SHR - Trying to configure phone for a wireless demo...

[George Brooke]

On Friday 04 September 2009 16:32:50 John Dowd wrote:
> I would like to do this demo using the more recent SHR loads since the
> om2008 series seems to be abandoned. I have a few issues and I'm wondering
> if someone knows how to get around them.
>
> I've put the lastest stable load of SHR on. I have been able to get the
> wireless to work by modifying the various wpa_supplicant and init.d files
> by hand but, the phone comes up without the wireless chip turned on so I
> have to go into the settings application and actually turn it on. It's not
> persistent. I then have to run my init script and then it connects (I can
> see the wpa handshaking being done on my AP). However the DHCP client
> "dhclient" doesn't appear to be available under SHR and I have to fall back
> to busybox's udhcpc. It just doesn't seem to work. According to the SHR
> project page, I could use Mokonnect to configure all of this but it's not
> available to the stable version and I tried to load the unstable package
> but it gives me startup errors and then gacks. I've tried to put a unstable
> SHR load on the Neo but then I run into all sorts of incompatibility issues
> and I get things like the usb0 interface is unavailable and I therefore
> can't then get at the Neo to fix things.
usb0 should now be ethX just look in dmesg to see what number its taken.

solar.george
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