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Accessories / Sandisk 256mb SD Corrupt

« on: October 15, 2003, 09:25:36 am »

I read this great article in the LINUX JOURNAL (Jan 03), who test drove the 5500. What he stated is that SanDisk cards are prone to failure. The real problem is SD drivers can never be free software because of the copy-restriction system, suggesting that u pick up a MMC card. He further stated that SHARP had to release a new driver to fix some of the problems for the 128MB SanDisk cards that would fail after repartitioning or work only once.
I have been running the IBM microdrive, as well as the MMC, with no problems.
Cheers!

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Accessories / 5500 sees my wireless CF card as a modem

« on: October 15, 2003, 09:15:51 am »

Hiya: on my work windoz machine, my wireless linksys wcf12 was working great. Easy install, requiring no tweaking. I run Suse at home, which sees the card as a modem. My IR keyboard for the 5500 worked \'ok\' on the office pc, yet it is a no go on linux as well. ROM version:3.10.
Wondering if anyone out there runs linux and has run into similar problems. I have spent the last 2 days drilling for answers & I am hoping for more than \'run a dual boot system\' to use the accessories I have for this pda.
Cheers!