usb mouse, wireless in embedded

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: usb mouse, wireless in embedded
started by: sweetbrett

Posted by sweetbrett on Sep. 09 2005,04:23

I have been trying to get dsl to boot off of my usb stick for a few days now to no avail.

so last night, I put the embedded version of dsl on my usb stick, and ran it in qemu in windows. everything worked fine, mouse, keyboard, internet... then i rebooted when i got home from work today forgetting that my usb drive was connected. low and behold, my computer booted right in to DSL. the mouse and wireless wouldn't work. i dropped to console and ran the x config program, and enabled usb mouse, went back in to x, and mouse worked. now i am back in windows and i wanted to try to get the wireless working, but when i run dsl in qemu, my mouse won't work and i don't know how to drop to console in qemu (i used ctrl + alt + del when i booted off the stick).

My wireless card is a netgear wpg311 v2. i saw a few things on the new about needing the madwifi drivers or ndiswrapper to use the windows drivers. how would i get these to work in dsl, keeping it as a embedded install, not on HDD.

also, i plan on using this embedded install in both gemu and full-boot modes interchangably, so is there a way to easily remedy my mouse problems? I'm assuming that when i use qemu it emulates it as a ps/2 mouse, and when i boot off the usb it needs to be told its USB, not ps/2. so when i change it it saves the setting somewhere, most likely in an editable file, so i can change the setting back to ps/2 when i want to run qemu in windows. where is this file? i don't see any x-settings looking file on my usb stick.

any ideas?

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 11 2005,05:19

The file is located inside your harddisk image file.

After this file is mounted (it is a fake hard drive), you can see that there is a file inside called

backup.tar.gz

If you look in this archive, there should be a file called /home/dsl/.xserverrc

FYI, any file that begins with a period "." is considered a hidden file in Linux, so you will need to enable view hidden files in order to view it.

Another way to get back to the console is to press

CONTROL-ALT-BACKSPACE

Also, you can force a setup change at boot time by editing your dsl-windows.bat file and add the word

xsetup

in-between the words frugal and quiet

You can also use this command when booting into dsl natively. So when the boot prompt appears, type:

dsl xsetup

and you will be prompted again.

Hope this helps.