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Linux Issues / Qtopia Desktop Calendar Question

« on: January 11, 2006, 01:04:46 pm »

Is there any way (a plugin, perhaps) to get Qtopia Desktop to email you reminders about events on your calendar?
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Okay, failing that, is there another application that works on the Zaurus and syncs w/ your PC that offers this functionality?

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Linux Issues / Qtopia Desktop Calendar Question

« on: January 06, 2006, 12:56:04 am »

Is there any way (a plugin, perhaps) to get Qtopia Desktop to email you reminders about events on your calendar?

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: November 01, 2005, 07:56:58 pm »

Sorry to bring you more bad news, but after a bit of Googling it appears that there are no open source drivers for the Marvell chips. This is made even more apparent by the existence of Linux wrappers for Windows NDIS drivers   

I did find this entry in somone's blog, though, so maybe there is hope for the WL54-CF.
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Grrr...if I could ever get ahold of someone at Ambicom, I'd give them a piece of my mind.  Anyway, thanks again for the info and the link - I'll keep an eye on the blog and see what he comes up with.

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: October 31, 2005, 03:04:41 pm »

The Ambicom WL54-CF uses a Marvell chipset, not TI. See the FCC listing for internal photos.
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Dammit!!  None of the docs I had said anything, and their site didn't say anything, so I called tech support and TI is what they told me.  Grrr.....I'll call them back and see what the hell is going on.

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: October 25, 2005, 04:44:55 pm »

any joy?
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Between moving into a new house and the extended business trip I'm currently on, there just hasn't been time to play with this at all.  :-(   I'll certainly update when I get a chance to try it.

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: October 12, 2005, 02:42:22 am »

ok so here is a better guid on how to do it, note this is a guide and a rough one at that, i expect you can do it on your own or report back for slight modifcations also this is how i would do it, i am sure there are better ways and please tell me as i dont like the idea of having to set the CC varible everytime. it also looks long and hard but trust me its not, you may also want to read the thing throgh about 3 times and make sure you understand it all.

Awesome...thanks so much. (Sorry I didn't respond sooner, BTW - I didn't get a notification this was here, for some reason.)  Anyway, I'll give this a try as soon as I can, hopefully later this week.  And BTW, I got it on tigerdirect.ca, but it seems to no longer be offered by them.  I've written them to find out why...

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: October 10, 2005, 04:43:42 am »

If anyone is willing to send this card to me I could try to build and use the http://lisas.de/~andi/acx100/ driver in Cacko ROM.
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I'd love to advance the progress of science, but I can't afford to buy a new one if anything happened to it.  And I really don't trust the post.  Not to mention Customs...;-)

I appreciate the offer, and I'll keep an eye here in case anyone takes you up on this.  Thanks!

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: October 06, 2005, 02:22:24 am »

could this be because you have no ACX drivers on your PDA? so it dosent know how to resume it. im not sure how pcmcia works but it make sense to me.
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Probably, but I can't figure out how to install the drivers without a kernel source directory, as that figures prominently in the instructions.

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: October 01, 2005, 09:06:25 pm »

when the card is installed, what does "cardctl status" and "cardctl ident" say? Can you "cardctl resume" and see if the status changes?

have you got a CF to PCMCIA adaptor, and be able to try the card on a linux box which has the ACX drivers installed? That way you can get an idea of how the card would behave if you had the right drivers on the Z.
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"cardctl status" says:

Socket 0:
     3.3V 16-bit PC Card
     function 0:  [ready]
Socket 1:
     no card

"cardctl ident" says:

Socket 0:
     product info:  "Marvell", "88W8300 802.11g PC Card", "version 1.1", ""
     manfid:  0x02df, 0x8103
     function:  6 (network)

Socket 1:
     no product info available


"cardctl resume" gives "ioctl(): device or resource busy"

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: October 01, 2005, 08:22:06 pm »

lol they assume that you build the kernel on your pc for i386, they didnt take into aacout the fact that it might be an emmbeded device that get cross compiled for apps, i am sure there is a work around however, like compiling on the PC?

ethier way i thoght you should know that at least one of the PDA's on handhelds.org uses an ACX chipset, i belve it was the hx4700 so that could be a good place to start
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Awesome...I'll check it out.  Thanks!  It's a bit encouraging, anyway...

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: September 18, 2005, 12:41:37 am »

i dont think you have to worry that much about it bieng dlink cards, as far as i know they are really the only cards that use the chipset that are redily avalible. firmware should work for all cards.
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*fingers crossed*

So I've now encountered another potential issue installing this driver.  According to the README:

  In case the build fails, then please make sure that the symbolic link
  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build exists and points to the matching
  kernel source directory. Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h to
  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/version.h

The build failed, so I went looking for the aforementioned sym link.  Sure enough, it wasn't there.  So I went looking for the kernel source directory and can't find it.  *sigh*  Hopefully this is something I've overlooked as stupidly as my question on my other thread.  Any ideas, anyone?  Thanks.  *sg*

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Software / Zgcc - Cannot Exec Cpp

« on: September 18, 2005, 12:21:05 am »

I tried this, and got "./mnt/card/bin/zgcc.sh: not found".  But the file is there, and I can run it without the . in front.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks!

Do you have a space between the dot and the /mnt/card/bin/zgcc.sh? You need a space between them.

John
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OMG...I'm so sorry.  Can you tell it was late and I was really tired?  *sigh*  Thanks.

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: September 17, 2005, 02:19:23 am »

didnt even know that another 802.11g CF card other than the linksys one exsisted. my advice would be to download the drivers, cross compile then try and install. but i would say youre probelly better off with a prism 2 based card

Well, that's what I thought I was getting (based on the previous one).  I was so choked to find out they'd switched.

do you know the chipset? the ti stuff is normally somthing along the lines of ACX111, if so you can go and get the drivers at http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
and for info on installing: http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/104010501.asp

Well, the incredibly surly tech guy at Ambicom was only able to tell me "TI".  From my reading, I would assume it's the TNETW1230, which the sourceforge people seem to believe falls under the ACX111 category.

I downloaded the sourceforge stuff the other day, but I didn't have make, and now I'm having problems getting that to work.  (See my other post.)  *sigh*

Even though I haven't been able to try the actual install yet, one thing that has been throwing me off on the sourceforge intructions - there's quite the large section on the firmware, which seems written quite specifically for D-link cards.

hope that helps, reply back if you get it working as a couple of other people want 802.11g and have had problems getting the linksys driver to work
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Will do.  Thanks!

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Software / Zgcc - Cannot Exec Cpp

« on: September 16, 2005, 11:23:45 pm »

I've installed zgcc to have "make" available (in an attempt to get my bloody CF wifi working).  I've followed the instructions, but I ended up having to make my own symlinks to "make" and "gcc", which made me suspect the zgcc.sh script hadn't run properly.  When I made the links, I ran "make", which called gcc, which gave the following error:

gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp':  No such file or directory

Again, I'm quite suspicious about the zgcc.sh script.  I searched here and found the following post:

You are not running zgcc.sh correctly. You must execute it via:

whateverprompt> . zgcc.sh

Note the dot -- this changes the environment of the shell you are using. The way you are executing zgcc.sh, via "./zgcc.sh" or "bash zgcc.sh" or #! /bin/bash or whatever only changes a spawned environment that is then discarded. I put ". /mnt/card/bin/zgcc.sh" in my ~/.bashrc file which is in turn executed from my ~/.profile

I tried this, and got "./mnt/card/bin/zgcc.sh: not found".  But the file is there, and I can run it without the . in front.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks!

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Wl54-cf

« on: September 16, 2005, 08:36:06 pm »

Has anyone been able (or has even tried) to get this card working on their Zaurus?  I specifically bought the Ambicom because I know people were able to use the 802.11b from Ambicom with no problem, I believe because it was a Prism (2?) driver, which I've worked with a bit before.  However, it appears the jerks have switched to TI chipsets without telling anyone.  And from what I can tell, the TI drivers are nightmarish.  Anyone heard of trying this?  I've got an SL-5600, BTW.  And it's not even beginning to recognise the card - doesn't even acknowledge that it exists.

Thanks!