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For Sale / Wanted / For sale- Zaurus 5500 +/- cards

« on: December 11, 2004, 04:45:24 pm »

It's been sold including the accessories!

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For Sale / Wanted / For sale- Zaurus 5500 +/- cards

« on: November 22, 2004, 02:10:25 pm »

I would prefer to ship here in the USA.

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For Sale / Wanted / For sale- Zaurus 5500 +/- cards

« on: November 18, 2004, 11:56:29 am »

I just recently purchased a Tungsten T3 and would like to sell my Sharp Zaurus.  I was the only owner and it is in perfect condition (original box + accessories) but without the flip screen cover- I kept it in a protective holster.  I also have a Linksys CF WiFi card and 256meg CF if interested as a bundle but not separately.

Zaurus - $150

Bundle - $175

Thanks.

Ron

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For Sale / Wanted / Wanted: 5500 no accessories

« on: November 11, 2004, 02:17:04 pm »

I have a 5500 that I'm looking to sell (ended up getting a Tungsten T3).  I have all the original stuff including the box.  I can ship it to you for $150.  Where do you live?  Also, how do you want to do the payment stuff?

Ron Nath
Waterbury, CT.
H: 203-879-1412
Cell: 203-910-5570

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / I'm deleting OZ 3.5.1

« on: October 20, 2004, 01:48:20 pm »

I've tried OZ 3.5.1.  There are a lot of things to like about it as long as you aren't planning on installing anything on it.  I can't get anything to install on it.  The package manager won't see any of my uninstalled applications.

Maybe it works for those of you with Zaurus Doctorates, but for the average user, version 3.5.1 is a bust.  It simply shouldn't be that difficult to install new applications.

I'll wait for a future version of OZ that works better for me.  Thanks to the OZ team for their efforts.

-John

I'm going one step further so to speak.  I'm going to get a Palm either T3 or the new T5.  I've realized that the Zaurus as a PDA/PIM just doesn't cut it for the reasons you mentioned:

-cant synch easily
-cant install apps easily
-no easy way to back up all installed apps and data and then restore it
-many desired apps not available

If you do go with the stock Sharp ROM, then the first two problems are solved but then it is like any other PDA only with less apps available for it- really no compelling reason to use it over a Palm or PocketPC.  And I did use the Sharp ROM first but realized there was lot of untapped potential which is why I've tried the OZ ROM.  Now as you say, to do practically anything you have to have a doctorate in Linux on the Zaurus.

I will keep it around as my play toy so I can see where things go but I just can't depend on it for day to day use.  It has a lot of potential as a micro laptop or micro tablet but it remains unrealized.

Ron
 

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General Discussion / auto mount sd card

« on: October 20, 2004, 11:13:41 am »

I tried my best to find a solution to this problem by searching through the forums but so far nothing has worked. I am trying to get two partitions mounted upon boot.

Here is the partition table for my sd card (SimpleTech ProX):

Disk /dev/mmcda: 255 MB, 255852544 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 976 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcda1               1         248       63472   82  Linux swap
/dev/mmcda2             249         976      186368   83  Linux

I can manually get things working by typing:
mount /dev/mmcda2 /mnt/card
swapon /dev/mmcda1

My /etc/fstab is currently:
root@collie:~# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/mtdblock4  /               jffs2   defaults        1  1
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0  0
/dev/hda1       /mnt/cf         auto    defaults,sync,noauto,noatime,user,exec,suid,gid=100,umask=0002  0  0
/dev/mmcda2     /mnt/card       auto    defaults,noauto,owner   0  0
/dev/mmcda1     swap            swap    defaults        0  0
tmpfs           /var            tmpfs   defaults        0  0

And what is mounted:
root@collie:~# mount
/dev/mtdblock4 on / type jffs2 (rw)
ramfs on /dev type ramfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /var type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)

And finally part of dmesg:
Partition check:
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
SD Driver Initialized.
sharp_mmcsd 0.21 27 Sep 2002
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option quiet
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
cramfs: wrong magic
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 3c:01.
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 3c:01.
FAT: freeing iocharset=utf8
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
jffs2: attempt to mount non-MTD device 3c:01
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev mmcd(60,1).
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
cramfs: wrong magic
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 3c:01.
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 3c:01.
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
jffs2: attempt to mount non-MTD device 3c:01
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev mmcd(60,1).
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
cramfs: wrong magic
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 3c:01.
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 3c:01.
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcda: mmcda1 mmcda2
jffs2: attempt to mount non-MTD device 3c:01

Thanks for any help.  This is enough to make me abandon the Zaurus.

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Software / VNC Server on Zaurus - Working great...

« on: October 20, 2004, 09:35:40 am »

That's great.  How did you get VNC server (and viewer) to work on OZ 3.5.1?  I can't even find it in the feeds.

Thanks.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / intellisynch and OZ 3.5.1

« on: September 30, 2004, 11:53:18 am »

I just upgraded my SL-5500 to the latest OZ 3.5.1 and like it even though it is a bit rough around the edges.  I am now trying to restore all my PIM data from Outlook via Intellisynch.  When I try to do this, I am unable to get any of my data back in to contacts and datebook.  Has anyone else gotten this to work?  If so how?  BTW, I am running the 64-0 image.

Thanks from this noob.