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Appeal for Linux Help from Pedal-Powered Internet?

Posted by Cliff on from the giving-them-a-hand...or-a-leg-up dept.

lma asks: "As has been reported previously on Slashdot, Lee Felsenstein is involved in a project to bring wireless internet connectivity (including VOIP) to isolated villages in Laos. Lee is in Laos this week, trying to install and configure the initial systems. He's having a problem getting Linux installed and booting off a M-Systems DiskOnChip(DOC) as described here. Perhaps Slashdot readers could help with this problem, and make themselves available for future technical support issues as well."

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  1. Then don't. by Ashurbanipal · · Score: 3, Informative

    #1) Your 20/20 hindsight is not useful. Live in the now.

    #2) He didn't contact slashdot, as far as I can see; rather, somebody at /. picked up on his cry for help and presented it to the community, because wider exposure may lead to resolution - or to put it another way, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".

    Incidentally, I too have failed to get Linux running on a disk-on-chip. I was trying it in my basement on salvaged equipment, and eventually I shelved the project after a few weeks of frustration.

    I suspect the ltsp guys might be the most accessible experts on this. I'm going to forward the link to them...

  2. Hope this helps... by CRaMM · · Score: 3, Informative
    ... and if somebody knows a better way to let these people know about this info please do it. I see no e-mail address in the linked mtdproblems.txt log file where I can send it.

    Please see http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/budiskonch ip.html It's the "Installing and booting Bering from a M-Systems DiskOnChip" chapter (written by Brad Fritz) of the LEAF Bering User's Guide.

    Bering is one of the branches (the currently most active one) of the LEAF project that is building on the strong LEAF heritage and adding some advanced stuff to get: kernel 2.4.19 (and 2.4.20), PPP[OE], firewalling (using Shorewall), bridging, wireless utils, linux-wlan, Host AP, DHCP (client and server), DJB's dnscache, pcmcia, Freee Swan, .... Bering main developers are Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak

    LEAF is the Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall (http://leaf.sourceforge.net/).