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muellerr on #handhelds has been working on getting his h2200 to boot from CF.
After hearing what he's run into, I took a crack at it today and was able to
get the bugs worked out. To try it, format an ext2 partition (the first
partition will be simplest) on a CF card and untar this tarball onto it:

http://handhelds.org/~mreimer/gpe-image-v0.8.3-h2200.rootfs-CF.tar.bz2

Then boot the kernel /boot/zImage, and give it about 5-10 minutes to set up
GPE.

If you're booting from LAB, interrupt autoboot and do this:

mount foo /dev devfs
mkdir /mnt
mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt ext2
copy fs:/mnt/boot/zImage fs:/zImage
umount /mnt
armboot fs:/zImage "root=/dev/hda1 rootdelay=5"

If you have a serial cable, you can add "console=ttyS0,115200n8" to the
arguments passed to armboot.

This kernel has the following patches that I hope will get into 2.6.16:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/13/158
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/13/159
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/13/163

Enjoy! We can now boot from any media the h2200 can handle: internal flash,
SD/MMC, or CF.

Matt

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Re: Network connection via USB.

On Feb 12, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Antonio Gennarini wrote: Hi I'm trying to get my IPAQ connection to my Linux Debian (etch) desktop working. I have GPE + Familiar 0.8.3 installed on my SD card and I've followed the instructions on http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/UsbNet yet there must be something I'm missing as when it come to pinging my handheld it gives me a: From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable Now, I have these modules loaded on my desktop machine: Module Size Used by cdc_ether 5440 0 net2280 18416 0 cdc_subset 3424 0 usbnet 14952 2 cdc_ether,cdc_subset Any others I'm missing? When connecting my handheld to my PC I get: Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usb0: register 'cdc_subset' at usb-0000:00:10.0-1, Linux Device, c6:30:80:93:e7:5d Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver cdc_subset Anything missing? Seems ok .... Any help is appreciated cause I'm getting mad trying to figure out what's wrong. On my h2200 and hx4700 with kernels 2.6.13 and 2.6.15, I usually have to remove and reinsert the USB cable after loading g_ether in order for it to work. This is a bug that I think crept in between 2.6.10 and 2.6.13. I haven't found a fix for it yet. Matt

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Re: Network connection via USB.

Il giorno dom, 12/02/2006 alle 21.51 -0800, Matt Reimer ha scritto: > On Feb 12, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Antonio Gennarini wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I'm trying to get my IPAQ connection to my Linux Debian (etch) desktop > > working. I have GPE + Familiar 0.8.3 installed on my SD card and I've > > followed the instructions on http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/UsbNet > > yet there must be something I'm missing as when it come to pinging my > > handheld it gives me a: > > > > From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable > > > > Now, I have these modules loaded on my desktop machine: > > > > Module Size Used by > > cdc_ether 5440 0 > > net2280 18416 0 > > cdc_subset 3424 0 > > usbnet 14952 2 cdc_ether,cdc_subset > > > > Any others I'm missing? > > > > When connecting my handheld to my PC I get: > > > > Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using > > uhci_hcd and address 2 > > Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usb0: register 'cdc_subset' at > > usb-0000:00:10.0-1, Linux Device, c6:30:80:93:e7:5d > > Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver > > cdc_subset > > > > Anything missing? Seems ok .... > > > > Any help is appreciated cause I'm getting mad trying to figure out > > what's wrong. > > On my h2200 and hx4700 with kernels 2.6.13 and 2.6.15, I usually have > to remove and reinsert the USB cable after loading g_ether in order > for it to work. This is a bug that I think crept in between 2.6.10 > and 2.6.13. I haven't found a fix for it yet. > > Matt Do I have to load g_ether on the PDA (HP2210) or on my desktop. On my debian 2.6.15 (etch downloaded not compiled by myself.) there seems to be an issue with g_ether. When i try loading it with modprobe it says it's no present. pippo:~# modprobe g_ether FATAL: Error inserting g_ether (/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/g_ether.ko): No such device pippo:~# No matter if the pda is plugged or not. Any suggstions? Cheers -- Antonio Gennarini email: geotux-na2r7Jod8xleoWH0uzbU5w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Network connection via USB.

Hi I'm trying to get my IPAQ connection to my Linux Debian (etch) desktop working. I have GPE + Familiar 0.8.3 installed on my SD card and I've followed the instructions on http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/UsbNet yet there must be something I'm missing as when it come to pinging my handheld it gives me a: From 192.168.0.3 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable Now, I have these modules loaded on my desktop machine: Module Size Used by cdc_ether 5440 0 net2280 18416 0 cdc_subset 3424 0 usbnet 14952 2 cdc_ether,cdc_subset Any others I'm missing? When connecting my handheld to my PC I get: Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usb0: register 'cdc_subset' at usb-0000:00:10.0-1, Linux Device, c6:30:80:93:e7:5d Feb 13 04:23:05 pippo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver cdc_subset Anything missing? Seems ok .... Any help is appreciated cause I'm getting mad trying to figure out what's wrong. Cheers. -- Antonio

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Re: Boot GPE from CF

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 17:57 -0800, Matthew Reimer wrote: > This kernel has the following patches that I hope will get into 2.6.16: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/13/158 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/13/159 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/13/163 > Do these patches completely fix the cache coherency issues with CF? Really cool! Regards, Bas.

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