I read thread about opie trademark on opie@handhelds.org ML, read posts about GPE situation months ago and now and decided that handhelds.org is not my community.
OPIE was my favorite environment since I bought Zaurus SL-5500 over 3 years ago. I was one of persons which added OPIE recipes into OpenEmbedded and spent lot of time [...]
During last week I switched my home WiFi from insecure WEP to WPA2.
Why not used WPA before? My x86 test machine was ProGear which use Orinoco PCMCIA card (no WPA support) and I also used Tosa with that crap called wlan-ng (also no WPA support). Now I have USB Ethernet card and PCMCIA->CF adapter so [...]
FIC Neo1973 phone is more or less ready for developers. GTA01Bv4 will be shipped soon but it will not have WiFi. The reason is simple — creators did not found chip which will:
be small enough not eat lot of power have open sourced driver (I wrote more on drivers before)
If everything will go OK then during [...]
Today I read post on LinuxNews (Polish language) about state of drivers for graphic cards. There are closed source propertiary drivers which works and give 3D acceleration and there are free drivers which cover some cards and provide kind of 3D acceleration for subset of them. The result is that user have to choose:
closed, propertiary [...]
During last days I moved from my C760 to Tosa. It is heavy, big and has awesome screen — I can use it even with lowest brightness setting (one step from “no backlight”). Stylus is made from plastic but is longer then styli from other Zaurus models. Internal WiFi is able to do WPA on [...]
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: [...]