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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: November 23, 2005, 03:38:54 am »

Is it possible that your media (I'm assuming here that /home/root is on removable media, SD or CF card) could have problems? Do you have another card that you can try?

I forgot to mention i'd tried 2 different SD Cards.  (The root is indeed on SD)

I'll try installing to a CF and not moving root to SD.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / New Hentges Rom Release Candidate

« on: November 20, 2005, 11:28:43 am »

I recently decided to come back to OZ after a long period of not using my SL-5500 (previously using a modified TKr because OZ was too annoying with the suspend issues) and to try Hentges again...  

I downloaded the latest version from hentges.net:
I can install it fine... (well no error messages on install anyway) but when I come to boot Opie, just before Opie starts I get the error:

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31: Cannot create /home/root/systeminfo/
linkver: Input/Output Error
You seem to already have a /home/root/Applications directory assuming it is the Opie applications directory
Then Opie loads and some applications don't work.   (if run from terminal, some say libraries could not be found..e.g GAIM, MPlayer)

If you try and load TinyKATE, it says "Could not locate application Tinykate".  Other apps such as VNC Viewer and Wellenteiter load fine..

I have tried reflashing a few times, and also downloading the files again, but I keep getting this same problem, so I figure I'm going wrong somewhere?

Any suggestions?

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Security and Networking / Bluez: Billionton Annoying Problems

« on: July 20, 2005, 07:18:55 am »

2) When I want to connect and BT is UP (hcitool scan finds my SE  T610) in network applet I dont see in menu my bluettoth dial-up. I have to go to settings-> network-> edit bluetooth config -> press OK and _then_ in in network connection applet bluettoth dialup is shown..

I have had the same problem with the Billionton Card using your ROM, however I recently obtained an Anycom LSE039 and this problem does not happen with that card.

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Security and Networking / Bluetooth Dun Problems

« on: July 20, 2005, 07:10:51 am »

Your phone should then tell you the Z is connecting and ask for confirmation

Type "AT" followed by return and you should get an OK. If you don't

Type "AT+CRC=1" to turn on extended ring messages. Ring the phone and it'll tell you it's a voice, data or fax call.

Ok I finally got some time to try this.   The when I do the minicom command the phone states the Zaurus is trying to connect, but before I have time to respond minicom returns saying file rfcomm0 doesn't exist.   I tried to initiate the pairing using the phone and this seemed to work.  minicom says "initialising modem" then goes to a screen that says "T102" at the bottom, At this point any key pressed on the Zaurus keypad results in the following appearing at the bottom (in inverted video):

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Online 00:00
     Offline
Note:  I also tried this with my Nokia 6310i and it worked as expected. I could issue AT commands fine and get the response back ok.

(Incidently I managed to obtain an Anycom BT card [LSE039] and the results are the same.)

On a forum for the SPV and other smartphones someone suggested that I tried using "sdptool search" and I achieved the following results:-

For Serial

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bash-2.05# sdptool search --bdaddr 11:22:33:44:55:66 SP

Searching for SP on 11:22:33:44:55:66 ...
Service Name: Serial Port COM6
Service RecHandle: 0x10002
Service Class ID List:
  "Serial Port" (0x1101)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 3    
for DUN

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bash-2.05# sdptool search --bdaddr 11:22:33:44:55:66 DUN

Searching for DUN on 11:22:33:44:55:66 ...
Service Name: Dial-up Networking
Service RecHandle: 0x10003
Service Class ID List:
  "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 7
Language Base Attr List:
  code_ISO639: 0x656e
  encoding:    0x6a
  base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
  "Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
    Version: 0x0100  
I've tried putting both channels 3 and 7 in the rfcomm.conf file, but both just hang on "initialising modem".

I've read somewhere on these forums about enabling logging, would this help me diagnose the problem?   I guess I should also see if I can get the phone to dial from my windows machine using the bluetooth dongle.

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Security and Networking / What Is The Best Wireless Cf Card For Sl-5500

« on: July 14, 2005, 05:08:39 pm »

I use a Symbol Spectrum24 on my sl-5500.  It has worked out-of-the box with all the ROMs I have tried (in 3.13, OZ/Opie and TheKompanyROM).

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General Discussion / Eu Rejects Software Patents

« on: July 06, 2005, 09:11:14 am »

http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic...NG-20050706.XML

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Parliament voted to throw out a controversial EU bill to harmonise the patenting of software-related inventions on Wednesday after lawmakers said it pleased nobody in its present form.

The assembly voted by 648 to 14 with 18 abstentions to reject the law and stop a version of the legislation, already approved by the European Union's 25 member states, from becoming law.

The European Commission which drafted the bill said it respected the decision and that it would not put forward any new proposed legislation in this area.

The bill has polarised the technology industry, with large firms like Microsoft, Nokia and Siemens saying the changes sought by the EU assembly would leave products open to copycat versions from China and elsewhere.

Supporters of open-source or free software had welcomed the changes sought by some EU lawmakers to limit what types of inventions can be patented.

This is good news indeed!

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Security and Networking / Bluez: Billionton Annoying Problems

« on: July 06, 2005, 06:40:46 am »

Incidently I have exactly the same problem with OZ-Opie 3.5.3 (Can't initialize device: Illegal seek) and similar problems (different error messages at the hciattatch stage) with Sharp 3.10, Cacko/Crow and TheKompanyROM.

The strange thing is it works fine with Merli's ROM which is a cross between Cacko Hybrid and TheKompanyROM.

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Security and Networking / Bluetooth Dun Problems

« on: June 16, 2005, 11:49:52 am »

I finally got my Billionton Bluetooth card working on my SL-5500 with a little help from Merlin ROM (Thanks Merli!) and can now scan for devices... (I installed the pinned Bluez drivers and am following the instructions in the HOWTO).

I have an Orange SPV C500 (on Orange UK) which is based on MS Smartphone 2003SE (Booo!).   When Bluetooth is enabled and set to discoverable on the phone, I can successfully pair the devices from the phone, and if I use the Bluetooth Network Applet to create a DUN connection, when I click connect on the Zaurus, the phone pairs, but the Zaurus stays on "initialising modem".   I suspect this is because I am using the wrong channel number (default 1).

(Inncidently I dug out my old Nokia 6310i and put my SIM in that just to see if it would work with that, it pairs and dials up fine.)

So the problem with the SPV is that if I use "sdptool browse" it only returns the MAC address of the phone and no other information.  (With the Nokia it provides a couple of services, and if I attempt it on the train it comes back with loads of service information from other peoples nokias, sony erricsons etc...)

I know the SPVC500 is supposed to work as a bluetooth modem: There are several reports on forums people have it working with IPAQs running PocketPC and I scanned for services on the phone from Windows XP and it reports Dial Up Networking and Serial Port as being available - of course these are both Microsoft Environments.

So... Now I am stuck:  

Is there any other way to find the channel required for the phone?  
Is it worth trying each channel number until it works or is it likely not to work with the Zaurus?   I know the COM ports the phone uses if that is any help?

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Sharp ROMs / Hybrid Rom documentation

« on: June 10, 2005, 08:28:52 am »

OK ... So tell me where can I upload it... I'm looking for your comments also ...
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I sent you a PM.

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Sharp ROMs / Hybrid Rom documentation

« on: June 09, 2005, 06:45:30 am »

I've played with Cacko Hybrid ROM a while ago and I've found out that I like much  features it has (home on jffs2, qtopia installable to RAM, jffs2, SD), but I didnt like Qtopia look and feel. So basically I took ROM part, added some software in it (patched kernel IRDA for T610 phones, ssh, midnight commander, etc ...) and took Qtopia part from TKCrom 2.0 alpha, made some changes (added cyrillic keyboard from Cacko 1.22, neocalc, time applet, unicode fonts, changed install script to be Qtopia installable also on CF card (i didnt had SD)) and now I'm quite happy SL 5500 user. The rom has features from hybrid but is fully compatible with Sharp 3.10 sync appz (intellisync, qtopia for win), has ipkg old and new, I can use Hancom, Jeode, Opera packages from TKC rom and everything is working quite well. Now I'm trying to add bluetooth support to this ROM and create packages for other Qtopias (1.6.2, 2.1.1) to install and switch between them. If someone is curious I can upload this ROM somewhere for you to try.
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Hi Merli, I found this post when searching for information on your custom ROM when I saw it in your signature in your bluetooth thread.   I recently started using TKCRom Alpha, because I liked the look and feel better than the Cacko rom... I would be interested in trying your ROM also...  I can provide some webspace for uploading the ROM if you wish to provide it to others?

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Security and Networking / Bluez: Billionton Annoying Problems

« on: June 09, 2005, 06:35:39 am »

Sorry, I don't want to hijack your thread, but I am also having problems with the Billionton card and this seems like an appropriate place to mention it  (I have SL5500 and am running the TKr alpha ROM).

What did you edit in the /etc/pcmcia/serial to get it to work?

I installed the Bluez drivers pinned in this forum, and the card is detected as the Billionton ok...  I followed the instructions here:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...indpost&p=61877

but when I attempt the "hciattach /dev/ttyS3 bcsp" it fails giving me the error:

Can't set device: No such device.
Can't initialize device: No such device.

If I try your step 1) /etc/pcmcia/serial start ttyS3 the light on top of the card stops flashing?

Any pointers you could give would be appreciated

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Symbol Compact Flash Cf Wifi Wireless Card La-4137

« on: June 08, 2005, 08:33:11 am »

If you are in the UK (or Europe)  you can get them for around £23 plus shipping (£5 to UK).

I got one from this guy a couple of weeks ago:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZeuroQ2dwifi

Came really quickly and works well with 3.10, tKr and OZ/Opie on my 5500.

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5x00 General discussions / Opinions On Various Cf Wifi Cards For Zaurus 5500

« on: June 08, 2005, 08:27:39 am »

I got a Symbol24 for my 5500 for cheap on e-bay.

The guy that sells them seem to still have them:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...ssPageName=WDVW

It works well in all the roms I have tried recently:   3.10, Cacko, tKr and OZ(opie).

It is a lot easier to configure automatically in Opie, but its pretty straightforward in the Sharp based ROMs.

It only supports 802.11b however.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Root On Sd

« on: June 05, 2005, 02:09:57 pm »

Ok.. After reading the man pages for mount, I created a directory called /media/image and was able to mount the image:

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mkdir /media/image
I had to edit the modify_base.sh script to remove the mkdir command so it would run.

It all seems to work ok now, but i'm not sure if this was the correct way to do it.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Root On Sd

« on: June 04, 2005, 12:14:28 pm »

I've been messing around with the various different ROM images and decided I liked OZ the best, so I'm now running OZ3.5.3 and Opie on my Zaurus SL-5500.

I want to move the root to the SD card, so I tried to make an image file as described here: http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/howto/root-on-sd/

I can successfully create the image, however when I try to mount it with

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losetup /dev/loop0 /media/card/opie.img
mount -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /media/image
I get the following error:

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mount: Mounting /dev/loop0 on /media/image failed: No such file or directory
Anyone have any idea what could be going wrong?