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Accessories / Official Pcmcia Cards Compatible With Zaurus!

« on: March 16, 2005, 03:55:21 pm »

The Cisco 350 card has a variant with two external antenna MMCX connectors and if you compile the drivers you can use that via the CF to PCMCIA.  I've used it for a long time for wardriving.  It will pull the battery down very quickly, but the range is incredible.

I also put a 5GB Toshiba pcmcia drive via the same adaptor.

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Linux Applications / Lighttpd

« on: February 18, 2005, 05:36:52 pm »

For what it is worth:

lighttpd wasn't out at the time, so I used "boa" - which was lightweight and had CGI, and compiled easily for the Z.

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6000 - Tosa / Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc

« on: January 31, 2005, 01:29:32 pm »

It depends on what exactly you want to do.

You can enable the samba server over wireless (I think it is a file something close to /usr/local/samba/smb.conf, and you just need to add eth0 or remove the restriction to usbd0).

ssh/scp also works, and I think you can turn on FTP service.

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6000 - Tosa / Ntpdate

« on: December 20, 2004, 02:16:12 pm »

There was one hiccup with the one I rolled myself - atd would lock the hardware clock, and I had to use hwclock or something to update the ntpdate into the cmos (boot survivable) clock after stopping atd (and restarting it afterward).  The GUI clock did the same thing - killed and restarted atd if you changed the time.

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General Discussion / Zaurus As A Laptop/desktop

« on: December 16, 2004, 03:13:35 pm »

If you have some kind of Desktop that can run X (e.g. via Knoppix or cygwin if you run windows), you can run the Z's X applications to display (and use keybd and mouse) on the desktop, and use VNC to export the screen.

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6000 - Tosa / Mac Address

« on: December 02, 2004, 03:21:42 pm »

you can embed the ifconfig the commands in /etc/pcmcia/wireless or similar to force the MAC address (easiest for every card).

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Available CF VGA card?

« on: November 19, 2004, 03:52:47 pm »

The modes are set by the driver.  I wrote one set of mirror software.  Basically you have 3 or 4 VESA modes, but 1024x768 is only 256 color, so it can't really mirror things (though you might be able draw directly to it).  The other modes are for NTSC or PAL, and control which connector the signal is on.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Connect a projector to SL-C3000

« on: November 16, 2004, 01:22:16 pm »

The IOData is the only one I know of.  What do you mean it is no longer available?

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Cxx0 General discussions / W2k file system access

« on: November 10, 2004, 04:33:30 pm »

You need to have smbfs in the kernel (I don't remember if the stock Zaurus kernel has it).  Then you can use smbmount (again, I'm unsure what the stock Z includes) with appropriate options to mount a windows share.  Other roms probably include it - they are on my Z, but mine is customized.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kismet & Socket CF

« on: October 22, 2004, 04:02:33 pm »

You might also need a kernel tree.

http://homepage.mac.com/tz1/

Get the s042mon.dif patch file.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Kismet & Socket CF

« on: October 21, 2004, 02:55:41 pm »

The normal socket driver cannot put the card into monitor mode.  When using the driver with monitor patches it works well.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opera through a proxy

« on: October 20, 2004, 12:41:35 pm »

The key line in the post above is:

type=2

I don't know why, and if you edit the proxies area (or maybe any area) using the network config app, it will reset it to =1.

The configuration is in the referenced directory, but I think there are multiple configurations, one for each kind of card (if you have them), so you may need to change more than one.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Zaurus SL-C3000

« on: October 15, 2004, 12:27:10 pm »

I would just note that it has not been confirmed that it does not have USB host.  That may be possible - just requiring a hidden config or driver, but they might not have featured that or other capability (they would have to have drivers for many things and that support might be the problem).  I still don't know if it still has a serial port or not.

There still seems to be some debate on the screen.

Before we all say Sharp blew it, we should wait for the actual release and someone to take a look at what is under the hood, both in terms of hardware and the kernel, what it really does have and does not, and what can be added.

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General Discussion / CF to PC Card adaptor

« on: October 11, 2004, 05:31:22 pm »

My Cisco 350 card (with additional drivers) and my Toshiba 5Gb PCMCIA drive works.
Both can work at 3.3v (I use the Cisco for reception mainly as it has an antenna socket)

I also have some specialty SRAM cards, and other memory cards seem to work.

Battery drain is heavy, but not much more than some similar CF cards (microdrive and WiFi cards other than socket).

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Accessories / Modifying a Buffalo CF card for external antenna

« on: October 11, 2004, 05:26:09 pm »

I use a Cisco 350 that has two antenna sockets.  (I had to modify and compile airo_cs and there are other quirks, but it works with my roof antenna and others).  This works through a PCMCIA-CS adapater.

A very few WiFi cards have a connection for an antenna or something like it inside, but in general it is going to be difficult.  Some have "diagnostic" sockets, but they don't have a mating connector.