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General Discussion / How to access the "terminal"???

« on: February 28, 2004, 02:51:11 am »

First you need to find the installation file, which has extension \"ipk\". I use \"qpe-terminal_1.5.0-3_arm.ipk\" which I downloaded somewhere from the net.
Easiest to get this on your Zaurus, is to use a memory card. First insert it in your Z, automatically a folder \"Documents/Install_Files\" will be created on it. Then copy the IPK from your PC to that folder (using a cardreader or such device).
Finally on your Z go to the \"settings\" tab, \"add/remove software\", click the package you want to install, press \"install\", then exit the package installer.
An icon \"Terminal\" will be added to your system.

A few tips to get started:
you obviously need to type linux commands, you can find various sources on the net.
In the terminal, you are logged in per default as \"Zaurus\" (type \"whoami\" to see that). Often you need to be \"root\" (or \"superuser\") for more advanced tasks -type \"su\" to login as \"root\". Take \"exit\" to leave, twice to exit from root. Make sure you understand what you are entering, you can screw up a lot if you type the wrong commands.

Good luck, you\'re in for a \"steep learning curve\" as someone put it -I can concur that ;-)

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Security and Networking / How2 dial into GPRS using blueZ+dialup applet?

« on: February 26, 2004, 04:51:59 pm »

It works!!

This \"cgdcont\" is apparantly the key: I found a file /etc/ppp/peers/DialupBluetooth-etc (suppose that is what you meant with \"DIALxxxx script\") which appears to contain the information entered using the dial up applet, including the \"cgdcont\" line -then found an example script which suggests to simply enter \"ATZ\" here (or in the corresponding line of the dialup applet) -and it works, finally managed to get a connection thru GPRS, browse the internet with Opera etc.

Amazingly really because all sources suggested a line like AT+cgdcont=1,\"IP\",\"internet\" -and this also worked from my Win2K laptop.. Suppose the reference to the data account CID=1 through the dialnr *99***1# is enough to do the job..

Anyways, thanks for your suggestions -another happy Z browser!

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Security and Networking / How2 dial into GPRS using blueZ+dialup applet?

« on: February 23, 2004, 05:35:39 pm »

I got stuck with setting up a dial-up connection thru GPRS on my SonyEricsson Z600...

Dialup over GSM and GPRS from my laptop works fine:
* dial-up over a normal GSM line works from the Z, using BlueZ and the dialup applet from http://my-zaurus.narod.ru/bluetooth.html -so apparantly the Z and the phone are paired and the dialup applet does it job fine.
* dial-up over a GSM line AND GPRS both work fine from my Win2k laptop, using the same blue monkey bluetooth CF card which I use for the Z -so also the phone appears to be OK.

But if I try to dial-in from my Z using the settings below then the CF card LED flashes one or two seconds, the phone shows a BT link but no GPRS connection icon and the Z shows \"initializing modem\" forever until the connection is aborted after about one and a half minute.

The dialup applet settings for the GPRS connection for my provider (Orange Netherlands) I took from various sources -and again, these same settings work fine if I dial up from my PC:
* account: username and password are set to \"orange\" (actually I believe an arbitrary string would be OK), phone number to dial: *99***1#
* modem, BT device: /dev/rfcomm0, init string: AT+cgdcont=1,\"IP\",\"internet\", speed: 57600, hardware flow control 6 secs
* network: all set to auto-detect
These settings match a data account CID=1, APN address \"internet\" on my phone.

What might be the problem here /what did I overlook?

Thanks for any suggestion...

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Software / REC - ipkg error, Segmentation fault

« on: January 18, 2004, 10:52:57 am »

With thanks to your suggestions I finally seem to be getting somewhere: hciconfig raised an active card, and bluetooth on my PC detects the Zaurus.

However, although the PC detects the Z, when I query it from my PC then \"No services found on Zaurus\" is returned. I configured rfcomm.conf for a serial connection as described in the how2, but got lost inbetween all the different modems on my PC. Now I need success fast before my wife throws this little time consumer out of the window.. help! ;-)

I suppose my simplest option would be a PAN connection (according Jens Koenen that should already bet set up on my PC by the Belkin /Widcomm PC software I use) in combination with the Bluetooth PAN Applet (community.zaurus.com didn\'t work but I found qtopia-pannetworkapplet_1.0.1_arm.ipk at my-zaurus.narod.ru). For the moment just to exchange files thru PAN, if that works then perhaps I\'ll try internet connection sharing... If anyone sees this otherwise please let me know!

Now I have several questions:
1) According Jens Koenen should I should set the IP of the \"Bluetooth-Network\" on the PC to 192.168.129.1. Can I find this as the IP address of the \"TCP/IP-] Bluetooth LAN Access Server Driver\" network component? Should I put anything in the \"subnet mask\"? (I\'m using Win98SE...)
2) I can\'t find info how to configure the PAN applet... What must I fill in the PAN applet under the IP tab: IP address, subnet mask, \"broadcast\", \"gateway\", first DNS, second DNS? Under the proxies tab: would \"no proxies\" do? (other choices are: auto configure proxies, set proxies)

Thanks for your suggestions...
by now I\'ve deviated from the original thread -should I perhaps post this under a new title?

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Software / REC - ipkg error, Segmentation fault

« on: January 11, 2004, 11:33:27 am »

So, after a few weeks of trying about everything...

I never got Affix to work -continue to receive segmentation faults, even after a hard reset and starting from a completely clean system. Installed the new Sharp ROM 1.32 -no success.

So, against all advise that newbies shouldn\'t try it I made an attempt with BlueZ (from bluez-zaurus_2.3-2.4.18c-preempt_arm.ipk) -no success as well, hconfig returns \"Can\'t open HCI socket.: Address family not supported by protocol\".
Anyways, most info about how to configure BlueZ is absolutely chinese for me, so even if it would work I have no idea how I can do anything useful with it.

I am at the end of my options as far as I can judge. Or does anyone have another suggestion how to get bluetooth operational?

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5x00 General discussions / Hard reset does not work

« on: December 19, 2003, 09:52:17 pm »

yippee... it worked! I got a clean system back, and my SD card mounted bright and shining! Thanks Greg2, now I can start working on the other problems I was struggling with.

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5x00 General discussions / Hard reset does not work

« on: December 19, 2003, 09:14:15 pm »

OK, I want to reset my Z to factory settings because of lots of problems which I cannot solve (eg: the USB cradle connection is gone, the CF card is lost during a few seconds after each suspend, my new SD card does not mount etc etc) -but now the hard reset does not work either!  
After pressing the reset button in the battery compartment the Z reboots all right but everyting is still in place afterwards: time and installed applications, but also all problems.

Is there another way to restore the Z to factory settings? Eg, what does this \"format\" option in the maintenance menu do, would it help to use that?

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Software / REC - ipkg error, Segmentation fault

« on: December 16, 2003, 11:53:18 am »

nope... I removed everything I could find about bluetooth under /lib/modules but the problem persists  

Also, more things seem to be wrong with my Z: the USB cradle connection is gone (the PC does not even recognize it as a USB device after a PC software reinstall), the CF card is lost during a few seconds after each suspend, it does not see my new SD card at all, it ended up in a loop a few times after a soft reset (battery compartment latch flip)..

So, as last resort I tried to restore the original system, but I don\'t seem to be able to do a hard reset: the reboot (using the reset button) behaves like the \"battery compartment latch\" reset and all problems persist...

Questions:
1) is it enough to to copy the *.IDX and *.BOX files from /home/zaurus/Applications/dtm in order to restore the PIM data afterwards?
2) how to force a hard reset when apparantly the reset button in the battery compartment does not work?

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Software / REC - ipkg error, Segmentation fault

« on: December 08, 2003, 04:25:54 pm »

Alas... I removed everyting which I could find under /lib/modules/ related to earlier Affix or BlueZ installs, rebooted, moved the Affix ipk files to /mnt/cf/, as su moved there then ran \"ipkg install bluetooth-affix-kernel_2.0.2-3_arm.ipk\";
-and got exactly the same error: \"segmentation fault\" during \"configuring bluetooth-affix-kernel\"

So, do I have any options left? What else might be causing this \"segmentation fault\"?

The only other clue which I have is that when I use the package command manager (rather than command line ipkg) after the error message an empty file named \"+=+\" is installed in /home/zaurus/... no idea why.

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Software / REC - ipkg error, Segmentation fault

« on: December 08, 2003, 10:56:14 am »

OK, fortunately I was able to retrieve the thread from my browser\'s cache

The problem I got stuck with is that the package command manager raises a very helpful error \"ipkg says something went wrong, sorry\" while installing the Affix application, to run bluetooth on my SL-5600 with a BlueMonkey CF bluetooth card. This happens while installing the first file of the Affix package: bluetooth-affix-kernel_2.0.2-3_arm.ipk.

The problem persists when I use another version of the ipk (eg, tried version 1.2.4 from affix.sourceforge.net/feeds/stable/zaurus/). Also, when I login as su and run ipkg install then following 2 messages appear:
Unpacking bluetooth-affix-kernel...Done.
Configuring bluetooth-affix-kernel...Segmentation fault

Lardman suggested that the problem might be in the \'postinst\' file. Using his suggestions I was able to extract it from bluetooth-affix-kernel_2.0.2-3_arm.ipk, its contents are:

chown root /lib/modules/2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix/kernel/drivers/affix/*
chown root /lib/modules/2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix/kernel/net/affix/*
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty0 c 60 0
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty1 c 60 1
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty2 c 60 2
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty3 c 60 3
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty4 c 60 4
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty5 c 60 5
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty6 c 60 6
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty7 c 60 7
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty8 c 60 8
mknod -m 0644 /dev/bty9 c 60 9
depmod -a

I checked my Z: all mentioned folders exist. Also I noticed that all files in data.tar.gz have been installed on the Z. Also I found elsewhere in /lib/modules/ similar files which apparantly remained from an the attempt to install Affix version 1.2.4, and an earlier attempt to install BlueZ.
I do not know what the various commands in \'postinst\' do, however.

Is there anything in this \'postinst\' file which might explain the \'Segmentation fault\' which occurs while configuring \'bluetooth-affix-kernel\'??

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Software / how 2 backup data stored on CF?

« on: October 07, 2003, 01:46:06 pm »

Does anyone know how to backup data from CF (or SD) to PC, using the backup/restore application for windows which comes with the SL5600?
This tool apparantly backs up only files under /home on the internal flash, but nothing which is stored on the CF.

Any suggestion is much appreciated.