[wplug] Kyocera KPC650/verizon - with linux

[Matthew J. Hughes]

I actually know nothing about the card however I was wondering if 
anybody else had enough experience flesh out the suggestion I am about 
to make. At one point I had imaged a partition of windows by dd 
if=/dev/windows_partition of=windows_backup_image. It is also my 
understanding that you can pipe it to bzip2 in the same process so the 
whole thing is done in memory and shrinking the files size considerably. 
Thus I would imagine the reverse is also true that you can jam you Linux 
partition into a file, install windows and flash the phone, jam windows 
into a file, and then unjam the the original Linux back to where it was.
It has been so long since I did it I don't remember the exact details 
but there are howto's out there. I think that it is closely linked to 
setting up loopback devices for not having to change cds. Depending on 
processor speed you may have to do most of it overnite, I don't recall 
how long it actually took and I do tend to run a slower processor on my 
breakit boxes.
Caveat: windows does not play nice with others so you may have to 
finesse the booting.(thou I think grub will solve that issue)
Caveat: dd is incredible powerful so you better make sure you get it 
right, or you could blow out your drive contents.

my 2 cents
-matt

Ryan Moszynski wrote:

>I've noticed we have some verizon people on the board.  I'm going to
>get the Kyocera KPC650 - evdo card
>
><http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=planFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=1600>
>
>with the intention of setting it up to work with Mepis on my laptop.  
>I know that this card can be made to work with linux, however
>
><http://kenkinder.com/evdo-pc5740/>
>
>says that you must:
>""""Install with Windows
>
>Boot up to Windows and get the card activated and working in Windows.
>It will ask you to download the latest coverage maps. I'm not sure,
>but I think when you do that it actually reflashes the card with some
>information about signals to broadcast. The coverage map update is
>superstition on my part, but I think you do need to activate the card
>in Windows before it will even work in Linux. Correct me if I'm wrong
>(or not).""""
>
>Now, i used to have a dual boot machine, with mepis and windows, but i
>wiped out my windows partition so i could build a /linux from scratch/
>system (which was great fun by the way and i highly recommend the
>experience.)
>
>So, I would be greatly pleased to learn that the above website is
>wrong, and that i am not going to have to replace mepis with windows,
>initialize the card, reinstall mepis after reformating the windows
>partition and then configure the card to work with mepis.  Now that i
>think about it, if i need windows to initialize, i'll probably need to
>boot into it every once in a while to update the card which would mean
>i would have to find some room for a permanent xp install(can windows
>live on 7gigs?)
>
>So, if anyone knows anything about this card or verizon evdo w/ linux
>cards in general, i'd appreciate the help.
>
>ryan
>
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