Hello all!
I can’t find any documentation on how to install the wi-fi stack that is currently under testing.
I have Samsung NC10 and cabled networking only works for a few minutes; this is known bug to your community.
And to move the driver from the outside world to Haiku I believe I am right in saying that my media needs to be in VFAT format.
Thanks in advance.
G’day
Here is the guide to installing wifi: http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/haiku-wifi/wiki/How_to_become_a_tester
And yes VFAT would be the best to use; as long as the driver is held in a zip file while it is under VFAT.
Thank you. I couldn’t see for looking. I wanted to post a few weeks back but I was scared of getting the “Why haven’t you Google’d/looked harder?” response that is becoming typical from many of the in-crowd within open source projects these days.
Now I have starting point I can try to build up some Haiku know how.
The Haiku community generally isn’t like that. We try to be nice to newcomers unlike some other projects and communities. Also something like Wifi in Haiku isn’t exactly trivial to learn about or set up at the moment, especially since it being developed fairly independently of the rest of Haiku.
Hello!
I have an attempted an install, but unfortunately it didn’t work.
I have posted a bug report which I hope will prove useful.
I need to learn more about your terminology (preflet?) but I figured it all out in a few minutes (unzipping, directory commands, etc.)
All good clean fun.
Off to play with Sidux! 
The Haiku User Guide has a good overview of haiku.
yes, WiFi is in the early stages of development and only supports a select few network cards.
NC10 support is available but I do not believe it was added to Haiku’s trunk. I think it is still in a developer branch.
http://dev.haiku-os.org/changeset/30216
http://dev.haiku-os.org/changeset/30217
You probably should file a bug report and maybe the driver can be sent to you for testing or merged into trunk.
http://dev.haiku-os.org
[quote=richienyhus]The Haiku User Guide has a good overview of haiku.
http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html[/quote]
Thank you I will keep this to hand.
Thank you. I had seen one of those changeset dockets before. I went to look after I had tried the NC10’s Ethernet connection. That is why I wanted to see if the Atheros card worked (even with faults.)
At least though it gave me a reason to have a go at installing stuff. You can’t learn by just browsing the wiki. Wiki’s are for when you have questions.
I had a go installing AbiWord too but that crashed. Looks pretty though!
Without a browser or WP there is little point at the moment of me installing it permanently onto the NC10. And Haiku won’t work on my Dell 3100.
I am still very intrigued. I would like to see it running on a desktop with a full size processor.
The NC10 links I provide appear to be part of a developer branch and would not be in Haiku - you would have to compile the driver separately on your own and install it. That should provide you stable internet.
Abiword is 2.x branch and in early stages - still unfinished port. BeOS has Abiword 1.0 port which worked well but crashes on Haiku ( re-compiling for Haiku would fix that ). There are two web browsers. One is Bezilla ( Firefox 2.0.x ) which is somewhat slow but works OK. Also, if you install Qt libraries you can run Arora web browser.
There is Gobe Productive Office Suite which should work on Haiku. You may also get away with using Style Edit or Pe for text documents.
I checked your Dell specs and appears that it should work from what I see:
Safe mode may help you boot on the 3100. fail-safe video mode + choose video resolution (ie: 1024x768x32).
http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bootloader.html
If you have SATA which is non-AHCI then change it in BIOS to legacy mode.
Thanks again. So I need to investigate compiling then? StyleEdit doesn’t quite get there. If I had AbiWord I could save files to an onboard SD card with VFAT format, and then get at them via AbiWord on Linux.
Yes it could be a “screen” problem with the Dell as it isn’t complete failure. I get the splash screen and then it I get two “Haiku” graphics left and right and noise at the bottom of the screen.
And when I said no browser I really meant no internet connection. The Ethernet link does work for about a minute then crashes. So I have seen the web via Haiku. If I hadn’t got that far I don’t think I would have bothered looking at the wi-fi.
So close!!!
If you’re talking about compiling Abiword 1.0 you should pass because you need to have some C++ knowledge to get it done and experience with compiling programs - otherwise you’ll find it fairly tough to do.
Safe mode options allow choosing VESA mode which works with all computers. Also, there are other options to turn off like dma, smp, acpi, bios, etc. Most users having trouble booting are able to get Haiku booted by using safe mode options.
You need to use the experimental driver by phoudin but would have to compile it yourself or have it sent to you because it is in developer branch. Any code in developer branches is experimental and for testing and is not included in trunk (ie: not part of Haiku images). If you changed out the current network driver with phoudin’s version then networking should work for your laptop since he also uses NC10 laptop.
You Should be able to download via SVN a haiku port of AbiWord 2.x.
svn checkout http://svn.osdrawer.net/abiword
You also need Paladin to compile. ( http://bebits.com/app/4579 )
[quote=tonestone57]
You need to use the experimental driver by phoudin but would have to compile it yourself or have it sent to you because it is in developer branch. Any code in developer branches is experimental and for testing and is not included in trunk (ie: not part of Haiku images). If you changed out the current network driver with phoudin’s version then networking should work for your laptop since he also uses NC10 laptop.[/quote]
Thank you. I will have to work up to this as I am not too familiar with Haiku yet. But this is a road map.
[quote=richienyhus]You Should be able to download via SVN a haiku port of AbiWord 2.x.
svn checkout http://svn.osdrawer.net/abiword
You also need Paladin to compile. ( http://bebits.com/app/4579 )[/quote]
Right I have looked at this now. And I said above this is (another) road map for me to follow.
It will give me something to play with over Christmas; to busy now finishing essays.
Thanks again for all the interest.
Hum, I don’t want to be the bad news guy, but unfortunately there is still no stable support of the Samsung NC10 ethernet port. We talked about this issue during last BeGeistert in fact, and we can’t find a way to fix it, even after cross-check in FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux driver how they achieve (or not?) to support this downgraded Marvell Yukon2+.
Don’t waste your time trying to compile this branch.
Sorry about that, guys, I’m in the same place myself…
I have had a reply to my bug submission from Mr Gunther.
It appears that I foolishly used an older version of the driver. The dates on the drivers web page are in US format.
It will be Wednesday before I have chance to test the new driver.
Fingers crossed if it works I will try to install Haiku on the NC10.
I am going back to Linux Mint so I will be able to do both installs; it will give me a change to try GRUB2.
Tried the latest driver and it collapsed back to the de-bugger.
I think I am right in saying that wi-fi stack is included in the nightly build. So I will go that way.
From another topic:
[quote=ColinG]Yes, wifi was merged into Haiku some time ago.
The atheros wifi driver is in the nightlies already, with more drivers to come.
Though encryption is still a TODO. I think next christmas it will be there ;)[/quote]
Thank you richienyhus.
I have now installed the latest nightly build (December 26th) onto a USB. Athros driver present. NetworkStatus monitor has a lovely green circle!!! Went to open the browser and it isn’t there!!! I know some in the Haiku community aren’t happy entirely with the FireFox fork. But it was a browser and I knew it worked. I am going to have to grab it myself and install it.