Unofficial Openpandora Community Blog

[mali]

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http://blogs.distant-earth.com/wp/?p=51

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So, what does this all prove. Well Mobile Broadband sticks (at least the Huawei E220) will work on the Pandora, NetworkManager is happy to configure the connection and as soon as I can get the NetworkManager 0.7.0 GUI going this whole process should be ‘plug and play’ just like it is on other major distributions like Ubuntu.

 

[mali]

3G update!
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http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=46605&view=findpost&p=700974

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Just tried an E160 on the Pandora, it seems to work exactly the same as the E220 with one important difference. It is a native USB2 high-speed device so no need for a hub. Just plug it in and away you go.

 

[mali]

CE shouldn't take one month - I know the test itself can be done in a couple of days and we're looking for a company that won't give us a long wait before they start testing.

The case manufacturer already has the CAD files, as they are the ones making the CNC prototype as well. That is why we went with CNC (as opposed to other, much faster rapid prototype technologies). Since it is the same factory, we know they have the exact dimensions down. Since it is the same machines in the same facility, there is little chance of (and no excuse for) variations between the prototype and final cases.

These cases are being made in China. As I understand things, the cases will be shipped to TX where everything will be assembled and tested. The completed, tested Pandoras will be shipped to the UK and from there to everybody who ordered one.

... and to Germany

 

[Eniko]

Heres a little leak to those following this thread. Ive created some versions of quake 1 for pandora with the wrapper, hopefully we will see some positive results very soon. I dont have the hw yet but DJwillis is testing it for me.
Once q1 is gold, then I will start looking at q2, and so on until q3.

 

[cosurgi]

Lord of the rings for panda!
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http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=46792

 

[gruso]

Thanks for the tips.

Eniko, got a link for that?

 

[mali]

Thanks for the tips.

Eniko, got a link for that?

Not Eniko but link:
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http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=46729&view=findpost&p=702547

 

[DasFool]

We're building a system to make app installation stupidly easy.

We're still banging it out, but assuming it all comes together and works (and it should, we're nearly there) .. you'll download special apps in a bundle, a .pnd file. Inside that will be a directory structure and so on for the app to live, but users won't care (unless they unpack it into a directory.)

So an entire app (all its data etc) can be downloaded as one file, dropped onto an SD card. Stick the card into Pandora, and te launcher shows the app in its category. Tap to run and it just works. No unzip, no set up.. just download and run. Piece of cake. (You are of course able to unpack it, futz with it, put it in anywhere you want on sD or in NAND, etc.)

We also intend to build the OS in such a way that you can just use Angstron packages if you want to, but thats suboptimal. (I can explain why if you want.)

Anyway, its going to be easier than on the gp2x, which was not really rocket science either smile.gif

We or I will start writing up some docs on the wiki soon, so folks can get an idea how it wll/does work.

(For devs.. it is pretty easy to pack up the files into a .pnd; trivial on linux, a little work on Windows.)

jeff

 

[Prometheus]

And, the link to go with DasFool's quote.

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http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=46797&view=findpost&p=702890

 

[DasFool]

Oh yeah, that ^

 

[viridior]

Hey, we did a lot of good work to get Gentoo ported to the armv7-a platform. Looks like we will have something to install the day you get your Pandora. No worries, this is the 'dev' image, finalized user images are the next goal and can be produced much quicker.

EDITED: Bad Link

Gentoo-pandora-dev-0.0.2 is released. (And it works great on the BeagleBoard)
You can see the full software inventory here... http://gentoo.openpandora.org/index.php/Ge...ndora-dev-0.0.2

Highlights...
[software]
bash
vim
nano
screen

[compiling]
armv7a-softfloat-linux-gnueabi toolchain
gcc-4.3.2
python-2.5
perl-5.8
distcc

[networking] (usb works) (eth not tested but should work)
ssh
nfs
ntp
autofs
rsync
wireless-tools

Installation instructions here: http://gentoo.openpandora.org/index.php/Install_DEV_Image

You can find us in our normal stomping grounds in FreeNode#gentoo-pandora

 

[Zeno Arrow]

New official blog post alert!

 

[Phawx]

On OP.org main page the "To-Do" list has been stealth updated. I noticed it yesterday, but no one has made mention of it yet.

It used to say "Get the final CNCed case (still waiting...)" and now it says, "Get the final CNCed case (should be finished approx. Feb 25th)"

The way it reads it would seem the CNC case will arrive to MWeston at the earliest the first week of March.

 

[TaG]

On OP.org main page the "To-Do" list has been stealth updated. I noticed it yesterday, but no one has made mention of it yet.

It used to say "Get the final CNCed case (still waiting...)" and now it says, "Get the final CNCed case (should be finished approx. Feb 25th)"

The way it reads it would seem the CNC case will arrive to MWeston at the earliest the first week of March.

As we can't edit each others posts I'll leave it to gruso to decide if he wants to update his post, post a snippet or whatever.

 

[Mithrildor]

CE shouldn't take one month - I know the test itself can be done in a couple of days and we're looking for a company that won't give us a long wait before they start testing.

OK I'm going to bite.

If you've known so long that you're going to need CE testing, why are you only now looking for companies that wont give you a long wait?

If you haven't already started looking how do you know that all the companies involved in CE testing arent extraordinarily busy right now and backlogged for weeks?


Well, since I know some guys who can do it here personally - so it doesn't take long to look. In fact, I already have a company here who can do it within a few days, just had to make a phone call.
It's always good knowing the right guys


Source: http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showt...46755&st=45

 

[gruso]

Cheers for the tips, all. I think I'll do some software news, and leave the CE tidbit until the CNC arrives. I've updated the "To Do" list in last week's status update post with the Feb 25 ETA.

Speaking of the list, I'm thinking we'll do a "countdown" series of posts, where we cross off each item on the list as it is achieved. Should be a bit of fun. All going well, the first one will be this Wednesday when we cross the CNC off the list.

 

[gruso]

Blog has a new 800x480-friendly look.

 

[PoisonedV]

It looks suspiciously different but I can't tell what exactly.

And I mean more than being centered

 

[TaG]

I quite like it. Nice look and Pandora icons. Hope the text is big enough to be readable on the Pandora screen. Only thing I've noticed that I would have liked to keep is vcisibility of author.

So is this a custom theme? (I didn't think we could do those)

 

[gruso]

Yep, I'll fill you in on developments. As y'all know, Mazza has stepped back a little. I suggested to him that the blog could use a second admin to keep things well oiled, which he agreed to. I spend much (too much) time in the dash every day, and I'm always wanting to approve comments, clean up spam, tweak here and there. Now I can. Mazza is still an admin of course.

You might remember the test blog I set up a while back:

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http://gruseaux.wordpress.com/


This is one of the best WP themes for our purposes, but it has those silly little flowers. So I thought screw it, I'll just buy the custom CSS option from Wordpress. Only $24AUD for 12 months, no biggie. So, we now have full access to modify the CSS!

Google cache of old version:

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http://209.85.175.132/search?q=cache:gkKF02BF2zkJpenpandora.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/assembled-pandora-video/+openpandora+wordpress&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2


I ain't the new boss or nothin', it's a community blog and I hope you don't think I'm trying to take charge. I just thought it needed daily admin attention. Now the doors are open for page layout improvements, so if you guys have ideas we can work on them.