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Sharp ROMs / Cacko+sd Boot?

« on: July 01, 2006, 05:05:31 pm »

Hello everyone,

Has anyone succeeded in installing cacko on a sd card?(or at least most of the filesystem)
(the idea is that the sd card will be permanently there, and that i'd like a "single" filesystem when installing everything(and not to have to split application between "main memory" and "sd card"(which fails 50% of the time)(i hate that package installer).

Thanks for any help,

DeathWolf

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Roms And Boot From Sd

« on: May 22, 2006, 09:01:06 am »

Hello all,

I have a c1000.
I've been using cacko 1.23 is the most standard way for quite some time now but i'm looking at reinstalling everything in a "cleaner way", especially since main memory gets cluttered.


Basically i heard it is possible to have a sort of lilo/grub/whatever to auto-boot from sd, hence freeing totally the main memory.

I currently have a 4GB SD card which works fine with cacko 1.23.
I also needto be in full jp mode(ime essentially).

What rom would be recommend for such use?(i'd assume something based on the sharp rom like cacko, but i heard pdaxrom has good jp support)

And how does one make it to install everything on sd and have the z auto-boot on it.

Thanks for all help,

Paul Cahier

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Sharp ROMs / Questions: A Way To Work From Sd? X?

« on: May 05, 2006, 09:52:17 pm »

I have a c1000 with not much memory builtin and iI was kinda wondering if:
1.there would be a way to install cacko or some of the roms directly to the sd card, and then at start boot it up on it, so as to have all the files on the same filesystem(and optionally  use all the builtin memory as "temporary memory")
2.how to install x in qt properly(i saw many sweet shots with an X running in one of the qt tabs but never found the package to install to do that)
3.know which packages cant be installed on external memory(cf/sd) since it gives the warning everytime...
4.if there's a decent package manager, the builtin one is just horrid.... slow... not verbose at all(i dont mind something on command line provided it auto-gets and install the package, and allows to search packages lists, like apt)
5.How much memory should be put in the partitioning when installing cacko... i used 100MB last time(out of the 128) but i'm not sure how did the memory get split in the end.

Thanks,

Paul Cahier

Note: i'm using cacko 1.23 atm

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Sharp ROMs / Prism, Cacko 2.5 And Wifi Problems

« on: April 28, 2006, 05:41:36 pm »

i will later tonight, but i hope it is not that:/

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Sharp ROMs / Prism, Cacko 2.5 And Wifi Problems

« on: April 28, 2006, 01:47:16 pm »

Hello all,
I have bought a dcf-660W for my z running cacko 1.23.
First it wouldnt work so i reflashed it to this:

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# hostap_diag  wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x800c v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) PCMCIA (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.4 (station firmware)
Then i cleaned my z by reflashing a clean 1.23.

After that i went into the network config, and configged it to conenc to my 128bit wep network.
After 10s it connected! Joy!
I started opera, went straight to oesf... and i started noticing it was pretty slow...
At first i thought it was because signal wasnt good enough, so i went straight in the line of sight of the router, at ~3 meters. Signal was around 90%.
But pinging the router or any other comp resulted in very unstable results:

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64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=4.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=3.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=3.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=12.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=39.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=12.1 msThe ping seems to vary from 4ms(good) to 300ms(bad) with ~20-30% packet loss.
(at best, i'm getting 15% packet loss which is imho gigantic)

I'm pretty surprised considering all other devices on my network are working really fine even from very far of this router( a wrtg54).

The annoying consequence of all this is that i cant use opera/netfront who seem to have long timeouts and be monothreaded(any way to fix that? waiting 50s for a webpage that loads usually in 1.2s on my old laptop can be pretty frustrating.)

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wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"sephiroth"  Nickname:"zaurus"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:10:0C:97:FD
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=10/70  Signal level=-77 dBm  Noise level=-88 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:5  Invalid misc:15176   Missed beacon:0

I tried both on ac and without, with the same results.

Anyone can confirm/give a solution maybe?


Paul Cahier


EDIT: some more info
dmesg has many:

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wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<9)
system info:

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# uname -a
Linux zaurus 2.4.20 #20 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:54:08 +0300 armv5tel unknown
# uptime
 17:46:36 up  2:29,  2 users,  load average: 2.24, 2.12, 2.15
iwconfig says:

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Warning: Driver for device wifi0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

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Sharp ROMs / Does Cacko Rom V1.23 Support 2gb Sd?

« on: April 27, 2006, 06:20:02 pm »

is there actually real support for 2GB?
last time i tried i had to send back my card after 3 days of trying....
back then the driver would just go haywire on anything above 1GB
i wanted to buy a Transcend Secure Digital 4 Go
i have a c1000
and what does: "software to sd may need to be installed from terminal" mean?
(if it just means manually installing ipk's i guess it's fine)
can anyone really confirm cacko 1.23+Transcend Secure Digital 4 Go works?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wifi Problem

« on: April 23, 2006, 08:42:08 am »

if anyone gets a report on that please tell! i really wanted a 54Mbps card

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bricked? Or Not...

« on: March 18, 2006, 10:26:42 am »

i guess i'm good to wait until i go back home in japan if i still have some warranty left then... Unless there are people fixing it/who can take care of sending back to sharp?(for a reasonnable fee of course)

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bricked? Or Not...

« on: March 16, 2006, 01:31:29 am »

Fn+D+M?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bricked? Or Not...

« on: March 14, 2006, 12:30:34 am »

"such sensitive" is the keyword i guess:(
the z seems to be unusually fragile :/(my old ipaq was such a tank...)
i simply forgot to take it from my work place and went to holidays... oh well ><

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bricked? Or Not...

« on: March 13, 2006, 06:11:18 pm »

i'm starting to think something must have really died
it's be plugged for 2 days now and nothing
not a light, not a sign.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bricked? Or Not...

« on: March 09, 2006, 10:48:07 pm »

Hello all,

I was... up until yesterday a happy c1000 owner.
I have had in the past some trouble with the battery... but after that i got 3 brand new batteries.
Now lets get to the problem:
I left the z plugged for a quite few days closed... and someday recently, i looked at  it and saw no light. So i went and tried to turn it on... nothing....
Tried changing the batteries.. no effect...
The charger seems to work i think(it's an ea-70, and i got a small jolt from touching it with my tongue(i know this isnt proper measurement, but it's all i have atm)

So i'm wondering... am i missing anything?
should i be pressing something else than the power button? something else than changing the battery and relocking the bay? Anyway to see if it's the charger circuit that died?

NOTE: i am not totally sure the charger was actually on for all these days... it might have been off for quite some time

Thanks for any help,

Paul Cahier

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General Discussion / C1000 Battery Problem

« on: November 16, 2005, 12:30:02 pm »

okay
giving some more info since i solved my problem.
Just in case someone ever gets the same trouble:
the battery wasnt dead.
everything failed... Exept when i plugged in my brand new ea-70 charger...
suddenly it would charge and it's working perfectly fine now.

So:
1. do not use any charger other than ea-70 i guess... or something at 5V-2A(max)
2. 5V and 1A wont be enough in some cases
3. 4.5V or 5.5V wont work either(didnt break mine, but didnt help)
4. batteries dont die that easily:)(and i'm happy of that)
5. always charge your z well:)

NOTE: for 2), my original zaurus 5V-1A charger wouldnt work, neither did my dell 5V-2A which would work perfectly fine before

conclusion: go get an ea-70 now!

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General Discussion / C1000 Battery Problem

« on: November 12, 2005, 06:39:04 am »

thanks guy, ill be looking for a new battery then, any suggestion for a place to buy a bl08 that sends to europe?

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Battery Ea-bl11 Ea-bl08, Where To Buy In Europe?

« on: November 11, 2005, 06:58:16 pm »

basically, i'm searching for either of these 2 batteries for my sl-c1000 and i was wondering if theres any place they sell them at reasonnable price to europe, laptopforless would be perfect if their shipping fees werent so unreasonnable.
Ideally somewhere in europe would be ideal.

Thanks for any suggestion,

DeathWolf