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Section Zero - Meta Faq

0.0  Who maintains this silly FAQ?
0.1  Why?
0.2  Why doesn't it include foo?
0.3  How can I add somehting to it?

Section One - What's the big deal

1.0  What is a NetWinder?


Section Two - First Steps

2.0  Man that fan is loud.  What can I do about it?
2.1  The date and date stamps are screwed up.  What can I do about it?
2.2  X doesn't want to work on my monitor.  What can I do about it?

Section Three - Where to look for more info

2.0  What web sites are out there?
2.1  What mailing lists are out there?

Section Four - Outstanding Problems

3.0  X dies with no appreciable load.  What can I do about it?

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		  _____Section Zero - Meta Faq_____

0.0  Who maintains this silly FAQ?
   Pat Eyler (pate@netwinder.org) wrote the skeleton, and is busily 
   collecting questions and answers.  Russell Nelson
   (nelson@crynwr.com) had several answers that were stolen in whole
   or in part to make it more complete.

0.1  Why?
   NetWinders are cool!  I grabbed one for an eval, and found that it
   wasn't quite 'all there'.  I hate asking the same questions that
   everyone else does, so I'm trying to collect the questions and
   answers for the next guy that comes along.  (That is the West Coast
   'guy', it is gender inspecific.)

0.2  Why doesn't it include foo?
   Either I haven't seen the question asked frequently, or I haven't
   gotten around to it.  Drop me a line and let me know about the
   problem.

0.3  How can I add something to it or change something in it?
   Drop me a line, pate@netwinder.org is the best place to reach me
   for this stuff.


	     _____Section One - What's the big deal_____

1.0  What is a NetWinder?
   [does someone want to step up to a *short* answer to this?]

		  ____Section Two - First Steps____

2.0  Man that fan is loud.  What can I do about it?
   The first thing I found was to do a

       $ set_therm 50

   which seems to significantly reduce the amount of time the fan
   runs.  [Is there something more that can/should be done?]

2.1  The date and date stamps are screwed up.  What can I do about it?
   Because the NetWinder is meant to be an appliance (always on), it
   will only hold the time on its CMOS clock for about two days of
   down time.  When your NetWinder arrives it will likely not have the
   right time, To fix this, either set the date by hand:

       $ date -s mm/dd/yy 
       $ date -s hh:mm  

   or, if you're on a network grab the date from another host 

       $ rdate time.nist.gov 

   Then, you can set the cmos clock with:

       $ clock -w -u
  
2.2  X doesn't want to work on my monitor.  What can I do about it?
   There could be a lot of reasons, but my problem was fixed by
   deleting '/dev/fb0current' (a symlink to
   '/dev/fb0color1280x768x16') and replacing it with a symlink to 
   '/dev/fb0640x480x16' -- depending on your monitor, you may also 
   want to think about using '/dev/fb0800x600x16'.

       $ rm /dev/fb0current
       $ ln -s /dev/fb0color640x480x16 /dev/fb0current

	  ___Section Three - Where to look for more info___

2.0  What web sites are out there?
   
   For NetWinder specific stuff, the granddaddy of them all is
       www.netwinder.org

   which has an associated ftp site
       ftp.netwinder.org

   More general Linux-ARM stuff lives at
       www.arm.uk.linux.org

   and its web site
       ftp.arm.uk.linux.org

2.1  What mailing lists are out there?
   A number of mailing lists are hosted by netwinder.org.  To quote
   their web page:

	 General NetWinder Discussion Forum - (general) 
	 NetWinder Bugtraq Forum - (bugtraq) 
	 NetWinder Announcements Forum - (announce) 
	 NetWinder Feature Requests - (features) 
	 NetWinder Developers Forum - (devel) 

      To subscribe to a list simply send mail to
      majordomo@netwinder.org and put subscribe and the list name in
      the body of your message. 

      All of these lists are also available in digest form. To
      subscribe to a digest just add -digest to the name of the list
      in your subscribe request (for example: subscribe devel-digest).  

 
	    _____Section Four - Outstanding Problems_____

3.0  X dies with no appreciable load.  What can I do about it?
   [This needs a better answer than I can come up with]