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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Help Needed: Corrupted /etc/passwd

« on: December 03, 2016, 05:38:06 am »

Hi all,

I have pdaXii13.
I've tried to change the shell on a default user (root) and edited the /etc/passwd
It seems after reboot the system could not access/parse this file. So I cannot do anything to restore it..
I've tried to boot from SD card to recover it, but I don't know what to mount. I've used default partitioning scheme.
What could possibly be done to edit /etc/passwd now? Which device should I mount and how from recovery console (when booting from SD card where I have installation files for pdaXii13).

Device is Zaurus C3000.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Pdaxrom Development

« on: November 20, 2016, 05:54:47 pm »

I'm using pdaXrom pdaXii13 with my C3000. Would be happy to see the development!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Packages Announcement

« on: October 31, 2016, 03:53:17 pm »

Well done! I have never used the APL language myself, what are its applications nowadays?

BTW for IPK building, refer to my post here: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...st&p=282582
I also think that IPKs for Cacko and PdaXrom share the same structure, and the same tools can be used to build them.

Varti

Yes I see this info, I'll try do deal with it later.
The usage I see is rapid application development, prototyping, data analysis, solving any algorithmic/coding problems
I see mobile devices the new future for APL and related languages (like J language) since they are really dense and the problem with entering characters on mobile devices - the main pain when someone want to implement something on a mobile device - is not an issue and one would spend much more time concentrating on the problem than typing.
I personally will just experiment with different algorithms and puzzles.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Packages Announcement

« on: October 30, 2016, 12:36:52 pm »

Not an ipk yet (since I don't know how to build them  ) but just binaries.

GNU APL 1.6a http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/
Build without sqlite/postgres support
Additionally I've built APL Keyboard Translator (akt, https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/akt )in this archive.

Put these binaries somethere in the PATH.
Usage:

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akt apl --noColorOne could enter APL characters using Alt key.

Note what the APL font should be installed, get it here: http://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm
Place them to /usr/share/fonts directory
Run the following command to register them:

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fc-cache /usr/share/fontsNext step is to add this font to the rxvt configuration.
In my case I'm using Lucida Console in rxvt and APL386 for APL characters.
Add the following line:

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rxvt*font:xft:Lucida Console:pixelsize=16,xft:APL386 Unicode:pixelsize=13to the ~/.Xdefaults
Then run the

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xrdb -merge ~/.XdefaultsRestart rxvt.

It is convenient to set the alias to run APL. Add

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alias apl="akt apl --noColor"to the ~/.profile
Now if you restart rxvt you can run APL with the apl command.

One more note: by default most fo Alt+0..9 hotkeys reserved by openbox for windows manipulation. In order to use these hotkeys to enter APL characters on the numeric row, one have to edit the ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml file and comment these hotkeys (or redefine them to something else).

Keyboard layout provided by akt is the following: https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/akt/blob/ma...r/keyboard1.txt

Now we have a fully functioning APL on a mobile device!
See screenshot attached

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Compile Hostap Driver

« on: October 26, 2016, 02:04:11 pm »

The problem is what while the card is detected, its firmware doesn't support WPA. From the site I've mentioned below I was able to determine which version of the firmware has to be used. But in order to install the firmware, the hostap should be compiled with special flag (which was not the case in the version from pdaXii13).
Alternatively I could try to update the firmware using Windows, but I cannot find the usb-cf connector which will allow to detect CF-Wifi card. The trivial USB Cardreader doesn't allow Windows to detect it. So I'm stuck without working wifi

Hi,

I'm trying to compile hostap to upgrade my CF Dlink 660W Wifi card according to these instructions: http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
since the firmware I have on this card is too old doesn't support wpa.

Is where any description how to do it ? particularly interested in PCMCIA_CS path I have to specify in order to build this driver.
I've tried to compile it pointing to the kernel sources 2.4.19 from pdaxrom beta1 feed, able to compile, install the driver via insmod, but prism2_srec failed to run indicating prism2 not found

So probably I did something wrong. Could someone guide me how to do it in a proper way (I haven't compiled kernel modules for like 12 years).

Just curious: why are you trying to compile hostap? I vaguely remember that at least pdaxii13 had it already preinstalled, but I might be wrong. Also, you have probably already checked this, but is the Wifi card correctly detected by the system (via dmesg) once you plug it in? Does the card work under other ROMs, such as Cacko/Angstrom?

Varti

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For Sale / Wanted / Wanted: Cf Wifi Card With Wpa2 Support

« on: October 25, 2016, 04:48:52 pm »

Hi all,

I'm looking for the CF Wifi card with the firmware able to use wpa_supplicant and connect to WPA protected wifi hotspots.
Currently I have D-Link DCF-660W but with the older firmware which I was not able to upgrade.
Shipping to Sweden.
Will pay with Paypal.
Thanks!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Compile Hostap Driver

« on: October 25, 2016, 04:24:05 pm »

Or alternatively I want just buy the CF Wifi with support for WPA2 which works with pdaXrom  Anyone ?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Compile Hostap Driver

« on: October 25, 2016, 03:07:37 am »

Hi,

I'm trying to compile hostap to upgrade my CF Dlink 660W Wifi card according to these instructions: http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
since the firmware I have on this card is too old doesn't support wpa.

Is where any description how to do it ? particularly interested in PCMCIA_CS path I have to specify in order to build this driver.
I've tried to compile it pointing to the kernel sources 2.4.19 from pdaxrom beta1 feed, able to compile, install the driver via insmod, but prism2_srec failed to run indicating prism2 not found

So probably I did something wrong. Could someone guide me how to do it in a proper way (I haven't compiled kernel modules for like 12 years).

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Anyone Know Where I Can Get The Cross Compiler?

« on: October 25, 2016, 03:03:26 am »

I'm using pdaxii13 for C3000. I've compiled recent Vim 8.0, frotz (infocom z-games emulator), gawk. Planning to compile recent Exult (since the one from ipk shows blurry sprite following the mouse, hope the compiled version will work), maybe some networking stuff.
Also planning to have some version of Common Lisp compiled (I failed to compile CLISP however) alternatively Scheme.

I don't know how to build ipk yet.

One more thing to add:
in recent Debian the functions from libiconv are part of libc. Therefore cross-compiler will complain on absence of libiconv.so.2.
The quick and dirty way to fix it is just to copy libc:

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cp /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 libiconv.so.2

Nice... good thing that it still works under a recent Linux distro. Maybe just a link to libc could work, too.

Are you using PdaXrom/PdaXII? May I ask you what are you planning to port/develop?

Varti

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Anyone Know Where I Can Get The Cross Compiler?

« on: October 23, 2016, 05:09:58 am »

One more thing to add:
in recent Debian the functions from libiconv are part of libc. Therefore cross-compiler will complain on absence of libiconv.so.2.
The quick and dirty way to fix it is just to copy libc:

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cp /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 libiconv.so.2