hand ipaq h2200 in order to be able to run free software
> > operation system and applications on it. In order to have wi-fi internet
> > connection, and after reading that SD-I/O cards aren't supported by the
> > linux kernel, I recently bought a Sparklan WCFM-100 802.11g Compact
> > Flash card, which said it was supported by Linux.
> > http://www.sparklan.com/product_details.php?prod_id=21
> >
> > The card works fine under win ppc2003, and I could connect to internet,
> > etc. So I decided to migrate the ipaq to use Linux on it (familiar
> 0.8.4).
> >
> > I've read this documentation:
> > http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH2200UsersDoc
> >
> > .... and followed instructions on this page (below) to allow booting gpe
> > from a partitioned SD card and haret, etc.
> > http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/CardBoot
> >
> > I can boot gpe, and work with it, but the Wifi CF card leds are off, and
> > I don't know how to make it work.
> >
> > I attempted to assign a driver to it through "PC/CF Cards > Assign
> > driver", since it says "no driver loaded", but I don't know which one to
> > choose from the list. GPE says:
> >
> > /Your current card identifies itself as:
> > Marvell 802.11CF
> > Manuf. Id: 0x02df, 0x8103
> > Class: network (6)
> > /
> >
> >
> > I wonder if I have to try all the drivers in the list provided with gpe
> > (familiar 0.8.4). I tried some, but they didn't work.
> >
> > On another hand, I saw this page reporting that they have a driver that
> > should work with this device:
> > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/libertas
> >
> > But I'm not very skilled on compiling source code, etc.
> >
> > Any tip from any more experienced user would be welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Xavi
> >
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>
Received on Mon Jun 30 2008 - 03:10:17 EDT