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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Cards And Net Connection Help Help !

« on: November 29, 2006, 03:09:34 am »

What does the command "iwconfig" show?

If the wlan0 device is shown try a few commands to see if you can talk to the card:

# iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
# iwconfig wlan0 essid YOUR_ESSID_OF_ACCESS_POINT

(if you use WEP and say your key was 1234567890)

# iwconfig wlan0 enc 1234567890

If these commands are accepted, and you use DHCP, try:

# dhcpcd wlan0 &

At that point, after about 10 seconds or so, you just may be connected, so try:

# ifconfig

And, see if you have a network device and address assigned.  If you do, you are connected,
so it just a matter of automating this in the proper config files.  Lately I have been using
beta1 on SL-5500/SL-6000 so I can't help you there...
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Thanks for your suggestions. I tried the iwconfig commands as you listed and got error messages. I have listed the output from the plain command below:

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"  
          Mode:Master  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  Bit Rate:11Mb/s  
          Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
         
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"  
          Mode:Master  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  Bit Rate:11Mb/s  
          Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

These seem to me to be the default values only and dont seem to relate to my card or network.

Thanks again for everyone's help

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Cards And Net Connection Help Help !

« on: November 27, 2006, 06:08:15 am »

Do you get any lights on your card? if you are getting lights we are one step ahead of the game... if no lights... then we will know where to start diagnosing the issue... Also what do you get from dmesg...
Pull the card... then re-seat... then run the command dmesg... let me know what it says... it will be a series of lines... 8-10 give or take a few...

Late
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Many thanks for your reply.

On re-seating I get one blink of the LED on the card. Otherwise nothing. I ran dmesg and got a lot more than 10 lines or so. I have listed the out put here. Sorry its so long, but if anyone sees anything strange please let me know.

As I see it, the last few lines are the most pertinent to the network.

Here goes .........

Linux version 2.6.16 (sash@pdaX86) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 PREEMPT Fri Sep 15 17:38:39 UTC 2006
CPU: XScale-PXA255 [69052d06] revision 6 (ARMv5TE)
Machine: SHARP Husky
Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x00000000
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
  DMA zone: 16384 pages, LIFO batch:3
  DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
  Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Memory clock: 99.53MHz (*27)
Run Mode clock: 199.07MHz (*2)
Turbo Mode clock: 398.13MHz (*2.0, active)
CPU0: D VIVT undefined 5 cache
CPU0: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
CPU0: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=jffs2
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 62220KB available (2108K code, 401K data, 76K init)
Calibrating delay loop... 397.31 BogoMIPS (lpj=1986560)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Sharp Scoop Device found at 0x10800000 -> 0xc4800000
pxa25x: CPU frequency change support initialized (powersave tables)
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  © 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
Corgi Backlight Driver Initialized.
Found w100 at 0x08000000.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: w100fb frame buffer device
pxa2xx-uart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40100000 (irq = 15) is a FFUART
pxa2xx-uart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x40200000 (irq = 14) is a BTUART
pxa2xx-uart.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x40700000 (irq = 13) is a STUART
pxa2xx-uart.3: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x41600000 (irq = 0) is a HWUART
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Sharp SL series flash device: 800000 at 0
Using static partision definition
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-flash":
0x00120000-0x007f0000 : "Boot PROM Filesystem"
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0x79 (Samsung NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
Scanning device for bad blocks
Bad eraseblock 32 at 0x00080000
Creating 2 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-nand":
0x00000000-0x00700000 : "Logical"
0x00700000-0x08000000 : "JFFS2"
input: Corgi Keyboard as /class/input/input0
input: Corgi Touchscreen as /class/input/input1
sa1100-rtc sa1100-rtc: rtc intf: sysfs
sa1100-rtc sa1100-rtc: rtc intf: proc
sa1100-rtc sa1100-rtc: rtc intf: dev (253:0)
sa1100-rtc sa1100-rtc: rtc core: registered sa1100-rtc as rtc0
sa1100-rtc sa1100-rtc: SA11xx/PXA2xx RTC Registered
I2C: i2c-0: PXA I2C adapter
Registered led device: corgi:amber
Registered led device: corgi:green
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
sa1100-rtc sa1100-rtc: setting the system clock to 1970-01-01 00:00:09 (9)
mmcblk0: mmc0:a95c SD512 495488KiB
 mmcblk0: p1
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 76K
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
NET: Registered protocol family 23
ASoC version 0.10rc4
wm8731: WM8731 Audio Codec 0.7
soc: WM8731 <-> pxa2xx-i2s mapping ok
w100fb: Using fast system clock (if possible)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: deregistering driver usbfs
usbcore: deregistering driver hub
JFFS2 notice: (541) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x046a6400: read 0x70dce37c, calculated 0x835a4ff7.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
soc: WM8731 <-> pxa2xx-i2s info:
soc: rate mask 0x6fe
soc: min ch 2 max ch 2
soc: min rate 8000 max rate 96000
soc: WM8731 <-> pxa2xx-i2s info:
soc: rate mask 0x6fe
soc: min ch 2 max ch 2
soc: min rate 8000 max rate 96000
Stopping tasks: =====================|
Restarting tasks... done
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
hostap_cs: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 40, io 0xc4820000-0xc482003f
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 370 ms
wifi0: NIC: id=0x801b v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.0
wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
orinoco 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)
orinoco_cs 0.15rc3 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, et al)


...... as I see it the following lines are the important ones, or am I wrong?
 
hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0 - so it has found my device then has it?
prism2_hw_init: initialised - So I assume the prism 2 drivers are running
orinoco 0.15rc3 - now that is the name of my card, so my card must have been recognised, yes?

Many thanks again for your help

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Useful Applications

« on: November 26, 2006, 07:22:27 am »

I was thinking about discussing some of the applications we all use on pdaXrom. Since there are lots of applications available for pdaXrom, we each will have our own favourites which may be the same or different.

Maybe we should have a thread which discusses the most favourable applications depending on categories. There already is a thread on window managers, but I have not seen a thread on user applications yet so I though, let's start one.

There are several application categories that I can think of almost everyone would want to run and I think we should discuss what those are to find out what is most usable and popular. Well here goes:


Word Processing: AbiWord! what else?

SpreadSheet: Gnumeric! what else?

Browsers: Dillo (since it works best for most things), Firefox (slow but most feature rich),  links, lynx, others?

Email: Sylpheed! Thunderbird is a bit slow in comparison, what else?

FTP: gftp, what else?

Text Editor: does anyone use scite? or does everyone prefer leadpad? or even vim? what else?

PIM: KOPI/KAPI?, what else?

PDF: xpdf? epdfview? evince? which one is better? what else?

Dictionaries: stardict or qbedic, or both? what else?

IM: Gaim?, Xchat?, licq? what else?

Media Players: xmms, mplayer

Graphics: GIMP, GQView, GThumb, etc..?

File Managers: rox, emelfm? what else?

Terminal:  aterm, rxvt, putty? what else?

Other Tools: xarchiver, gps, kchmviewer, scrot, tuxcards ?

Are there any other applications that people love to use on pdaXrom?
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I pretty much agree with all that you have said but:

Browsers: prefer Firefox but I admit it is slow. (watch the face of your neighbour when you fire up a FULL browser on your pda!)

Graphics:  have used GIMP but it is very slow. GQView has crashed on me with big files

Multimedia:  xmms worked on one version of the rom but not on another so haven't revisited multimedia software at all.

Others: would love to get the latest version of dosbox on my Z. The last time I tried, the version compiled and put in the feed would not run the DOS prog. I wanted. The later version does.

thanks Phill

Oh, and I forgot, I once got DOOM (game) running and thoroughly enjoyed it. I would put that on again if I could get some more levels to play.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Cards And Net Connection Help Help !

« on: November 26, 2006, 06:56:40 am »

What wifi card are you trying to get working?  What chipset?

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The card is an Origo Wireless compact flash. I dont know the exact chipset at the moment but it is also known under many other names and I seem to remember that the standard prism drivers worked.

I can give you the output from the pccardctl:

product info: "WLAN", "11Mbps_PC-CARD_3.0", "ISL37100P", "Eval-RevA"
manfid: 0x000b, 0x7100
function: 6 (network)

..... as you can see, pretty standard card really.

Actually, I do have another card which is faster but previous notes on this forum ( months ago) sugesteded that that chipset wasn't supported so I have not pursued that, unless someone has now got that running!! (Linksys WCF54G)

many thanks for all your help ...

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Cards And Net Connection Help Help !

« on: November 25, 2006, 10:11:38 pm »

Dear All,

I haven't used my C860 for many months and thought I would try to get it working again tonight. I had thought that I had bricked it as it no longer boots to the Japanese menu when I press OK on power up. Non of the boot keys work (D+M on power up etc)  and I cant decide why. I have installed the u-boot system for beta3 and it was at that time that I gave up on the thing earlier this year.

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Try removing battery and power, then holding down FN+D+M while plugging in cord  

Oh !!!!!!   'FN+D+M' !!!

I've been trying just 'D+M' on power up as that is the only info I can find on this forum or the pdaXrom site.

I will try this straight away and let you know if it doesn't work.

Very many thanks for your help.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Cards And Net Connection Help Help !

« on: November 25, 2006, 10:03:20 pm »

Try it:
http://mail.pdaxrom.org/node/121
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I did see this link but I am afraid I couldn't quite understand it. For example, it seems to suggest that there are two scripts, one called

eth0.up

and one called

wlan0.up

But I wonder if the eth0.up and the wlan0.up are the file names that the scripts are in, but it doesn't really say that, so I am not sure if that is what it means. If it does mean that, then I can create the files easily enough but I have no idea where to put them. Should I put them in /etc/pcmcia , or where ?

Also, can the scripts be made to auto run on boot? If so how?

Also, can the I get the script to scan for the channel rather than define it (NN) as my router varies the channel sometimes.

Very many thanks for everyones help.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Cards And Net Connection Help Help !

« on: November 24, 2006, 07:13:12 pm »

Dear All,

I haven't used my C860 for many months and thought I would try to get it working again tonight. I had thought that I had bricked it as it no longer boots to the Japanese menu when I press OK on power up. Non of the boot keys work (D+M on power up etc)  and I cant decide why. I have installed the u-boot system for beta3 and it was at that time that I gave up on the thing earlier this year.

Today I installed u-boot again and then version 121 ( have no idea how to flash to an earlier version as I can't get the Japanese menu up)

Anyway, 121 seems to work OK except that I can't get onto the network because the system doesn't recognise my WiFi card. I got it working under RC8, then RC10, then RC12 so I know it can work. In those cases I followed the instructions I found in this forum to add the details from cardctl to the .conf files (cant remember the file names anymore - wlan.conf perhaps) which used to be in the /etc/pcmcia directory (if I remember correctly) but now I can't find the network card setup files anywhere.

I have been advised that I can used pccardctl and I have found that it works for 121 (thanks luigi600) But, where do I put this information for the system to recognise my card?

After that, will the GUI configuration program work or will I have to set the card up manually?

Please please help

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Keep Pdaxrom Alive

« on: August 20, 2006, 01:50:03 pm »

We are still working on it.

Sash has got a real job in brazil but its luckly related and is spending all his free time on the project. The new website is a joint effort.
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Good to hear that things are running on. Would like to support with a donation but can't find any link on the site. There used to be a link but I can't find it on this new site.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Keep Pdaxrom Alive

« on: August 17, 2006, 04:50:05 pm »

Have not been using my Z for some 6 months or more (time flies) and now am trying to get back into it. Have donated before but not for a while. Then I uncovered this thread again and I am confused....

Is Sashz no longer working on the pdaXrom full time?

Is Laze working on it?

The new pdaXrom site - who built it and keeps it going? Is it Laze?

Where can I make a donation? I can't find a link on the site.

Has development stopped?

Can someone tell me whats been happening in my absence please.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Help Wanted Please

« on: August 16, 2006, 08:03:23 pm »

Beta4 no longer uses pcmcia-cs from Davi Hinds but uses the new stuff ... try pccardctl.

when you have the card inserted what do you get if you run
"iwconfig" and do you see any errors when you look at "dmesg" ?

If the gui wizzard fails but the modules get loaded correctly you could try using iwconfig to set up wireless networking.
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Thanks for the help.
Here are the things I have found so far:

iwconfig comes back with errors:
lo             no wireless extension
irda0        no wireless extension
sit0          no wireless extension

wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"  
          Mode:Master  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  Bit Rate:11Mb/s  
          Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
         
wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"  
          Mode:Master  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00  Bit Rate:11Mb/s  
          Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


I don't really know what these are, except irda is the IR port. Looks to me as if it is saying that the modules for these interfaces have not loaded, anyway what to do now?

Also, pccardctl works fine. I can see the WiFi card settings as I used to do with the old system.

Also, dmesg doesn't seem to give any errors but I have attached the output here as a .txt file. Do you see anything wrong here?

Anymore help you can give will be most welcome.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Help Wanted Please

« on: August 16, 2006, 02:40:00 pm »

Hi all,

Have not used or looked at my C860 for some 6 months or so, because I get so frustrated with it and with pdaXrom. I must say that it is definately the best OS for the machine, by far, but I do have some problems with it. Good work by all of you.

Here is my first problem, perhaps you can help.

The WiFi network doesn't seem to work - it used to work in an earlier beta. I have looked through this forum but can't see anything to help. I have followed the link (can't remember where now) which suggested that the networking profile should be named after the interface such as eth0 or wlan but those two don't work.

I have tried to run cardctl to get info on the adapter but that program doesnt seem to be present.

I have tried to find the wlan.conf files (cant remmebr the file names of the top of my head) which used to be in the /etc/pcmcia directory (if I remember correctly) but now I can't find it anywhere.

Has anyone any idea how to get the WiFi network running please.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Problem

« on: February 14, 2006, 06:20:48 pm »

I have just got hold of a very nice Linksys WCF54G WiFi card. I have tried everything to get it working but to no result.

Please, please can someone out there help. I will supply whatever info you need. I will even post it to someone (laze) and donate 50UKPounds to pdaxrom if we can get it working (probably do that anyway as I haven't contibuted for a while)

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wi-fi 802.11g With Wpa

« on: December 21, 2005, 05:43:21 pm »

Hi All,

Firstly, merry xmas and a happy new year to you all.

Now, I have had to change my WiFi setup at home. It now has to implement WPA authentication. The zaurus, however, uses WEP and will not now connect to the access point.

I currently use an Origo CF Wi Fi Card

I could buy an 802.11g compact flash card which supports WPA but can I get it working through my C860?

Any help and advice will be very helpful.

Thanks,
Phill

UPDATE
Have just found some links about WPA but there is a suggestion that it does not work properly under RC12 - is there anyone who has done this on a C860 with RC12???

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Samba - Does It Work In Rc10 ?

« on: September 13, 2005, 07:03:17 pm »

Thanks for those replies. I have managed to get the shares frm my Win2K box.listed and managed to mount them.

I wonder if there is a file that I can enter the mount command into so that it automatically mounts when I plug in the card. Please let me know. Thanks

I am also trying to print to a shared W2K printer. Cups and Samba are installed. I have looked all over the cups and samba site and but cant find out how to print to the shared printer. Please/ can someone direct me. Thanks in advance.

Phill

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc10.4 For Sl-c1000

« on: August 08, 2005, 03:36:37 pm »

Hi All,

I am still a little unsure here if the new RC10.4 - the latest one for Z C1000 - is OK to put on my C860?

Phill

Edit-
......and for that matter, if there is any benefit to updating to it.