iLiad My next porting project really bites!

[arivero]

Originally Posted by henkvdg

Yes, but very much more personal :-)

Here comes an idea.. for Scribble(!): to Add a "send as email" button.

Even with some Xmas cards packaged. We should tell iRex to think about it.

[scotty1024]

Well just for giggles I tried the USB keyboard.

I modprobe'd it, plugged in the USB keyboard, checked /proc/bus/usb/devices and hello, it was hooked up!

Tried typing, nothing.

Went back to my ssh terminal and realized, the iLiad was hung tight.

So round one is a loser on the wired keyboard.

On the bluetooth front I'm finally out of the kernel layer and trying to get the bluez user space stuff up.

[jæd]

Originally Posted by Antartica

I have compilled the dillo web browser for the iliad, but I'm short of time and didn't even tested it.

What I've not done is putting the appropiate calls to liberipc/liberdm. I would like to test if it works prior to start making modifications...

Just wait a couple of weeks and I hope to have had time to look at it (or at least try it).

Let me know if you want any help in this... If there is a web browser that load https urls, and handles refreshes a bit better then you would be able to use web mail (ie, SquirrelMail, etc)

Get one with javascript and we can start looking at Gmail... If you have a network connection to send email, you may as well do it properly...

(And some would say that a web browser is the key to an o/s)

[k2r]

Originally Posted by jæd

start looking at Gmail... If you have a network connection to send email, you may as well do it properly...

I think "properly" means IMAPs/POPs/SMTP and not some funky dhtml-webmail-client. Just syncing your IMAP mailboxes and dropping WLAN afterwards will give you a much better battery life than having WLAN up during reading and writing your email.
And: using a Bluetooth-Keyboard might even prolong your battery life compared to using the tablet.

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by k2r

I think "properly" means IMAPs/POPs/SMTP and not some funky dhtml-webmail-client. Just syncing your IMAP mailboxes and dropping WLAN afterwards will give you a much better battery life than having WLAN up during reading and writing your email.
And: using a Bluetooth-Keyboard might even prolong your battery life compared to using the tablet.

The major feature to a proper email client is the ability to work offline. I've got 1GB of mailboxes on my iLiad and I can sync new emails in and outgoing emails out to 5 email accounts in a short online session.

From the specs I've seen the BT dongle uses less power than the Wacom tablet... and a proper keyboard will allow for quicker generation of email.

[k2r]

In an ideal world I would just press the sync-button before I leave my house and the iLiad would download my newspaper, my RSS-feeds and sync my IMAP-Mailboxes.
I'm very confident that exactly this is possible easily with the iLiad and your sylpheed-claws port.

[tribble]

BTW, i just got an NSLU2, which uses the same processortype i think. and here are lots of packages for it. They might work out of the box. http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org

[kapoira]

hey, yes i know this i a litle off-topic,but well
i have a FSG www.openfsg.com this is a router that can have a WLAN(i have the version before that only LANS) that run on linux, if you like the iliad because run on it, you will like to connect to inet through another machine running linux...(you will need a modem still)
and yes it's used the ipkg modified of the nslug... if you wanna ask feel free to post, sorry of the Offtopic.

[jæd]

Originally Posted by k2r

In an ideal world I would just press the sync-button before I leave my house and the iLiad would download my newspaper, my RSS-feeds and sync my IMAP-Mailboxes.
I'm very confident that exactly this is possible easily with the iLiad and your sylpheed-claws port.

Very doable now -- at least the rss feeds. I spent some time poking my Iliad with a big stick to see how to do this. Though I'm a bit concerned at running RSS downloads as root. Has anyone tried setting up a separate user to avoid potential problems...?

I think one of the main differences is that I see the device as primarily as a display rather doing extended processing of its own, although it will be interested in seeing how text entry is with slypheed... And a keyboard. (Hopefully)

[k2r]

Originally Posted by jæd

Very doable now

Yes, my iLiad now sucks www.taz.de/digiabo (digital subscription of a German newspaper), htmldoc converted to a PDF by my server (better readable) and recursively www.tagesschau.de/mobil and some misc stuff. if I press the sync button.
I'm thinking about an elegant way to package this.

[narve]

Scotty, do you feel like posting the email client here? I would like to try it.

k2r, same question to you regarding how you did that trick. I don't know which pdfs to download yet, but I guess I will find some

[k0091]

Hi Scotty,

I know you're busy with many stuffs. But I think this email application is the one I long for most except the iliad OS v4.0 which will fix all the power management problem (or will it?).

KM

[scotty1024]

It is pretty cool but it really really really needs an external keyboard. You may have noticed how the keyboard doesn't move much once it pops up. It pops up in a very unfortunate place for Sylpheed Claws.

I think I've figured out how to overcome the next obstacle in the BlueZ kernel death march. But I'm still thinking I won't have a working keyboard, I can't figure out if I have the kernel source configured wrong, have the wrong patch level compared to iREx or if iRex has simply just removed input support from the kernel the supply... and as you may have noticed, they ain't talkin'.

[Matthijs]

I can post the kernel config file if that helps?

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by Matthijs

I can post the kernel config file if that helps?

Please, do so! (I'd also appreaciate the diff from oe 2.4.19-rmk7-pxa2 kernel: 02-diff-2.4.19-rmk7-pxa2-irex1.patch or whatever is named).

Thank you very much. I greatly appreciate all the effort you're putting in the forums to ease the life of the "early developers".

BTW, I fully understand that the APIs are still evolving. I don't find nothing wrong with chainging APIs/ABIs in the firmware updates. It's just a matter of having the new ones when they change ;-) .