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NYC / Getting the right Wireless card

« on: August 05, 2004, 02:25:22 pm »

I use this one on my 5600:

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP....ories_clearance

Its WL100 which is an Intel chip I believe.  Works well with my Belkin router.  I have used it all over the house in my pda without any issues.  I had to do a little searching and editting of files to get it to work but once you have it set up it works well.  I have encryption turned on without any issues.

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General Discussion / VI: what\'s the big deal?

« on: June 13, 2004, 08:48:37 pm »

I use it every day at work.  Its a tool.  There are better ones out there for sure.  Back a few years ago when I went to school, it was one of the main editors to quickly get something done.  Cant say its a great editor but when you only have a telnet session into a box and need to edit a file without the nicety of a windowing system, its ideal.  I tend to use VisualC++ as my editor of choice as I have learned how it works and can move around quite quickly with it.  SlickEdit is ok but doesnt emulate 100% or at least it didnt and that was more annoying to me then using VI.  With VI I know its behavior and dont expect it to act like the VC editor.  SlickEdit should but isnt 100% so that 1% or 2% difference really annoys me.  Rather use VI then constantly back trackiing to fix things because the editor isnt 100%.
Of course if you think VI fanatics are bad, there is also the emacs camp.  Never really used it myself since VI suits me.

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Accessories / Opinions on GPS on ebay

« on: May 26, 2004, 01:59:30 pm »

I use qpegps with mine - works good - had to tweak a few things in order to get it to use /dev/ttyS3 port.  Other then that all is well.

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6000 - Tosa / Got Earthmate USB GPS, now what?

« on: May 07, 2004, 09:49:00 pm »

I am guessing /dev/ttyUSBXXX - you will probably need to run the gpsd prior to running qpegps as it seems to always want to default to ttyS0.

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General Discussion / please help me!!

« on: May 05, 2004, 09:53:54 pm »

type bash at the shell prompt.

you should probably make sure that you first type su to get into super user mode (root).  You will come up in the default sh shell. Type bash to get into bash and you
should see:

bash 2.05#

as your prompt.

Type the mount command after becoming root.  For vi - you will need to use the virtual keyboard to hit the \"esc\" key to get out of insert mode if you are in it.  To exit vi, type the following:

:q

Note the colon is necessary.  If you want to save the file, insert a w before the q such as:
:wq

and hit enter (return)

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6000 - Tosa / GPS and the 6000L

« on: May 04, 2004, 04:06:22 pm »

I purchased a BC-307 compact flash model - works with the 5600 and my laptop.  Using qpegps on the Z and MS Streets & Trips on my laptop.

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General Discussion / Getting a Zaurus

« on: April 30, 2004, 09:47:05 pm »

I think its a good deal to get you familiar with what the Zaurus is like and may save you money if you turn out not liking it.   The thing to keep in mind is what DrWowe mentioned and that the new models have better screens and potentially better features.

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5x00 General discussions / Should I buy a 5500?

« on: April 22, 2004, 08:43:01 am »

Good points but back to the original question, $100 for the 5500 + wireless card is a decent price and much lower then the current $63X of the 6000.  If you are looking for the best wifi solution then the 5500 may not be it, if you currently have nothing and think you want to use wifi then I would go with the 5500 for the $100 - worst case is that you find its not quite what you wanted and you have only spent $100.  At that price you could move it on eBay quite quickly I would imagine and then move up to something that meets your needs.  Personally I dont think you could go wrong with the 5500 in order to get your feet wet so to speak.  I use my 5600 with wifi and it works quite well most of the time - better then my Sony Clie - of course this may be in part due to Netfront on the clie and Opera on the 5600.  My only issue is that at times I have to exit opera as there isnt enough memory left.  With the 5500 and openZaurus you can probably configure your 5500 to have more available ram and surf a little more seemlessly.  Just some thoughts.

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5x00 General discussions / Should I buy a 5500?

« on: April 21, 2004, 04:21:14 pm »

I would say that was a decent price - new 5500\'s were going around $200 recently not including the wifi card.  As for connecting to public wifi spots, it shouldnt be too difficult - would probably depend on the hot spot.  I use my 5600 to browse wirelessly at home and it works quite well - nice to be able to quickly check email without waiting for a whole system to come up.

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5x00 Hardware / Sony PEGA-WL-100 WLAN card in 5500?

« on: April 18, 2004, 09:18:58 pm »

I have the same card and use it without problem with my 5600.  Works a lot nicer on the Z then it does on my clie actually.

-Dan

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Accessories / Help required with GPS Problem when connected to C760 using

« on: April 14, 2004, 07:32:35 am »

If the Documents folder isnt in your path it wont find it.  You can see your path by doing:
echo $PATH

You can append to it by doing:
export PATH=$PATH:some/other/place/for/executables

or you should be able to do the following inside of Documents
./startgps

the ./ will have it look locally to the directory you are in.

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Accessories / Help required with GPS Problem when connected to C760 using

« on: April 13, 2004, 02:01:45 pm »

Did su to root first?  Use the \"cp\" command for copy.  Read only is because you probably need root permissions in order to write to that area.

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5x00 General discussions / 5600 processor question

« on: April 12, 2004, 11:20:40 am »

Is it a compact flash?  Most of the notebook add ons would be PCMCIA I believe.  Off hand if it is compact flash then it probably will be compatible with minor configuration.

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5x00 General discussions / 5600 processor question

« on: April 12, 2004, 08:01:04 am »

Basically the bug is in regards to the cache memory I believe which when disabled, has the processor running at a perceived slower speed - no cache slower reads/writes from external memory.  In one of the threads there are some links to Intel\'s site regarding the cache bug (#100 if I remember correctly).  I purchased my Zaurus from Amazon and was a bit bummed when I got the 250 processor but now its a dont care.  The device works as expected and all of my CF accessories are working the way I want them to. As a general engineering tool, the Zaurus should be quite nice.  A lot more flexibility then the other PDA\'s out there.  The down side is that you have to be willing to experiment and do some research in order to get some things to work.  For the most part, standard accessories will work fine, if however you have something that is new then there may not be a driver available for it.  Of course the same problem exists with other PDA\'s also - case in point, CF drivers for my Clie.

-Dan

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Security and Networking / New Socket CF Wifi card not recognized

« on: April 09, 2004, 08:38:48 am »

The last error regarding registering the device is probably due to the failed MAC address read - without a valid MAC address,  it probably cant register properly.  I dont have the same card so cannot really help more than that.  I am using the spectrum drivers on an older card.

-Dan