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For Sale / Wanted / Sl-6000 For Sale

« on: June 29, 2007, 12:27:48 am »

Couple people have suggested I might have better luck if I post a price, so here goes.

$400 obo until Sunday, then off to eBay and let the chips fall where they may...

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For Sale / Wanted / Sl-6000 For Sale

« on: June 23, 2007, 06:53:36 pm »

Been thinking about thinking about selling this for a while, and figured I'd try here before eBay.  I bought it to do diagnostics in the field and such, but my work has taken me in other directions as of late.  The thing is in absolutely fabulous shape, and has had a screen protector on it and lived in a case since I bought it.  Includes:

- Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L w/64MB RAM and all the original packaging
- SL-6000 docking station
- AC adapter
- 4GB Hitachi CF HD
- USB Host-adapter (khctl installed to use USB keyboard + mouse)
- Hawking 10/100 USB Ethernet (kernel module compiled and installed)
- 2.5->3.5mm audio adapter
- SerialIO custom serial cable
- Carrying case
- DVD of over 800MB of software packages I've downloaded specifically for the 6000


All told I've got about $700 into this.  Don't really have a price in mind (what's the going rate these days?), so feel free to make me an offer (cosmos [number seven] at tokomak dot net)... not expecting 4-figures, but if you low-ball I shall post it here and make fun of you...  

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6000 - Tosa / Usb Ethernet Adaptor

« on: March 20, 2005, 08:07:10 pm »

I missed the post above about the HUF11.  Copied over the driver, and it inserted perfectly.  Quick ifconfig and route commands, and I was all set...

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6000 - Tosa / Microdrive Problems

« on: March 20, 2005, 08:01:53 pm »

Well I do have the main partition on my Hitachi formatted ext2, but I'm not symlinking it to /home, I'm symlinking most of /usr to it; anything not required at boot time.  That way I have tons of space to install applications... easy to go the other way though.

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6000 - Tosa / Microdrive Problems

« on: March 17, 2005, 07:57:26 pm »

Can you please provide more precisely what you did ?
What you wrote ? in which file ? which directory ...

Thanks
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Sorry, my mistake.  I had added a line to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to load the shfs module I had compiled.

To enable swap (I run a swap partition on the Hitachi) and to mount the main partition, I created a boot script in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d to do what was needed.  Kind of a tacky hack I'll agree, it works.

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/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10cf_mount
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#!/bin/bash

mkswap /dev/hda1
swapon /dev/hda1

mount /dev/hda6 /filesof course that will likely be different on your Z, depending upon how you partitioned...

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6000 - Tosa / Usb Ethernet Adaptor

« on: March 16, 2005, 01:29:46 am »

The Hawking HUF11 has a Realtek 8150 chipset, and can be bought from Newegg for about $20.  I've ordered one, and will report back...

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6000 - Tosa / Microdrive Problems

« on: March 16, 2005, 01:22:02 am »

My Hitachi 4GB works fine.  Couldn't get the ext2 partition to automount from fstab, but I added a line at the end of init to get around that.  Once mounted, symlinked a bunch of stuff to give me plenty of room to install things...

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6000 - Tosa / Wifi File Transfer To/from Pc

« on: January 30, 2005, 04:08:44 pm »

I did several searches on this subject and nothing satisfactory turned up.

Is there a How-To for setting up a desk top to Zaurus wifi link?
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Well, assuming your network connection is up and going, there are any number of ways to go about it.  Remember the Zaurus is a handheld linux machine, so you can really do anything you would from a desktop linux station; there are pre-built packages available for most things you could want.  

Generally, I either use ssh to go to/from my linux fileservers, and smbmount to mount windows shares on my Zaurus.  You could install a ssh server on the Z, and copy to from the desktop too.

And of course, there is the file transfer option from the Z Desktop.

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6000 - Tosa / Keyboards?

« on: January 18, 2005, 12:30:36 am »

mitch could you post your module?

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6000 - Tosa / USB Mouse?

« on: December 30, 2004, 02:39:09 pm »

You'll notice that if you boot the Z with a USB keyboard plugged in, it'll complain about the lack of keyboarddev, yet the keyboard will function after boot.  I suspect mousedev will not help you.

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Software / Who has been able to get Stratagus (WarCraft2) to work?

« on: December 22, 2004, 10:17:48 pm »

Well I have it sort of working, but wondering if anyone has some input.  I can get WC2 to play stand-alone scenarios, but not the campaigns - dumps back to desktop.  Also, playing the stand-alones, the computer doesn't seem to declare loss.  I spent several hours killing off everything on the map, but to no end once everything was dead....

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6000 - Tosa / Software for the SL-6000

« on: December 13, 2004, 09:33:13 pm »

Since I couldn't find a shfs port anywhere, I built one myself.  Keep in mind this will probably only work on the SL-6000L, and even then likely only on the stock ROM due to the kernel module. I've tested the package on my Z, and it installs/uninstalls cleanly, but I have no other hardware / configurations to test it on. Use at own risk...  

http://files.tokomak.net/zaurus/shfs_0.35_...harprom_arm.ipk

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Software / Shfs

« on: December 13, 2004, 09:19:29 pm »

Well, I finally got it figured out.  Taken me a heck of long time, as I'd never set up a cross-compiled environment before, so I had no idea what was correct.  Also, since shfs requires a kernel module, I had more problems there.  It isn't enough to simply point at the Sharp kernel source, turns out I had to select the correct config file from def-configs, and build a module set before I could get it to compile correctly.

In any event, now I have it working, I've built a package.  Keep in mind this will probably only work on the SL-6000L, and even then likely only on the stock ROM due to the kernel module.  I've tested the package on my Z, and it installs/uninstalls cleanly, but I have no other hardware / configurations to test it on.  Use at own risk...  

http://files.tokomak.net/zaurus/shfs_0.35_...harprom_arm.ipk

Please report back any problems / other working configs.

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6000 - Tosa / Kismet on the 6000

« on: December 08, 2004, 08:54:00 pm »

a solution found here:
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...0the%20SL-6000L

I have just installed Kismet on my 6000L

Thanks!

Followed these instructions, and got it working perfectly.  No sound though...

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Software / Shfs

« on: December 08, 2004, 03:48:25 am »

Howdy all,

Got my 6000L about a week ago, and have been doing a lot of reading and tinkering since then.  One of the reasons I wanted a linux pda was the sheer power and flexibility of it; definately a killer app for me is shfs.  I use it frequently to mount work stuff at home, and vice-versa.

Now I got samba going no problem, but it isn't practical for internet use, and certainly not secure.  I've done a fair amount of investigation, and other than casual mention, haven't been able to find discussion of shfs on the Zaurus.  I got an arm build environment going with instructions from this site, but am having trouble building shfs.  Has anyone built the kernel module and binaries for the Z, and can point me in the right direction?