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5x00 General discussions / Restoring The Zaurus To Factory State

« on: April 26, 2005, 02:39:25 am »

After trying various ROMs and restoring it with the above mentioned 3130 ROM (which doesn't have Hancom Office as you rightly say), I have to say that Opie is the best.
GPE is more or less useless - I don't know how this could have been released, it's painfully crap.
I now have Opie Sheet, Writer, Tiny Kate, Email (sort of) , several games, Gutenbrowser, OpiesFTP plus the standard Opie stuff and am happy enough.
I'm not hugely keen on kde and would have much preferred the gnome based one but the package manager doesn't work, most of the time the text editor doesn't save properly and the range of apps isn't as good.

I'm happy to accept that some of this may be due to my own inexperience.
But Opies is doable.

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5x00 General discussions / Libqte2 (>=2.3.7) Problems

« on: April 22, 2005, 05:16:00 pm »

I'm on Opie 3.5.3 now and, even though she be somewhat unstable cap'n, that particular error message has not reappeared.

Thanks for the reply though.

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5x00 General discussions / Openzaurus 3.5.3 Networking Problem

« on: April 19, 2005, 02:57:57 pm »

OK
Scrap that.
For some reason resolv.conf was blank - despite three attempts at writing to it.
Fixed now.

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5x00 General discussions / Openzaurus 3.5.3 Networking Problem

« on: April 19, 2005, 01:33:17 pm »

Greetings,

I've installed OPenZaurus 3.5.3 (gpe) and have set everything up (I thought) correctly.
I can ping the gateway and the routing host (?) but whenever I run ipkg update I get error messages and no update. Most noticable is that there is absolutely NO activity on the usb0 interface, as though ipkg wasn't even trying to use the usb connection to look for updates.

What have I missed?

Many thanks.

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5x00 General discussions / Restoring The Zaurus To Factory State

« on: April 05, 2005, 02:16:50 am »

The nightmare ends.

All sorted now.
I think I've got it just right.
After dozens of reinstalls (I'm glad it only takes a fw minutes).

What a sweet little gadget.

Thanks for all the help folks.
Much appreciated.

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5x00 General discussions / Libqte2 (>=2.3.7) Problems

« on: April 02, 2005, 03:48:41 am »

Greetings,

I keep coming up against error messages while trying to install stuff.
The most common error message is libqte2 (>=2.3.7) being unavailable.

Where might I find this ?

Also, the package manager on opie 3.5.2 is wildly unstable. It's crashing on me more or less every other attempt.
Usually the result is I have to toggle the replace battery switch to get the system to restart.
Is this usual or am I doing something wrong?

Many thanks.

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5x00 General discussions / Restoring The Zaurus To Factory State

« on: April 02, 2005, 12:01:46 am »

I have been a persistent chap and have managed to get the Z on line through the USB
cradle.
Happy or what?

Just need to sort out the finer details of installing and linking.

I picked the 32-32 zimage,  is this best for space to install to?
Stuff that gets installed to root (which has less than 2000k left before any installs) shows up as installed. Stuff that's installed to ram doesn't show up.
How do I make root bigger?
Does ipkg link sort out the links for stuff installed to ram/cf?

many thanks

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5x00 General discussions / Restoring The Zaurus To Factory State

« on: April 01, 2005, 11:09:02 am »

Oh,
I've already got this file.
I got confused because it contained a file called "ospack" and not an initrd.bin file.
Do I just flash it to the Z as with the OZ ROMS?
What about the zimage file?
Or does it work as a stand alone file?

thanks

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5x00 General discussions / Restoring The Zaurus To Factory State

« on: April 01, 2005, 10:32:08 am »

Is it possible (as a last measure) to restore the Zaurus to it's original state? (I spent the entire of the last 2 days at work trying different ROMS and different apps. S'a good job it's quiet at work at the moment).
Bearing in mind I sort of didn't back it up when I put opie on it.

I can't seem to find a link to somewhere I can get the original Sharp ROM.

Many thanks.

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5x00 General discussions / Newbies Nightmare (sl-5500)

« on: March 31, 2005, 02:40:02 pm »

Would a USB-Ethernet adaptor do the same job as a CF Network card?

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5x00 General discussions / Newbies Nightmare (sl-5500)

« on: March 31, 2005, 02:37:56 pm »

Does this mean I would have to patch multisync myself?
Would compiling it locally do?

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5x00 General discussions / Newbies Nightmare (sl-5500)

« on: March 31, 2005, 09:21:58 am »

Put simply, my needs are for a reliable address book/contact manager that will sync to Ubuntu at home and Ubuntu and slackware at work.
The rest, email, web browser, games and music are just the icing on the cake.

Thus far, I see pencil and paper as being far and away the most reliable method. Even if it is archaic and untechy (I work with Linux in the NGO/Charity sector - CANNOT be seen to arrive and pull out pencil and paper!).

On the other hand, using opie on the Z reminds me very much of when I first started with Linux - I'm clueless and going nowhere - but it will come in time.

S'just a matter of hitting the brick wall with my head hard enough and frequently enough for the wall to give up and collapse!

 

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5x00 General discussions / Newbies Nightmare (sl-5500)

« on: March 31, 2005, 08:35:21 am »

If you are happy with the command line and have the packages already downloaded then

ipkg -d root install complete_path_to_ipk.ipk

will install a package from a file to root (the path the the root of the CF is /mnt/cf/ )

ipkg -d sd install complete_path_to_ipk.ipk

installs to sd but if you install to anywhere except root then you need to add links:

ipkg-link add packagename

(packagename should be the name of the file less both the the version info and .ipk extension, ie (IIRC) everything up to but not including the first "_")
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Thanks for that.
I managed to get korganizer to install.
It doesn't work, but at least it installed.

One step nearer!

Should all ipks to be installed be at the root of /mnt/cf - the ipks that I put in /mnt/cf/usr/lib/ipks are always reported as "cannot find package xxx" ?

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5x00 General discussions / Newbies Nightmare (sl-5500)

« on: March 31, 2005, 05:02:41 am »

Bought myself a 2nd hand zaurus 5500. I've been wanting one for ages - having had sad experiences with the zire and the clie.

I replaced the sharp ROM with opie 3.5.2 after seeing some screenshots - not realising that it doesn't come with 99% of the apps shown in the screenshot.

And then discovered that the CD that came with it doesn't have replacement ROM images on it so I can't even restore it to factory state and start again.

I cannot get it to to see anything  or ping through the USB connection. The closest I got was last night when Windows was pinging it successfully for a few minutes (though the Z just said "network unreachable" when I tried to ping back).

I cannot get ANYTHING to install, whether through the package manager or via the command line. (I currently have the ipk files on the root of the cf card and in a folder called pck at the root of the cf card).
What am I doing wrong?

I've tried the kompany ROM, gpe, and opie 3.5.1 & .2 and opie 3.5.2 seems the most able,stable and willing to go.

I need some help please.

Didn't think it was going to be this hard.

(I have 2 years home use experience with Linux and run Ubuntu Hoary and slackware10 so I can cope with the linux file structure and command line.)

I was hoping to be able to avoid having to buy a CF network card and an SD card as this effectively doubles the price I've paid so far which takes it from being a good bargain to a few quid short of a new latop!

Many thanks for any help offered.