Re: [jornada] Replacing the bootloader on the 720 (and other life enhancing questions!)

Hello Alex,

good news is, you don't much have to worry about bricking.
the bad news is, unless you are very fortunate and have an unusual
720, your roms are *masked* and not flashable. Which means that
its relatively unlikely that you are going to replace the CE bootloader,
without hardware modification.

jca had a few flash modules at HP Labs that he was able to send to
people; there is some indication that more may be available in the
future; but until/unless that happens, what you have now may be your
only real option for booting.

If you were able to flash it somehow, the recommendation would be to
save a copy of your own CE ROMs, before reflash; the ipaq ones were
written for different hardware and most certainly would not work.

/sbin/ifconfig works fine for me. If you are using some other program
(what is 'ipconfig'?) your mileage may vary. ifconfig is *standard* though.

Most (if not all?) pcmcia network cards that are supported by standard
(x86) linux should be supported by armlinux; not all will be built into
your kernel by default, and not all will be available as modules.
You might need to recompile/rebuild to make sure all the modules you need
are available.

I'm using pcnet based ethernet, and lucent prism based wlan cards
with no problem.

-raduga

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Alex Judd wrote:

> Hi List
>
> Small steps at first but I'm now gathering speed with my 720 familiar linux
> install, and considering embarking on the bootloader replacement stage (so
> that I don't have to reconfigure my touch screen every time I battery remove
> the damn machine!)
>
> Looking at the handhelds org guide to doing this on the iPaq, there are
> replacement backup versions of CE for the iPaqs that mean it can be
> debricked should it all go wrong. Searching around HP's site there doesn't
> appear to be the same for the 720.
>
> So the questions are has anyone..
> - done this bootloader install successfully?
> - tried restoring CE using any of the iPaq versions of CE?
> - worked out why running ipconfig crashes the 720?
> - produced a PCMCIA card database for cardmgr?
> - got a 3com pcmcia network or netgear 802.11b card working with either CE
> or Linux?
>
> Lots of questions I'm afraid (sorry Peter) and so any help much appreciated!
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
>
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Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 23:54:20 EST