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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Opie Apps In Gpe?

« on: February 09, 2007, 11:31:07 am »

I just recently decided that to put OZ on my Zaurus Sl5500. I've got the Hentges OPIE image (3.5.4.1) on there now, but I'm really interested in the GPE environment. I like the whole "normal computer desktop" interface.

My concern is that there are a number of tools (and games, i admit) I use in Opie which are packaged as "opie-[packagename]". I'm assuming these apps wouldn't work under GPE, but my question is whether or not that assumption is right?

Can you use OPIE apps in GPE?

Anything I should be aware of before reflashing?

Thanks
Marc

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Installer Not Working For Me

« on: February 08, 2007, 10:14:48 am »

Are you flashing over a previously installed Cacko or pdaXrom ?

It might be a good idea to do a NAND restore with an original ROM. I once had a similar problem which got solved after restoring an original NAND image.

Oliver
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NAND restore? My zaurus has the Sharp 3.13 rom installed. Does that help?

I forgot to mention that it's an SL-5500. If I do the D+P+Reset boot to get to that menu there is no NAND restore option.

EDIT: Got past that... it looks like the CF card i had was flaky. So my next question is:

After installing cardfs a window appears that doesn't fit on the screen... now what?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Hentges Installer Not Working For Me

« on: February 07, 2007, 04:00:11 pm »

Hi all. I'm trying to install Hentges 3.5.4.1 for collie. I've downloaded the following files:

hentges-opie-image-collie_T1.tar.gz
zImage-collie-32-32-20060620041742.bin
cardfs-opie-collie-openzaurus_oz3.5.4.1-rc4-opie1.2.1-T1.bin

I extracted initrd.bin from the tar.gz file, renamed zImage-collie-32-32-20060620041742.bin to zImage (as per the OpenZaurus instructions), and copied zImage, initrd.bin, and the cardfs-opie-collie-openzaurus_oz3.5.4.1-rc-opie1.2.1-T1.bin files to my compact flash card (512mb Lexar). I first made sure the Zaurus (with 3.13 Sharp ROM) can see the files on the compact flash, so i know the flash is formatted right).

Once that checked out I proceeded with the flash. The two lights on the front came on, held for a second, and went off... It did not work. So then I tried using Sharp's "UpdateRom" tool in the 3.13 ROM and i got the message "Image file not found".

Can someone clue me in on what I'm doing wrong? This is mildly frustrating. I also have a 1gb SD card mounted in the Zaurus. Does that matter?

Thanks

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5x00 General discussions / Rom Opinions

« on: December 08, 2005, 04:25:38 pm »

Sorry all, I'm sure this is a question covered ad infinitum, but I've got to ask...

I've been playing with my zaurus sl-5500 now for about a month and Ive upgraded to the Sharp 3.10 Rom (upgrading 3.13 today actually) and I'm pondering upgrading to OpenZaurus, but I'm not sure... Is there a general consensus? Can someone give me pros and cons of each? If I flash to OpenZaurus and decide to roll back to the Sharp Rom, that shouldn't be a problem since I can flash from a CF card, right?

I also will need good java support and the ability to develop for it, since I plan on using my Zaurus at work for helping debug some embedded applications. I have added a Socket CF LPE 10/100 card to my zaurus and a 1 gig SD card, so I'm not TOO concerned about storage or connectivity.

Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions?

Thanks, and sorry again for beating that dead horse.

Marc

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Personal Java/Jeode/J2ME Personal Profile / Java Development Setup On Desktop

« on: November 25, 2005, 12:54:38 pm »

Yep, using Sharp 3.10 rom. So I don't really need to install anything special on the desktop or the zaurus if i want to write java programs for the zaurus? I guess that's what was confusing me. Cool, I'll try NetBeans and see what I can do.

Thanks again, all.

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Personal Java/Jeode/J2ME Personal Profile / Java Development Setup On Desktop

« on: November 24, 2005, 08:09:46 pm »

I'm trying to get set up to write java apps for my SL-5500 and I've found plenty of tutorials on java development, but none that say what exactly I need to download and install (what version of JDK, a zaurus emulator? What's JPEE?)

Any more information out there?

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Linux Applications / How To Set Up A Cross Compiler Environment

« on: November 23, 2005, 02:27:20 pm »

The native compiler version doesn't matter. You'll be compiling with the sharp (or whomever) provided compiler, and linking against the sharp compiled libs (compiled with gcc 2.95).
My machine uses gcc 3 natively, but 2.95 for cross compiles without any problems.
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ah... interesting. I thought I read that there is some incompatibility that comes if you do that. Guess I was misunderstanding. Sorry about that.

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Linux Applications / How To Set Up A Cross Compiler Environment

« on: November 23, 2005, 01:24:57 pm »

I set it up in the following way:
I installed the sharp SDK to /opt. (unzip, untar, copy)
I then created a script which sets up my environment to point to the compiler & utils in /opt and run it before I start doing zaurus development work. (sets PATH, QTDIR and QPEDIR)

Its all very distro-agnostic, so I'd select a distro based on whatever other criteria you would normally use.
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Well yes but seeing as how i have no distro on the box right now and I know the easiest thing to do is set it up with one that has GCC 2.95, I still don't know which is the best path to take. That's really the answer I'm looking for, is suggestions on which distro/version would be simple to set up with the sharp compilers. Obviously if I have a fedora core 3 box, putting the cross compiler on it will be a pain since the GCC versions are incompatible, right? Or do I misunderstand that.

Thanks

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Linux Applications / How To Set Up A Cross Compiler Environment

« on: November 23, 2005, 11:57:22 am »

I'm looking for a way to develop and test applications for my zaurus sl-5500 on a linux box. I found the cross compilers, but they're based on older GCC versions. As luck has it, I have an older laptop that I'm trying to find a way to get Linux onto. Unfortunately for me the newer kernels do NOT like my pcmcia slots, but I know for a fact that older kernels do, so I'll probably be installing an older version of linux to get it working and I thought this would be a perfect development environment for my zaurus as well as other uses I had planned for this old laptop.

So my question is, given that the zaurus cross compilers are based off of gcc 2.95, what linux distro and version is the easiest to configure with the cross compilers and can someone give me a quick overview. Reading through the stuff on the web was a little confusing since I'm not even sure what my starting point is yet.

Thanks!

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5x00 General discussions / Ssh Tunnel From Zaurus?

« on: November 17, 2005, 03:05:46 pm »

I hope you get much better info than this, but I'll chip in.

Easiest way to do it would be to find out what ports the proxy lets through it
(Usually 80 and 443) and set sshd to listen on those ports.

You could also use Corkscrew to ssh through a proxy.
http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/

ssh -p 443 user@sshd.home.com
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Corkscrew looked interesting, but i think that's doing the opposite of what I want. That sounds like it's tunnelling ssh through http... I want to tunnel HTTP through SSH.

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5x00 General discussions / Ssh Tunnel From Zaurus?

« on: November 17, 2005, 03:01:58 pm »

I hope you get much better info than this, but I'll chip in.

Easiest way to do it would be to find out what ports the proxy lets through it
(Usually 80 and 443) and set sshd to listen on those ports.

You could also use Corkscrew to ssh through a proxy.
http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/

ssh -p 443 user@sshd.home.com
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Well that's part of it.. see from my desktop (a winxp machine) I use putty to SSH through 443 to the ssh server on my linux box at home. The linux box has squid running on port 3128, but it's not exposed to the outside world (linux box is behind a router which blocks most ports but forwards 443 to the linux box). In putty on winXP i can tell it to open a series of ports locally and tunnel them through the ssh connection to the proxy server on my linux box. So then when I use mozilla I set the proxy to Localhost:3128 and it gets routed to my linux box and dumped through squid... That's what I want to be able to do from the zaurus.

Does someone know how to configure that tunnel from my zaurus. I have openSSH and it runs well (i was amused at how pine looks on such a small screen... so cute and amusing!) so now I just wnat to be able to tunnel other apps through the ssh tunnel... like kinkatta (AIM client), Opera, etc...

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5x00 General discussions / Ssh Tunnel From Zaurus?

« on: November 17, 2005, 02:48:01 pm »

Is there a way to set up an SSH tunnel from my zaurus to a remote PC? I'm behind a firewall at work but I have a proxy server set up on my machine at home that I SSH Tunnel into from my work desktop. I'd like to be able to do the same thing with my Zaurus if possible.

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5x00 General discussions / Can Anyone Recommend Good Cf Cards

« on: November 11, 2005, 01:48:28 pm »

I use a Senao NL-2511CF Mercury CF WLAN card with my zaurus SL-5600 running openzaurus 3.5.3, and it works just fine. For a list of supported wireless cards, see the Zaurus FAQ.
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Cool, thanks. I saw on www.myzaurus.com that for wired lan cards the Socket and Pretec cards are approved compatible or whatever, and I found a brand new Socket card (Same model number and everything) on ebay for about 40 bucks, so hopefully it won't give me any trouble. Anyone have any experiece with that card?

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5x00 General discussions / New Zaurus... How To Finish Installation?

« on: November 11, 2005, 01:43:55 pm »

Yes, the gateway as well as the DNS Server on the Z should  be 192.168.0.1. You also should set the Ip settings for the XP adapter staic and set the gateway to 192.168.0.2 (your Zaurus).
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Ok, I get the dns and gateway on the Z being set to the virtual adapter on the PC, but why should the gateway on the PC virtual adapter be set to the Z? shoudln't the connection sharing bridge take care of the gateway on the virtual adapter?

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5x00 General discussions / New Zaurus... How To Finish Installation?

« on: November 11, 2005, 12:00:35 pm »

Since your "virtual adapter" is already set to the 192.168.0.X subnet, you could use internet connection sharing in xp to share you 10.0.0.X connection with your Z. I use this setup here at work to connect from my Z through to the LAN. I hope this helps.
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I tried that, but when I went into Opera on the Z all i got was "Server not found!" I guess I need to set the Gateway address to 192.168.0.1 on the Z, right? I should know this, being a communications guy by trade, but I guess because it's Friday I'm just drawing blanks today  

Thanks again