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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Usb Connection Howto

« on: April 06, 2006, 09:20:28 pm »

Hi,  

I followed the shell scripts and can ping and ssh out of the Zaurus, but can't do a wget that ipkg needs using the Opie 3.5.4 images.  Any suggestions?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: April 06, 2006, 11:42:25 am »

I hate to ask, but would this new driver work on the 5500?

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5x00 Hardware / SL-5500 Memory Limits?

« on: April 06, 2006, 09:43:14 am »

Well, I got two SD cards: 1 1GB and 1 2GB cards.  The 1GB was a breeze to get up and running - just plug it in, reformat it for ext3 and go.  The 2GB card was recoginzed by fdisk, and I was able to write out a partion - I think.  When I tried to format it, fdisk reported the size as being zero (going through the same steps as the 1GB).  I also tried to partion into 2 1GB partions - no go.  I'll continue with my experiments later on.  Both cards are from AData and are 50x.  The cool thing they even mention them being Linux compatible...

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5x00 Hardware / SL-5500 Memory Limits?

« on: March 31, 2006, 12:54:52 pm »

Has anyone tried a 2GB SD card?  I'm thinking about using my Z 5500 as a MP3 Player from time to time and/or a GPS receiver.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Gps For $35 + S&h

« on: March 28, 2006, 10:32:24 pm »

I just got a notice that they're back in stock...

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=FGPCFCD01

And it looks like the USB version as well...  I hope it works ok w/ the 5500...

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ipkg Update Problems

« on: March 27, 2006, 07:51:15 am »

Ok, it is something I'm doing wrong between the PC and the Zaurus - I connected up my 802.11 CF card and disabled WEP (I'll figure out why later) and was able to do a ipkg update over the wireless LAN.  

Any suggestions? Here is the mode I was trying to make work:

Z <-> PC/NAT <-> Router <-> Internet

vs.

Z <-> Router <-> Internet

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ipkg Update Problems

« on: March 26, 2006, 07:36:05 pm »

AFAIK I'm not behind any proxy's - I've got a firewall that does NAT and the PC that has the Z connected is also NAT'd.  Stupid question - do I need to configure anything more on the Z?

I have for my NAT rules on my PC:

iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j SNAT -o eth0 --to-source $LOCAL_IP
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

I can wget the files from my PC that is also connected to the Z, but just not from the Zaurus.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ipkg Update Problems

« on: March 24, 2006, 09:04:01 am »

My connection to the 'net is 1.2 Kbps/329 Kbps (ADSL), I'm using a serialio USB adapter from the Zaurus to Linux PC (which then goes to my DLINK 614 router) at 100 MBPS.

One thing I noticed is when I do start the ipkg update, ifconfig shows no new network traffic - so I'm thinking it is not retrying to connect to the site.  If I ping from the Zaurus console, it does update the bytes sent/received count.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Ipkg Update Problems

« on: March 23, 2006, 08:33:26 pm »

Hi,

I'm new to the Opie ROMS on my Zaurus 5500 (tried both 3.5.3 & 3.5.4).  I got the system to boot and when I did and told the package manager to update the list of packages, it hung (package manger stop responding).  I've been able to ping from the console to various sites on the internet (with DNS lookup working), so I know the system can hit the 'net, but when ikpg update runs it just sits there - I've literaly waited hours before giving up on the download.  I'm running the 54+8 images, if that makes a difference.

Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong? I've looked at the various docs and what they seem to say is all I need to do (w/ the new ipkg.conf in 3.5.4) is to do a ipkg update to get the new candidate list.

Thanks.