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Ricochet Robot on J2ME v0.9

This is a tryinf of build a porting of the classic game boar Ricochet Robot on a J2ME style , its my first J2ME and don\'t expect a lot of features ... Is developed under JBUILDER with mobileset pack, but i am currently migrating to eclipse. The test hardware is a Siemens S55 Ricochet Robot web game is on http://www.wickle.com/ricochet The objective of this game is to place the indicated robot on the finish chip, for that end you can move on 4 directions only and the robot stop walk when it finds an object or a wall.

Screenshots and Features (english only) .... Plans to implement:

• Play over the net with online updating of scores with ither players.
• Play with Multiple people simultanously (via bluetooth)
• Adapt to all screen types , currently it try to adapt but on some cases it fails.

        This software is GPL . download here. Make donations is you find this application useful ;)

HP DL380 G3 Debian Linux Howto

A new fabricant problem surges when you try to install linux (particulary debian) on some hardware . The Hardware is a Xeon Rack , the ProLiant DL380 Generation 3 consists of :

Compaq's SMART Array Controllers Broadcom Network Card

the rest of the hardware installs well .

Installation Disks and hard drive support

When you try to install debian the first problem is the install disks (the set of disks with 3.0 version)does not contain drivers for hard drive. I download a set of disks from the Debian homepage, the set are : Disk1 : root.bin (from /3.0.23-2002-05-21 Imagenes/images-1.44/bf2.4) Disk2 : rescue.bin (from /3.0.23-2002-05-21 Imagenes/images-1.44/bf2.4)

with that disk set the installation must contain drivers for Compaq\'s SMART Array Controllers (cciss drivers if you want to compile at hand) Then you can install Debian from this install disks. When you finish that, you must compile a kernel (or use one from apt-get) and put the drivers for the network card.

Network Card

Download drivers for Broadcom 57xx NIC (BCM5700 particulary) from www.broadcom.com and the archive is : linux70.zip Next you must compile the kernel, and install it, read kernel howto . The next is compile and install the drivers for the NIC.

#unzip linux.zip #tar xzvf bcm5700-7.0.0.tar.gz it creates a directory hierarchy like this : Server/Linux/Driver/bcm5700-7.0.0/src go to it : #cd Server/Linux/Driver/bcm5700-7.0.0/src #make this creates bcm5700.o (try it with insmod bcm5700.o)

copy it to /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net (substitute 2.4.18 for your kernel version) add this line to /lib/modules/2.4.18/modules.dep /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/bcm5700.o:

next execute : #depmod -a

and voila, you can restart and install it at boot time with /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 bcm5700 /etc/modules eth0

Note: The installation on Suse 8.0 does not require install disks, the drivers cciss are included on the cdrom kernel.

good luck