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General Discussion / How to light up the keyboard?

« on: November 21, 2004, 02:33:10 am »

Someone recently posted about this wrt the SL-6000.  I think it was in the SL-6000 hardware forum.

This link
http://www.tekprosystems.com/zaurus/mod.htm
shows photos and details about mod'ing the SL-5500

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6000 - Tosa / mounting the SL-6000

« on: November 21, 2004, 01:18:47 am »

It may help if you understand that the Zaurus (SL-6000L) is _not_ a usb-storage device like a flash drive.  It is like a laptop itself which you can connect over a USB network (or wireless if you prefer).  The Zaurus has built-in Samba (Windows network disk-sharing) capability.

If you setup the PC Link in the Settings tab to "USB-TCP/IP (advanced)".  When you hook up the Z and turn it on (well, resume it), then it should make a network with your laptop over the USB cable.  The Z's IP address is 192.168.129.201.  I was able to mount the Z onto my PC or access the Z from Konqueror.  From Konqueror:  smb://192.168.129.201/home/.  My current experience is based on Mandrake 9.2/10.0/10.1.

If you have a problem setting up USB networking on your laptop check out the "Linux" forum on this board.  There is previous discussion there.

I have seen some modules to allow your Z to look like a usb-storage device but I haven't been successful getting it working -- but I have Samba....

Dave

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6000 - Tosa / mounting the SL-6000

« on: November 20, 2004, 02:30:28 am »

I've been trying to mount the SL-6000 from my Linux partition.

Which Linux distribution / version are you using?

It sounds like you think it should be treated like USB storage on your Linux but I don't know why you think so.  Nothing is automatic.

Dave

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / USB connect to Windows (redux)

« on: November 15, 2004, 07:49:32 pm »

Caunt,

I am not telling you that our previous discussion was useless but if you are using the Cacko ROM then you should be posting to the "Sharp ROMs" forum.  This is the OpenZaurus ROM forum (and Cacko isn't an OZ-style ROM).  OpenZaurus doesn't have a "PC Link" application -- OZ's function is like the "Advanced TCP/IP Networking" and it is built into "Network" on the usbd0 interface.

Dave

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / USB connect to Windows (redux)

« on: November 15, 2004, 12:55:07 pm »

Caunt,

I corrected my previous posting.  It sounds like you are getting the concepts.  Please tell us if you do get connected.

Re: Re-installation

You haven't told us anything about the versions you are running and whether this Zaurus is a "production" device or not for you.

Usually, after one or two proper reboots I stop getting any corruption caused by earlier forced reboots.

Dave

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Differences between SA and PXA

« on: November 15, 2004, 12:45:00 pm »

Can I have a list of SA and PXA machines please?

This site has lots of good, general info:
http://zaurus.spy.org/

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / USB connect to Windows (redux)

« on: November 14, 2004, 09:23:37 pm »

4) on the Z, under network in "settings",
 - Create a service with the following settings
 IP Address: 192.168.129.201
 Netmask: 255.255.255.0
 Gateway: 192.168.129.200

On the Z, the gateway needs to be 192.168.129.1 (the IP address of the PC).  I would suspect that is why you couldn't connect.

3) Still in XP, still in the settings box for the SL series network adapter,
 - disable the "IEEE 802.1x authentication" on the authentication tab
 - allow internet connection sharing on the advanced tab

I'm not a XP user so I am not positive about 3b (connection sharing).  It _may_ be that you need to allow connection sharing on your Ethernet network interface rather than the Zaurus network interface.

Also, you need to make sure there is no firewall turned on on the Zaurus network.

If you have problems where the Zaurus is hanging you'll need give details.  Also, if you still can't get connection you should give us diagnostic info.  For Windows open a command prompt and run:

- ipconfig /all
- route -n
- ping 192.168.129.201

Edited: 11/15/2004 to correct the explanation of the gateway address on the Z.

Dave

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6000 - Tosa / Usb Printer

« on: November 10, 2004, 07:18:54 pm »

You _really_ should start out with the important stuff like what is the make and model of your printer.  Yes, it matters.....

1.  There needs to be a Linux driver for your printer.  And the driver needs to be compiled (and run successfully) on an ARM-processor device.  I wouldn't be surprised if some of the drivers expected the only computing systems capable of hosting a printer are Intel-x86 compatible.

2. You need applications which know how to print (or even care).  I haven't seen anything besides "a2ps" that really considered hardcopy output.  Printed output is not a "given" function of a PDA so far.

My few cents,
Dave

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / USB connect to Windows (redux)

« on: November 10, 2004, 05:57:08 pm »

acpkendo,

The bits you posted about the USB device is appropriate and good reference. However, since the topic is OpenZaurus, the Zaurus Manager IP address setup does not apply.

You (or Windrose) need to set the Win PC USB IP address to static under Windows' own (not the Zaurus Manager's  setup).  In Win2K, Start... Settings... Network and Dial-up Connections and find the likely "Local Area Network Connection x" for the Zaurus.  Right-click and Properties.  In the Properties select Internet Protocol (IP) and click the Properties button.  Click on "Use the following address" and set to 192.168.129.1, netmask 255.255.255.0, and gateway 192.168.129.201.

Once you've done that you should be able to run either ROM as you wish.

Dave

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6000 - Tosa / SL6000l with full"/" file system

« on: November 10, 2004, 10:59:41 am »

On the SL-6000L root _always_ looks like that.  It doesn't mean your system is full or that you have done anything wrong.  I would go by the available space on /home if you want to know how full things are.  /home is "internal flash".

The view of root isn't related to your package install failures.  You don't say what instructions you are using to install.  You don't install libc6 via a package ... for kismet it is just a library you put in place.

There is a great set of instructions right here
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...0the%20SL-6000L
that I followed and kismet works fine.

I can't give you the proper approach to clear everything.  Maybe you want to take this to the SL-6000 -specific forums.

Dave

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / USB connect to Windows (redux)

« on: November 10, 2004, 02:16:08 am »

Windrose,

From your previous posting Nov 9 2004, 02:25 PM it looks like your details on the Zaurus are fine.  But you didn't post anything about your PC besides the ping.

I think your PC isn't bringing up its side of the interface.  The 'ipconfig /all' will give the specifics.  Also post the output of 'route -n'.

If I remember correctly, the SharpROM runs a DHCP server on the USB link and the PC gets its IP from the Zaurus.  OZ doesn't run the DHCP server.  What this means is that the Win PC needs to have a static IP setup:

On the Windows PC:
   IP Address:    192.168.129.1
   Netmask:      255.255.255.0
   Gateway:      192.168.129.201

You should be able to ping now.  (I hope.)

You can't use the Zaurus Manager with OZ.  It only applies to the SharpROM.  OZ provides _different_ services.  There is no built-in telnet server.  Use ssh.  You can use PuTTY on Win to do the equivalent.  Just PuTTY to root@192.168.129.201.  I think there is _no_ default password.  Just press Enter.

I haven't tried the built-in, very basic ftp server on port 4242 on OZ 3.5.1.  I'd suggest you do file transfer over ssh with something like WinSCP.

Dave

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6000 - Tosa / USB Adaptor & Cables

« on: November 04, 2004, 12:31:17 am »

so in short the cable works like a dream, now i just need to know how to mount the drive so i can read and write to my mp3 player.

Does the mp3 player mount to your PC as usb storage???

- Install the terminal program

- Start the terminal program

- su  (go to "root" user)

- mount /dev/sda1 /usr/mnt.rom/usbstorage

then you'll be able to see the stuff on /usr/mnt.rom/usbstorage.  It even shows up in the Files tab as "Storage /dev/sda1'.

Don't forget to unmount before disconnecting with

- umount /dev/sda1

I haven't seen an app to simplify this.

Dave

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General Discussion / Installation software needed (online copy)

« on: November 02, 2004, 08:38:50 pm »

sharonz,

I still don't know which Zaurus model you are looking for software for...  If it is the SL-5500 / SL-5600 then go to http://myzaurus.com and 'Downloads'.  If it is the SL-6000 then don't go there.

If the model you have is the SL-6000L (USA) then I think Sharp is hosting this at SharpUSA.  I just went through registration at
http://sharpusa.com/zregister
and I was eventually able to navigate to
http://sharpusa.com/products/TypeSoftware/0,1086,112,00.html
which is 'Products & Support' ... Business ... Handhelds .. Zaurus Enterprise Mobile Tool ... Software
and download hpc_soft_installcd.exe

I don't yet know if this is the correct file since I'm not running Windows to unpack it.  

Good luck

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General Discussion / Installation software needed (online copy)

« on: November 02, 2004, 06:25:57 pm »

For which Zaurus device?  You want to include the device (and sometimes the system ROM version) in your postings.

Have you tried http://myzaurus.com/downloads.asp ?

Dave

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6000 - Tosa / USB hub on Z6000 - cable???

« on: October 28, 2004, 10:20:48 pm »

The 6000 has a USB host port ("mini-A" style).

Go directly to the "Everything 6000 ... Hardware" forum.  Your cable answers are already there.

Yes you can attach a harddrive to it.  You will probably need to power the harddrive separately.  A USB keyboard is pretty neat.

Dave