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6000 - Tosa / WIFI driver replacement

« on: July 19, 2004, 12:35:24 pm »

Currently the internal WIFI interface of SL6000 uses p80211 driver which is loaded by prism2_usb. We have our own driver for the WIFI interface. What would be the easiest way to load that driver instead of p80211. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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6000 - Tosa / upgrading cardmgr on SL6000

« on: July 15, 2004, 11:50:11 am »

Hi all,
I need to upgrade the cardmgr  to 3.2.7 on sl6000. But when I reboot my zaurus with the new cardmgr I get the following erors:
cardmgr[165]: socket 0: ATA/IDE fixed Disk
cardmgr[165]: executing ide_start hda 2&>1
cardmgr[165]: mounting /dev/hda1  on /mnt/cf failed: No such file or directory
cardmgr[165]: mounting /dev/hda1  on /mnt/cf failed: No such file or directory
cardmgr[165] :start command exited with status 1

Then it goes into this inifinite loop of
Wait 0
Zaurus screen for 30 sec
Wait 0
Zaurus screen for 30 sec

Does anybody have any idea on what I am doing wrong?  Any help would be appreciated.

Also anybody knows where I can get access to the cardmgr code that is used with the stock Sharp ROM on SL6000.

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Qt/Qtopia / Which ROM supports Qtopia 1.7

« on: May 05, 2004, 03:48:58 pm »

Since the Sharp ROM only support Qtopia 1.5.4 SDK and there seems to be no way to upgrade these libraries to the new 1.7 SDK and still have all the existing GUI applications run, is there any ROM out there which uses Qtopia SDK 1.7 and also provides the source code for the applications running in the ROM. I am mainly interested in a ROM that has the following things:
1. Qtopia SDK 1.7 or 1.6
2. source code for the PIM applications.
3. Kernel patched with Wireless extension 13/14/15.
4. Kernel source code  for the ROM.
5. uses the sharp style ipkg installer.

Thanks

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Sharp ROMs / kernel source for 6000

« on: April 19, 2004, 02:02:48 pm »

Just talked to my connects about kernel source I\'ll hear something soon.

I would really appreciate if you can post a reply to this thread once you hear something from them.

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Sharp ROMs / kernel source for 6000

« on: April 19, 2004, 12:34:07 pm »

Has anybody gotten a hold of the kernel source for Zaurus SL-6000. We would need that urgently as we are trying to migrate our code from 5600 to 6000. Also what is the kernel version of Open Emmbedded Linux used in SL-6000. Have they upgraded Qtopia in the 6000 model---- or is it the same 1.5.4 version?

Thanks

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Sharp ROMs / floating point emulator for kernel 2.4.18 on Zaurus 5600

« on: March 16, 2004, 11:16:25 am »

Since the ARM processor that comes with Zaurus 5600 doesn\'t have any floating point unit, is it possible to install a floating point emulator on 5600 that can be used in the kernel space. This is required by some kernel drivers that we are modifying. If it is possible please let me know the steps.

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 02, 2004, 08:41:03 am »

I haven\'t compiled any kernels for the 760/750. They\'re all for the 5600 what I have done. And yes I used the patch that Richjn sent me. All I had to do was copy the files over the existing orinoco files and then compile, right?

Tumnus or Richjn,
Could any of you send me the patches? Which kernel source do you use --- the Sharp ROM 1.00 for 5600 that was availalble from Sharp at one time or C860 kernel source from http://tetsu.homelinux.org/zaurus/kernel/

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 06:11:53 pm »

sbarman:  
I think tumnus kernel (last one) has it installed. He has stated that he included it. I don\'t know if he used the ones I sent or did it himself. Try it out if it doesn work I will compile one and post to the ZUG.
Richard

I just tried to install tumnus kernel and it stopped my zaurus from booting. I guess it is normal because the patched kernel is for  760/750 series and not for  sl5600. I would appreciate if you can upload the patch files that I have to apply to my sl5600 kernel source or if you have the patched kernel source that would be great too. I can make the kernel image from that point on. But it would be better for me if you  can provide the source of the patches suitable for 5600 kernel source --- rather than just the zImage.

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 05:00:00 pm »

Just to clear this one up:

In order to enable wireless exstensions you need to patch the kernel source with the latest spectrum drivers (24-0.4.2) and then apply the orinoco patch (0.13e or later) to add the exstensions. The wireless exstensions are enabled by default in hte kernel config but needs these patches to work. In order to test if you have wireless extensions enabled you MUST connect to your AP or something before running iwconfig from the terminal.

btw I sent tumnus the wireless drivers pre-patched so if these were included in his last kernel submitted to the zug ? then this kernel should work o.k.

Richard

Would it be possible to get your patched kernel ---- I would definitely need it quite urgently. Was your patched kernel stable?  ---- I tried to manually patch it and it was very buggy ----  inserting my WIFI card would not bring up the globe and it will freeze the GUI. I patched it with the wireless extension and ornico driver.

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 patched kernel for wireless extension v13 or above

« on: March 01, 2004, 04:05:46 pm »

Is there any kernel out there that integrates wireless extension and works with Sharp ROM 1.32.  It would be great if the source for the patched kernel is available for 5600 --if not the binary zImage will do too.

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 03:41:25 pm »

You haven\'t said what kind of WiFi card that you are using.  Until I added spectrum and spectrum.conf to my /etc/pcmcia directory, my Symbol card would not return anything for iwconfig or show the little world in the taskbar either.  I got these files from the spectrum driver package, but I don\'t need anything else from this package to get a working setup with the Sharp 1.32 ROM and kernel.

I am using Linksys WCF11 and WCF12 cards which I think uses the Orinoco drivers. I even patched the kernel using the wireless extension patch availalable for 2.4.18 kernel and when I install the patched kernel, it freezes as soon as I insert the WCF cards.
 

In some cases, I\'ve noticed that iwconfig doesn\'t return anything if the card is not powered up, though it\'s not exhibiting that behavior for me now.

iwconfig returns everytime for me ------ but it says lo and eth0 doesn\'t have wireless extensions

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 01:14:38 pm »

After a number of different versions, I\'m back to the Sharp ROM and it has the wireless extentions.  What makes you think that you do not have them?

Yes, the SL-5600 is a poodle (yeck!)

Yes I think the wireless extension was in ROM 1.21 and then when I upgraded to ROM 1.32, then it seems not to have the wireless extension. The reason I am saying that is because when i do \"iwconfig eth0\" it complains:
eth0 no wireless extension
which is the case when wireless extension is not availalve. I compiled the kernel and used the poodle configuration with CONFIG_NET_RADIO option set to y and still the wireless extension doesn\'t seem to exist when i install the kernel on my 5600. Wireless extension is different from wireless support in that it provides extra functionalities in the driver level for scanning and other WIFI related features.

I tried the last special kernel from the 4 kernels in http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...download&sid=53 and still no luck --- it says the there is no wireless extension.

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 09:10:39 am »

Hi,
Does somebody have the sl5600 kernel source and the kernel configuration. I need to enable the wireless extension which seems to have been disabled in the 1.32 ROM that is available in the Sharp Website. I wanted to go back to the previous ROM (1.21) but it is nowhere to be found.  Also is \"poodle\" the kernel configuration for sl5600.

Thanks,
Sibon.