Few days ago Ångström distribution was released. Currently machine mentors tests images and release them so their devices will be also supported and ready for users.
Users often have CompactFlash cards which we (developers) do not have. Some of them will be hit by miscellaneous problems. For example their WiFi card which was nicely working with [...]
Yesterday I got Progear 1050HX+ webpad from one of OpenZaurus users. It has Transmeta Crusoe CPU (TM3200/400MHz), 2.5″ harddisk inside, Orinoco WiFi card (so no WPA for me) and the best part: 1024×768 touchscreen panel. After booting I got very stripped installation of MS Windows 98SE and played a bit. Due to fact that it [...]
I do not like a way how PCMCIA/CF cards are handled under Linux. For kernels < 2.6.13-rc1 the only choice is pcmcia-cs package with lot of files in /etc/pcmcia/ which are just cardctl ident output edited a bit with added driver name:
root@c7×0:~# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: “Pretec”, “CompactWLAN Card 802.11b”, “2.5″ manfid: [...]