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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Looking For European Reseller !

« on: August 13, 2005, 09:55:44 am »

Hi Rick,

2. I need external batterypower. I read threads about battpacks of 4 NiMH which should work with the SL3x00. This is great because I can charge them with a lightweight charger connected to the same Hapé adaptor
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The battpacks work really well. I normall have 8 (2x4) Batteries with me. I have never got to use the second set. Longest being a 11 hour plane journey,

Regards,
Brendan

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Nokia 6680 & Usb Cable Ttyacm0 Modem

« on: August 11, 2005, 08:08:48 am »

why don't you try a bluetooth connection ?

Battery life.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Nokia 6680 & Usb Cable Ttyacm0 Modem

« on: August 10, 2005, 05:58:17 pm »

HI All,

I am trying to get my Nokia Mobile Phone (6680), connected to the zaurus SL-C3000 using a mini-a->B->USB cable to act as a modem.

I have downloaded minicom to help debug on a standard Sharp ROM,on SLC-3000

I have being try to create the dev. But no much luck. The only hint I have is dmesg:
usb.c: register new driver acm
acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters.  

No detail on which /dev the modem is. Any pointers ?

I have tried to create the device using
mknod /dev/usb/ttyACM0 c 166 0
mknod /dev/ttyACM0 c 166 0
etc, etc, .

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices lists the 6680 but not give much help.
cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers gives:-
   usbdevfs
   hub
   acm

On my normal Debian machine, I can access the Nokia 6680 using minicom using /dev/ttyACM0. Of course dmesg does give the device to use:-
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.2-1 address 10
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 11
ttyACM0: USB ACM device

Any pointers on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Brendan


References:-
http://www.hingston.demon.co.uk/mike/nokia6680.html
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html
http://www.timberwolf.ukfsn.org/debian-orange-3g.html
http://kotinetti.suomi.net/mcfrisk/linux_gprs.html
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/nokia_6630

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C1000 Symbol/spectrum More Issues :-(

« on: June 25, 2005, 12:39:39 pm »

Secondly, I'd like to use a wireless sniffer - Kismet, Wellenreiter or such.

Hi,

I am also trying to get Wellenriter or KismEt to work with a Symbol/spectrum card. (After 15 years on computers I am still having problems with my spectrum)

I have wellenriter acquiring packets by ding the command, as su :-

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iwconfig eth0 mode "AD-HOC"
iwconfig eth0 essid "Any"And to resuem normal networking

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iwconfig eth0 mode "AD-HOC"
iwconfig eth0 essid "what_ever_network_you_use"[/code]
Or

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iwconfig eth0 essid "ANY"
Unfortunately, the sniffed packets are shown as 'Wired' packets not wireless. Time for me to RTFN.

Hope this helps,
Brendan

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Divx Encoding For The Z

« on: June 23, 2005, 05:13:25 pm »

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mencoder xxxx -oac mp3lame -lameopts preset=96:mode=0:vol=10 -srate 24000 -vop scale=320:240 -o output17.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv:vbitrate=200 -ofps 20 -sws 2
try it with your movies and let us know how it goes....
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                       mencoder -cache 4000 -vf scale,expand=0:-60 -zoom -xy 320 -ffourcc XVID        
                                -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=48  -ovc lavc  -lavcopts  
                                vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=448 -ofps 25 -sws 2  input.avi
                               -o output.avi(The expand=0,60 is optional to add black boarders.)
Personally I dont not like mp3, (patent encumbered). a vbitrate of 448 can be a little too much if you have other application running.

BMS

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Movie In Vga Resolution?

« on: June 18, 2005, 10:48:05 am »

Anothe mencoder example :-
mencoder -cache 4000 -vf scale,expand=0:-60 -zoom -xy 320 -ffourcc XVID    -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=48  -ovc lavc  -lavcopts  vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=448 -ofps 25 -sws 2  ./input.avi  -o ./output.avi

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / D-link Cf-wifi-card Dcf-660w Or Wifi Card & Kismit

« on: June 15, 2005, 05:44:40 pm »

Hi,

I have a symbol wireless card, however I would like to use kismit. I having trouble using kismit with the symbol card. As the Zaurus thinks it is a LAN card, so can not set Network Type: 802.11 Ad-Hoc

I am thinking of buying a D-LINK CF-WiFi-card DCF-660W from trisoft. Does anyone use the D-Link with kismit ?

Or what wifi-cards do work with kismit ?

Thanks,
Brendan

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Where Can I Get A Usb Mini-a Online?

« on: June 07, 2005, 03:14:57 pm »

Sorry if this sounds like an advert ...

As I wanted one cable, I brought a batch of cables and I have been selling the excess cables to forum members and on ebay
Forum
Example EBay

I have sold all the cables in the last batch, 2 forum, 2 ebay. I have be selling them to forum members at cost (no profit) and on ebay for what every they the auction finishes at.

The bad news is I am now out of stock, I am thinking of ordering another batch from blackbox, bigger batch size to reduce the high cost of shipping, I'll take pre-orders

Cost of 5 per cable, plus shipping at cost, plus any paypal fees,
 This works out at about 7.00 pounds.

Hope this helps,
Brendan

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / A Kernel With Everything

« on: May 22, 2005, 03:42:47 pm »

Thank-you thank-you thank-you

pegasus.o

It allows me to use my usb to ethernet device

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 07a6:8511 ADMtek, Inc. ADM8511 Pegasus II Ethernet


A very happy,
Brendan

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Nand Backup

« on: May 14, 2005, 07:32:33 pm »

I've spotted that in my searches, but my only concern with that is that it's a backup of a ROM that's shipped by another company. I'd rather backup the ROM that was shipped by ShirtPocket, because I've had a play with it now and am pretty happy with it. I might not like this other ROM. The conversion may be different. etc.

Thanks though for the link - always good to have a backup plan :-)
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I brought my SL-C3000 fom Shirtpocket, but I would not again. The support has been no existant. Although I paid a premium buying though Shirtpocket to get support in the end I also had to use Trisoft's NAND back-up.
(No reply to emails, phone calls - unless you are a new buyer......)

I hope other forum reading and potential Zaurus owners take this in account when purchasing.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Backup C3000 Microdrive?

« on: May 13, 2005, 06:15:39 pm »

I put a new 6GB drive in mine. When I took it out, I put it in my linux box and created a dd image on it. Then I dd'ed the image on the new disk. That way, when I [inevitably] brick it    I can just re-dd it. Plus I have the original microdrive. You should never need to send it back if you have a linux box.
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I had to smile when I read this, we really are a bunch of crazy hackers, Because 4Gb is not enough

Kudos for the soldering.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Sl-c3000 And 1gb Storage Cards

« on: May 13, 2005, 06:11:29 pm »

]Good to know, thanks!  I think I'll just get a 256Mb CF for flashing, and my hold off on the 1Gb card for now.

Thanks again, everyone - you've probably saved me a lot of frustration.
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Make sure that its an SD not an MMC card (MMC can not be used for flashing).

Been there done that re-flashed my Zaurus.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Usb Mini A As Host - Adapters

« on: May 09, 2005, 02:54:00 pm »

My only problem with blackbox.fr is that they charge a lot for shipping. I wish I could find a alternative in europe just because of that.
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I have purchased five MUSB03 cables from blackbox.co.uk -
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They cost a few pennies short of 30 pounds. The shipping was ~5 pounds for a package so I brought a batch,

The cable is 0.9m long. I am going to cut one up and shorten the length. I therefore have three cables available. - Cost of 5 per cable, plus shipping at cost. Let me know if anyone in the Forum wants one. [ brendan -a.t- barwap:com ]    

Else I will sell them on ebay for a profit/loss.

On the other hand if any can get mplayer working for me I will send a cable for free (as in Beer).

Regards,
Brendan

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Full Debian On The Sl-c3000

« on: April 06, 2005, 11:21:33 am »

Well, the original environement (QTopia) is still present if you need it, but it isn't run at all when you use the debian system (well, the sharp kernel is still used). The debian comes with it's own X server, and you can run any windows manager you like.

If you want to get back to QTopia, you'll have to reboot the zaurus. There is maybe a better way, but I don't need it so I haven't searched in that direction.

Hi Again Newbix,

After forgetting the root password and not knowing the emergency linux login. (Remove battery, hold down d+b ). Then managing to brick my zaurus, then debrick it, I back with debian,

Anyway in my travels I found out how to go from QTopia->Debian->QTopia->Debian etc without reboot, uptime is important! [Reboot sounds like another OS I dont use.]

[Exit QTopia -  as root]

__________
#!/bin/bash
echo a >/home/sharp/etc/launch.default
killall qpe
killall qpeserver
killall qtsamba
/home/root/usr/bin/chvt 2
/home/root/usr/bin/chvt 1
exit 0
__________

This will give you a linux promot to login and launch debian, with Vncserver, Fbvnc. [Found this on a google cache of an old forum. ]


[Exit Debian -  as root]
__________
#!/bin/bash
echo a >/home/sharp/etc/launch.default
killall Xvnc
exit
__________
Will launch Qtopia.

Now to find a battery applet in IceWm.....

My Escape (cancel key) does no appear to be mapped the same way to give escape while in debian - but I sure this is trival,

Regards,
Brendan

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Cf To Pc Card Adapter

« on: December 24, 2004, 05:50:04 pm »

Has anyone used one of these ?
http://www.semsons.com/comflastopcc.html

I thought It might be fun to buy and try. Any thought, feedback, guesses ?

Regards,
Brendan