[iPAQ] Another success story (and a few questions)

Nothing better than answering your own questions:

> Now that I am up and running, I have a few questions:
>
> 1) Most importantly, I want to get some networking going right away. I
> assume that I can do PPP over my freshly-hacked serial cable. Can
> anyone give me a quick rundown of how to pull this off? Here is
> where I am at so far:

I did some digging in the mailing list archives and came up with:

        http://www.handhelds.org/pipermail/linux/2000-July/000154.html

It'd be nice to drop something like this message onto a web page I think.

> a) The kernel in v0.13 doesn't seem to have ppp support
> compiled in unless I missed it. I can recompile this
> myself.

I was looking for the wrong module names. As mentioned in the message
referenced above all that is needed is slhc, ppp_generic, and
ppp_async, (all of which are available in v0.13).

> b) What do I do about the console that is already on
> /dev/ttyS0 since booting? I'm rather ignorant here, is
> there a way to detach that console so it won't interfere
> with my PPP?

I still don't know the answer to this one. This issue is not addressed
by the message I referenced above.

I guess I'll give this a whirl now that I found a few pointers.

-Carl
Received on Wed Aug 30 09:13:56 2000