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SIMpad forum / Newbie With Simpad Cl4, I Want To Add Memory

« on: January 21, 2006, 01:51:22 pm »

Hi!
You only have to solder another 16mb Flash on the free pins  
But the chip has a tssop package - so you have to be trained in soldering these small smd chips.

But you can also add a mmc/sd card - my pad had a 512mb sd and it works fine.
Look there:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=14822
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=14414

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SIMpad forum / Jtag: How Long Does Flashing Take?

« on: January 21, 2006, 01:43:43 pm »

Hi Tom!

I think you only have to jtag the bootloader to reactivate your Simpad!
The bldr is small (~140kb) compared to the size of the wince image.

When I had ti jtag my pad it took more than an hour for flashing the bldr via parallel.
So the several days are correct for flashing the whole image  

I don't know if you can speed up your jtag interface, becaus it is running serial althoug it is running on your parallel port.
There are only two pins transferring the data (on for input, one output), the other are used for controlling.

Sash

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SIMpad forum / Restart Opensimpad

« on: December 19, 2005, 09:07:39 am »

@wavetossed: I would agree to 1, 2, 4, 5 and maybe 3
But you can't locate all interesting posts in the old forum - there are to much posts.
There should be a link to the old forum (readonly) and a hint to use the new one.

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SIMpad forum / Opensimpad-0.9.0rc1 On T-sinuspad!

« on: December 16, 2005, 08:52:32 am »

Hi!

Look at params from guylhem.
He soldered a mmc-card and uses all the 32mb flash for the root partition.

So I think you also can change your /boot/params to permanently take your 16mb flash for root.

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SIMpad forum / Mmc Soldered. Driver Almost Working

« on: November 10, 2005, 03:55:07 am »

BTW, what about restarting more officially the opensimpad project?
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The opensimpad project was integrated into the openembedded tree.
Or what did you mean with "restarting the opensimpad project"?

So I thing we only have to contact one of the oe guys to integrate the patch to the oe-tree.
Maybe we could help them to maintain the simpad part of the project!

My problem is that I am not close with irc where most of the discussions take place.
But I'd help as good as possible.

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SIMpad forum / Mmc Soldered. Driver Almost Working

« on: November 06, 2005, 12:59:18 pm »

@albertr: It works - thanks  

I have made a kernel path for actual opensimpad kernel from openembedded repository.
If guylhem (or somebody else)  would load it up to his webspace anybody could
compile the driver and make an ipk easily by replacing the original patch before
compiling the kernel.

I think you're right - it's not a good idea to power down/unmount the card with an
opened file.
Do you know how much current your card needs during standby?

Maybe I also let my card always powered on until the power management in implemented.

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SIMpad forum / Mmc Soldered. Driver Almost Working

« on: November 04, 2005, 04:51:37 pm »

@Guylhem: You were right - it's a driver problem.
I think first it was the actual pcmcia-cs package which does not support binding two
modules/driver to the same slot. And second nobody definitivly knows which initialising
command(s) are used to tell the connect+ to run in wifi+storage mode  

Thus I soldered the sc-card to extend the memory.


Can you help me a little bit further to compile the module for an actual kernel?

I tried the following with the kernel from oe-tree:
 1. modified the kernel-patch to enable mmc support  (CONFIG_MMC=y)
 2. replaced the linux/drivers/mmc/mmc_core.c with your mmc driver

If I compile the kernel using bitbake, a mmcdrivers.o and mmc_core.o is generated.
But both of them produce no output when I load them. insmod reports something from tainted kernel module.
IIRC it is only a warning and the module should function anyhow!?
lsmod reports that the module is loaded, but there is no dev/mmc directory.

Any ideas?


btw: The power management support could be released by the apm scripts.
I did the same with wpa_supplicant on my laptop: Unloading for suspend and reloading on wakeup.

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SIMpad forum / Mmc Soldered. Driver Almost Working

« on: October 29, 2005, 03:09:15 pm »

At the moment I try to get my 512mb sd card to work.
I think a half gigabyte additional storage should be enough  

The problem is that with your image the mmc driver ist working, but I can not load the needed hostap
version for my Sundisk Connect+.

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SIMpad forum / Mmc Soldered. Driver Almost Working

« on: October 28, 2005, 03:16:43 am »

PS: IIRC you're into hardware mods too. May I ask you to give me a hard in flash upgrading of the simpad?

Guylhem
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That's right, I upgraded my T-sinuspad Flash.

In short:
I soldered a second 16mb Flash with soldering paste and an hot-air-pen on the free pads.

But no idea how to upgrade the flash more than 32 mb.
I was not able to find any flash chips i could pay  
And I also dont know how often you can desolder (is it correct?) and solder again,
until the pads loose their adhesive!?

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SIMpad forum / Mmc Soldered. Driver Almost Working

« on: October 25, 2005, 12:32:49 pm »

@Guylhem: How did you compile the kernel module?
I used the kernel 2.4.25 from your homepage, but I got many errors.

Maybe you can post the command line or a Makefile?

thx
Sascha

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SIMpad forum / How To Compile Software For Simpad Sl4

« on: October 19, 2005, 12:00:08 pm »

Read the openembedded guide:

http://openembedded.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/GettingStarted

With the oe sources you can build the needed crosschain and a complete opie/gpe image.
It also includes the sources for all packages, dirvers and the kernel.

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SIMpad forum / Where Is Blupdater And The Newer 0.9.x Images

« on: September 29, 2005, 12:03:53 pm »

Hi Bluescreen!

You can find the update-bootldr here:
http://opensimpad.org/opensimpad-forum/vie...9d97733291cb2e9

And always up to date images (opie, gpe, x11)  are stored here:
http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/opensimpad/

The touchscreen works fine and with dillo under gpe you have a really fast and stable browser.
But it does not support frames or ssl yet