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Version 0.3.3
Hopefully ...
This version will work for "everybody". I got the impression the
previous version worked just fine for those that could get it working,
however there were a number of issued that prevented people from
actually being able to get a working version made.
This release is designed to combat two key issues;
- Installation problems
- Key longevity
The new version comes as a "self installing ISO" , or you could call
it a "Live CD". Either way, if you can write a CD then your chances of
being able to make a working key are (hopefully) heading on towards
100%.
On top of that, you get the facility to boot directly off the CD, to
use the CD to boot the key, or to boot the CD and use a key as a /home partition. (or of course you can boot from one key and use a second as /home )
Key life has been extended using JFFS2 .. although we've noticed
recently that most keys do some form of wear levelling, using JFFS2 is
going to vastly improve the usefulness of on-key wear levelling as well
as introducing implicit compression and removing the need for read-only
portions of the filesystem using cramfs.
.. Happy hunting !
Re; Wireless tools ..
Download to your key and type;
tar xvfj <file> -C /
.. and let me know if it does what you want .. :)
wireless-tools isn't enough by itself
Intel Centrino mPCI/PC/PCI cards:
emerge ipw2100 (for 802.11B cards) or ipw2200 (for 802.11A/B/G)
Atheros Cards (used in lots of laptops including all IBM)
emerge emerge madwifi-driver && emerge madwifi-tools
Ralink Cards (used in most cheap laptops)
emerge
Lastly, you'll also want to emerge hostapd which will give you both the ability for creating a boot from flash wireless access point as well as the needed wpa_supplicant for establishing secure connections to existing access points.
Thanks, Jeff
P.S. One thing to consider is that the versions of all those drivers currently in portage are lagging way behind whats available in CVS from the various package sites. Some of the stuff that is in portage barely works, but if you get the latest greatest version from the original maintainer, it works pretty well. I'm downloading 0.3.3 right now - if you'd give me pointers on how to best create the binary "add-ons" I'd be willing to do this for you as I have examples of all the hardware in house and could test it.
Should I post this in the forum, or is here sufficient?
Re; Addone
I'll see what I can do re; additional packages in the next release.
Making your own binary isn't really practical at this stage - boot problems are the main issue and this requires lots of trial-and-error testing, something I'm doing now .. :(
Data Traveller
yes, I have that one and it realy dose not boot,
I think it is about pendrive geometry.
Re; Kingston Data Traveller
If you have the Abi/Gnumeric distro, you might like to try the new make_key.sh that's available for download. (it's included in the OO distro)
don't mean to be a n00b, but.......
seeing as the file comes zipped anyway, a text-file would go down a treat.
fantastic stuff, i can't wait for a version with O.O.o. v2.0 and the GIMP, what the hell, 512MB flash drives are cheap as chips these days.
sadly however, my pendrive is a Kinston Datatraveller, so i may not suceed yet whether the login issue is resolved or not. :(
keep up the good work.
REMF
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How about wireless centrino support?
This distro works completely on my Dell D600 sans the wireless which would make it complete.
I have geen a Gentoo user for about 3 years but this will take some time to get used to since I can't emerge tools.