About one year ago I heard that the umts usb sticks (Huawei) will work with the pandora. The drivers were already included into the OS. Has anyone heard of this feature recently? Would be quite interesting for me.
Midori looks pretty good. I hope somebody’s going to try and port Mobile Firefox (Fennec) to Pandora, I think it’d have a quite interesting and hopefully useful application as a capable mobile browser.
Midori is great, I have switch to it from Firefox since it looks better, renders faster(or at least I think it does) using web kit, I even got a full score at the acid 3 test. It can use as little as 6MB RAM and still work having 7 tabs makes it take about 50MB RAM(No exact values). The downside is that its still very glitchy, it crashes(doesn’t freeze, simple crash which makes it shut down all of a sudden) all the time for reasons you don’t understand, but it remembers tabs and is super quick to start up so thats not a huge problem, it will probably be a part of Lubuntu standard installation(first official release will be 10.04) so it should be strongly maintained too.
Fennec is in the angström repos and runs fine on the Pandora.
Still prefer Midori, I just don’t like those browsers with things sliding from all sites when you touch the screen
I forgot to say when I first saw the title Internets I thought they’d cracked the wifi situation, nevermind it’ll work eventually. Would be nice to be sorted by the time they ship but if not when more pandoras are in the wild someone will figure it out pretty sharpish i reckon. It’ll be a bit of a bummer till they do but lets get assembly out the way and go from there. Would be nice to get flash support aswell but I think thats a while off yet going by Adobe unless something can be ported/modified or whatever… Thx for the vid Ed btw
Doesn’t look like a problem with the encoding to me – I think those ?s only map to one character. So it’s a font issue; Pidgin understands the encoding used by IRC (whatever that is) but just isn’t using a font which has that character in it – easily rectified.
Nice, I am using Linux daily thus no new software is shown by EvilDragon and the whole excitement is kind of worrying.
Does anyone know why exactly the WIFI is not working as there supposed to be Linux Driver for this chipset?
And why the folder with this driver(i.e. “/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/”) is missing from pandora git tree?
Sweet.
Also, first.
About one year ago I heard that the umts usb sticks (Huawei) will work with the pandora. The drivers were already included into the OS. Has anyone heard of this feature recently? Would be quite interesting for me.
http://tuxmobil.org/linux_on_laptops_with_umts_cards.html
Looks like drivers are available for the “E220″ model.
I am using a D-Link usb wifi stick with my beagle board, so it should work with Pandora.
He stopped over my comment
“Man we are all a little off balance, kind of need to be for this project”
I was laughing so hard when I saw that.
Midori looks pretty good. I hope somebody’s going to try and port Mobile Firefox (Fennec) to Pandora, I think it’d have a quite interesting and hopefully useful application as a capable mobile browser.
Midori is great, I have switch to it from Firefox since it looks better, renders faster(or at least I think it does) using web kit, I even got a full score at the acid 3 test. It can use as little as 6MB RAM and still work having 7 tabs makes it take about 50MB RAM(No exact values). The downside is that its still very glitchy, it crashes(doesn’t freeze, simple crash which makes it shut down all of a sudden) all the time for reasons you don’t understand, but it remembers tabs and is super quick to start up so thats not a huge problem, it will probably be a part of Lubuntu standard installation(first official release will be 10.04) so it should be strongly maintained too.
Fennec is in the angström repos and runs fine on the Pandora.
Still prefer Midori, I just don’t like those browsers with things sliding from all sites when you touch the screen
EvilDragon made some great videos, again. Hooray!
Midori works just fine. WiFi needs some work, but that’ll be just fine within a few months.
Pidgin is really nice too. I will have to choose between Pidgin and Trillian Astra via the web though.
WOT! No Internet Explorer???? NOoooooooooooo
lol
I know, I thought he said that this was a video about the Internet.
I forgot to say when I first saw the title Internets I thought they’d cracked the wifi situation, nevermind it’ll work eventually. Would be nice to be sorted by the time they ship but if not when more pandoras are in the wild someone will figure it out pretty sharpish i reckon. It’ll be a bit of a bummer till they do but lets get assembly out the way and go from there. Would be nice to get flash support aswell but I think thats a while off yet going by Adobe unless something can be ported/modified or whatever… Thx for the vid Ed btw
What’s with the ? for german umlauts in IRC? Did the other guy not use a proper charset?
I hope the Pandora uses UTF-8 as default.
Doesn’t look like a problem with the encoding to me – I think those ?s only map to one character. So it’s a font issue; Pidgin understands the encoding used by IRC (whatever that is) but just isn’t using a font which has that character in it – easily rectified.
I’d like to add my thanks too ED.
Can LAMP run on this? RAILS? DJANGO? thanks.
Absolutely – though the question of why you’d want to run a web server on a handheld remains.
A development server.
Maybe for a rough website idea.
It’s a totally silent, low power, low heat, small form factor device. I could see wanting to do something like that.
Hmmm… Maybe I should buy a second one as an always-on media center PC… Brilliant!
Nice, I am using Linux daily thus no new software is shown by EvilDragon and the whole excitement is kind of worrying.
Does anyone know why exactly the WIFI is not working as there supposed to be Linux Driver for this chipset?
And why the folder with this driver(i.e. “/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/”) is missing from pandora git tree?