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6000 - Tosa / SL-6000L right for me?
« on: May 26, 2004, 09:42:33 am »
Thanks Ethereal and Dr Wowe for your answers!
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6000 - Tosa / SL-6000L right for me?
« on: May 25, 2004, 03:27:43 pm »
Hey there! I\'m a total zaurus n00b and I\'m evaluating a 6000L. I would like to eventually use this for remote support for work. What I need to do is be able to connect in at work (via wifi/CF cell modem/CF ethernet card), run Cisco VPN (vpnc?) and be able to fire off multiple terminals and ssh into remote boxes. I am a unix SA (Sun and some HP and Linux) so I can follow directions. From what I\'ve seen so far:
vpnc - does it really work with the 6000? Having problems even installing it! Do I need to install tun and iproute? Do I need to rebuild my kernel (and if so, how)?
screen - I transfer it to my zaurus and it doesn\'t even show up in the installable list (yet is in the Install_Files directory).
ssh - Found openssh (abeit old - 3.6.1p1). Installed it and it works.
Terminal (supplied with the Zaurus) - is cute if I only need one terminal (hence the idea of screen). Any way of firing up multiple terminals from this?
Qkonsole - installed Qkonsole but the fonts leave a little something to be desired. Any other multiple terminal tools out there?
Where in heck is the \"|\" (pipe) key on the keyboard?
Should I just ditch the default Sharp ROM and use someone else\'s distribution that will give me these features? Syncing calendars/email/address books/todo lists aren\'t biggies for me (I can do that all web-based). Being able to support boxes remotely is important (without having to strap a laptop on me wherever I go!)
How about compiling? Grab a zaurus based gcc or is there a gcc out there that will cross compile for the zaurus?
What is the deal with compatibility of software (and ipk\'s) between the 6000\'s and the 5x00\'s? Anything really different that causes things to break?
Or am I on drugs and none of this is really possible yet. Please don\'t make me go back to my boss and tell him we gotta buy WinCE based machines to do remote support!
I just wanna believe!
TIA,
Johnny
vpnc - does it really work with the 6000? Having problems even installing it! Do I need to install tun and iproute? Do I need to rebuild my kernel (and if so, how)?
screen - I transfer it to my zaurus and it doesn\'t even show up in the installable list (yet is in the Install_Files directory).
ssh - Found openssh (abeit old - 3.6.1p1). Installed it and it works.
Terminal (supplied with the Zaurus) - is cute if I only need one terminal (hence the idea of screen). Any way of firing up multiple terminals from this?
Qkonsole - installed Qkonsole but the fonts leave a little something to be desired. Any other multiple terminal tools out there?
Where in heck is the \"|\" (pipe) key on the keyboard?
Should I just ditch the default Sharp ROM and use someone else\'s distribution that will give me these features? Syncing calendars/email/address books/todo lists aren\'t biggies for me (I can do that all web-based). Being able to support boxes remotely is important (without having to strap a laptop on me wherever I go!)
How about compiling? Grab a zaurus based gcc or is there a gcc out there that will cross compile for the zaurus?
What is the deal with compatibility of software (and ipk\'s) between the 6000\'s and the 5x00\'s? Anything really different that causes things to break?
Or am I on drugs and none of this is really possible yet. Please don\'t make me go back to my boss and tell him we gotta buy WinCE based machines to do remote support!
I just wanna believe!
TIA,
Johnny
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6000 - Tosa / Cisco vpn client for SL-6000?
« on: May 25, 2004, 02:19:23 pm »
I, too, am interested in this. I took a look at http://www.liebchen-online.de/vpn-zaurus-cisco_en.html and I\'m pretty confused. Do I need to install the tun device and iproute in addition to the vpnc ipk? The version of iproute won\'t show up to install when I xfer it to my Zaurus. Also, when I install the vpnc client, I get an error message about not all files extracting and that it might not execute properly. Can you help this Zaurus n00b?
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