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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lisztfr on May 09, 2009, 03:54:36 pm

Title: Place To Start ?
Post by: Lisztfr on May 09, 2009, 03:54:36 pm

Hi all,

I received my sharp zaurus 5600-sl today, with a linksys card, and qtopia. The ROM is version 0.a8.

I have read the faq so i now how to upgrade the ROM, but not where to find another qtopia version, for example... and also what happens to the old ROM when upgrade ?

I tried to connect, but.. the network is an open (not secured) hotspot, and when i go to "network", there is never a service available.

Tried also to install kismet but it seems for ROM version 3 ? and, it needs to be compiled, that is a thing i'm not used to. i have not even the compiler.

More, the filebrowser icon is there but the application is not installed... !

I really need some hints to start !

thanks all;

L

Title: Place To Start ?
Post by: Jon_J on May 11, 2009, 02:30:59 pm

Try the Model specific forum - "general discussion" and "hardware" for 5x00
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=125 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=125)

Then do some reading in the Sharp ROM forum below.
There is discussion of the default ROM and where to find applications.
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=26 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=26)

As for the linksys card, try the networking forum. Search for the linksys card model number.
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=75 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showforum=75)

BTW, I've never used one of the 5x00 models, but most of the "original" Sharp released applications should work.
I think you can download your original ROM on the Sharp website.
You can also find software for the default ROM on top of this forum. Click "ELSI"

Quote from: Lisztfr

Hi all,

I received my sharp zaurus 5600-sl today, with a linksys card, and qtopia. The ROM is version 0.a8.

I have read the faq so i now how to upgrade the ROM, but not where to find another qtopia version, for example... and also what happens to the old ROM when upgrade ?

I tried to connect, but.. the network is an open (not secured) hotspot, and when i go to "network", there is never a service available.

Tried also to install kismet but it seems for ROM version 3 ? and, it needs to be compiled, that is a thing i'm not used to. i have not even the compiler.

More, the filebrowser icon is there but the application is not installed... !

I really need some hints to start !

thanks all;

L

Title: Place To Start ?
Post by: Lisztfr on May 13, 2009, 04:59:24 pm

Thanks for replying.

Now every thing is working, kismet, connection, etc.

But not partitioning my SD card. I wanted to setup 2 partitions, first should be a DOS Fat16 partition, the 2 a swap partition. But things went bad when i issue a

# mkfs -t vfat /dev/mmcda1 partition

fdisk keeps seeing a linux partition, but Windows see 171 kb free...

when a copy from windows, the card can no more be mounted.  

Any hint ?

thx

Lisztfr

Title: Place To Start ?
Post by: Lisztfr on May 13, 2009, 05:25:15 pm

Done... i had forgot to set the type of the FAT partition to 06, with -t in fdisk. Now every thing is working.

L