On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:39:39AM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote:
Hi,
I will soon be getting an Ipaq H5500 with the idea of installing familiar
on it and messing around with the wifi module. I was wondering if anybody
had done this previously and may have some insight into the possible
pitfalls I should look into. Thanks in advance,
This list and the h5400-port list are full of threads regarding this
device.
The wiki page on this port is accurate:
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqH5400
Before flashing linux, make sure you get the latest atmel firmware
installed for the wireless device. Note that there are two firmware
blobs. One is for those who do not need WPA and the other is for
those who do. If you don't need WPA now, I strongly suggest using the
non-WPA firmware. hp says it may cause problems for none WPA networks
and another poster has reported that it had breakage for him.
Just so it is said, familiar 0.8.2 does not support WPA for that
wireless device. It isn't familiar's issue, but the driver in familiar
for that device. The same poster who reported the firmware breakage is
also trying to sort out the WPA issue. You could make friends by helping
him sort that out.
E
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Erik Hovland
mail: erik AT hovland DOT org
web: http://hovland.org/
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