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Zaurus - pdaXrom / file to set LAN default to wireless, not wired?

« on: March 24, 2004, 10:26:23 pm »

Is there a text config file to the LAN applet that will allow me to set a default value for wired/wireless, and perhaps even the IP or WEP key settings?

I need this because I have been relegated to yanking the Prism2 wireless CF card when it locks up the UI, see my other thread.

Thanks.

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General Discussion / ipk system is a pain in the...

« on: March 21, 2004, 08:29:57 am »

I meant) ipkg is a pain and we know about it and we would like to see something better.

If you\'re looking for something better (in the future), you might look to the Gentoo for Zaurus project. I\'m a Gentoo user (formerly Redhat), and I can agree with you that ipkg is yet another binary package format with all the attendendant problems of dependency versioning. Lots of distros have reengineered their own packaging systems to do it like RPM, which isn\'t perfect by any stretch.

I\'ve been totally won over by Gentoo\'s Portage system, where \'ebuilds\' provide source fetching, installation/build instructions and dependency metadata. More appropriate for standalone PDA\'s Portage also has features for end-users to prepare binary packages from these source builds for well-defined targed environments. Dependency library versions, processor architecture, etc are all frozen into the binary package metadata, and portage offers to pull other packages in to resolve dependencies.

If Gentoo for Zaurus can eventually bring some of that effectiveness to the Zaurus PDA, and make effective use of host cross-compilation and gentoo\'s binary packaging features, you\'ll really have something there. If anyone really wants to solve .ipk packaging problems, get to know and hopefully love full Gentoo\'s features, then help OpenSistemas bring some of that to the Zaurus.
http://www.opensistemas.com/Gentoo_for_Zau...urus.715.0.html

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / What file contains ipkg installed/worklist database?

« on: March 20, 2004, 11:20:28 pm »

I have a trio of SDL \"0.8\" failed installs resulting from prboom, which put up an \'install SDL-yadayada now ? Y/n\' in the package managers log window. I have since installed the real SDL components (and not installed prboom), but the old non-installed versions remain in the \"installed\" list below the real SDL ones.

I thought I\'d poke around in the file that maintains this worklist, can anyone tell me where it is on pdaxrom? Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Prism2 wireless cf card intermittently locks up UI

« on: March 20, 2004, 05:52:23 pm »

What does dmesg read when this happens.  I also use a prism2 based card, but this does not ahppen to me.

Do you mean run dmesg after pulling the card out? I\'ll do that next time it happens. As mentioned, I can\'t do anything while the card is actually locked up.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Port Requests Here:

« on: March 20, 2004, 05:38:23 pm »

Minimo (Netscape based browser) has already been ported (afaik). Take a look at the GPE mailing list.

I would *really* love to try a port of minimo, if anyone has one for pdaxrom. This looks like the perfect browser for pdaxrom.

I tried the one from http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/details.phtm...?package=minimo , but haven\'t been able to get it to install, even using ipkg command line. Can we get a build (with xft enabled) and have it added to the pdaxrom feed? Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Prism2 wireless cf card intermittently locks up UI

« on: March 20, 2004, 05:12:25 pm »

I have a TrendNet TEW-222CF http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-222CF.htm wireless CF card for my Zaurus 860. It detects as a prism2, and has in general worked well for the few hours I\'ve had it.

However, at random times (using the xterm console, configuring the WiFi applet, almost always if inserted while at the boot console) the card locks up the user interface completely. The only way to get any response from the Zaurus is to pull the card out, immediately after which the UI usually becomes responsive again.

Has anyone experienced this, what is it related to (card sleep mode), and are there any known workarounds? Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Recommended Wired and Wireless CF cards?

« on: March 20, 2004, 05:05:02 pm »

Ah, actually, I was able to get it working by using the hostap_cs instructions from another post.  All set now!

Can you post the link to that thread, or quote the instructions you followed, for anyone who\'s searching for this in the future?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / SD /mnt/card has become read-only

« on: March 20, 2004, 12:08:30 pm »

At some point, possibly during either of the following:
a) firefox install to /mnt/card, which completed and runs.
 wget http...minimo.ipk hung because of prism2 card locking up. Pulled card, interruped wget.
my /mnt/card (128mb PNY SD) got mounted as read-only. It is now giving:

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unable to open \'/mnt/card/minimo...ipk\': Read-only file system
errors when I try to mv or rm a file as root from the xterm console. fstab is the stock version:

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/dev/root     /         jffs2    rw  1 1

/dev/mtdblock3     /home    jffs2   rw   0 0

/dev/hda1     /mnt/cf   auto  noauto,owner   0 0

/dev/mmcda1   /mnt/card     auto  noauto,owner   0 0

none          /dev/pts   devpts   gid=5,mode=620   0 0

proc     /proc     proc    defaults    0  0
Any ideas on how to correct this? Do I unmount, mount, and what would be the exact syntax for that.
Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Recommended Wired and Wireless CF cards?

« on: March 20, 2004, 08:45:27 am »

I can confirm that the trendnet wireless card is a prism2 chipset, it detects and works without additional setup besides your ssid/key settings.

http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-222CF.htm

I\'m having some problems with the card locking up the GUI at random points, and releasing the block when removed from the unit. but I\'ll start a separate thread for that.

The wired trendnet card is not detected by pdaxrom, I\'ll also put that in a separate thread.
http://www.trendware.com/products/TE-CF100.htm

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Minimo mozilla variant, sounds good for pdaxrom

« on: March 13, 2004, 05:06:13 pm »

This is somewhat related to my question about building ipks for pdaxrom, and whether ipks (at least the process of building them) have any crossover between distributions.

Minimo, if it works as a flyweight wrapper around the excellent mozilla rendering engine, would be invaluable to me. Dillo just isn\'t able to render the web applications I have to manage, and firefox sounds like its too big and slow for the Zaurus. Familair-stable\'s minimo is a relatively svelte 4.8Mb:

http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/fee...-stable_arm.ipk
10-Mar-2004 11:44   4.8M  

It would seem that pdaxrom has the dependencies satisfied:
Section:     x11
Priority:    Unknown
Depends:    libgtk2.0-0, libxt

I\'m sure the layout is different for pdaxrom and familiar-stable, and the compilation is probably not transferrable, but can those currently working on FireFox and other browsers take a look at this one? We could all use an ipk of minimo as soon as possible. Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Where to learn about building ipks for pdaxrom?

« on: March 13, 2004, 04:52:38 pm »

I\'m going to need to learn how to build .ipks for an 860 running pdaxrom1.0. I\'m interested in starting simple, mostly with non-gui python extensions. Unlike pure python modules, these need to be compiled with gcc against python headers. If it makes sense, I\'d even put some pure-python modules into ipks, just for ease of deployment. And then there\'s the questions of building an up to date python 2.3.3 and putting it in an ipk, if no one\'s done it already.

Where can I read up on how to properly build .ipks for pdaxrom? I want to get the SDK and cross compiler set up, I probably can practice builds before the zaurus is here, right? My host system is gentoo linux with kernel-2.6.3 and gcc-3.3.3.

Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / SD memory can host installed applications same as CF memory?

« on: March 12, 2004, 04:21:09 pm »

I\'m considering purchasing at least a modest storage expansion for my soon-to-arrive Zaurus 860. I can imagine the curiousity about Firefox making it imperative that I find 25Mb somewhere to install it   Hopefully minimo will be forthcoming soon.

I will almost always have a network adapter in the CF slot, so I\'m looking at the SD slot for the semi-permanent memory expansion. Probably a 128 or 256 MB card until I see how well it works.

Are SD and CF memory slots fully equivalent for the purposes of moutable storage to install applications to?

Any minimum \'speed\' to get in these memory cards to reasonably run programs like firefox and gimp from? The vendors predicably use many different terms to describe their relative speeds:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?...property&DEPA=1

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Recommended Wired and Wireless CF cards?

« on: March 12, 2004, 04:10:57 pm »

I ended up getting the trendnet wired and wireless ethernet cards (links above). They should be here with the 860 next week. If anyone has any \'good to know\' info about using either one with pdaxrom1.0, such as chipset names, please share. Thanks.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / python version in pdaxrom 1.0?

« on: March 12, 2004, 12:03:00 pm »

If anyone is doing any recompiling, it would be *great* to see python2.3.3, -devel, and the new pygtk version ported to pdaxrom1.0 soon. I haven\'t yet tried any .ipk compilation, so I don\'t know how hard this is.

I get my first 860 next week, and I\'m *extremely* eager to get right into python development with it, even if only non-gui stuff at first.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Recommended Wired and Wireless CF cards?

« on: March 11, 2004, 01:58:19 pm »

Question: is the buffalo cf card patch now part of pdaxrom 1.0, or do you still need the patch .ipk? Thanks.

Q: I can\'t get my Socket CF+ LP WLAN Card Rev A 1.00 / BUFFALO WLI2-CF-S11 card working?
A: Install the pcmcia-fix_1.0_armv5tel.ipk file and reboot the zaurus or run /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart