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ELSI General Discussion / Elsi Cacko Feed

« on: March 07, 2005, 04:37:45 pm »

Hi,

Am I supposed to be able to pick up files from the ELSI automatically using "Install packages via networks" in "Add/Remove Software" on the Cacko ROM?

I've tried adding http://www.elsix.org/feeds/cacko to the list of Package Servers, but I just get a blank list?

I'm not sure if this should be working or if I'm doing something wrong...

Thanks,
Matt

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Security and Networking / A Zaurus Mystery

« on: March 06, 2005, 06:02:03 pm »

Excellent Zaurus story! There should be a separate catgeory for Zaurus stories like this one!

No idea why all Zaurii would stop working one day... suppose they may have changed their access point to one which for some reason is incompatible with the WiFi driver(s) in the Zaurii?

Matt

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General Discussion / Somebody Please Help !

« on: March 06, 2005, 05:49:51 pm »

What are the settings that you're using for the connection? Eg. Init string

Are you trying to connect via GPRS? Or a GSM dialup?

What phone are you using?

Does the phone display show anything when you try to connect?

Matt

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General Discussion / Somebody Please Help !

« on: March 06, 2005, 05:32:08 pm »

Hi,

Bluetooth devices "pair" with each other which basically means that you are giving permission for them to talk to each other. Stops some other Zaurus user from using your phone to connect to the internet for example.

On your phone there will be an option somewhere to pair another device. You should use that to pair your Zaurus. It will ask you for a PIN to use. The default PIN on the Zaurus is 1234 which you should probably use to try it now, but may want to change later! (You can edit the files in /etc/bluetooth to do this).

Try pairing from your phone and see if that helps.

Actually, my MSN ID is matt@mattmarsh.net

Matt

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General Discussion / Somebody Please Help !

« on: March 06, 2005, 05:13:19 pm »

Ok, that sounds better anyway, sounds like the driver is getting loaded properly etc.

Did you "pair" the phone with the Zaurus?

Apparently, when it tries to connect it should try and pair automatically, but I found that I had to do it manually from the command line by doing:

dund -c 11:22:33:44:55

where 11:22:33:44:55 is your phone's Bluetooth ID (I found that out from the Howto).

Matt

BTW - My profile on here contains my ID's on various Instant Messenger services (MSN, yahoo etc) if you'd like me to help you through it that way either...

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General Discussion / Somebody Please Help !

« on: March 06, 2005, 04:09:49 pm »

Ah ok, well at least that makes more sense.

The fact that those modules don't get found seems rather significant. Do files for the modules exist under /lib/modules ?

For example, I have:
/lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluez.o

Matt

BTW - I'm assuming you're using the lite version of Cacko 1.22? I didn't have to install any bluz packages or anything with the full version.

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General Discussion / Somebody Please Help !

« on: March 06, 2005, 03:17:40 pm »

It sounds to me like your bluetooth card is not getting recognized. When you plug the card in, do you get the message popup to show that it is detected?

I don't know too much about this stuff (only just got my Z a couple of days ago...) but looking in my /etc/bluetooth/bluetooth.conf (cacko 1.22 with hotfix a) I don't see an entry for your card as per your "cardctl ident" output above and I suppose it would need an entry in there?

Matt

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Wireless Universal PDA Keyboard

« on: March 06, 2005, 03:07:49 pm »

I believe it uses the IR.

Matt

39

Sharp ROMs / Which Sharp-based Rom Do You Use?

« on: March 05, 2005, 01:28:10 pm »

Well, I've only had my Z for one day, and within 24 hours I'd already installed Cacko (full version 1.22) as I'd read enough about it on these forums to know that it would be my first try

I will probably try some of the other ROMs at some point, but I have to say that the initial impressions are extremely good!

Thanks for the hard work!

Matt

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General Discussion / Replacement For A C860 Screen?

« on: March 04, 2005, 04:57:09 pm »

This sounds like great advice for this sort of electronics disassembly/reassembly... I've certainly picked up a few tips from that which I think I will make use of at some time!

One question though... Is a magnetic screwdriver really sensible? Whilst I understand that it makes the task of positioning screws etc a lot easier, I've always been worried by the potential of the magnet affecting chips etc?

Matt

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Cxx0 Hardware / Usb Question.

« on: March 03, 2005, 08:16:03 am »

It does sound potentially doable, though it really does depend a lot on the device...

To VNC to it would need you to be able to run the VNC server on it of course...

Matt

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Cxx0 Hardware / Usb Question.

« on: March 03, 2005, 06:42:04 am »

I think to understand fully we need to know what the other device is?

Matt

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General Discussion / Shirtpocket Troubles?

« on: March 02, 2005, 03:39:40 am »

I don't know what to think really. There is some activity on their website, I notice that they changed the date that they expected to have everything back to normal from 25th Feb to 28th Feb at the weekend, and then their site seemed to be mostly down for yesterday. So someone seems to be around doing something at least...

But it is a bit worrying that some of those posts I linked to say that they weren't able to get in contact with them for 6 weeks and that they were having to resort to going to their credit card vendors to claim their money back etc...

Matt

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General Discussion / Shirtpocket Troubles?

« on: March 01, 2005, 08:49:17 am »

I've also read several good reports about shirtpocket on this, and other, forums, so hopefully you're right and it's just a temporary blip whilst they are changing premises etc...

Matt

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General Discussion / Shirtpocket Troubles?

« on: March 01, 2005, 05:45:10 am »

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has had any good/bad experiences with ShirtPocket.co.uk over the last few months?

I know that their website states that they are in the process of moving etc, and that might be the cause of some problems for them, but still I found a couple of worrying posts on the internet:

http://www.totalpda.co.uk/forum/showthread...p=7889#post7889

See the last couple of posts in this one:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.s...75855425053363/

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/micros...90bea10f02051d/

I also noticed that the account they use on this board (Zuber) also doesn't seem to have been active since mid-January, and hasn't posted anything since last December...

So anyone had any recent contact with them?

Thanks,
Matt