Crash crash crash — and work on the Zaurus

Posted in geekery, openbsd, zaurus on May 4th, 2006 by ballew

I went home early with the dizzies and a scratchy throat. After the drugs kick in, I think I’ll resume installing OpenBSD on the Zaurus. I was able to get the bsd.rd to start up, and the little guy is dual booting, but after I fdisk’d the thing (very carefully, mind you), I discovered that the USB network card wasn’t being picked up by OpenBSD. This totally sucks, because I wanted to do the net install.

After double-checking the supported device listing, I found that my SMC 2102USB is indeed supported by the kue driver. My theory is that the card is sucking down more power than the Zaurus’s little usb port can pump out, so I’m going to run it through a powered hub to see if that fixes it. If not, then I’m doing a disk install, since I left 400MB for the Sharp ROM so the dual boot would still work. I’ll pull over the tarballs from the openbsd site, load them onto the 400MB partition which is fat32 formatted, and do a disk install.

4 more days until I get the CF wireless card. Right now it is on a truck in Texas. Damn Texans! Give me my network card!

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