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Opie configuration Documentation Establishing a PPP connection Log out of the iPaq and connect it to the serial cable. On spello in konsole, issue: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwardThis lets spello forward ip requests from the ipaq out to the world. Next establish the ppp connection:
This establishes ipaq on my network with a fixed IP, accessible from anywhere. You should get this: If you don't want to access it from anywhere, could you just use an ip address like 192.168.0.202? Note that you're also running vmware on spello, which uses something like 192.168.120.1. Not sure how all these ports work. Note that you can give the command above (which is now in spello:/root/ipaq) as ./ipaq &and then use the same konsole terminal to ssh to the ipaq. On exiting, issue jobsand you'll see the running ppp job called ipaq, usually job number 1. To bring it back to focus, issue fg 1You can now press Ctrl-C to close the serial connection, or (for that matter) Ctrl-Z to background it again. Establishing a USB network connection (not yet working)
modprobe usb-eth
ifconfig usbf up 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
cat /etc/resolv.conf
ifconfig usb0 1.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0This is supposed to be enough to make it work. Note this package: opie-sh-usbnetctrl - frontend to start/stop usbnetNot yet installed. See also these usbnet instructions -- possibly dated. I downloaded a usbnet utility, but it likely only mounts the module (not tried). Upgrading packages
The sources.list is called /etc/ipkg.conf and the opie configuration in /etc/dpkg/opie.conf. After issuing "just update" you can watch the packages come
down in /tmp. Once the download is complete, they move to
/usr/lib/ipkg/lists -- I notice I've also downloaded a package list
called x. I wonder if that means I could install x packages -- the
whole gtk suite? To see what's on the system, you can issue cd / && du | more On 3 August 03, Opie 1.0 was released. In Familiar 0.7, the opie repository is not listed in /etc/ipkg.conf but in /etc/ipkg/opie.conf instead -- you can put the other repositories there too. I issued "ipkg install task-opie" and got three packages (including task-opie itself). I then issued "just upgrade" and got a large number of packages. This seems to work fine -- in spite of this warning on the forum: You may need to follow the opie thread for possible problems with the upgrade; perhaps more importantly, see the dev list. The Opie 1.0.0 upgrade worked fine, but missed this: opie-today-mailpluginThe first of these two is in fact not present in the 1.0 repository and I deleted it; the second is available with the weird name task-opie-today_0.5-_arm.ipk -- I'm unable to retrieve it, and deleted the current package. I also deleted the third. Sync'ing the Calendar The Opie
calendar uses an xml format, but there's a libical library that may
allow it to read the ical format used by KOrganizer. In Opie, there's a
package called ical-outlook that handles the peculiarities of
Outlook (and it required python-base_2.2) -- it also has the libical
libraries, but I don't think I need the rest. I removed both
ical-outlook and python-base. A messy situation -- I should forget
about the calendar perhaps and just to the addresses. However, import can likely be automated; that's what the kitchensync instructions suggests. Klaus Leopold <kl@itec.uni-klu.ac.at> writes, I'm using Opie on my IPAQ and I'm syncing my KOrganizer with Kitchensync which So watch that -- maybe get rid of the todo list. Or try transferring the files manually, once you know where they are located. Note that korganizer runs on the Zaurus; see detailed instructions. See the KDEPIM mailing list; I asked on 6 July 2003 if there was a binary for the ipaq. The problem is that KOrganizer uses *.ics files and Opie uses an xml format -- the calendars are not directly compatible afaics. However, KOrganizer has been ported -- korganizer_1.0.0_arm.ipk !! See also the multisync project, which now supports opie. The unofficial debs are here. Sync'ing the Addressbook The Opie addressbook can import the VC format, which is what
KAddressbook uses; just do this occasionally. Catch: in 0.99pre it's failing to
import the vcf file; don't know what the problem is. Not yet tested in 1.0. Detailed instructions -- this is more likely to work! (external) See an example of how the script kids do it.
A description of a heroic but failed attempt on my hardware and (as of 6 July 2003) software.
Check out the Debian package dasher (on Sigillo) -- a really
cool way to type. Now I find out it will run on the iPaq -- under
WinCE! Dirson and Garrett are porting it to Opie and had an alpha in early June 2003. See also the project page and the paper in Nature. After a reset
date 070513412003Then store this in CMOS (doesn't seem to work on the iPAQ -- but it does not UTC): Reinstalling packages You normally won't need to reinstall packages -- even a reset doesn't wipe the memory. Here's a list of vital stuff if you ever need to do this again:
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