Re: networking broken ?

On 12/7/05, Julien Derveeuw <julien.derveeuw_at_lifl.fr> wrote:
> >lsmod. Do you have g_ether loaded? What does modprobe g_ether say?
> >(If your kernel is older than 20051203: nevermind, just recompile).
> >
> if I try to modprobe it, I get :
> FATAL: Error inserting g_ether (...) : No such device
>
> It seems normal as I have an "old" kernel
> but as I am brand new to linux_on_ipaq_world, I don't know at all how
> I can build a new kernel and how I can update it on my ipaq...
> Could you point me at a good tutorial on this ?
> I found nothing interesting while googling

You need a cross compiling toolchain and the kernel from hh.org cvs.
Some links that might be interesting for you:

http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqHx4700
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqHx4700Kernel
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Linux26ToolsAndSources

Another option, if you have the time and space, would be openembedded:
http://oe.handhelds.org/overview.php
http://oe.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/GettingStarted

> Nothing shows up with hciconfig -a
> My rootfs is the one from where I got the kernel

hciattach /dev/ttyS1 texas 115200
Does that result in anything?

cheers
Philipp
Received on Wed Dec 07 2005 - 13:08:30 EST