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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Re: Sharp Zaurus linux in 2025

« on: September 08, 2025, 04:58:39 pm »

Sadly, I dont do embedded linux development any longer. It's been MANY years since I've owned a Zaurus or done any Linux development. If I had time I would certainly get back to it, but unfortunately I don't. I also do not have access to the pdaXrom site. That is still owned by sashz and I've not spoken to him in years.

Sorry :-(

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General Discussion / Re: Hrw recalls his 20 years of work on the Arm architecture

« on: September 04, 2025, 03:33:22 pm »

Awesome to see this 🙌🏾

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Re: Sharp Zaurus linux in 2025

« on: September 03, 2025, 07:47:18 am »

Its amazing that there is still interest in pdaXrom this many years later...

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OESF Announcements / DNS renewal 2017

« on: November 05, 2017, 01:52:03 pm »

Thanks for renewing it! (intentionally or not... lol)

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OESF Announcements / Latest News

« on: January 08, 2017, 01:01:42 pm »

*Thumbs Up

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Pdaxrom Development

« on: November 11, 2016, 10:19:31 pm »

good to hear. I'd have to buy another on before I'd start dev... but I'd need more than 2 users :-D

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Pdaxrom Development

« on: November 11, 2016, 02:15:19 pm »

I'm considering spinning up this distro again as a side project. How many folks are still active in the Zaurus community?

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General Discussion / Dirty Cow - A New Nasty Linux Vulnerability Discovered

« on: November 11, 2016, 02:03:41 pm »

Oh well then...    

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No Dirty Cow in the ArchLinux ARM kernel for 3x00, version 4.9-rc3  !

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General Discussion / Dirty Cow - A New Nasty Linux Vulnerability Discovered

« on: November 10, 2016, 07:39:56 pm »

I wouldn't expect a fix any time soon... :-p

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A new Linux vulnerability has been just discovered, called CVE-2016-5195 or "Dirty Cow", and it has been lurking in the code for at least 9 years, so probably most or all the kernels released for the Zaurus are affected:

https://www.linux.com/blog/how-bad-dirty-cow

Varti

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Alive?

« on: April 06, 2015, 12:33:59 pm »

I check back every so often. Like ArchiMark said, OpenBSD is the most active.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Symbol Spectrum24 Modules For R197 & R198?

« on: July 28, 2014, 08:00:35 pm »

Yes, this was exactly what i just did today.
It seems the firmware is not freely distributable (thanks to louigi600 for making me aware of this), so i can't attach them here.

For those who are need the firmware of symbol cards or cards using prism chipset:
#0.  You don't need to use the source file of the driver.
#1.  Extract the attached tool set. There should be a few *nix executable files.
#2.  In the terminal, run the command named "get_xyz_fw", according to the hardware of your card.
(In my case, i use get_symbol_fw because my card is Symbol Spectrum24). The firmware will be downloaded to the same directory where you run the command.
#3.  Create the directory in you Z: mkdir -p /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
#4.  Copy ALL the firmware files to this directory.  
#5.  Insert the card. The card will work if it is the correct firmware.

 [ Invalid Attachment ]
Source: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ckage_id=162521

I know it's been many years since the posts in this thread, but hoping that someone will see this and be able to advise.....

Just got a 3100 after several years without a Zaurus....came with the Symbol Spectrum24 card....have tried a variety of things to get card recognized and working, but so far, no go...

Have just done the instructions above, but still get message in Wireless Monitor that no wireless cards detected. However, in the card applet I use, it recognizes that the Spectrum card has been inserted into 3100.....

In lsmod, I see:

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Module              Size     Used by     Tainted: P
spectrum_cs      7000      0    (unused)
firmware_class  3816       0    (spectrum_cs)
orinoco            40492      0    (spectrum_cs)
hermes             4960       0    (spectrum_cs)
plus a bunch of others, don't think related to wifi cards.....

In dmesg, I see:

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pxa_pcmcia_init(0)
orinoco 0.15rc2HEAD (David Gibson , Pavel Roskin , et al)
spectrum_cs 0.15rc2HEAD (Pavel Roskin , David Gibson , et al)
spectrum_cs: Cannot find firmware: symbol_sp24t_prim_fw
spectrum_cs: Firmware download failed
hermes @ IO 0xf6000000: Timeout waiting for card to reset (reg=0x0000)!
wlan0: failed to initialize firmware (err = -110)
spectrum_cs: register_netdev() failed
If I do iwconfig, I get:

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lo   no wireless extensions

irda0  no wireless extensions
If I do ifconfig wlan0, I get:

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wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Any suggestions??

Thank you for any help!

Mark

What OS are you running?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Zaurus Kexecboot-enabled Kernels

« on: May 27, 2013, 08:38:10 pm »

Thats cool that the zaurii are still useful to you guys. Keep embedded Linux alive!

 

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Zaurus Kexecboot-enabled Kernels

« on: April 12, 2013, 03:05:40 pm »

I've moved on to become an Apple Fanboy. I do iOS development now and I'm about 6 months away from putting an app in the AppStore.

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Sharp ROMs / 2013 Rom Downloads And Feeds That Are Working - Sl5500

« on: April 12, 2013, 09:54:54 am »

wow, my repo on ibiblio.org is still around.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Zaurus Kexecboot-enabled Kernels

« on: April 12, 2013, 09:41:19 am »

wow, you guys are still around!

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