ipaq 3800 Linux
Tuesday, February 19, 2002[11:08:56 PM]
The good news of the day is that I found a m/f 9-pin serial cable in a pile, so I can put the cradle on my desk and still reach the pc on the floor. With a little futzing, I got minicom installed and configured enough to bype "boot", and now I won't mind so much if I have to boot to the bootloader before the ethernet card will work. (Before, I had to move the cradle to a different computer, and put it under the table -- I was sitting on the floor to use the ipaq. Very, very silly.
[6:41:02 PM]
Nasty. Sometimes after I reboot, the ethernet connection won't start. Symptom is no lights on the ethernet adaptor. The fix is to boot to the bootloader screen, connect over a serial line, and type boot. This has happened at least twice.
Booting to the bootloader screen and pressing the swirl button doesn't help.
Today when I rebooted with the cf sleeve on, I would actually get the ethernet adaptors lights to come on when I inserted it. Alas, the screen would turn red, and I would be unable to ssh in. (I didn't try the serial connection.) When I rebooted with the sleeve off, no ethernet connection (but the system didn't crash).
The message is: "Fear the reboot, J. R." Well, I hate rebooting, anyway.
A few times, x-windows has crashed. I wasn't sure how to deal with that. I'm still not. I tried "x stop" and "x start" (from ssh), but there were scary messages, and when it started again, there were two menus. (That's why I gave up and tried to reboot.)
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