Appeal for Linux Help from Pedal-Powered Internet?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday February 11, 2003 @04:23AM 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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Not to be a bastartd, but... by GoRK · 2003-02-11 04:38 · Score: 3, Insightful

OK, not to be a bastard, but isn't this the kind of shit you learn how to do *before* you go "on-site," as it were, to install it? I have set up for m-systems disk-on-chip stuff and it's not that easy. I can see how he might be having problems with it, as it's an unnecessarily complicated interface. He should be contacting M-Systems and Tri-M to get this resolved, though, and not slashdot.