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For Sale / Wanted / Selling Zaurus Battery

« on: December 12, 2005, 11:04:44 am »

Hi Ludwig,

I've sent you a week ago by paypal the money for the 1800 mAh battery, as you told me by email.
I've sent you also my postal address.

Could you please give some feedback by email?

I write this message in the forum because of potential "black holes" in the email system ;-).

Regards,
Rafa.

P.S. My email user is like my OE Forum user, just to help you to find it out.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Best Cf Wireless Card For Oz????

« on: December 12, 2005, 09:43:36 am »

reviving an old post:

I'm thinking of buying a wifi card. I didn't see here any reference to the Sandisk connectplus (which is popular on ebay nowadays). Besides the problem of working the ide and the wifi simultenusly (which afaik was not resolved):
are there any other problems with this device?
will it work out of the box?
any other wifi cards that are compatible with OZ i should consider?

thanx,
YoG.
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I've got a SanDisk ConnectPlus 128M, and it has been a bit... tricky.
Still not resolved the wifi + storage at the same time issue.
It is necessary to load the firmware everytime it is inserted and after suspend-resume cycle.
But, after that it works very very well, and it has very low consumption.
Unfortunately, the casing is very fragile and it has broken at both narrow sides of the card where the thick antenna+led box joins the CF-shape rest of card.

I've got also a Sitecom WL-007, that works out of the box, and is strongly built, but its antenna+led box is too much wide and big, so much that pen hole stays hidden and you cannot take it out without exracting card before.
In addition, it is a very hungry card and eats up all battery power in less than a hour.

My two cents,
Rafael Godinez.

SL5500S (Spanish version), OZ3.5.3

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sandisk Cf Card (wifi + 128mb Flash)

« on: December 12, 2005, 09:15:26 am »

and any idea how to use flash storage (wifi isn`t working (hostap module is unloaded, firmware wasn`t uploaded to card)) ?
howto for sharprom and pdaXrom (which use ide_cs module) not working, or any idea how to switch between wifi and flash ?
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I had the card up and running with OZ3.5.3 in SL5500 until a month ago (it's now broken).  

It's really easy to select between Wifi and storage functions.

There must be a file at /etc/pcmcia/ named hostap_cs.conf , where you can specify the configuration. Or, you can create a sandisk.conf or something similar in the same directory containing the configuration.
The definition for the card is:

card "SanDisk ConnectPlus 128M"
  version "SanDisk","ConnectPlus"
  manfid 0xd601,0x0101
  bind "hostap_cs" to 0
  bind "ide-cs" to 1

The numbers in manfid field can be found using 'cardctl ident' command.

You simply have to comment out the whole line with the feature you don't want to use (0 or 1), and reload PCMCIA service configuration
/etc/init.d/pcmcia reload

Sample ONLY STORAGE:

card "SanDisk ConnectPlus 128M"
  version "SanDisk","ConnectPlus"
  manfid 0xd601,0x0101
#  bind "hostap_cs" to 0
  bind "ide-cs" to 1

I've made a script for doing this easily with opie-sh, but I cannot reach to it because of my bricked SL5500.  


Hope this helps,
Rafael Godinez.

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Spain / ¿como Protegeis La Pda?

« on: May 08, 2005, 09:46:38 am »

Ya había ojeado el modelo de Pielframa para la Zaurus (SL-5500). La verdad es que tiene muy buena pinta, pero es un poco cara.

¿Vale realmente la pena?¿Para reiniciar tienes que sacar la PDA de la funda?
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 Yo tengo una funda de Pileframa para mi SL-5500S, y ya me la ha protegido de 2 caídas desde más de un metro sobre el suelo (del bolsillo, y de las manos de mi pobre mujer que se pegó un susto...), y no le ha pasado nada, aparte de salir la tarjeta SD volando... sin más trascendencia que volver a colocarla.

Efectivamente, para resetarla hay que sacarla, pero no cuesta nada.

deja libres todos los agujeros de la PDA: SD, CF, IR, audio... y por supuesto el teclado es perfectamente utilizable sin sacarla de la funda.

Lo único malo de protegerla tan bien y ser robusta (a la par que elegante), es que abulta bastante, y si no la vas a llevar enganchada en el cinto, el pivote que sobresale molesta un poco en los bolsillos.

Ahora con el calorcillo a veces la llevo sin funda en el bolsillo del pantalón.

A mi me costo 29,95€ de rebajas en el Corte Inglés, aunque seguro que está más barata en algún otro sitio.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Bluetooth On Opie?

« on: February 06, 2005, 06:25:45 pm »

If mountain doesn't come to Mohammed, Mohammed goes to the mountain...

1. I've connected to my W2K box enabling incoming PAN connections in Zaurus:

  pand --listen --role NAP

This can be automatically launched enabling PAND in /etc/default/bluetooth (change option   PAND_ENABLE=true), and restarting bluetooth stack:
  /etc/init.d/bluetooth stop;   /etc/init.d/bluetooth start

It is important to enable mastering in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
  lm accept,master;

2. Then I start a connection from my W2K, and it is established without errors.

3. I've shared Internet outgoing connection with Bluetooth connection in my PC.
(It becomes 192.168.0.1 for incoming connections on Bluetooth)

4. Then I configure bnep0 interface to receive IP by means of DHCP:
   udhcpc -i bnep0
and automagically, bnep0 gets an IP, is up, and DNS is my PC (192.168.0.1). It can be showed by 'ifconfig bnep0'.

5. Ping www.google.com resolves and answers as was hoped.

I can surf the net !


But, still, I'd like to initiate the connection from OpenZaurus...
Any idea?

Rafa.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Bluetooth On Opie?

« on: February 06, 2005, 04:59:26 pm »

Belkin bluetooth card will not work without a kernel patch, which allows to set unusual baude rates, such as 100000. Tis patch is included in Cacko ROM kernel tarrball. It should apply to the 500 kernel source tree, but I haven't tried.
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I've got a Belkin F8T020, and a SL5500-S with  OZ 3.5.2 (with all the upgrades up to date).
And it works pairing with my Windows 2000 box, browsing services, ... but I can't establish PAN connections...

** CONSOLE CONFIG

1. insert card. It is detected as "Compaq iPAQ Bluetooth Sleeve", doesn't matters...
Automatically managed by serial_cs module. The card's green light is on.

2. hciattach /dev/ttyS3 bcsp 921600
The light is off, and the hci_uart module is loaded (as it can be stated by running 'lsmod').
'hciconfig' shows the interface hci0 with MAC 00:...:00

3. hciconfig hci0 up
The interface shows its real MAC.

** AUTOMATIC CONFIG
1. Put into file /etc/sysconfig/bluetooth the values for variables
  BLUETOOTH=yes
  BLUETOOTH_PORT=/dev/ttyS3
  BLUETOOTH_PROTOCOL=bcsp
  BLUETOOTH_SPEED=921600
This file is readed from script /etc/bluetooth/hciattach

2. ln -s /etc/bluetooth/hciattach /usr/sbin/hciattach
/usr/sbin/hciattach is called from init script /etc/pcmcia/bluetooth to activate serial bluetooth configurated devices, after card insertion.

3. Insert the card, "et voila!!" it is recognised and correctly activated.
You can see by executing 'hciconfig' that hci0 is up.

** GRAPHICAL TOOLS

1. bluepin is installed at /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/bluepin, but I only can see it if I invoke from command line on console. I've never seen it called from any connection asking for my PIN...
If we choose so, bluepin saves the pin encoded in the file ~/Settings/bluepin.conf ,
and change the pin_helper entry at /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf

2. bluetooth manager only detects devices, but doesn't show the provided services, and always tell in status tab (I don't know how to change this):
  Device name: Ipaq
  MAC address: no idea
  Class: PDA
It saves its configuration in ~/Settings/bluetoothmanager.conf

Why any of these graphical tools looks into /etc/bluetooth ?
There is no real sync between the "handmade" configuration written in /etc/bluetooth and the one saved by opie tools.

3. I hope Colin Pinkney could soon release the graphical tools described at [a href=\"http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/zaurus.html]http://www.cpinkney.org.uk/zaurus.html[/url] .
Any news?


** NETWORK CONNECTIONS with MS Windows

I can pair my Zaurus with Windows by means of one script /etc/bluetooth/givepin that echoes one string of the form "PIN:1234".
In fact, it runs 'cat /etc/bluetooth/pin' , where I wrote that string.

I've followed the directions in Jensen's page at http://www.jens-koenen.de/index.html but I cannot establish link with
  pand --role PANU --service NAP --connect <MAC_dest> --nodetach

Always answer with "Permission denied(13)"
And in /var/log/messages can be read:
  hcid[####]: link_key_request (sba=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, dba=yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy)
  pand[####]: Connect to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy failed. Permission denied(13)


Any help would be appreciated ;-)

Rafa.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Java For Oz 3.5.2

« on: January 30, 2005, 05:49:35 pm »

If I install Jeode from this package, are the two sample apps that come with it (the icons are already installed as part of the package) supposed to work?

Because for me, they don't.

Thanks,
Kent!
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I've found Jeode works better on OZ 3.5.x  not  to making compatible the binary executable 'evm', but running 'makecompat' on the script itself that launches the java app. Examples:

makecompat /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/runquasar
makecompat /opt/QtPalmtoo/bin/runprimtest

Everytime I install a java app I create one script based on the examples above mentioned which come with Jeode, and run makecompat on it.
Doing so, I have happily installed many java apps, like eps (GPS positional app), zaurus-sky-explorer (astronomical chart)...

(makecompat does the same thing as the green&purple icon "Libraries")

Hope this helps,
Rafa.