Comments on: Zipit Z2 New Kernel Update!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:58:35 +0000

ok messed around with wpa supplicant and iwconfig for a little before going to sleep didnt get it working going to try again tomorrow getting tired cant remember what i’v changed and havnt changed

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:41:15 +0000

Im sad to say that after hours of work I still do not have this working. I unrar and untar-ed the files to the sd card. Im using ubuntu to do most of my work I also try to work on windows 7 with no luck (cannot untar the files on win dont know why).

o wow i just turned on the zipit before typing all this and i guess i just never waited long enough lol stupid me

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:01:58 +0000

Hi Mark,

You may need to re-download the file. I just tried it with winrar and it untars fine. Are you on windows or linux. On linux ‘tar -xf filename.tar’ should extract it. Yes ext2 is good for the sd card. Good Luck!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:53:16 +0000

Thank you for your quick response.

I downloaded the image it seems to be rar and tar compressed winrar gets you to the tar file but it tries to open that file and comes up with a bunch of errors. I cannot seem to get your image to unzip.

also I am using ext2 for the sd card, is that right?

Again Thank you for your help

-Mark

By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:57:54 +0000

Hey Mark,

You’re almost there. Download the userland image with X I posted up the other day and unzip it to SD. That’ll get you a working linux with X. From there you can get wifi working with the howto on the wiki http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/openzipit/index.php?title=Main_Page/ . You can compile your own packages with the bitbake env. you get from the source checkout (see the wiki), or check the new images we’ll be posting soon with sound net and some other apps already running

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:39:03 +0000

Hi, I am semi noob at this. I used the autoflash got the zipit to boot to where you see the logo even without the sd card. And now I am totally stuck I dont know what to do from here.

My goal is to just use this as a just a handheld web browser that I can use at open wifi spots and maybe the nes emulator.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-mark

By: hunter

hunter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:56:04 +0000

Yep..

By: M@

M@ — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:24:03 +0000

Yes, I re did it again to make sure, still the same issue and no change in dmesg. Im gonna give your wireless image a go just to test. So all you did was drop them in and re-name them?

By: hunter davis

hunter davis — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:15:06 +0000

I’m using the one linked to from the wiki.. Did you delete the stubs and rename the wirless firmware to match the stub names?

By: M@

M@ — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:04:45 +0000

Not that I can see. Weird. This is what I get. http://zipitz2.pastebin.com/m7d03d7e2

I probably missed something simple. Which wireless firmware are you using? I downloaded mine instead of grabbing it from the zipit.