Re: [iPAQ] evil qpe-ppp

From: Timothy Farrell <tercero12.a.t.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 23:27:48 EST

To my experience, qppp and qnetsetup don't yet work for the ipaq at all.

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 05:09 pm, Markus Gritsch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After installing the qpe-ppp IPKG, I no longer had a serial connection
> to my iPAQ, since the package modified /inittab in a way that ppp is
> started after booting.
>
> So I uninstalled qpe-ppp (with qpe-konsole) which made things even
> worse, since the modification of /inittab is not performed as some
> postinstall script, but rather overwrites (!) the file with its own one,
> and so it gets removed completely when qpe-ppp is uninstalled. This is
> a really bad thing, since while booting I get asked
>
> INIT: version 2.78 booting
> INIT: No inittab file found
>
> Enter runlevel:
>
> and there is no number which leads to a login prompt.
>
> So how can I get to a prompt so that I can send a /inittab file to the
> iPAQ? Help really needed.
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Markus
>
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Received on Wed Jan 30 20:30:46 2002

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