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General Discussion / 4.4GB Compact Flash

« on: January 13, 2004, 12:25:48 am »

Did anybody go to the Consumer Electronics Show and see this? I was amazed when I saw it. It\'s a 4.4GB Compact Flash card from Magicstor (http://www.gs-magicstor.com). I asked a rep about it and he said it would retail for $400 when it is released (I didn\'t ask when it would be released).

Another thing, I also talked to a Socket Communications rep about SDIO. He had no knowledge of any SDIO capabilities in any Zaurus model.

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General Discussion / any danger in flashing ROM?

« on: January 01, 2004, 05:54:38 pm »

jerric -
Did you make sure that the zImage doesn\'t have the .bin extension? You might have to cd to the directory that it\'s in using a DOS prompt and change it with this:

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rename zImage.bin zImage


As for tkcVideo, personally I use mplayer+XMMS which is free, but I\'ve heard tkcVideo is good.

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General Discussion / any danger in flashing ROM?

« on: December 31, 2003, 04:14:21 pm »

It\'s pretty safe. I\'ve actually managed to flash my 5500 with the battery upside down and it still works. Although I don\'t advise doing that.

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5x00 General discussions / Start from scratch with a 256mb SD and TKRom - Read please!

« on: December 31, 2003, 12:29:00 am »

The new ipkg can now install Opie packages. Just follow the instructions on the page.
It\'s here: http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=874


There\'s a script for TKC.rom that puts /home on SD. It\'s under SL-5000 on the page but I know it will work for the 5500 and maybe others.
It\'s here: http://community.zaurus.com/project/showfi...&release_id=275

As for formatting an SD card as ext2, TKC.rom comes with a formatter. But here\'s how to do it in Konsole:

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umount /mnt/card

mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda1

mount /dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card

A lot of opie apps can be run in TKC.rom with libopie, but if I remember correctly, Wellenreiter needs libopie2 also. I don\'t think libopie2 has been ported to the Sharp rom. (I may be wrong.)

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For Sale / Wanted / SL5500

« on: December 30, 2003, 11:47:03 pm »

Why would anybody want Win98 running on anything?

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General Discussion / Does the C860 have SDIO?

« on: December 29, 2003, 11:20:28 pm »

I think they do have the capability for SDIO, but the problem is the driver. Apparently you have to pay $1000 a year to the SD Card Association at www.sdcard.org to be able to develop drivers.  Although they do provide a simplified version of the SDIO spec to the public on their \"How to Join\" page. Also, I found an SD-Card block driver at www.blumba.de that might be useful to someone wanting to write an SDIO driver. Although, I don\'t know how legal writing an open source SDIO driver would be.

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Accessories / 256SanDisk SD card is now read-only

« on: December 29, 2003, 10:06:36 pm »

If it really has become read-only somehow, you can add write permissions with this:

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chmod [-r] +w /mnt/card

If that doesn\'t work, try formatting it with this:

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umount /mnt/card

mkfs.vfat -F 16 /dev/mmcda1

mount /dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card

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Accessories / pretty cool huh!!!!

« on: December 29, 2003, 06:51:00 pm »

As far as I know, it wouldn\'t work with any Zaurus. It has to have SDIO.

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General Discussion / 32MB SD card detected as 2GB

« on: December 29, 2003, 04:41:17 pm »

My SD card is detected as being 2GB when it\'s only 32MB. When I try to format it in XP, it says \"Cannot open drive for direct access.\" When I try to format it with the Zaurus, it says \"Device reported to be zero.\" The same thing happened to my 128MB CF once. I fixed it with Paragon Disk Wiper by wiping the CF clean and then reformatting it but that doesn\'t work with my SD card for some reason. How do I fix it so that it\'s recognized as 32MB?

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General Discussion / Socket WLAN card and Discoverer

« on: December 26, 2003, 08:26:11 pm »

Sorry, forgot to mention that I have a 5500.

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General Discussion / Socket WLAN card and Discoverer

« on: December 26, 2003, 05:48:12 pm »

I just got a Socket WLAN card and it works great with my network. But I can\'t get it to work with Discoverer. I\'ve tried Kismet also but it doesn\'t even install correctly on TKC rom 2.0. Discoverer\'s log says that eth0 is up but it doesn\'t detect the network.