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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Usb Gamepad/ Joystick Support

« on: March 24, 2006, 08:12:20 pm »

I got one working with MAME. Just plugged it in and played with a few command line options till it worked.

I think the version of MAME was using SDL but I'm having a hard time remembering where it was.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc12 For C3000 Beta 1

« on: January 06, 2006, 12:19:37 am »

At what point are you running out of space? Is it the flash or hard drive?

The little round cancel button next to the directional button sends <ESC>.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc12 For C3000 Beta 1

« on: December 31, 2005, 01:19:19 pm »

I think a HD repartition option is a great idea! Something went wrong with my install so I had to reinstall everything  . Before I did I repartitioned to give hdd2 about 1.5GB because I ran out of space while installing ipks last time.

We need an /opt symlink for many ipks to install. I just created an /hdd2/opt and pointed /opt at it.

The vim 6.4 ipk I found in another thread would be really nice to add to the install because the busybox vi is nearly unusable. The real grep would be great too. I don't understand how anybody can get by without less.  

I'm more than happy to help resolve bugs. You've made it MUCH more usable for me! I just wish I had less work so I had more time to play with my Z.

[span style=\'font-size:21pt;line-height:100%\']Thanks ThC!!! [/span]

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Comments, Bugs & Questions For C3000 Pdaxrom Beta

« on: December 29, 2005, 05:00:17 pm »

Thanks to flavien's ipkg hint I've got it working correctly now! The problem is that the sort command is linked to busybox but busybox doesn't handle it. If you look closely at all the ipkg errors they contain the text that busybox spits out when you call it directly.  

It's not too hard to fix. First, install the coreutils package to get the real sort command. Then you'll need to remove the sort symlink to busybox.

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mount -o remount,rw /dev/root /
rm /bin/sort
mount -o remount,ro /dev/root /
Now ipkg should work correctly.

BTW, I finally got my Audiovox RTM-8000 GPRS modem working! Yesterday was the first time I've seen it working on my Zaurus. I hardly had to do anything to get it working on rc12. Now I can finally use it for what I intended when I got it in April.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc12 For C3000 Beta 1

« on: December 29, 2005, 04:36:42 pm »

Sorry for taking so long to reply. I've got WAY too many projects I'm working on.

First, you'll need to get the drivers here because they aren't included in the version of rc12 we're using. Extract that file into your root directory. The hostap files will end up in /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/. Unfortunately, the system won't find them there. I added symlinks to the files in /lib/modules/2.4.20/pcmcia/.

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ln -s /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap* /lib/modules/2.4.20/pcmcia/(The command above should all be on one line)

Next, you'll need to edit /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf. Change the first three lines to look llike this:

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device "hostap_cs"
  class "hermes"
  module "hostap", "hostap_cs"You'll also need to find your card description further down in the file and change

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 bind "orinoco_cs" to

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 bind "hostap_cs"
Make sure you restart your PCMCIA services

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/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restartand insert your card.

That should do it for you. I don't think I've forgotten anything.

(Edited to fix link command)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom Rc12 For C3000 Beta 1

« on: December 28, 2005, 02:35:06 pm »

Very nice! This is working MUCH better than dual-boot.

I had to make a few changes to get mine working well. I changed /etc/pcmcia/network so it wouldn't suspend my hard drive along with my WiFi card. This is mentioned in previous threads but I think it would be helpful to have it in this thread. Just change these lines:

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       /sbin/cardctl resume
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        /sbin/cardctl suspendso they look like this:

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       /sbin/cardctl resume 0
...
        /sbin/cardctl suspend 0I also switched to hostap for my AmbiCom WL1100C WiFi card because the orinoco driver was randomly dropping my connection during heavy use. It is working VERY well now.

I'm still working on getting my Audiovox RTM-8000 GPRS working. I haven't had much luck in any ROM yet.

Thanks for all the work guys! Best Christmas present I got!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Porting Pdaxrom To C3000 ... Quite Close But ...

« on: December 23, 2005, 11:30:44 pm »

I'll be more than happy to host or mirror the files if you're still looking for space. Can't wait to give it a try!

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gpe & Apm Issues On C3k

« on: December 07, 2005, 07:30:43 pm »

I found out by accident that you can get a C3000 to suspend in GPE 3.5.4RC. Just unlock the battery cover and it will suspend. You can then re-lock it. Press the power button when you want to resume.

Now if I could just get my USB host, GPRS, and SD to work...  

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / C3000 And Serial_cs

« on: December 07, 2005, 07:23:08 pm »

Has anybody tried using serial_cs on a C3000? When I plug in my GPRS modem, ttyS3 shows up as expected but I have been unable to get any response from it using picocom, it just hangs.

I know that Sharp patched serial_cs. Did the patches make it into OZ?

I was able to get it to respond using pdaxrom and minicom. I even got PPP connection established but it wasn't working right. 2/3 pings never came back.  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc12 On Sl-c3000! :)

« on: November 04, 2005, 02:37:22 pm »

The hostap binaries from that thread have been built for the RC12 C1000/C3100 kernel. If you're running a different kernel, you'll have to rebuild hostap-drivers against the sources of that kernel. (Even if it's also a 2.4.20 kernel, the config is probably different.)
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I tried installing the [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10599]c3000-bigkernel[/url] but my WLAN card still hangs under load .

I guess I'll be building my own kernel for the SL-C3000 to try to get hostap running. Kind of scary building a kernel for the 3000 because I can't just boot off of a CDROM if I screw it up.  

I'll give a shot and post my results here.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc12 On Sl-c3000! :)

« on: November 03, 2005, 07:43:25 pm »

I got it working following the instructions for Rc 10 On C3000 With Dual Boot but using the Rc12 root-akita archive available here.

Make sure to read the instructions for bug fixes in the other thread. I did a "chown -R root:root /hdd3/*" because the ownership was not right. I also had to make changes to several files to update "cardctl suspend" and "cardctl resume" to "cardctl suspend 0" and "cardctl resume 0". I'm sure the following files were changed /etc/pcmcia/network /usr/bin/network.py. There may have been others but I'm not sure. If you don't change the files your hard drive will be suspended along with your WLAN card .

One thing that I haven't seen documented anywhere was copying /sbin/writerominfo from the Cacko ROM I have installed to /hdd3/sbin/writerominfo. This fixes /proc/deviceinfo/product. Before I copied writerominfo /proc/deviceinfo/product was set to "unknown" which caused several problems the most noticable being akita.xmodmap not being used in X. Not having a working Fn makes typing very tedious . Apparently, the C1000 and C3100 writerominfo works differently than the C3000. Took several hours to figure out that one.

I haven't gotten hostap to work yet. I'm getting unresolved symbol errors. (iw_handler_set_thrspy, iw_handler_get_thrspy, wireless_spy_update, iw_handler_get_spy, iw_handler_set_spy) Anybody with ideas how to get hostap to work? The wireless network going down anytime I try to do anything significant is really annoying.

I highly recommend installing gcc and gcc-headers so you can download Vim 6.4 to build and install it. It's much better than busybox's vi .

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rc11 On C3000?

« on: September 15, 2005, 04:15:00 pm »

I've really been itching to try RC11 on my C3000 but the fear of bricking it makes me a bit nervous.

Is the C3000 close enough to the C3100 that it should work or does the build require the extra flash in the C3100?

I'm guessing I need to change hda3 to ext3 before the install. Is this correct?

Thanks!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 3100 Beta Testers Needed!

« on: September 13, 2005, 05:53:58 pm »

Has anybody got this into a 3000 yet? Should it just work or will it need some tinkering?

I got the dual boot to work according to the instructions in this forum - Cacko wouldn't boot anymore but I didn't want to go back after trying pdaXrom . Unfortunately, there there were too many showstoppers for me to stick with it. I'd love to try it again.