Hi, this is Duane (bailey.d.r |at| gmail.com); I introduced myself a few days ago on the mailing list.
Well, I downloaded haiku, and it’s running OK in vmware, but my usb keyboard and mouse don’t appear to work when I boot haiku up off of my ide drive, and I can’t stand working in vmware (the gui is horribly sluggish, and there doesn’t appear to be sshd for haiku!).
Also, I can’t figure out for the life of me how to install software on haiku. There aren’t any development tools, ssh, or a webbrowser, so the distro is effectively useless since I can’t develop on it. What should I do?
You could always wget things from bebits.com. That’s what I do for smaller programs, but for some reason wget stops downloading larger files at around ~600kb. Well, it actually gradually slows down until it hits 0.0kb/s and then I have to kill the process.
What hardware are you guys using, BTW? I have a USB mouse & keyboard and IDE drives and while I haven’t tested it in a little while, it worked the last time I used it.
[quote=andreasf]I tried an older Microsoft IntelliMouse USB: It lit up but didn’t move the cursor.
Somewhere I read only ohci USB was already supported and not ehci, might that map to USB 2.x vs. 1.x?
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To use USB 1.1 devices, a UHCI or OHCI driver is needed depending on what make of controller you have. UHCI - Intel and Via, OHCI - the rest. Only UHCI is somewhat finished for Haiku.
EHCI is used for USB 2.0, but cannot be used for USB 1.1 devices. This is implemented for Haiku.