English qtopia, etc ?

[buserror]

I received the MINI2440, and it's a nice board.. I was wondering if there were an english qtopia image somewhere ?

Oh, also, I couldn't get ethernet working in the chinese qtopia, I can't "add" a LAN device somehow...

[esky-sh]

1. You can reload qt image on CD-ROM to the board. There is a wazard for language selection.
2. You can use ifconfig command to setup network.

[tgintz]

there's an icon that you click, has a ? mark on it, it chooses language. It doesn't go into the config wizard unless you load the touchscreen version of qtopia.

Also, the ethernet config doesn't work, you'll have to use ifconfig to set IP and save it.

Basically Qtopia is fairly broken, they didn't do us many favors by including it.

[buserror]

After a few days with the board and it's software, I can generalize the "fairly borken" to the rest of the software too. It's bits and pieces of stuff recovered here and there and thrown together on a CD.

I gave up almost immediately on that qtopia, the snapshot is from 2005 or something equaly ancient. u-boot is a lot worse, the version on the CD isn't even supposed to work at all on the mini2440.

Anyway, I now got a u-boot 1.3.4 that almost work fine (still behaves strangely when on NAND), I'm now working on trying to forward-port the .13 kernel to something useful to boot the board, I already have an openwrt distro ready to boot when that starts working.

What I discovered in my week or so of research is that there are bits of software floating around in Chinese forums and blogs, but most of is either totaly borken, or pretty unusable (with comments in chinese, myriads of irrelevant changes etc), or/and for sale too. One guy 'fatrat' or something /sells/ a .27 kernel for mini2440, but after looking at his patch for u-boot, I'd rather start from scratch thanks all the same

[tgintz]

we're using this for dev stuff @ work, it'd be nice if we got more support from friendlyarm and actually got 100% working and tested software to run on the board....

They took the original Samsung design/software and redid the board..

[admin]

we're using this for dev stuff @ work, it'd be nice if we got more support from friendlyarm and actually got 100% working and tested software to run on the board....

All they did was steal the original Samsung design/software and resell it... just alot of bits and pieces of firmware.

I'm not a hardcore embedded systems designer, but apparently you need to be to get everything 100% working.

We setup the forum here is for sharing experience and knowledgement for using of development board, instead of malicious attacks from each other. Please be careful next time before you post anything on this forum, or we have to block you out.

Thanks

[tgintz]

I will be more careful....

I'll rephrase..... Its a board based on the samsung design, running an old kernel from 2005, and an old version of qtopia. What I'm trying to say...is that maybe the board manufacturer could revisit some of the issues we've been having.

I know I'm not the only one that's had some of the same Linux and CE issues, but I haven't seen any updates that resolve any of them.

I've seen a couple things that might be fixed by doing the following:
Recompile a recent kernel of linux and a recent qtopia, the stuff given to us is from 2005.
and
Compile a version of CE that is appropriate for the customers in the US that are purchasing off the US ebay website (compile an english version)

[esky-sh]

I will be more careful....

I'll rephrase..... Its a board based on the samsung design, running an old kernel from 2005, and an old version of qtopia. What I'm trying to say...is that maybe the board manufacturer could revisit some of the issues we've been having.

I know I'm not the only one that's had some of the same Linux and CE issues, but I haven't seen any updates that resolve any of them.

I've seen a couple things that might be fixed by doing the following:
Recompile a recent kernel of linux and a recent qtopia, the stuff given to us is from 2005.
and
Compile a version of CE that is appropriate for the customers in the US that are purchasing off the US ebay website (compile an english version)

Tgintz,

I post a new topics in Wince development board for how to switch language in MS PB5.0
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=46

BTW, we have a wince 5.0 image in English for evalution on the ftp server. You can download and have a try.

Again, next time please do not reply you opinions and/or questions under a topic which with no relationships like this time. This kind of posting will mislead others a lot.

Thanks

[tgintz]

Thank you for posting this!

[nik100]

BTW, we have a wince 5.0 image in English for evalution on the ftp server. You can download and have a try.

Where is wince 5.0 image in English? I can't find it on ftp