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For Sale / Wanted / For Sale On Ebay: Sl-5600 And Linksys Wireless Cf

« on: December 05, 2005, 12:22:39 am »

Hi Folks

I'm selling my SL-5600 and my Linksys Wireless Ethernet Card (model number WCF12) on eBay.

I bought the SL-5600 on Amazon.com in January 2004.  It's in perfect working condition, I'm just not using it as much as I thought I would.  I was hoping I would have time to geek out on it a little more, but alas, it was not to be.  So I hope someone looking for a 5600 to experiment with will grab it!

The SL-5600  is here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5837452695

The Linksys Wireless Ethernet Card is here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5837578459

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

cheers,
Felicity.

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Software / The best console app so far

« on: February 26, 2004, 11:11:10 am »

I\'m running qkonsole on a 5600 and all is fine except that for some reason it doesn\'t inherit my .bashrc right away.  I have to run \'bash\' at the commandline to get it to work out that I have a /home/zaurus/.bashrc file with alias l=\'ls -l\'.  Strange!  Any suggestions?

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General Discussion / Recent 5600s have PXA255 processor?

« on: January 26, 2004, 10:26:52 pm »

tapjpa, here is the relevant line from my /proc/cpuinfo:

Processor: Intel XScale-PXA255 rev 6 ( v51)

Guest/Brad who was asking about how to run cat /proc/cpuinfo from the terminal, you must have the terminal package installed; it did not come installed by default in my 5600.  I got it from the Zaurus Software Index but it is also available on the CD that came with the 5600.  Once it\'s installed, open a terminal from your apps menu, then at the prompt

bash-2.05$

type the line:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

The processor info should be in the first line of the file.  Type exit to exit the terminal.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Brand new camera card for $14.95

« on: January 24, 2004, 02:09:50 pm »

just saw meangene\'s post so I guess 5600 use seems plausible.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Brand new camera card for $14.95

« on: January 24, 2004, 02:08:23 pm »

offroadgeek, did you end up ordering 10 of those cameras?  I would be interested in purchasing one from you.  I\'\'m in the USA so I can pay ground mail.   Also I\'m wondering if anyone knows or can guess whether it would be compatible with the 5600

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General Discussion / Recent 5600s have PXA255 processor?

« on: January 23, 2004, 01:03:40 pm »

Just to add to this, my Zaurus arrived from Amazon two days ago and it says on the box PXA255 Processor Version.  So I suggest to Guest that you contact Amazon and perhaps try and get them to exchange it for one with the PXA255 rather than the PXA250 processor as they are obviously available.

Given that two people (me and meangene) have just recently got PXA255s from Amazon but one person (anonymous Guest) got a PXA250, I imagine that Amazon just has a pile of them in a warehouse somewhere without any differentiation being made between PXA250 and PXA255 so whoever is in charge of packing it just grabs one and sends it off.  But if you tell them that they gave you the wrong processor they might be more careful and be sure to put the right one in.

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Linux Issues / Can ANYone sync with the 5600?

« on: January 23, 2004, 12:36:29 pm »

I\'ll be going back to a paper planner (Franklin) for 2004. Maybe I\'ll sell my Z, maybe I\'ll hang onto it and see what kinda software comes out. But, I\'m with you. Terribly frustrating.  

-Greg

I just bought a Zaurus SL5600 and ran into exactly the same wall as you--- no usb0 connection on my Mandrake 9.0 system.  I\'m going to go the same route as you and install Slackware 9.1 (which you reported successfully set up the usb0 connection) on a partition.

Luckily for me I\'m not so interested in using my Zaurus as a PIM I just want to be able to transfer \'ordinary\' files (eg ascii, mp3, ogg etc.) to and from my Zaurus via usb.  So the Qtopia desktop stuff doesn\'t affect me at the moment.  I share your frustration with the level of support for the 5600 though.  It\'s particularly frustrating that that the usability of this linux-based PDA is being foiled by the use of proprietary PIM files.

Having said that, I want to say thank you for persevering for as long as you did and for asking and answering so many questions on the forum. Reading your messages helped me to figure out a solution for my own situation, so thanks!

-Felicity.