licentious radio

Thursday, July 4, 2002
[6:41:04 PM]

Getting the Stowaway keyboard to work on the ipaq. Note that the ipaq 3800 needs a little adaptor that should now come with the keyboard, or you can get the adaptor separately from targus or "think outside".

Stop the console from going to the serial port by creating a file called /boot/params with the following content (all on one line, even though it might wrap in your browser):

set linuxargs "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc"

After you do this and reboot, you should see console message scrolling on the screen when you boot. On my version of opie, console messages also burst onto the screen.

Turn off getty.... In the file:

/etc/inittab

Comment out (put a pound sign aka hash) on this line, so it looks like:

#T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L /dev/ttySA0 115200 vt100

To be sure you got it, after reboot you can run the following command:

ps -ax

That gives you a list of the processes that are running. If none of the lines have the word "getty", you're on the right track.

The commands that are supposed to get the keyboard to work (once you've stopped getty and blocked the console from going to the serial port):

insmod h3600_stowaway

The respons I get is:

Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk3/kernel/drivers/char/h3600_stowaway.o

Now type:

cat /dev/stowaway

Open another shell and you should be able to type. I'm not, but apparently that's a different problem.