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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. Feel bad, but need to ask... by Otter · · Score: 2, Interesting
    upgraded to kernel 2.4.21-pre2 for testing used both the doc2000 merged driver and the doc2001 millenium driver, changing the docprobe source as appropriate

    used the February 7 2003 cvs snapshot to upgrade the 2.4.21-pre2 mtd drivers. Ran the patchin.sh, which worked nicely

    Tried this "latest source" amalgamation with both the doc2000 and doc2001 driver, same results:

    doc2000 driver detects no flash chips doc2001 driver detects 3 flash chips.

    Not to be the Grinch, and I applaud the intentions and effort of the people working on this, but -- isn't the real answer that installing some crazy-ass combination of patched Linux kernels and "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!" hardware should be left to bored CS majors, instead of being left in the hands of users with no relevant technological knowledge whatsoever?

    OK, let's say that given enough Ask Slashdots from Vientiane you can get this thing to work. Then what? And how will this help anyone else in the world?

    For that matter, how are detecting no chips and detecting 3 chips the same result?

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