installing intimate: the networking step

Hi, all.

So my iPAQ 3765 is now booting off the most recent
Intimate image.

Got the dmesg output and keyboard, eventually found the
place to switch to a rxvt window (top left corner), and
can type commands, etc.

Now it's time to set up the networking. My sleeve only has
the one slot (I'm bidding on a dual sleeve on ebay!) so I
can't use wlan or ethernet, because the sleeve has the hard
drive. So I'm stuck with USBNet.

Since
  http://intimate.handhelds.org/docs/install-howto/index.html
doesn't have any detail on this, I'm following the Intimate
instructions.

laptop:

  Debian testing/sarge

  linux kernel 2.6.0-test2

  'modprobe usbnet' works (having added #define CONFIG_USB_PXA
  to linux/drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c)

intimate (most recent image booting from 30M VFAT partition
on 5GB hard drive):

  ifconfig shows only 'lo' configured.

  lsmod is apparently not supported on the intimate image
  (symlink points to busybox but busybox just prints out a
  list of other cmds), but 'insmod usb-eth' says "A module
  named usb-eth" already exists, so I should be fine, right.

  'ifconfig -a' shows usbf, but 'ifconfig usbf inet 1.1.1.1 up'
  says 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No Such Device' twice.

So now what? I'm stuck.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Tony
Received on Fri Aug 08 2003 - 01:48:47 EDT