I decided to pick up my Zipit and try out Mozzwald’s Ubuntu distribution again. I ended up manually starting up the wifi for now since rkdavis’ script isn’t working for me at the moment. The following commands did it for me:
- iwconfig eth0 essid your_id_here
- iwconfig eth0 key your_hex_key_here
- ifconfig eth0 down
- ifconfig eth0 up
- dhclient eth0
We’ll work on that EWoC script later… Digging deeper into this distro, there is no GUI implemented yet. First, let’s get a proper web browser on here:
apt-get install lynx
Now let’s grab the tweaked version of dosbox off Hunter Davis’ blog and try to compile it…
Five hours later I’m signing off here. I’ll let you know next week when it finishes if it actually works.
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What exactly is failing? there really isn’t much in the script that can go wrong other then the parsing of strings and the paths. Although ubuntu does use dash by default not ash or bash so if the #! line is missing that might be it too. I actually suspect it’ll be something like sed/gawk/grep not working quite the same in stock, debian and ubuntu
My Zipit is knee deep in a 14 hour dosbox build at the moment so I don’t want to screw with it too much. I’ll ping you on IRC when it’s done and we can sort it out. I suspect it’s something minor.
Just out of curiosity since I didn’t see it listed anywhere else, did that Dosbox build ever complete and if so did it even work? This was using the compiling abilities directly on the Zipit wasn’t it?
My dosbox build never did properly complete but you can install open embedded on a desktop or laptop and build it on there. See my other post on how to install OE. http://www.notanon.com/zipit/building-openembedded-for-the-zipit-z2/2010/07/06/