Linux on the iPaq

Summary

2005-06-29: Installed Familiar 0.8.2 and the new Opie 1.20 -- see history -- but the stowaway keyboard is still not working, and you need the USB connection to sync with the laptop

2005-04-23: Check out pi-sync and the new familiar (with new Opie). Will pi-sync run on familiar? Ask

2003-07-05: Opie is up and running; the PPP connection works through a serial cable, the iPaq is now a machine on my subnet. The USB connection is not yet working, nor is the Stowaway.

To do

• You should be able to get the stowaway keyboard to work now -- ask on the Opie mailing list
• If you can also get the connection to the USB cradle working, you can sync what you write
  
• Otherwise, get a PCMCIA sleeve and a bluetooth card -- can you get one with extra RAM?
• Cardbus vs PC Card -- supposedly the ipaq supports only the latter -- is this still true?
• Is there a bluetooth-enabled stowaway keyboard?
  

Links

• Newsletters from OOO by Mickey Lauer
  
• Configuration
• Installation history
  
• Main links
• Initial links page
• Opie packages
• Current ipkg packages
• Advanced features
• WiFi PDA Meets Linux
  

Connect

• Use the script at spello:/root/ipaq to create a serial connection
• Reset date in two steps:
• date 040513412005 (to get close enough to today for ntpdate to work)
  
• ntpdate spello
  
• If forwarding isn't working, echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
  

Plans

The main thing is to get the Stowaway working, so that you can use the ipaq for taking notes, and bluetooth, so that you can easily sync with the laptop. This should be doable.

See if you can get the Qtopia Desktop working on Sigillo, and sync with Opie. Better ask on the Opie mailing list first! The package libmultisync-plugin-opie is in Debian. Also check out multisync -- there's lots of new work.

Test if the keyboard is working, and the MS fonts. At some point, you should get a better interface with what you're running on the laptop, but USB sync is harder to get going. Check out the Opie packages in sid -- can you run them on Sigillo? Also try to run remote x from ipaq.

Cardbus

Cardbus is PCI mapped onto the 68-pin PCMCIA connector. PC Card is ISA mapped onto the 68-pin PCMCIA connector. The signalling between the two is quite different and incompatible. A cardbus controller is actually two different bus controllers sharing the pins of the PCMCIA socket, with only one active at a time.

Cardbus is not supported by the PCMCIA sleeve. The PCMCIA sleeve uses the SA1110's built-in PCMCIA controller, which only has PC Card interface, not the cardbus interface