Re: [iPAQ] One suggestion, one question

You see a lot of people with communication problems and the first thing
someone usually asks is if they turned off flow control. I just looked
at the installation guide linked from handhelds.org and it has the
serial settings in bold including no flow control. What instructions
were you following specifically?

When they refer to backing up the rom they are actually talking about
Flash RAM. Depending on the model you have you have either 16mb or 32mb
of ROM (Flash RAM) and 32mb or 64mb of "normal" RAM. If you actually
had ROM, like many of the earlier pocketpc and wince machines, you
would have no ability to change its contents to have linux.

Pete Borders

On 28 Mar 2002 at 19:46, bugbustr@bellatlantic.net wrote:

> I've just connected to the bootloader for the first time. I only had
> one problem with the whole process, which could easily be alleviated if
> you modify the online docs. Under installation, item 14 mentions using
> HyperTerminal to connect to the iPaq. On my system (Win2K Pro),
> HyperTerminal by default uses flow control. In order to "talk" to my
> iPaq, I had to set up a connection with flow control OFF. This seems to
> be working marvelously.
>
> Now, for the question. In the online installation doc, you list two
> commands for uploading the Flash as a method of backup, one for the 16Mb
> version, the other for the 32Mb. I'm confused. AFAIK, my iPaq has 16Mb
> of Flash ROM, and 32Mb of RAM. So when you refer to Flash, are you
> referring to the Flash ROM?
>
> Anyway, I'm doing the upload of the 16Mb chunk as I type this, and when
> it's finished, I'll try the 32Mb command just to be safe.
>
> TIA,
>
> Dave Perkins
>
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Received on Fri Mar 29 10:38:03 2002