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I was wondering if you ever got a good/stable Linux variant on your i-opener?

 

Reply to: didn't get linux running on it

    (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Tuesday March 08 2016, @03:55PM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Tuesday March 08 2016, @03:55PM (#315564)

    I did get Win98 SE running, and used a xircom parallel port to ethernet adapter on it.

    There was some glitching with the sound, but adjusting the assigned resources manually resolved that.

    I still have the thing. It never ended up doing what I had in mind, because it was just.. awkward to use. I attached a 40GB IDE drive to it and duct taped it to the case, but the glue would lose its stick as the tape warmed up via use of the i-opener and I had to engineer an ugly fix just so I could... drag a cable across to where it was convenient to put this thing.

    This was well before wireless was cheaply available (or even then, available via USB ports). Remember, the i-opener it self was a device that came with dial-up service. Most people had dial-up.

    By the time wifi became reasonable enough to waste on a device like that, the device itself was not worth the investment aside from a curiosity. I got much more mileage, and still do use, an old laptop from the same era. And the laptop even had a battery...

    Still it was a cool concept and was glad I ordered mine and got to play with it. I had to cheat and order that IDE cable, though -- I did not have the skill nor tools to properly make one and I tried and tried and tried...

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