solved: Re: installing intimate: the networking step

According to Tony Godshall,

Uh, replying to myself. Sorry, fixed the first issue, now
stuck on the next one.

Hi, all.

I guess it was just a bad cable or something.

Unplugged it and plugged it back it, failed again, but the
third time's a charm.

Typing long command lines over and over with a stylus,
however, that's no fun at all.

If anyone's taking wishlist items for the next image rev, I'd
vote for a shell that supports a /history/ (ctrl-P is what I'm
used to, tho the joypad would be better) or aliases for the
next rev.

Now I can ping. It took me a couple tries, but I got dns
working to, so I'm (I hope) home free.

By the way, another gotcha for any future FAQ (if anyone's
collecting install problems)- it the ipaq slips out of the
sleeve and you stick it back in, the hard drive becomes
disc1 instead of disc0. And familiar-install is hardcoded
for disc0. I confirmed this behavior by slipping it out and
back in a few more times and sure enough each time it
incremented by one.

Thanks for any assistance. I'm on my way!

Tony

-- I wrote: --
> 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.
Received on Fri Aug 08 2003 - 02:41:30 EDT