Linux for Magician: who is working there?

[vnevoa]

I'm sorry for being so loud, but I've seen a few "progress pages" in Wikis and I still can't get a clear picture of who (if anyone) is actually working on linux for the HTC Magician (Qtek s100, iMate Jam, Dopod xxx, etc.).

I found this project:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~zabel/magician/README
and it appears to be very very promising; it already delivers some small functionality on the magician (I've tried it). But there is much much work to do before it can be released to the general public.

In general, I don't think there are many people working to get the Magician on Linux...

So I am asking here: are you working on this? do you know who is working on this?

I am a SW developer by trade, but I have no time at home to code.
However, I would like to give whatever little time I can find to:
- act as a beta tester;
- develop one or two patches (kernel mostly);
so we can get Linux running on the Magician.

Thank you.

[whitemoo]

Hi,
This doese indeed look promising.
I have no qualifications in software etc, but i do like fiddling with linux -).

I too would be a beta tester.

So is anyone working on this?

[pH5]

Hi. As vnevoa found out, I am working on the Magician when I find the time.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there is no-one else currently working on this. So developers are needed!

For people interested in kernel hacking, there is the htc-pxa@handhelds.org mailing list and the #htc-linux IRC channel on freenode.net
The biggest missing parts currently are battery control, sound and the phone.

For everyone else, any improvements to the Magician wiki pages (http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=MagicianResearch) would be more than welcome. To build a proper userspace image for the Magician, support for this machine in OpenEmbedded (http://www.openembedded.org) has to be improved.

[rjtd]

Wow!
That haret thingy is wonderfull.
What is the current state of the version for the Magician? Does it boot to GPE?
This is a great thing, really. No need to flash a new firmware, and boot linux! Amazing. I'm using Linux on ipaq and it is very nice. But I would miss phone operation. With haret we can have both things running.

[futaris]

Good work. Has anyone tested USB host on magician under linux?

[pH5]

Good work. Has anyone tested USB host on magician under linux?

USB host works, but it is not connected to the usb plug.
The bluetooth chipset is a CSR usb chip.

[networX]

USB host works, but it is not connected to the usb plug.


does that mean, usbnet is not possible? in my case, nothing happens if i connect the magician to my computer. dmesg and lsusb say nothing about a new device. insmodding usbnet doesnt help either. tried the same with a htc universal, usbnet works fine on my machine.


works for now, if connected via external-powered usb-hub. maybe a driver problem? activesync in windows-mobile is possible without using the hub.

[MassterJ]

And if you check the website you can see all teh file you need to download if anyone know a programm for make call/sms/mms or ONLY calls and run on this linux please give information about :)
ok i try this one in a few and i edit my post when i have test all

ok today the : 28.12.2006
mmmm i have some trouble with extracting the gpe archive it's seem to be corrupted soooo bad.
BUT the first problem it's this famous default.txt the script to run haret if anyone have a working script please copy information here of the .txt file that's can be helpfull.
the error of my default.txt is: Failed to load kernel \carte de stockage\zimage
must i need to rename the zimage file???

and i have a question ... it's possible to make a "bootable" SD? if yes i can try to run another handled linux perhaps???

OK i have found :) i must rename the magician-zimage-2.6.XXXX to : "zimage"
so i have downlaod latest version of haret and take the default.txt WITHOUT changing
harte start but of course i haven't the gpe file so it's say error ;) BUT it's launch now i must really found a good archive i have try under linux but the archive still in read only i can't change it to read AND write so all i uncompress are still not working under linux it's better on windows don't know why .....
(mmm risk to brick my magician if i try another gpe file .......)

and of course: sorry for my bad english

now i edit the post when i have MORE important news ;)