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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Working Openswan + Kernel Mod For Rc9.1

« on: May 24, 2005, 09:09:05 am »

Does anyone have a working ipk for openswan and the 2.4.18 ipsec kernel module?

Tried to pull it from familiar 0.8.2 feed but I keep getting zcat errors from the package manager
when I go to install them (not in gzip format).  Tried pulling down w/firefox and w/gftp in both ascii
and binary to see if it was being corrupted on dl but no joy.  Think the ipk in their feed is corrupt.

I'm hoping to get an ipsec vpn solution working w/pdaxrom

Thanks
K

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Suspend Problems, Poss Solution

« on: May 16, 2005, 07:42:02 am »

Hi all,

Got an 860 a couple of weeks ago after a few years w/5500.    Running rc9.1 and its quite awesome.    This is what I've been looking out of a handheld . . more of a micro laptop.  Great work.  Now I was humming along when I had a firefox induced lockup (out of memory?) and after that/ when I'd suspend, the clcok/date would reset to the install date X input would lock up and I'd have to remove the battery to restart.

Searching the forum makes this sound like a consistent prob across RCs.   Lots of suggested tweaks to apm but nothing worked for me.  Googling lead to a zdebian tidbit about the hardware clock and sethwclock.   After removing the battery/ it appears the hwclock is reset and date --set doesn't modfy that.  After a crash/battery removal, I was doing date --set and all seemed fine but on a suspend, when the z woke up, X would check the hw clock in some fashion (now reset b/c of battery pull) and it must be comparing the time to the time on some lock file/or something.  Current time in hw is now earlier than lock file time and I'm guessing X fraks and game over.

After a battery pull, I've done date --set then sethwclock and suspend works normally and without issue once again

Hope this helps . . cheers Keith

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Software / Essential Z Software Megapost!

« on: March 14, 2005, 02:52:41 pm »

Portabase - In place of a Syncable Palm Memo-like application. Are there *any* other options? Portabase works, but it's clunky - I really miss my Memo app


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Take a look at notez . . might be what you are looking for.  Its worked as a memo replacement for me

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For Sale / Wanted / Fs/t: 5500 Sl - Update

« on: March 08, 2005, 10:23:37 am »

Still have your SL-5500?  I'm interested but I can't pay more than $100.  Sent you a PM yesterday abou it.  Let me know if you've still got it for sale.

Keith

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Opie-checkbook Source?

« on: December 22, 2004, 08:31:38 pm »

Was able to make an anon cvs checkout of the opie code this afternoon.  Now I need to see if I can figure out the code on the fly.

Cheers,
K

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OpenZaurus/Opie/Qtopia / Opie-checkbook Source?

« on: December 22, 2004, 12:28:39 pm »

Been working on a perl script which converts a qif file into a qcb file for use w/opie-checkbook.  Right now just conversion of qif to create a new qcb.  Eventually I'll add append to existing qcb support.  Script is working for small qif exports of my checkbook from jabp (couple months worth).  However for large exports of 9 months or more (up to whole checkbook) resulting file is corrupted by opie-checkbook.  I painstakingly took 1 yrs worth of transactions and slowly pared down the qif file to find the exact point where my script's output qcb file would be corrupted on loading.  The critical entry appeared to have nothing unique about it but I noticed that without this entry in the qif file, the resulting qcb file was just less than 100,000 bytes and opened fine in opie-checkbook.  With this entry the generated qcb file is just over 100,000 bytes and opens with no entries showing and is corrupted once closed.

Smells like a 100,000 byte input buffer to me but need to see the source to confirm and possibly patch.

opie cvs is still down.  Could anyone send me a tarball of the opie-checkbook-0.8.0-r0 source (OZ 3.5.2) so I could check it out?

Thanks,
K
keith at claytons dot org

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Perl In 3.5.2?

« on: December 14, 2004, 08:39:29 am »

I appear to have perl 5.8.4 working with OZ 3.5.2.  I took the perl-base, perl and perm-modules 5.8.4-4_arm.deb packages from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/perl/

and extracted then w/ 'ar x' then re-tgz'd them up into ipks and they installed and ran fine.

Sone things to note:

(1) I know virtually nothing about building ipks.  These pkgs were installed to sd and the package manager didn't run ipkg-link as usual.  Had to run it manually I suspect fine-tuning is needed in control.tar.gz somewhere.  

(2) Initial install put dir /usr/share/perl/5.8  This should be a symlink to /usr/share/perl/5.8.4 so that perl can find modules such as strict.pm

(3) Had to create a perl_defaults script in /etc/profile.d so that LANGUAGE="en_US" and LC_ALL="C" got set and removed warnings at launch. (same ideas as opie_defaults.

(4) I made no effort to strip out things such as man pages and docs.  And I don't have time for such right now.  So, resulting ipks are certainly larger than necessary.

(5) I've done only rudimentary testing.  Hello world, a couple of personal text processing scripts (open file, read and tweak text, write new file) and a quick test of multiplying 2 scalars (1.234, 2.1).  Tests all went fine but you are on your own from here.

I'd be willing to send these to people if you email me privately (keith@claytons.org) or post them if someone has a good public site.  However, I don't have time to enhance, support or fix these packages except to meet my own needs.  Don't email me looking for help . . not trying to be a jerk . . just buried right now.  So basically if you have problems you are on your own.  

Long term the way this "should" be done is via the OE build system. I just had immediate need so I made it work.   Maybe in a couple of months, after some work projects are behind me and I have some time, I'll pull the OE build tools, chat with the deb packager and see if I can get some legit packages going.

Cheers,
K

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Perl In 3.5.2?

« on: December 12, 2004, 01:01:19 pm »

Hola,

Anyone know of the status of perl in 3.5.x?  Before handhelds.org went down and took the maillists archives with it I saw discussions of building perl 5.8.3 w/oe.  However perl didn't show up in either 3.5.x feed.  Was there a signficant build prob that shelved it?  Is anyone working on it?

Cheers,
K

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms - Streaming Audio

« on: December 08, 2004, 03:29:53 pm »

Ah hah!  Something appears to be borked with XMMS' URL entry into the playlist.  Here's what I found.

First off thanks to

https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=5709

I found that I need to create a /root/.xmms/config file with entries for streaming.   Still didn't work after that however.  In digging around I saw another entry talking about creating m3u files.

https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...?showtopic=8178

I hand entered my URL into the /root/.xmms/xmms.m3u file and bang, it plays fine.  A little further testing shows that if I use the add button on the gui to put a local file into the play list,  don't delete it and quit xmms, there is an entry for it in the m3u file and if I restart xmms, its still in the playlist.  However if I enter a stream in via the URL button on the gui and quit, its not in the m3u file.  When I hand enter the URL into the m3u file I can quit, start, etc and the stream remains in the playlist till I delete it.  

Appears that something is amiss internally when entering URLs.   Is the xmms-e development still active?  Where to send a bug report?

K

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms - Streaming Audio

« on: December 07, 2004, 09:04:25 pm »

Modified my darkice.cfg to push out the stream as mpd_stream.mp3   XMMS on my laptop plays it just fine.   XMMS-e still just sits there blankly . .

Anyone got a public stream URL that they've successfully played with xmms-e that I can try?

K

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms - Streaming Audio

« on: December 07, 2004, 07:38:13 pm »

Saw that FAQ from xmms-e site.  I did append a :mp3 at the end.  Still didn't play.  I'll try modifying my darkice.cfg to force the stream name to have a .mp3 at the end of the stream name and see if that does the trick.

Gracias,
K

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.2 - Problems, Fixes, Questions

« on: December 07, 2004, 02:49:38 pm »

Hmm . . quicklauncher is a blackbox for me.  Never have delved into how that app works and how it figures out which symlinked app is calling it.  So the other apps linked to quicklauncher are all working ok?

A bit of poking around Google found this . . maybe missing libsqlite?  Won't hurt to rule that out

From: Rajko Albrecht <ral <at> alwins-world.de>
Subject: Re: Opie-mail (opie-mail_0.5-20040310_arm.ipk) won't start?
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.handhelds.opie
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:42:41 +0100

Am Samstag, 13. März 2004 18:53 schrieb Anssi Saari:
> # opiemail
> QuickLauncher invoked as: opiemail
> Could not create application main window
>
> What could be the problem here?

you must have following libs installed:

- libsqlite
- libmailwrapper
- libetpan

Due a dependency problem it may be, that ipkg don't resolve them and install
packages.

(Most forgot install the libsqlite)

Alwin

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Xmms - Streaming Audio

« on: December 07, 2004, 02:32:03 pm »

Installed XMMS the other day from the feed and it won't play mp3 streams that my icecast2 server puts out.

Will launch fine and will play local mp3s fine.   When I attempt to play a URL though, it just sits there and does nothing.

Tried launching from the command line to look for errors, but doesn't complain about anything.

Double checked my URL to make sure I'm not doing something stupid with spelling and URL is fine.  Same stream will play in XMMS on my laptop.

I saw a note on the web about needing to append :mp3 or :ogg to the URL to get it to detect streams without an extension (my case) but still no joy.

Triple checked my icecast config to make sure I'm streaming mp3 rather than ogg . .  they are mp3 streams.

Is anyone successfully listening to streams with XMMS from the 3.5.2 feed?  If so, could you point me to a public URL that I could try.  I'd like to make sure its not some weird icecast2 issue or something.

Are there any specific libs needed to stream mp3 (beyond libmad) that maybe I'm missing?

TIA,
K

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / 3.5.2 - Problems, Fixes, Questions

« on: December 07, 2004, 01:20:13 pm »

I just recently started seeing qte dependency errors too and the package is there in my case too.    Seeing them with all installs I'm doing.  I think something is funky with the ipkg db of installed packages.  In my case, I nearly ran out of flash space and had to delete some unused packages from flash and reinstall some things to SD.  I think when I ran out of flash space I might have slightly borked ipkg's db.

Anyway, I added in the force depends option when installing and everything is installing ok for me.  Rather than installs failing, I get a warning about missing dependency on qte but I know its there so I just keep going.  All apps I've installed since I started seeing this error are running fine.

When (hah!) I get some time, I'm going to try to track down why the dependency prob.

So, I'd try to install with force-depends to get opiemail installed and then see where you are at.  Try running again at the command line and see what error is gives too if it won't start

K

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Kismet, Oe 3.5.2, Zl5500, And Wlanng_legacy?

« on: December 06, 2004, 09:30:21 pm »

I'll 2nd that.   Before upgrading to 3.5.2 I was using Kismet.   After upgrading to 3.5.2, I took one look at Wellenreiter and decided to stick with it over Kismet.