hpcboot

Re: hpcsh on jornada 680

leboucher nicolas <lebouchern <at> wanadoo.fr> writes:

> 
> 
> Maybe usefull
>  
> I 've installed netbsd-3.0 RC5 on my jornada 680 
> using a 1Go compact flash memory card with the following partitions 

hi, I am very new to jornada 680.
I'd like to have netbsd on it.
for now I am experiencing hardware problem: 
the 1Go Kingston compact flash memory card I bought 
is not recognized by WinCe (even with improved drivers from hp). 
Did you do something special to have it work ? 
What is the brand of your card ? 
Thanks.
pierre

Re: hpcsh on jornada 680

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 19:41:56 +0000, Pierre Gosselet wrote:

> for now I am experiencing hardware problem: 
> the 1Go Kingston compact flash memory card I bought 
> is not recognized by WinCe (even with improved drivers from hp). 
> What is the brand of your card ? 

I've bought 1Gb Kingston CF once to use as a music storage in my other
WinCE device (Fujitsu Pocket LOOX 720), and it didn't work there, the
system wouldn't recognize it.  Surprisingly Jornada recognized the
card.  I've been hearing other similar stories about Kingston.

Anyway, I've returned that card and got one by Transcend.  I think
most of my cards (CF and SD) are by Transcend.  Not that I have any
clue to motivate that decision, but they always worked for me and the
price delta w.r.t. other brands is usually negligible (at least here),
so I just stick to it.

SY, Uwe
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Looking for cheap combo nic-modem for 680

I've finally given up on my 3com combo modem ethernet. I'd like to 
find a combo nic+modem known to work on a 680 with the current kernel. 
I'd prefer one that doesn't require a dongle, but it's not mandatory.

Could people who have a working card (both modem and nic verified to 
work) let me know what they are using. Specific model number would be 
appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: hpcboot for WinCE 2.00

Hello!

I have one the these old 620LX and I am having quite some trouble
booting it with this hpboot200.

I evetually boots a 3.0 kernel with a minimalistic miniroot, but the
kernel that ships with the 3.0 has serious hanging issues, especially
when programs dump lots of data to the screen. There a thread about
there somewhere else on this list.

I wasn't able to boot the kernel in -current at all, I tried about 40
times.

The most common error occurs quem the blue progress bar is all the way
through and when the screen blanks and the kernel messages should
appear, I get "Hewlett Packard Corporation 1997" in the center of the
black screen and some three lines of text on the lower left corner, that
come by so quickly I can hardly read. The system then returns to WinCE
as if the program had exited, not asking to recalibrate, what tells me
that the memory hasn't even been erased.

One other more rare error just writes something to the middle of the
screen so fast I can't tell even if the text makes sense and performs a
cold boot, showing that graphical HP cold-boot screen and asking to
recalibrate and time/date info.

I hope that helps, if you need some more information or tests, please
let me know.

Thank you.

Re: hpcboot for WinCE 2.00

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 17:48:32 -0200, Marco Poli wrote:

> The most common error occurs quem the blue progress bar is all the way
> through and when the screen blanks and the kernel messages should
> appear, I get "Hewlett Packard Corporation 1997" in the center of the
> black screen and some three lines of text on the lower left corner, that
> come by so quickly I can hardly read. The system then returns to WinCE
> as if the program had exited, not asking to recalibrate, what tells me
> that the memory hasn't even been erased.
> 
> One other more rare error just writes something to the middle of the
> screen so fast I can't tell even if the text makes sense and performs a
> cold boot, showing that graphical HP cold-boot screen and asking to
> recalibrate and time/date info.

Can you try it with serial console?

SY, Uwe
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pkgsrc build problem

I've managed to build Gaim from pkgsrc (works pretty well), and am 
trying to set up encryption for it. Everything is blocking on 
devel/nspr. I just can't get this to build.

I tried it on my i386 machine and everything works as expected. On my 
680, it fails near the beginning of the build. Could someone more 
clueful than I take a look at this and tell me what is going wrong?

Mike

Re: hpcboot for WinCE 2.00

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 17:48:32 -0200, Marco Poli wrote:

> The most common error occurs quem the blue progress bar is all the
> way through and when the screen blanks and the kernel messages
> should appear, I get "Hewlett Packard Corporation 1997" in the
> center of the black screen and some three lines of text on the lower
> left corner, that come by so quickly I can hardly read. The system
> then returns to WinCE

I think this is a bug in hpcboot ELF loader.  I've just encountered a
a problem with one of my kernels, where hpcboot would miscalculate a
number of pages to allocate and the kernel ends up booted with a
corrupt stack.  I'll try to fix it today.

SY, Uwe
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Re: hpcboot for WinCE 2.00

I have just bought a serial cable on eBay, should take a couple of weeks
to arrive. Hopefully I will be able to give some information by then if
the problem already persists.

Thanks,

Marco Poli

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:41 +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 17:48:32 -0200, Marco Poli wrote:
> 
> > The most common error occurs quem the blue progress bar is all the
> > way through and when the screen blanks and the kernel messages
> > should appear, I get "Hewlett Packard Corporation 1997" in the
> > center of the black screen and some three lines of text on the lower
> > left corner, that come by so quickly I can hardly read. The system
> > then returns to WinCE
> 
> I think this is a bug in hpcboot ELF loader.  I've just encountered a
> a problem with one of my kernels, where hpcboot would miscalculate a
> number of pages to allocate and the kernel ends up booted with a
> corrupt stack.  I'll try to fix it today.
> 
> SY, Uwe

Package build problem

Still haven't solved the problem with nspr, so I decided just to 
package up gaim as is.

The package built and installed OK. I removed all audio, encryption 
and national language support, which explains some of the errors 
below.

Anyway, when I tried to "make package", the process fails with a tar 
error. Has anyone seen this before. I don't understand why the package 
would build and install correctly, but refuse to build.

Here is the output of "make package"

13:10 <1> mikewheel <at> net680[0]/usr/pkgsrc/chat/gaim#make package 
===> *** No /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/pkg-vulnerabilities file found,
===> *** skipping vulnerability checks. To fix, install
===> *** the pkgsrc/security/audit-packages package and run
===> *** '/usr/pkg/sbin/download-vulnerability-list'.
===> Packaging gaim-1.3.1nb1
===> Building binary package for gaim-1.3.1nb1
Creating package /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/gaim-1.3.1nb1.tgz
Using SrcDir value of /usr/pkg
Registering depends: glib2>=2.6.1 gtk2+>=2.6.4nb1 xdg-dirs>=1.1.
Registering conflicts: gaim-gnome-[0-9]*.
pkg_create: can't stat `/usr/pkg/lib/gaim/libsilcgaim.la'
pkg_create: can't stat `/usr/pkg/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo'
pkg_create: can't stat `/usr/pkg/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo'
pkg_create: can't stat `/usr/pkg/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo'

[similar lines regarding national language support deleted]

pkg_create: can't stat `/usr/pkg/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo'
pkg_create: can't stat `/usr/pkg/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo'
tar: Unable to access lib/gaim/libsilcgaim.la (No such file or directory)
tar: Unable to access share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo (No such file or directory)
tar: Unable to access share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo (No such file or directory)

[another deletion of similar lines]

tar: Unable to access share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo (No such file or directory)
tar: WARNING! These file names were not selected:
lib/gaim/libsilcgaim.la
share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo
share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo

[snip]

share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gaim.mo
pkg_create: tar command failed with code 256
(pkg_create: exitcode 2)
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/chat/gaim
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/chat/gaim
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/chat/gaim
13:18 <2> mikewheel <at> net680[1]/usr/pkgsrc/chat/gaim#

Any ideas? Is the process failing because of the removal of sound 
and/or national language support. I did this properly using config 
switches passed in the Makefile, not by hacking into it.

I suspect there may also be some confusion here between BSD and GNU 
tools, but don't really know how to proceed.

If anyone wants to play with it, I can send them the build directory 
(about 150M, surely much less once tarred and gzipped).

It's actually quite useable on the small screen once appropriate 
adjustements have been made to window size. With a wireless card, 
allows the Jornada to be used as a nice handheld chat device.

Mike