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Sacramento / Sac Area ZUG: Introduce yourselves

« on: September 12, 2008, 02:19:57 am »

Hi, is this group still active? I'm awaiting a 5600 I won on  eBay. It seems there are several members in El Dorado County (or there was in 2004), are they still around? I'm in Fairplay; you Hangtowners should know where that is

I've been running OpenSuse on my desktop for several years, but I'm not very bright, so I hope there's still someone here to answer questions

I don't know how active the Zaurus community ever got in our area.  I know Fairplay pretty well -- I used to have a few friends out that way.  I haven't used SuSe in quite some time, I'm an Ubuntu fan myself.  How do you like your 5600?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Aqpkg Segfaults

« on: September 06, 2007, 03:51:40 am »

really and truly i suppose it isn't all that big of an issue NOT to have a GUI for a package manager -- I've been functioning just fine from the command line.

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5x00 General discussions / Suspend Not Working In Oz

« on: August 17, 2007, 02:37:06 pm »

is there any way to hack around that?

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5x00 General discussions / Suspend Not Working In Oz

« on: August 07, 2007, 04:55:55 am »

I'm running Hentges 3.5.4.1 rom, with lots of cool stuff added after the fact ... but when i hold cancel to suspend my Z, it freezes and I have to flip the battery switch.  Not cool.  Anyone else have this problem, know how to further troubleshoot it, or even fix it?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Aqpkg Segfaults

« on: August 06, 2007, 02:58:50 pm »

Another Hentges issue I'm having ... Aqpkg segfault when I attempt to run it.

From Opie (via Packages Icon):

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Packages was terminated due to signal code SIGSEGV
From terminal:

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root@alfred:/#aqpkg
: QuickLauncher invoked as: aqpkg
Segmentation fault
If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, I'd be greatly appreciative.

thanks

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges & Socket Modem No Gateway?

« on: August 06, 2007, 02:51:25 pm »

I pulled my SL5500 out a couple days ago after a year or so of non use and installed hentges 3.5.4.1 rom on it.

so far i'm having a lot of luck getting things running ... although some not as well as others, opera 7.55 is giving me grief however, i pulled my old socket cf modem out to try and get internet on it and when i went to the network settings, it tells me

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/etc/resolv.conf is missing or can't be read.  Ask your system administrator to create it.
I continue with the setup and get the modem dialing but no IP is assigned to me after the connection has been made. 

any ideas?
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Fixed by copying my /etc/resolv.conf from my desktop to alfred (my collie Z).

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges & Socket Modem No Gateway?

« on: August 06, 2007, 04:57:46 am »

I pulled my SL5500 out a couple days ago after a year or so of non use and installed hentges 3.5.4.1 rom on it.

so far i'm having a lot of luck getting things running ... although some not as well as others, opera 7.55 is giving me grief however, i pulled my old socket cf modem out to try and get internet on it and when i went to the network settings, it tells me

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/etc/resolv.conf is missing or can't be read.  Ask your system administrator to create it.
I continue with the setup and get the modem dialing but no IP is assigned to me after the connection has been made.  

any ideas?

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5x00 General discussions / Yet Another "what's Best" Question

« on: February 23, 2007, 01:33:51 am »

So I took about a two year break from my Zaurus because I had thought it no longer read CF cards ... apparently I was wrong...

Anyway, coming back I see that the current version of OZ is like 3.5.x (last I used was 3.3.5) and Sharp has likely long since stopped making Roms for the SL-5500.  So, I am wondering at this point, what rom would be best for me to use.

I run Ubuntu as my main OS on my main machine, so I want something I can more or less easily synch there.  I would like, if possible, to be able to eject and mount CF/SD cards while using my zaurus as well (I hear that OZ 3.4 and beyond like much better to have root installed on SD than internal...)  Those are pretty much my only criteria.

Other than that, I'm probably going to have to rip the thing apart and install another Backup battery in the thing ... thats always a fun task...

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5x00 Hardware / Need Help Flashing My 5500

« on: February 22, 2007, 08:44:29 pm »

Does anyone know the shortcut for entering the maintenance menu on the Zaurus 5500? I tried the OK + Cancel at powerup but it just boots in normally.
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press d+p (or from what i've read, g+p in some models) and the hard reset button.

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5x00 Hardware / 5500 Won't Read Cf Card

« on: February 07, 2006, 03:02:18 pm »

according to SHARP, thedevice is definately in need of service.  if you are out of warranty there is a $50 estimate fee (that if you approve the estimate will go towards the repair) in addition to a $10 shipping fee.

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5x00 Hardware / 5500 Won't Read Cf Card

« on: February 04, 2006, 03:38:08 am »

ok ... heres some information on this problem i suppose:

enter the diagnostic mode by flipping the cool grey switch on the back to shutoff the z and then press and hold d and p while you power the unit back on.  use the touch screen and go to menu 2 and hit "compact flash"

at this point your zaurus will run a series of tests (5 i think) provided you have a CF card in the slot to test it on.

--I failed the first 3 tests.  My CF slot works for my Linksys WiFi card but not for data storage.

I contacted SHARP today -- they said they'd have a representative call me next week.  

I took my Z apart today to replace the internal battery and I gave the unit a great cleaning too (mine is at least 3 years old) unfortunately that didn't fix the problem.

will repost as soon as i have more info.  i have a feeling though that any news i may bring will be bad news indeed.

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5x00 Hardware / User Replaceable Backup Battery?

« on: February 03, 2006, 11:11:29 pm »

I just thought I'd add the update that I now have replaced my backup battery.

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5x00 Hardware / 5500 Won't Read Cf Card

« on: February 03, 2006, 07:10:00 pm »

i have this same problem with my sl-5500 under sharp rom 3.13.

if i find a solution i will repost.

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5x00 General discussions / Msn Im Client

« on: October 08, 2005, 02:24:03 pm »

gaim works.  there's a bunch of libs you need to get it working (but all of those are avaliable on the gaim feed.)  after you've got it installed (with the libs) you'll probably also need to go into the console and make some symlinks to libpng -- follow the instructions on the z gaim page.

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5x00 General discussions / Wellenreiter On The Sharp Rom

« on: October 07, 2005, 06:32:23 pm »

So I have followed the instructions given in a previous posting to attempt to get Wellenreiter up and running on the Sharp Rom.

Wellenreiter does run however, it does not recognize my Wifi card (Linksys WCF12)  Does anyone out there know how I can get it to?