Yeah, and I thought it was only like 1 meg in sharp rom as well. 10 megs seems like a lot but maybe some program needs it.


I have one more question. I looked through this thread and didn't see it discussed yet. The "current" view in the netsetup app doesn't work. It shows the mac address and ESSID but no signal strength info. I just reflashed for the fourth time and it has been the same every time. What is missing?

I just spent more time than I would like to admit getting my networking set up. Make sure eeverything is set up on the access point side like the mac address list, wep key, or whatever you might use. On the client side set up a static IP just to take one more variable out of the picture. Make sure you are set up to match your access point. I set mine to a specific ESSID, infrastructure, and shared key. Depending on the access point you have, you might be able to find hints to these settings in the AP setup. My stubling block was that the ESSID is case sensitive. Once I finally entered the name in caps it was able to connect. Until then my CURRENT tab acted like yours.


windom

No, I wasn't clear enough.
I can connect just fine. Everything in cacko works great. I have three different access points (home, work, friend) set up on it and I am able to connect to them all. That "wireless monitor" program will show info when I am connected. The only problem is the netsetup program its self does not show info. In fact, when I click on the current tab the whole zaurus seems to slow to a crawl.

Has all interest been lost in creating a full release of cacko 1.23 for the c3000? I thought I saw one mention that it was not going to be upgraded for older models but it seems to have been released for every c model exept teh 3000. Just wondering.

Once in a while, I see posts by new Zaurus owners on problems with the Cacko installation process, most probably due to the Japanese maintenance menu.
So I thought I'd supplement Mazlovsky's original instructions with screenshots (and some minor editing) where relevant.
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IMPORTANT: This ROM requires a flash partition at least 32 MBytes in size!
Make sure to repartition your internal flash before updating ROM!
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Installation:

1. Extract the 3 files - initrd.bin tools.tar updater.sh - to the root of your CF or SD/MMC card.


2. Make sure that Zaurus isn't plugged into AC power.


3. Remove battery for at least 5 seconds.


4. Replace battery (replace battery cover, lock cover), plug in AC power.


5. Press and hold the "OK" button on the keyboard.


6. Turn the power on, you should see the Maintenance Menu.



7. Now Plug in the Power Cord.
You will get an error if it isn't plugged in!


8. Select option 4 (flash/update).



9. You then have several options including CF and SD (this screenshot differs according to your Zaurus model)



10. Choose either CF or SD, depending on which media you put the files in.


11. You are now in the "Cacko ROM Installer" start menu. Select "3 NAND Flash Utils"



12. Select "1 Resize root partition"



13. Enter 32 when prompted for root partition size.



12. Flash will be repartitioned and Zaurus will reboot.



13. Repeat steps 2-10 again and wait for the start menu.


14. Now select "1 Install new ROM" and wait.



15: Format your user partition (select YES):



And finally, reboot your Zaurus when ROM installation is complete.

So, here's what I have: sl-c1000 running Cacko heavy 1.23. All works fine.
Question is: I have a 8gb Seagate CF microdrive formatted Fat32. All this works fine too. The microdrive properties when viewed under windows XP show it to be 7.44 GB, when I check it's size on the Cacko memory applet it tells me it's 7.79gb.
So, where are the "missing" MBites? "Show all files" is enabled in Windows XP by the way, so it seems there are no hidden files lurking around.

They're probably not missing, but measured in a different way. Just like a hard drive manufacturer calls a drive that shows up as 74 gigs and 80 gig drive, the way cacko and windows calculate the amount of gigabytes could be different. See how close the amount is in bytes, perhaps?

Funny how I never noticed this issue until now... but it is a HUGE one in my opinion for any 3100 users. Here is just one example that made it clear to me.

Clean cacko 1.23 full flash. Go to Settings tab, then choose Appearance. Change the theme to QPE for example, and click OK. After update choose Appearance again and choose ZBlue again. Notice wallpaper doesn't come back. Go to design tab and turn on wallpaper, then click the "none" box next to it. Because the Z does not see the internal flash the only 'path' to choose from is the Internal Disk. Thus I can never set the default wallpaper back as I have NO access to internal flash.

I wonder how many other system functions this issue breaks... it would explain some other random problems that only seem to pop up after customization.

I think the wallpaper is in your Documents folder under Image_Files. At least that's where I found it. I find it hard to believe that anything other than the sysinfo application is unable to see the internal flash. I am still able to install to internal flash for example. But I guess it is possible.

I can install ( and do ) to internal flash as well. I wonder if the factory image acts the same way, might restore back and verify.

These instructions do not work with the 3100....what am I doing wrong? I am doing exactly what is said above. When I press and hold the OK button and turn the power one after following the previous steps, it only reboots normally.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Take out the battery and disconnect the external power and then let it sit for like 5 minutes. After a while, put the battery back in, connect the ac and hold the OK button. While holding OK turn the unit on.

Thanks Zamindar, but does not work.
I let the unit sit battery-less for more than 5 minutes, insert the battery and door, plug in the AC, press down on the center button that says "OK" and hold it, then I press the on button....I'm tried 400 times with different combinations of the above and it still boots up normally. My unit must be different, I guess.

The following step is required for 3100:

"Turn the zaurus over and flip the battery case switch to “Unlocked”. Remove the battery cover, and find the small reset microswitch on the left. The battery cover or the stylus can be used to press it."

Also, make sure you only press the "OK" portion of the circle and not the outer circle.

Maslovsky's instructions are fine, works for me everytime.

You don't need to complicate things by using the reset switch. Just make sure you press and hold the centre "OK" button ONLY, then push the ON button once with your other hand, and DON'T let go of the OK button until the Maintenance Menu appears.

Alternatively you can just let the Zaurus boot up normally, then from the QPE desktop start menu, select the small green icon to reboot, then immediately press and hold the OK button until the zaurus reboots into the MAintenance Menu.

I think my problem was pressing the circle around the "OK" button at the same time. Either way, I used the reset hole and i'm off and running with Cacko!

Has anyone figured out how to fix the problem with the network card not working after a disconnect? Or the sysinfo ap not showing /home on the 3100?

Two things that fix it for me:

1. click on the 'network' icon and connect from there
2. yank out the card then stick it back in

This is just for the card. I have not had a problem with sysinfo-home/ problem.

Those are not fixes, they are work-arounds. Thanks for the tips though.

why2jjj, so your 3100 shows the /home partition in sysinfo? I dont understand why some people are having this problem but others are not. Anyone have any clue?

Yes-sir-e-bob. I see my /home partition nice and clear.

I don't know...freaky mount problem?

xamindar, Is this what your talking about?
/home is hilighted

no, it's like this:

Ah, this clears things up ! Jon_J's thumbnail is what I was thinking, not what Xamindar was thinking.

huh...interesting. I guess you need to stick to 'df -hk' on the linux command prompt for now for that info .

Now that we are all on the same page, I am wondering what the 'temporary storage' bar is supposed to represent?

Mine's the same as xamindar's
I wonder who, that has a C3100 & Cacko 1.23, actually has the /home info showing in the storage tab.
Also check this out. If you plug in a card while the storage tab is showing, the bar graphs go from 2 to 3 bars,
but what's really noticable, is the bars become very thin with 3 graphs showing.

It can be fixed if you had the latest source code for the sysinfo app. If maslovski posted his latest source code, for the sysinfo then it wouldn't take someone with a C3100 too long to adjust it and have the graphs showing the right disk.

you'd be better off, at the command line doing "cardctl eject N" then "cardctl insert N" (where N is the slot number as show by "cardctl status".

You could make simple shell scripts and create icons on QT desktop for them.

This would save a lot of wear and tear on your Z!

i noticed another problem with cacko on my 3100.

can others verify this?

the netmon applet doesnt show signal strength. it never changes from blue no matter how weak the wifi signal is. This is probably connected to my network settings applet not working either.

Can someone tell me which library file or executable is responsible for this so I can try swapping it with the original from the jp sharp rom and see if it can be fixed?

It's not sysinfo, it's Qtopia. Sysinfo uses mounted storages reported by Qtopia classes.

sorry to ask so many questions on this forum but i'm really a newbie..

how can i get the module ppp_async.o in cacko rom? or maybe it's already included (even though it seems to me it isn't.. at least i tried to check it and nothing)?

thanks..

Then can we get any explaination of what we can do to fix it? Even a small one would help.

I have some problems with my planex gw-cf11x wireless CF card. Do you think all drivers are present in 1.23? When i put it off, i'm not able to start again before i remove it. I didn't have this problem with my buffalo card.

Any help?
Thanks

some drivers are missing in cacko. My first understanding was that it included MORE drivers but I was wrong. One of my wireless cards does not work with cacko but it does with japanese rom.

The problem you are having is a known problem. There is no known fix for it yet but you can get around it by typing "cardctl reset" in a console.

Thanks for your help, i hope the next update for cacko include those drivers.

Just upgraded my C760 to Cacko 1.23 to see what it was like before I buy a 3200, everything fine except the e-mail application insists on loading every time I switch on. Anyone know how to stop it loading as e-mail is about the only thing I don't have on my Z.

Also any guesses on when version 1.23 will work on the 3200.

MikeW

Ok I am an idiot, been pressing the Mail key to turn my Zaurus on without actually looking at what key it was! Forgot that I had disabled the Mail key in version 1.22

All I need now is for Anton to give me a clue as to when a 3200 version of Cacko will be availble.

Mike

Question- when you create an appointment in the Cacko calendar, it creates a .vcs entry right? Where is the .vcs information being stored? What directory in the ROM is it being written to?

Thanks,

Jay

Whenever I have a 3200 to play with

No, all PIM information is stored in Sharp propriatory database.

Thanks Anton although it does not help much, quite happy to continue donating for each new release, donating a C3200 is beyond my means.

Would it be possible to provide me with a version which includes the C3200 in the list of supported devices so I can test it?

Mike

Sharp's calendar (default in the cacko rom) uses their proprietary format stored under the dtm directory. If you want vcs, then you want kde pim pi.

I thought it was using .vcs because if you try and do something with calendar like send a calendar appointment via IR port to your PC an 'event.vcs' file appears on your desktop (at least on a Windows PC).

I'm done with the KDE PIM Pi. It was extremely difficult for me to do about anything with that suite, including sync'ing across IR port OR usb connection and unfortunately I'm stuck with Outlook at work. I got intellisync to work.

at any point, you can use kdepim to import and you can use that to export out... vcs so your not stuck at all

New question:

Even though I got intellisync to work and the zaurus is sync'ing with Outlook now, I cannot do a simple telnet from Windows XP to my zaurus:

Microsoft Telnet> open
(to) 192.168.129.201
Connecting to 192.168.129.201...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed

Anyone have a guess on why this is failing and how I can correct this? In 'PC Link' I have 'PC Link Setting' set, with hostname 'zaurus' with USB IP set to 192.168.129.201 and connection 'USB- TCP/IP (advanced)'?

Again I have a c3100 with the Cacko 1.23 ROM on it.

Thanks again

The telnet daemon is not enabled by default on the Sharp ROM, unless you have the image from TRIsoft where it is enabled. Cacko has SSHd enabled by default.

The sshd daemon is not enabled by default on the Cacko ROM either .

No matter if I do a 'ps -e | grep ssh' or go to the sysinfo icon and look at what all the processes are running, the sshd daemon is not up there. What is more, if I goto to a konsole and do:

$ su
# /usr/sbin/sshd
# ps -e | grep ssh

I still don't see it. it is like the ssh daemon dies as soon as it is started.

did you try ssh to it? might just not be running as a standalone daemon but running from inetd instead just like the samba service.

on a related note, since I don't have Cacko 1.23 running at the moment, can someone please paste the output of the mount command here? I just want to check what the cramfs image on Cacko is mounted as since I cannot remember.

So this is where I get all confused. Windows XP actually does not have 'ssh' command-line like Linux. I have two ssh programs, one I cannot remember, the other puTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/. Both ask for the USB IP which is 192.168.129.201. But both ask for a port number. I enter port number 23, because I thought that was the port number needed as Microsoft telnet was complaining it couldn't open that port (see my earlier error message). The other ssh program I have which I don't remember the name asks for a login, which I have no clue so I just stick in 'zaurus'. But in either case, they both fail.

On my Linux laptop at home I have tried:

[freyguy@localhost ~]$ ssh 192.168.129.201

[freyguy@localhost ~]$ ping 192.168.129.201
PING 192.168.129.201 (192.168.129.201) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.129.201 ping statistics ---
121 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 120002ms

[freyguy@localhost ~]$ ssh -D 23 192.168.129.201
Privileged ports can only be forwarded by root.
[freyguy@localhost ~]$ ssh -p 192.168.129.201
Bad port '192.168.129.201'
[freyguy@localhost ~]$ ssh -p 23 192.168.129.201
ssh: connect to host 192.168.129.201 port 23: Connection timed out

For both the 'ssh' and 'scp' linux command-lines I am not sure exactly what flags I need to specify:

[freyguy@localhost ~]$ scp 192.168.129.201
usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
[-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
[[user@]host1:]file1 [...] [[user@]host2:]file2
[freyguy@localhost ~]$ ssh
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfghkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
[-D port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-i identity_file]
[-L port:host:hostport] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-o option]
[-p port] [-R port:host:hostport] [-S ctl] [user@]hostname [command]

I admit, I am not an experienced user with ssh and scp at all.

telnet runs on port 23, ssh runs on port 22, and it defaults so there's no need to specify it unless you're doing something funky....

just "ssh 192.168.129.201"

if you use bluetooth for networking, you'd use a different address.

putty automatically chooses the correct port for ssh but you can override it

in Cacko, ssh is run by inetd - if you use "netstat -an | grep 22" you'll see something listening on tcp:22.

Thanks for this.

Nope, I'm trying to do an ssh through the USB connection, just like what was demonstrated with the triSOFT document used to set up intellisync (although they used telnet).

And nope, I still don't get a connection:

[freyguy@localhost Desktop]$ ssh 192.168.129.201
ssh: connect to host 192.168.129.201 port 22: Connection timed out
[freyguy@localhost Desktop]$

And this is the stats I get with the 'netstat -an | grep 22':

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 64522 /tmp/.quickexec
unix 2 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 2268 /tmp/.quickexec