Installing Ångström

I decided installing Ångström eventually... Installed the 2007.12 release (follow this howto). The only way I could get internet access was to disable the wifi security (usb networking did not work), then I did update/upgrade,

# ipkg update
# ipkg upgrade

After the upgrade I could enable the WEP password on my wlan. I manually setup /etc/network/interfaces. But I couldn't make the usb networking to work.
Sound also did not work by default. To make it work (following Ian's post),

# cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

to make some noise, and then played with alsamixer a little until I heard something (I think enabling "Output Mixer HiFi Playback Switch" did the trick.

I also installed pango-module-hebrew-fc and hoped to get hebrew keyboard (which I didn't...),

# ipkg install pango-module-hebrew-fc

For the Jerusalem time zone, I installed tzdata-asia,

# ipkg install tzdata-asia

Replaced dropbear with open-ssh:
first remove dropbear,

# ipkg remove dropbear -force-depends

The "-force-depends" switch is because task-base depends on dropbear. Then,

# ipkg install openssh

and to start the ssh server,

# /etc/init.d/sshd start

Now I can do "ssh -X"

I found this file, which work with matchbox-keyboard (put it inside /usr/share/matchbox-keyboad).

Many packages are not in the standard feeds (bash for example*). After some searching I eventually found the bash package under the unstable feeds, I use the armv5te architecture.
Later I flashed the autobuild R19 unstable version hoping the usb networking will work there (which didn't).

*update: I found the bash package in the 2008 feeds (see following post).

bluepin overwritten

I've found out that running the Bluetooth Manager application overwrites the changes in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf, i.e. the change of the /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/bluepin app to the customized script. So a work around would be just to replace the old bluepin application with the new script.

Gaim and GoogleTalk

Gaim can connect to the GoogleTalk network using the jabber protocol.

Install gaim and the jabber protocol:

# ipkg install qpe-gaim libgaim-protocol-jabber
# ipkg-link add libgaim0 libgaim-plugins qpe-gaim libgaim-protocol-jabber

I had some problems with libgaim-protocol-jabber so I downloaded it manually from the feed.

Next configure the account:
On the Account tab:

• Protocol: Jabber
• Screenname: your user name in google (excluding @gmail.com)
• Server: gmail.com
• Resources: Gaim (I left it as it was by default, i read somewhere that this field has no effect)
• Password: your password, or leave blank
• Alias: leave blank
  

On the Jabber tab:

• Use TLS if available: checked
• Force old SSL: checked
• Allow plaintext auth over unencryoted streams: unchecked
• Port: 443
• Connect server: talk.google.com
  

On the Proxy tab:

• Proxy Type: Use Global Proxy Settings

All this information is saved in ~/.gaim/accounts.xml