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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Rom 1.23 With Full Japanese Language Support

« on: July 21, 2011, 06:12:12 pm »

Rokugo,

Hope you'll find it useful:

Thanks a lot !  I'm in the process of installing the last few bits as we speak and it feels great to have my old Zaurus back. Except it isn't my old Zaurus: it's got all the Cacko improvements !

Now if ever I manage to get back to Japan one day (not so easy with a non-Japan related job and a young kid these days), I'll at least have my dictionaries with my like I'm used to. Simply put, after I "screwed up" my Zaurus C860 by flashing it with another distro without a backup, you saved me a lot of money to buy another hand writing capable denshijisho. Thanks again !


Peter.

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General Discussion / C860 As A Japanese Dictionary

« on: July 18, 2011, 05:25:50 am »

Oh, another point. I can install the NAND images from the Trisoft website, but all the files including the backups have been translated, so Japanese doesn't work. Are there also Japanese NANDs around ?  Otherwise, I'll try the Cacko JP conversion.


Peter.

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General Discussion / C860 As A Japanese Dictionary

« on: July 17, 2011, 06:46:11 pm »

Hello koan,

Backup ROM files are still available due to the kindness of Trisoft, see http://www.trisoft.de/en_c860howto.htm

I was looking at those and I was looking at Cacko, but I had a really hard time getting anything started at all. It turns out I had pdaXrom beta 4 installed, which uses U-Boot, which gave me a hard time flashing to anything else. None of the usual keyboard shortcuts worked: holding OK brought me to the U-Boot emergency prompt and anything else just booted the pdaXrom. After some time, I figured out FN-D-M still worked.

Things weren't helped by the fact that I was trying to use a 4GB CF. I had to first reformat the card FAT16 (a 150MB partition, for example), then put the systc860.dbk file onto it before the NAND flasher wanted to recognise it. I have now reflashed with the Trisoft NAND and I'll be restoring their Japanese backup soon.

I think your only choice is to use the Sharp ROM, however, you could transfer the input method plugin to the Cacko ROM by installing the Sharp ROM and copying it. You should be able to find the plugin in /home/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods - one of the .so files.

I found the sticky thread about making Cacko Japanese with the original input methods and everything... it sounds great, I'll be giving it a try. Good to know the Trisoft site has those backups just in case.

By the way, I noticed one of the files mentioned in the stickies is now missing: japanese-support-c1k_&_c860_1.23_supplementary.zip. Any idea if anybody still has it laying around ?

Thanks a lot,


Peter.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Rom 1.23 With Full Japanese Language Support

« on: July 17, 2011, 05:04:58 pm »

Hi,

Is the file "japanese-support-c1k_&_c860_1.23_supplementary.zip" still available somewhere ?  I'm going to try this procedure to restore my C860 to a full Japanese dictionary and this is the only file I can't find online.

Thanks,


Peter.

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General Discussion / C860 As A Japanese Dictionary

« on: July 17, 2011, 03:08:40 pm »

Hi Koan,

What kind of Kanji recognition do you need ?

Do you want to edit text or is it only the dictionary function that you need ? Would you be happy to use the Sharp ROM with NihongoNirvana http://nihongonirvana.sourceforge.net/kani1/kani.html ?

The Sharp ROM has excellent built-in kanji recognition that works in any program, so also for editing text. I think I tried NihongoNirvana (wasn't it called KanjiNirvana before ?), but the built-in recognition was just so much better. So I'm not looking for an additional program that implements kanji recognition, I'm looking for a ROM that has the algorithms from the Sharp ROM.

As I explained, I currently don't have the Sharp ROM on my C860 any more. If somebody has that image and if it's allowed to distribute it, then I would be glad to just return to its original image.

Thanks,


Peter.

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General Discussion / C860 As A Japanese Dictionary

« on: July 17, 2011, 05:17:28 am »

Hi,

First of all, apologies for my bad manners in cross-posting this message here after posting it in the Cxx0 General forum as well. I saw that that forum isn't very active at all, so I decided to take a bet and to repost it here, as this is the most active forum.

In 2003, I bought my C860 as an aid in my Japanese studies. I stayed with the original Sharp ROM and installed kanjidic + a few dictionaries. With its recognition of kanji written on screen, it was a dream dictionary. However, a few years later, I hardly had anything to do with Japan anymore and reflashed the ROM to some sort of Linux. It boots and gives me a login prompt. I can log in as root without a password, but I don´t know which ROM or version it is.

I'd like to flash it back to something similar to what I had before. The only requirements are: a good dictionary (extendible with more edict files), recognition of hand written kanji. I don't require networking, X, whatever in particular. Just give me back the greatest Japanese-English dictionary on earth

Any recommendations on which ROM to flash with ? I can find the right application soft myself after that, if standard Zaurus apps work on that ROM.

Thanks in advance,


Peter.

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Cxx0 General discussions / C860 Japanese Dictionary

« on: July 17, 2011, 05:11:01 am »

Hi,

In 2003, I bought my C860 as an aid in my Japanese studies. I stayed with the original Sharp ROM and installed kanjidic + a few dictionaries. With its recognition of kanji written on screen, it was a dream dictionary. However, a few years later, I hardly had anything to do with Japan anymore and reflashed the ROM to some sort of Linux. It boots and gives me a login prompt. I can log in as root without a password, but I don´t know which ROM or version it is.

I'd like to flash it back to something similar to what I had before. The only requirements are: a good dictionary (extendible with more edict files), recognition of hand written kanji. I don't require networking, X, whatever in particular. Just give me back the greatest Japanese-English dictionary on earth

Any recommendations on which ROM to flash with ?  I can find the right application soft myself after that, if standard Zaurus apps work on that ROM.

Thanks in advance,


Peter.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Cf11h Wifi Card Installation On Beta4

« on: January 04, 2008, 04:21:33 pm »

Yes !  Progress !

Instead of meddling around in the affairs of kernel recompilers, I decided to try and reprogram my wifi card in its RAM, not really reflashing it.  That seemed to work fine.  A bit of twiddling around with iwconfig, ifconfig and dhcpcd later, I can ping google

Hurray !

Now up&running under r197.  Time to add the local feed and start downloading all those goodies !

BTW, I read a few things about SDHC from time to time, but nothing about high capacity CF cards.  I guess they're supported as-is ?  An 8/12/16Mb CF card would turn my Zaurus into a nice photobank.


Peter.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Cf11h Wifi Card Installation On Beta4

« on: January 04, 2008, 09:32:54 am »

Good luck getting a kernel built! It wasn't easy (didn't work on a SATA machine, only IDE). I don't know if you have to install pdaX86, but it seemed to help/make it easier.

Are you sure that the firmware you need to DL to your card is the kind you flash? I think I've seen a thread around that talked about getting that card working and involved downloading firmware that didn't need to be flashed. Maybe try a search before going too far? I can't remember what that thread(s) were called.

Hi Capn,

I'm quite sure I've got the right firmware for my wifi card, I've done some decent research yesterday about prism2(a) cards and I found big tables of versions and firmware build codes etc.  I think I should try to get some kind of RAM FW upgrade done before proceeding, though.

About the build: I've installed VMWare and I've got a hard disk image for building into set up, which I can read with WinImage, so I can actually get data in&out of the virtual machine (which was harder than I expected).  So pdaX86 is up and running on my PC.  I've untarred the builder, but I haven't succeeded in compiling anything yet: make world just does a touch and stops.  None of the other make targets seem to do anything useful, either.

A bit more work than I anticipated.

Thanks for your help,



Peter.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Cf11h Wifi Card Installation On Beta4

« on: January 04, 2008, 05:57:38 am »

Hi,

Testing that didn't take too long.  The Akita r198 u-boot already comprehensively bricked my machine and I'm now doing a full system restore from the vodoo menu.  Next, I'll try if I can get my packages working from an SD card and get a build system working.

It's a lot of fun, trying to get this to work, but I'm sure I wouldn't have been so happy if I hadn't found TriSoft's page on the FN+D+M shortcut and their original backup image.  Thanks !



Peter.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Cf11h Wifi Card Installation On Beta4

« on: January 04, 2008, 05:45:16 am »

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showto...30&start=30

Check that thread out. I built a kernel supporting firmware downloading and the tools to do it. The kernel was for r198, though, so it may not work for you on your C860.

I'd recommend trying r197 as well. Beta4 is old and buggier than the rxxx versions are, plus it is MUCH more likely that my kernel would work with it at least long/well enough to flash the card once, if that's all you need to do.

Well, I upgraded to r197 and then applied your patch as described in the thread, but it doesn't reboot after upgrading the nand with the uImage you provided.  I'm going to check out r198 next and see if that works long enough to flash the wifi card's firmware.  I've had my machine completely bricked before, so I know the 3-hands-FN+d+m trick to flash it back to something unbricked.

Wish me luck

Oh, btw, I tried flashing the firmware on my PC, but it seems like my USB CF card reader doesn't support CFIO   That's why I'm messing about with the PDA itself at the moment.

In case none of this works, I guess I'll need to install compiler & sources and DIY a version myself.  But then I need to get my "local feed" working.  PC is Vista, so crosscompiling also doesn't seem to be an option.  I'll first try r198 & get back to you.


Peter.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Cf11h Wifi Card Installation On Beta4

« on: January 03, 2008, 03:57:06 pm »

Hi,

I've just flashed my Zaurus C860 to the beta4 of pdaXrom and I'm very impressed so far.  I'd like to start installing extra packages etc. but I can't get my Planex CF11H wifi card going.  Here's what I've done so far.

1) I've downloaded the latest prism2 firmware from proski's site.  According to Jun's mini-HOWTO and the IDtable, I need pk010101.hex and sf010804.hex from that zip file.  I've copied these into /etc/pcmcia/firmware.
2) I've updated /etc/pcmcia/hostap_fw to reflect the new firmware filenames
3) I tried proski's "linux based prism2_srec flashing steps" but I get stuck because it complains with the error:

Odd..  Download request for the kernel driver failed.

I know this means that either my hostap.0 should be recompiled with the PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT and/or PRISM2_NON_VOLATILE_DOWNLOAD must be defined somewhere (probably this means a prism2_srec recompile).

Now, I don't have access to the internet from my PDA so I can't just download sources and make it all.  I tried to trick my package manager into believing my /mnt/card/feed is a local feed, but it complains about the structure of the Package file I downloaded from distro.ibiblio.org.  I tried downloading Package both in binary as well as in auto mode.

Anyway, what I think I need now is a new prism2_srec and possibly a new hostap kernel module that will allow me to flash the new firmware to my CF11H card.  Can anybody provide me with these ?  Or are they standard in another build, say, the 1.1.0r197, so I could just reflash and get it working ?

Any other tips would be very welcome !



Peter.

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Cxx0 General discussions / C860 & Angstrom ?

« on: January 02, 2008, 02:36:05 pm »

Hi,

I recently rediscovered my Zaurus C860 and I thought: let's put another ROM on it, because surfing with the standard Zaurus ROM is terrible, and since I need to do some hacking to get even MiniOpera to work, let's hack it decently now we're at it.

After looking around a bit, I found out OpenZaurus has been superceded by Angstrom.  However, the Angstrom homepage hardly mentions the c7x0 series.  On the downloads, there's only 2007.12 images for akita and poodle, not the c7x0.  If I manually go to the unstable images directory (no link on the site), the c7x0 directory has a subdir for RC1 but it's empty.

I guess it's still in development ?  I wouldn't mind testing it a bit.  Or, is there a stable alternative that's fast and that supports X + most applications ?


Peter.

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Accessories / Stylus in Belgium ?

« on: October 23, 2004, 07:28:00 am »

Hi,
Does anybody know how to get a new stylus in Belgium ?  I've checked one main shop (Fnac), but they had never even heard of Zaurus :-S  Then I checked the styli Z is compatible with, found it's compatible with Handspring Treo, but those machines aren't imported into Belgium anymore these days :-S  I also mailed Sharp Belgium, but their reply was simply: we don't do Z in Belgium.
Any solution ?

Peter.

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General Discussion / Click here to request SKYPE for the Zaurus

« on: October 23, 2004, 07:22:50 am »

Hi,
My company is using Skype, so I was quite happy to see this thread.  However, with only 200 people having clicked, it's unlikely Skype will ever produce a Z version of their software.  Anyway, I think it's far too heavy on bandwidth and processor power for the quality: even MSN works much smoother for audio chat, and I don't care too much about the qualitly loss.  Does anyone have experience with the open standards that are available ?  I'm trying to convince my company to switch to one of those, but if it isn't click&play and available for Windows, then it won't be accepted.
Peter.