Re: Anybody still active on porting for this device ?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:22:00AM +0100, fox wrote:
> Hello List,
>
Hello!!

> I was able to install the familiar 0.8.4 release onto my h6315 - works
> like a charm after some fiddling ;)
>
There are a few things I'd advise.

1. Remove the getty on ttyS0 from /etc/inittab.
2. Think about the pros and cons of using a swap file.
     Ive had memory cards die because of all the extra writing.
     Ive had programs exit when out of memory.

There are a few things I've found not to work.

1. The HPBT foldable keyboard, installing the ?kbd? program should fix
this.
2. Using pppd to continually stay connected, I think we need an
update/patch. I did install a pppd from Debian that should have the
patch, but this is still an issue.

My setup:
I'm using the HP as a GPRS modem for my home Internet connection.
Currently I'm ssh-ing into the HP and using the SOCKS proxy feature.
To increase speed I've been trying to migrate the task of compression
to the workstation. I'd love to use ssh or telnet to export the
serial port to the workstation, but for now I'm tunneling an ssh
connection to a nearby server and using ssh compression.

This all works and I'm able to run a local squid cache and surf the
Internet.

For ssh I'm using autossh and the RTTs cause these to disconnect when
they shouldn't at times. From time to time the USB network connection
has needed to be unplugged. The ppp session is often difficult to
keep connected.

Other notes:

I'd love to see new images built!! Can I assume that there are
Developers working on Familiar and/or GPE? Are there updates that the
current image does not have?

I didn't think about it till now, but I could perhaps repack the image
and fix the hciattach problem. This assumes that there are no updates
to the software included, a frightful thought.

I'm too lazy to setup a build/test environment, but I can assist with
fixing bugs and committing patches to CVS.

What about the new EABI?
http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort

> But, it's somewhat ugly when most of the links on
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH6315 are unreachable. also
> the latest available image is from december 2006.
> fuzzyneural.net's h6300 page seems to be lost, also
> http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300 ..
> or are there already new links, but no-one want's to tell, because
> they're so cool and awesome that no one wants to share that (because of
> all the dumb people who start silly questions about stuff already
> discussed? :)
>
> so, here can i find an build environment (and some howtos) for the h6300 ?
>
> what's about porting simon (speech to text recognition) and mbrola
> (speech synth) to the device?
> imagine it in a pipe with some AI like JEliza - that would make some
> (Artifical) weird iFriend out of your iPaq..
>
> or dial your phonenumbers with your language over your bluetooth headset..
>
> or create a voice mail box right on your h6300 - after ringing 3 times
> take up, play your message, beep and record what's coming in. or let the
> caller talk to some AI *grin*
>
> im also willing to help you, but unfortunately are my c++ skills not
> available nor i can't speak assembler or write drivers to enable the
> wlan. but i can offer "won't dissappear"-webspace for images, svn stuff
> and the like, if needed. may the developers contact me.
>
One issue is updating stale content, if ppl put up there own sites. I
would have posted what is avalible, but given the current RC bugs I
don't feel like it would be appropriot.

There was a copy of the stuff from aragorn.

> Patrick
>
> Mike Mestnik schrieb:
> >On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:20:01PM +0200, Piotr Zicik wrote:
> >
> >>Dnia sobota, 28 kwietnia 2007, Olivier Berger napisa³:
> >>
> >>>There doesn't seem to be much activity here... and main resource sites
> >>>of information seem to be more or less down...
> >>>
> >>>Anyone still intrested in improving port of linux to the h63xx devices
> >>>?
> >>>
> >>I am. Especially in bluetooth improvements. But currently I am discovering
> >>OpenEmbedded build system.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >I found out why there was a need to run hciattach multiple times...
> >
> >Init was/is running a getty on ttyS0, I'm sure the BT device loves the
> >extra chatter.
> >
> >
> >>--
> >>Pozdrawiam.
> >>Piotr Ziêcik
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> >>https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/h6300-port
> >>
> >
> >

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