Is There A Web Browser In Development For The Gp2x And Is There Going

[STravers]

Is there a web browser in development for the GP2X and is there going to be another GP console coming soon like GP3X.The reason I ask is because im hesatating about payin $200 for this and it doesnt have a web browser.

 

[Vimacs]

There are allready multiple ones out, you could have found them with SEARCHING.
Theres links, and there is opera for opie.

 

[mth411]

Goto http://x11.gp2x.de/
download the x11 0.3 release, place the x11 folder in your root (/)
then download gpe from same site, unzip the contents of that in root (/), there should be gpe script in root, some filesys..., and another folder called "root",
so

/x11

and
/gpe...
/filesys..
/root

Then launch gpe, wait forever, create login, wait forever, and then launch either brower (dillo or opera).

There are also several other browsers out there, but this one is getting good, and you could modify the gpe launcher to just launch opera or dillo and not the entire gpe system (thereby cutting down on the gpe loading forever).

Edit: It also contains GAIM instant messanger, Abiword text editor, Gnumeric excel program, and Ebook reader in the others folder.

 

[Yono]

Links Web Browser: http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,8,1226

Of course, the GP2x doesn't support SDIO, so except with maybe a BOB, I don't see the great importance of a web browser.

 

[jaesond]

Goto http://x11.gp2x.de/
download the x11 0.3 release, place the x11 folder in your root (/)
then download gpe from same site, unzip the contents of that in root (/), there should be gpe script in root, some filesys..., and another folder called "root",
so

/x11

and
/gpe...
/filesys..
/root

Then launch gpe, wait forever, create login, wait forever, and then launch either brower (dillo or opera).

There are also several other browsers out there, but this one is getting good, and you could modify the gpe launcher to just launch opera or dillo and not the entire gpe system (thereby cutting down on the gpe loading forever).

Edit: It also contains GAIM instant messanger, Abiword text editor, Gnumeric excel program, and Ebook reader in the others folder.

But can you get GPE online? Every attempt of mine has failed. Checking the settings in GPE, it apparently thinks it wants to use a different IP than the GP2X's.

 

[Orkie]

Well, I was going to post this directly from my GP2X with Dillo in GPE, but I accidentally pulled out the USB host/TV-out connector just as I got to this thread...

Yes it does work, but it requires a bit of fiddling at the moment. Hopefully some instructions can be posted at some point.

 

[jaesond]

Well, I was going to post this directly from my GP2X with Dillo in GPE, but I accidentally pulled out the USB host/TV-out connector just as I got to this thread...

Yes it does work, but it requires a bit of fiddling at the moment. Hopefully some instructions can be posted at some point.

Could you PM me how you did it? Please? That would be so nice to be able to do.

 

[Orkie]

On the GP2X (inside GPE) you need to create /etc/resolv.conf containing the following:

nameserver {IP address of computer with shared Internet connection/router}

And execute the following command in the terminal (replace 192.168.0.1 with whatever IP address you have assigned your PC in the USB network):

route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1

If you use Windows, you should be able to then just select your main network connection and the USB network connection in the control panel, right click and choose to bridge the two for it to work.
If you use Linux, you'll need to execute the following commands as root:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

 

[jaesond]

On the GP2X (inside GPE) you need to create /etc/resolv.conf containing the following:

nameserver {IP address of computer with shared Internet connection/router}

And execute the following command in the terminal (replace 192.168.0.1 with whatever IP address you have assigned your PC in the USB network):

route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1

If you use Windows, you should be able to then just select your main network connection and the USB network connection in the control panel, right click and choose to bridge the two for it to work.
If you use Linux, you'll need to execute the following commands as root:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

I don't have my GP2X near to test, but does any of that require root access? I can't log on as root for some reason, nor get access to it in general.

 

[Orkie]

Yes, that does require that you are logged in as root. It would probably be best to wait for the next GPE release which will let you do that without too much fiddling.

 

[STravers]

Thanks GPE