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Nokia Tablet / Nokia Making 770 Successor

« on: May 13, 2006, 08:43:09 pm »

Here's another article about the announcement;  saw this on /.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12761945/from/RSS/

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Ambicom Wl1100c-cf Vs Linksys Wcf12

« on: May 12, 2006, 09:13:33 pm »

WCF12 is completely compatible with my C3100 running Cacko 1.23...

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Cf Wired Ethernet Adapter

« on: May 12, 2006, 09:04:30 pm »

Just picked up a used, but spotless, 3000 in Japan last week. I have a wireless network card
that works fine, but I occasionally need a wired card. I couldn't find any recommended models.
Are there any known CF 10/100 baseT cards that work in the Zaurus?
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I have the Socket 10/100 CF card.  It works fine, though it's a bit bulky.
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I have a "Socket" (www.socketcom.com) branded wired 10/100 card too, which works fine with my SL-C3100 and Cacko Rom version 1.23.

The 10/100 card is model # EA2912-325.

product link here:
[a href=\"http://www.socketcom.com/product/EA2912-325.asp]http://www.socketcom.com/product/EA2912-325.asp[/url]

I'm not too concened about the card's slight bulkyness;  when I sit down with the Z and my wired connection, I typically plug in the AC adapter (and the LAN cable itself of course), so the Z becomes atypically "bulky" overall anyway, so the housing part of the LAN card where you plug in the cable isn't reallt that noticeable, IMHO.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Cacko Rom 1.23 For C1000 Progress

« on: August 29, 2005, 05:41:46 pm »

I have some good news. I was able to borrow a C3100 device for a few days. This was enough to add support for it to the upcoming Cacko 1.23 ROM. I currently have both devices sitting near me running new ROM. 

The release is only a few days away, stay tuned...
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I have a C3100 and am a software developer at my day job.  If it would help you, I'd be very interested in beta testing your C1000/C3100 ROM.  Can you point me to an image?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Newbie: And His Sl-c3100 + Questions!

« on: August 29, 2005, 05:03:30 pm »

there is no official cacko rom for the 1k as of yet.  It will be coming soon and the 3.1K will be soon after that.  You probably cannot use the 860 cacko because they have different cpus (pxa255 vs pxa270) amount other things like usb host.
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But, I bet there is very little difference between the pxa255 and pxa270 except for the speed bump (400MHz and 416MHz respectively).  Even if there are differences between the two chips (say there are extra/new instructions on the 270), I doubt any of the builds are optimised to use such special instructions.

If I didn't care about USB-host support (just want to see what Cacko looks like, play around, etc.) I bet a quickly hacked 860 ROM would run mostly OK.

I looked thru the install binaries/scripts to see if I could find and change a "SL-C860" model string;  I found nothing...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Newbie: And His Sl-c3100 + Questions!

« on: August 28, 2005, 09:21:31 pm »

so, any idea when SL-C3100/Cacko will be available?

Why couldn't someone simply hack the C860 (or C1000) install to recognize the "SL-C3100" model string and proceed with the install?  C1000 is essentially same as C3100 w/o the hard disk, right?

(I did boot the C860 installer on my 3100, and it got far enough to the the model string, then refused to proceed...)

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / When Will Openzaurus Available For My C3100?

« on: August 27, 2005, 10:41:17 pm »

Most user interface elements should be reasonable sized (except some spin box buttons) when you removed your old settings in $HOME (as advised).
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I did move the $HOME/Settings/*.conf files aside before putting OZ on.

My SL-C3100 booted into OZ just fine, but I came across a few issues that made me go back to the Sharp ROM (the one from here:  [a href=\"http://www.trisoft.de/en_c3100howto.htm)]http://www.trisoft.de/en_c3100howto.htm)[/url].  List of issues:

(1) The console app's fonts are still pretty messed up.  You can pick a larger size than the default (which improves readability), but there didn't seem to be a fixed-width font available;  so it was very difficult to read the text in the window.  E.g., output of ls and ifconfig were all non-columnar and therefore very difficult to read.

(2) If I used the Qtopia menu to switch to "Terminal 1," I got the text login screen and never could figure out how to switch back to the Qtopia GUI -- each time I had to reboot.

(3) The Kbrowser and network would not work reliably with my Linksys WCF12 WiFi CF card -- web pages sometimes loaded, but only about 10% of the time.  Most times the browser failed to load the page and simply timed out.  I could ping my access point just fine from the console window, so basic connectivity seemed to be working.  Note that when I put the Sharp ROM [trisoft.de version] back on, NetFront 3.1 loaded/rendered web pages flawlessly.  In both cases, I was sitting about 2 meters from my WiFi access point, so the only difference was in the software being run.

(4) I didn't see how to turn the desktop background/wallpaper off;  I wanted to set it to a plain blue, because the default Opie background image is smaller than the 640x480 screen, and gets tiled in a fairly distracting manner.  I probly just did not search thru the settings sufficiently.
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Let me know what else I can do to test / provide feedback for OZ on the SL-C3100.  I'm very interested in exploring OZ/Opie further, as it seems better than the Sharp ROM in some areas (e.g., I've had trouble installing Wellenreiter II on Sharp ROMs, but having it pre-installed in OZ was a great help;  also, the net config tool does let you scan for visible/local networks -- the Sharp ROM network applet doesn't do scanning like that, which is a real pain in an urban environment where there are a dozen AP's nearby...).

Brent
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P.S.:  I used the trisoft.de NAND-Flash image mentioned above instead of my own NAND-Flash image of the Sharp ROM originally shipped to me by Dynamism:  the trisoft.de image seems to be a slightly newer build of Qtopia, and they also pre-install useful stuff like KA/Pi, KO/Pi, OM/Pi.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / When Will Openzaurus Available For My C3100?

« on: August 27, 2005, 06:48:00 pm »

I did use the Appearance applet to up the font size from 10 to 14, so that's a little better.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / When Will Openzaurus Available For My C3100?

« on: August 27, 2005, 06:46:09 pm »

as a newb, could someone post a link to the install instructions for bringing OpenZaurus up on my SL-C3100?  I'd like to load it today, test, and report results.
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Nevermind!  I used the instructions for SL-C3100 (http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/installation/sl-c1000/) and now I'm running Opie.
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One question though -- given the extremely high resolution of this 640x480 3.7" screen (and my old eyes) -- the Opie interface is very difficult to see.

The Zaurus's zoom functions don't seem to do anything at the desktop level.  Is there a way to get the zoom keys (Fn-1, Fn-2) to work?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / When Will Openzaurus Available For My C3100?

« on: August 27, 2005, 06:22:38 pm »

as a newb, could someone post a link to the install instructions for bringing OpenZaurus up on my SL-C3100?  I'd like to load it today, test, and report results.

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Cxx0 General discussions / C860 Nand Backup To Sd?

« on: August 27, 2005, 02:09:09 am »

I tried to backup to a 2GB CF card (branded "PQI" picked up from Fry's), but it didn't work.

So then (under the Zaurus SL-C3100 command line), wiped the partition table with sfdisk, remade a FAT16 type partition (id 6), and did "mkdosfs -v -F 16".  The Zaurus still refused to back up to this card.

So I ended up using an SD card instead, which worked fine.

Could someone please post the proper sequence to "clean format" a CF card using the Zaurus itself, so that the NAND Flash backup will work?  I suppose I could also format the CF card from my windoze machine...