JLime Tutorial

Found it
Now I just have to wait for my forum account to be approved

Kristoffers not been online today for some reason. I'll try to PM you the file in a moment . I'm currently trying to write a Windows based installer that should do all this on the desktop computer, but its difficult.

http://one.fsphost.com/knuckles/jlime/

Its a sort of backup, either download install_opie.sh to your HPC, or use the three part pre-made image.

I was looking in the opie userland on knuckles' site there, and saw that there aren't any orinoco/orinoco_cs/hermes drivers compiled into the kernel

I'm going to try the sh script method to install opie and see what I can get going.

Thanks for all that

One could hope for a bit better nomenclature on the JLime site. For the new visitor what is Shrek vs. Donkey? Does JLime run on any WinCE2.0 machine because all they seem to have is a LX620 Win2.11 bootloader. In the files what does 5xx, 6xx, 7xx etc. mean? I assume it is for the LX model (as in 620, 660, etc) but it could also be kernel version - it needs to be made clearer.

A file list needs to be made to create the equivalent of packages - one has pretty much no idea what files to download to get a module going. Maybe categorized into directories?

Otherwise it is very interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing more, including your Windows installer (ooh, it looks nice!) Thanks for all the great work

It works on SOME WinCE 2.00 devices, see the forum. I agree that the main site could use some work, but the next release is due fairly soon, so we will probably have a better layout. Packages can be installed using apt-get at the moment, and module support isnt currently available (well, it is in the developer one, but not in the public releases).


Thanks, took a lot of work. I've sent it to Kris who is moving it onto the JLime site soon. I've also got rid of quite a few of the DOS popup's now, so it looks more friendly to users.

Greetings, (its Kristoffer)

To answer your question, we havent got a working wince 2.00 bootloader, so even though the userlands should work fine you cannot get into linux.
We are working with the netbsd people to resolve this.

I've begun working on a new kernel that should bring full support to every aspect of the J6xx.

The process of porting jlime to other archs is not hard, therefore we see jlime on other archs within a couple of weeks. The main reason why i havent ported it to the 7xx arch yet is due to the kernel (2.6) needing some work. Michael has done wonders with it now and its almost ready for release.

Best wishes
Kristoffer

Kristoffer, what wonders has he done? Last time I heard from him, it was unable to do much of anything.

2.6 would be excellent, even if it doesn't help power management, other things could be made much easier with it. (Like the ability to run certain daemons.)

Just about everything works now, with APM. Theres also support for almost every card you can find and it runs quite fast.

2 post, sorry.

Edited by raul 2006-03-07 10:56 AM

APM is working for Jlime 7xx branch or 6xx branch?

6xx at moment. He's compiling 7xx branch as soon as 6xx is confirmed to work okay.

Wait, just about everything is working now for kernel 2.6?

In the Donkey release (not sure of exact version) which is due out any day now (the release candidates are out) everything seems to work. Theres fully functional APM (battery status, suspend), fast GUI (Opie runs at least as fast as CE did), sound support, full PCMCIA/CF support (modular) and so on. A few little bugs left to iron out and then it'll be perfect.

Wow, this is exciting news to me. Just to clarify, this is only for the 690 at this point?