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Sharp ROMs / Ok, No More Major Issues In Cacko 1.22?

« on: January 10, 2005, 09:25:54 am »

OK, guys, looks like we've identified all of the major issues in 1.22 release, time to prepare the first hotfix.

Can you identify what exactly you've identified?  This is probably going to make this thread much more effective (as in, you asking if there's any other major issues - people may assume that their problem is going to be fixed).

Haven't tried 1.22 yet myself, but plan on doing so soon.  Good work, thanks :-)

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Sharp ROMs / Bust'em Registration Code

« on: January 09, 2005, 09:44:49 am »

Sounds like somebody's uploaded the full version - oops :-)

Buy the game if you like it - it's cheap enough (under US$10 off memory; and definitely worth it - I'm not a huge breakout fan myself but the game is rather addictive).

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Sharp ROMs / Kismet - Scanning Only Works Via Wireless Applet?

« on: January 07, 2005, 04:51:58 pm »

Actually, a thought - does the Z put the CF wireless card to sleep/suspend or something while it's not in use, maybe (as in, when the wireless applet is not active)?

Is this the case?  If so, how the heck do I tell the card to wake the f*** up? :-)

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Sharp ROMs / Kismet - Scanning Only Works Via Wireless Applet?

« on: January 07, 2005, 04:48:42 pm »

Hi,

I've never quite got kismet (ipkg from zsi) working to my satisfaction; I install the hostap-wireless-drivers ipkg which works fine, but kismet will only start successfully and start scanning networks if I go to my wireless applet and try to connect to a network.

Scanning happens fine until the wireless applet gives up and shows "Disconnected"; kismet will completely give up then - it'll look like it's still scanning but it's not (no more networks will be connected, etc).  This is making my Z rather useless as a wireless scanning tool at the moment, sad to say. :-(


(I can't get kismet working properly with the stock drivers on Cacko; the only way I can do it is to use the crippled non-pcap prism config line in kismet.conf, which actually has exactly the same problem - it'll only scan while the wireless applet is looking for networks, which is maybe 30 seconds max.).

I've also noticed very, very often, my Z will fail trying to connect to WEP networks, and I need to retry several times until I actually do connect.  This is both with the stock drivers in Cacko 1.21b and hostap.  using iwconfig seems to be rather erratic, too; I've planned to rebuild the kernel with hostap support built in but have not had any time lately.

Any clues?  Anybody else have this problem - I've had it since day one, and I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

Cheers,

R

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Sharp ROMs / Wireless flaky as hell on Cacko?

« on: December 13, 2004, 06:56:41 pm »

It works fine; the support is still a little flakey though, in terms of the actual client in Cacko (it doesn't always work the first time).  Once connected though, no problems.

Originally I installed a hostap ipkg, but then since uninstalled that as I discovered Cacko uses its own drivers which appear to work better with its own client software.  So you shouldn't need anything - it should just work.

This is a 802.11b Netgear, and not a 802.11g, right?

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Sharp ROMs / Using The Z As An Actual Pda

« on: November 24, 2004, 11:25:40 am »

Thanks for your suggestions guys.  Maybe I should have added something - I definitely do *not* want to use Outlook.

And ya, Bust 'Em is a kickarse game - bought it the other day.  Horribly addictive :-)

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Sharp ROMs / Using The Z As An Actual Pda

« on: November 23, 2004, 09:09:32 am »

Hi,

I've had lots of fun with my Z, but I'm still not using it for what I originally bought it for - a PDA.

Although I've installed the Ki PIM tools, I'm still using the default Sharp ones as they're much faster.

In any case, the reason why I'm not really using it as a PDA is that I haven't found a sync solution that I like.  I use iCal on my mac, and was using Qtopia Desktop on my PC but I never got it to sync properly with newer Cacko's.

I'm not sure what solution exactly I want.  I developed a web-based PIM tool some time ago that I might start using if I can get it to sync with my Z, but it'll mean the Z needs to talk some standard format and be able to understand updated entries, etc.

For now, I'd be happy with it syncing over my 802.11b wireless card, my todo's/calendar, to preferably iCal on OS X, but any decent application on Windows/Linux.

What applications/sync methods are people using to achieve this?  Do you use your Z as a PDA, or a expensive toy? :-)

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Cxx0 General discussions / Bochs (x86 emulator) on VGA Zaurus? Anyone?

« on: November 10, 2004, 04:08:37 am »

I cannot imagine Bochs on a processor as slow as the Z's running any faster than say a 286 or even an aging 386, and even that'd be pushing it.

Or can people report better results?

I think this would be a novelty rather than actually usable.

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Cxx0 General discussions / Battery Life

« on: November 10, 2004, 04:05:15 am »

Heh, I figured somebody else here would have already done this and could report on results.  Or are you interested if I tried it?

(More than a day, I hope... :-)

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Sharp ROMs / What would you like to see in Cacko 1.22 ROM?

« on: November 09, 2004, 04:43:43 am »

I prefer the larger fonts, I like to keep my eyesight :-p

For UI elements, you don't need 640x480 on a PDA of today's era, anyway; I'm happy enough to use the extra resolution for more eye candy.  640x480 becomes useful when you're using actual applications that take advantage of the display.

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Cxx0 Hardware / CE-RH1 earphone remote control

« on: November 06, 2004, 08:57:46 am »

Actually, even better, anybody got a wiring diagram for one of these?  It is bloody expensive (especially if I imported one to AU) and it doesn't seem to be all that well designed.  Alternatively, any cheaper versions that achieve the same thing?

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Cxx0 Hardware / CE-RH1 earphone remote control

« on: November 06, 2004, 08:54:50 am »

Will this work with the default media player on Cacko on a SL-C860 (or are there other media players available for the rom that are suggested instead)?

I assume with this, one can plug a different pair of headphones into it?  I'm not a fan of earbuds, instead have a pair of sony small headphones that wrap around your ear, much more comfortable.

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Cxx0 General discussions / Battery Life

« on: November 06, 2004, 08:51:33 am »

Hmm, just tried this again and the battery's going down quicker this time; maybe the battery applet was just lying to me (what do others here get if they do simular things?).  Still, I'm happy with the battery life, even when using the Z normally.

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Cxx0 General discussions / Battery Life

« on: November 06, 2004, 01:59:40 am »

Howdy,

Did a little experiment recently, wanted to see how long my SL-C860 would last when used as purely a portable 'wireless' media player (i.e. streaming audio from a shoutcast station).  I found a hack on these boards to stop suspend, threw my wireless card in (Netgear), tuned into cliqhop, put the volume 75% up, turned off the screen, and let it run.

I let it run for about 12 hours, and it said it still had 90% battery left - wow.  Would have left it for longer but I use my Z daily :-)

Anybody else care to share what kind of battery life they get out of their Z with various usage?  My Z has the best battery life of any PDA I've seen, hands down.

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Sharp ROMs / Kernel Sources?

« on: November 05, 2004, 10:25:57 am »

Thanks :-)

Notice there's already a hostap firmware upload patch there - I didn't think the kernel in 1.21b had hostap (I installed a third party ipk; unless all that ipk did was to change entries in my pcmcia config to load hostap_cs instead of prism2_cs?)