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wireless+x image for zipit z2
As requested here it is, for legal reasons you'll still need to add your own wireless as described here. For those interested in building it themselves,
- bitbake busybox
- open your /zipit2/recipes/wireless+x/wirleess+x.bb and remove opentyrian (why is this in there??)
- bitbake wireless+x
August 22nd, 2009 - 06:40
Hi Hunter,
I was looking into putting linux on my zipit2, but it seems the instructions are no longer working from zipit’s linux wiki for openembedded.
Running make produces:
make: *** [OE.mtn] Error 1
(I had to modify it to pull the latest .44 ver of monotone from the correct site.)
OpenEmbedded’s site says they moved from monotone.
I haven’t seen anything that is up-to-date with git and the required steps to get everything working.
Can I simply apply that one zipit2 patch and start building after I modify the local.conf?
August 22nd, 2009 - 07:53
Sorry. Nevermind. I found the updated instructions on the openzipit mediawiki on sourceforge.
August 22nd, 2009 - 09:09
Cool ya, sweetlilmre set those up a little while ago and they should be accurate. Good luck!
August 22nd, 2009 - 14:19
Hi Hunter,
just to let you know that flashing the new kernel and using your image as rootfs works fine! Thanks a lot. Now I can experiment a little bit… only I have to find back the power supply of the Z2 because the battery is almost flat…
September 2nd, 2009 - 21:50
what program are you using to rar the files? I’m having trouble finding something that will uncompress them.
September 2nd, 2009 - 22:10
Hey, it’s unrar-nonfree in the debian repos. Winrar should do it if you’re on windows.
September 3rd, 2009 - 21:39
got unrar since ark just wanted to crap all over it. im having problems with the take root script tho.
December 31st, 2009 - 08:51
Hi, I ordered one of these devices to toy with;
I dont have it yet, but I am very excited about it. I have heard reports of people using 4gb SD cards and rumors that it only supported up to 2gb. Can you confirm any of this?
I was also wondering if you had thought of trying with and (just for the light weight apps) to give a very simple desktop that automatically stretches the windows to fit your screen size.
Also some thoughts, fennec browser? Have you tried it yet or is it too memory hungry?
I also had a small suggestion for dillo.
This will spoof your user agent and tell sites like google, ebay, facebook, myspace; that you are running a very pathetic and weak mobile browser like MSIE! (which you basically are).
This in turn will redirect you to the mobile versions of their sites automatically.
Hopefully this will also tell websites what screen resolution you are using and provide some sort of other layout changes based on that.
Download dillo from source and recompile.
#edit http.c
1 nano -w src/IO/http.c
# There are 2 References to User-Agent
2 put a // infront of both lines containig User-Agent
3 Directly below each line that you just commented out with the // put the following string on one line:
“User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; IM-REALLY-Dillo-Linux/ZipitZ2-ARM-Debian; Windows CE; PPC; 240×320; MOBILE;)/%s\r\n”
#https support do ./confiure-enable-ssl
4 ./configure ; make ; make install ; dillo
December 31st, 2009 - 12:55
Hey opt1k,
First off great tip on changing the user agent in dillo! I’m sure that’ll make things easier for some folks using the Z2 as a browser. I’ve had positive confirmations from others on 8gb and 4gb card sizes, and I use a 2gb in a micro-mini adapter. I believe fennec was working, but quite slowly. I have been using iceWM, with the taskbar set to auto hide and with cpu/memory/network graphs on the double-height bar. It’s been working pretty well, but I have to admit I haven’t turned on a Z2 in a couple months, too many things to hack
Hope your Z2 comes in soon, good luck!
December 31st, 2009 - 19:55
Hunter,
That’s great news. I have an 8gb MicroSD. Ill see if I can get that to work.
I just read over my post and it appears that part of it got cut off.
The part that got cut:
I had thought of using matchbox, with lxpanel, and gpe. I played with it for a bit in a virtual machine, it looked like it would suite the zipit z2 very well.
I posted a quick and dirty write-up on the dillo configuration I made.
I also set up a start page which uses google to process web pages and convert them for mobile viewing in dillo.
If you want to see it: http://rootnexus.org/zipit/dillo/
I had thoughts on removing the status bar from dillo and editing the source to use the address bar to automatically use google to convert the site for mobile viewing.
But that might be excessive.
I definitely enjoy reading about all of your projects here, I had a suggestion for device hacking for you;
Peek Mobile E-mail device. It looks interesting enough and appears to have an arm processor and a group of individuals attempting to get Linux on it.
My thoughts:
I have been following the possibility of ARM netbooks by Pegatron, and Ill be very happy when these get released, I would be very interested in one of those, or some cheap ARM hardware, its amazing to me how these little devices can sell for less than $50 but to even buy a Prototype board brings you up into the hundreds of $. There is definitely a market for these types of devices.
But for now the Zipit Looks like a fun little toy, Im eventually hoping to make the UI for it fast+easy enough to use; that way I can get my significant other off of my computer. Heh
January 1st, 2010 - 20:18
Hey opt1k,
Nice portal! It’s funny you mention the peek, as I’ve got a peek on suggestion from another post. There’s a peeklinux project which I’ll be contributing to, when I get the time. It is pretty crazy how cheaply you can get arm devices. The npower device that went for 10$ on woot the other day has a 200mhz arm in it. I’ll probably pick up an arm netbook at some point too, maybe made by google? Glad to hear you’ll be getting your Z2 soon, keep on posting, and good luck!