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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Open Embedded / Open Zaurus relationship???

« on: March 23, 2004, 12:49:00 pm »

So, if I wanted to start doing some work on the OZ distro (or any others that are supported in OE) I\'d grab a copy of Open Embedded and a copy of the repository and then I could start fixing any open issues and publishing patches to the OZ development team?

This is off topic for this thread, but where do OZ developers tend to hang out? Sourceforge? handhelds.org? in a forum on this site?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Open Embedded / Open Zaurus relationship???

« on: March 23, 2004, 11:54:47 am »

Do you mean Kernel Compiles... or is this supposed to aid in the compiling of everything? I havn\'t comiled a kernel for the Zaurus/StrongARM yet, but I assume it\'s similar to the i386 compile process: make menuconfig, make, make install, yadda yadda yadda. That\'s all after you\'ve setup gcc corectly so that it will compile to StrongARM.

So, what more does open embedded do for us? Will I be able to roll my own initrd and zImage files using it and a single command like:

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> make myZaurusRock

I can see a tool like that being VERY handy indeed.

Derek.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Open Embedded / Open Zaurus relationship???

« on: March 23, 2004, 10:34:16 am »

I\'m trying to understand the relationship between the Open Embedded \'Build System\' and the Open Zaurus ROM. Is there a document somewhere that whould explain what a \'build system\' is? Maybe somone could just explain why the OE project is important to Zaurus development and what we can expect to gain from it?

Derek.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / HowTo make WEP work on OZ 3.3.5

« on: March 23, 2004, 10:14:05 am »

I\'m glad I could help out.

Hopefully, I can get a chance to look into finding out exactly WHY I was having these problems, then I could actually contribute a solution to the problem instead of just a bandaid to it.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / HowTo make WEP work on OZ 3.3.5

« on: March 18, 2004, 02:38:06 pm »

(ed. Be sure to read posts further down for even better/cleaner solutions to this issue!)

All of this information was scattered between the OZ site and within this forum, so I thought it would be useful to others to combine it all into a single message.

1. Add \'hostap_crypt_wep\' to the file /etc/modules. From a terminal type the following (noob note: be sure to use double arrows or you\'ll overwrite the /etc/modules file and really be stuck):

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> echo hostap_crypt_wep >> /etc/modules
2. Reboot
3. Insert your 802.11 card (I was using a Linksys WCF12 when I tested this).
4. Open a terminal and enter the following to configure the wep key for the card:

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> iwconfig wlan0 key s:YourWepKeyHere
5. And since I was using DHCP to get an address I did the following to make sure I had a fresh address:

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> udhcp -i wlan0
6. Now try and ping something!


Hopefully, some other users will find this useful.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 and WiFI Configuration...

« on: March 15, 2004, 04:52:47 pm »

Problem solved. Turned out to be typical user error. I had misnamed my zImage file when I flashed the Zaurus with the 3.3.5 image.  Im actually glad no one had any ideas for me to try, as I\'m sure we would have wasted a ton of time trying to track down that stupid error.

Have a good one,
Derek.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / media player and image reader for oz3.2

« on: March 13, 2004, 01:48:11 pm »

For image viewing I like TxImage:

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=1129

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 and WiFI Configuration...

« on: March 13, 2004, 01:45:11 pm »

I\'m having trouble setting up my Linksys WCF11 802.11b card on my SL5500 Zaurus. I was using OZ ROM 3.2 previously and did an upgrade last night to 3.3.5, but I don\'t see any config options related to WiFi devices when I look at my Settings-]Network-]wlan0 config screen. The green light on the card lights up when I insert it, and the CF tray icon gives me the option to eject the card.

Did something happen between  3.2 and 3.3.5? Are there any tips on getting this card to work? Maybe I\'m looking in the wrong spot for configuring the NIC? Is there a new place to look for configuring wireless devices?

Here are the vitals:
SL5500 Zaurus
OZ 3.3.5 (mem 48 - strorage 16)
Linksys WCF11

My wifi network has no WEP.

Thanks for any help that can be offered,
Derek.