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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Beta 1 Installer Broke

« on: January 02, 2009, 01:27:19 pm »

FYI,

i just messed around installing various roms on my C860
then i wanted to go back to "stable"
and i think the katherin beta1 feed has a syntax error in the installer file
install was saying something about a unexpected } in the file.
luckily i had an old version on a backup disk.

 

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Python Urllib,urllib2?

« on: December 28, 2006, 12:59:34 pm »

i'm running an older version of pdaxrom on an 860, (1.1.0beta1)
does anyone know which python package includes urllib and urllib2?
i've tried netclient and html but not found in either

doh! nevermind  
torture me with a comfy chair  
i had installed a bunch of python packages and somehow never installed python

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dumb Terminal Via Ttys0?

« on: April 27, 2006, 08:53:47 am »

@iczer3:
THANKS!!!
is the Sharp_1 schematic the original CE-170TS Sharp cable, or the docking station
for the SL-5xxx?
and is the Sharp_2 scematic your replacement?

so the only reliable way to connect via serial is to have power to the cable?
i notice the max3241 also has vcc connected.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Dumb Terminal Via Ttys0?

« on: April 26, 2006, 10:30:52 am »

is there any way to get a dumb terminal set-up on serial port ttyS0??
i have been reading all the serial posts about gps devices and such but
i still don't have a clue what may be wrong......
i have tried all the run levels thinking it may be pppd .....but running "setserial" reports no UART associated with /dev/ttyS0 at each runlevel

i noticed that there is a usb control app in pdaxrom, but in the current rom i'm using, (1.1.0beta1), it seems to kill the keyboard input, (is the app writen for external keyboard use?)
 i CAN bring up the pickboard
and type setserial in an aterm window, and setserial then reports a UART:16550A, Port: 0x0000, IRQ:14, but then it doesn't exit to a prompt and control-c does not kill the program....
i think i am just a little ignorant on how it is supposed to work, can anyone teach me?

i need to run minicom or something like it to talk to a piece of hardware like a router via a 9600baud,8,N,1 serial connection....

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gpe Pim Apps

« on: April 23, 2006, 01:12:21 pm »

THANKS for all your hard work Xromer!!!
just installed gpe-contacts, seems to work fine, now i wonder
if anyone has some pointers on how to convert my old qtopia .xml file to the
db for gpe-contacts?

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Cxx0 Hardware / Serial Connector Pin-out

« on: April 20, 2006, 09:32:40 am »

Matt,
i have an 860 also, and i'm running cacko 1.23, your post has been helpfull as i was building my own cable.
i'm not able to connect to an external modem using minicom,
and "setserial /dev/ttyS0" is reporting "UART: undefined, Port:0x0000, IRQ :14"
i have also tried the cable on my old SL5500 and can get no connection either   any help would be appreciated

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Socket CF monitor mode

« on: November 13, 2004, 08:34:42 am »

was there a previous version of pdaxrom, ( i currently use rc5), that worked with kismet and the socket cf card?  
could i take the working drivers from a cacko rom and copy them into the pdaxrom? or is there a kernel difference?
( like just copy symbol.o,orinoco.o,hermes.o files)
i see in the builders resource the kernel patches but where could i find the kernel source? or is it a plain vanilla 2.4.18 kernel with the patches applied?
if i had to go that far i'd have a ton more questions

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Problems crosscompiling ... sample apps ...

« on: November 13, 2004, 08:20:06 am »

BVer,
thanks for the input, you confirm some of my suspicions...i wish i understood much more than i do...if i can get the crosscompiler to work - or i could understand what is going wrong when it doesn't, i could contribute something to the pdaxrom users....

>if you have working uname but the configure fails

i wonder if there needs to be a uname in the crosscompiler's ../bin?
but then i wonder why if the host and target variables are set, why configure should care?

anyway hoping someone might  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Problems crosscompiling ... sample apps ...

« on: November 11, 2004, 08:52:35 pm »

well i obviously don't know anything about programing....  
i was thinking the crosscompile tools set would pass all the needed enviroment variables to the configure program, then i wouldn't need the big long options string......
so i changed the shell script , ( ./runzgcc-vfp.sh) fixed the 3.3.2-vfp and tried it, still no...
i changed the 3.3.2  to 3.3.2-vfp in the options passed to configure, didn't work.. seems the only way to compile this is as offroadgeek did....so is that because this particular programs' configure script won't play nice or because there is some thing not set right in the crosscompile tool set?.........school me please
another problem i have is one program i've been trying to compile is configure fails because
it can't run uname -r??
the crosscompile tool set is setting the variables correctly, i think, here is what i get:
<snip>
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... armv5tel-cacko-linux-gnu
checking target system type... armv5tel-cacko-linux-gnu
<snip>
then it fails with:
checking Linux
configure: error: cannot determine linux version when cross-compiling
but if i type this:
sh-2.05b$ uname -r
i get:
2.6.5-7.108-default
which is the uname for my desktop

anyway the program i was trying to compile was libpcap and i found one pre-compiled.....it finally dawned on me that since it doesn't need x that the ones for cacko would work.
if i'm wrong, please tell me.

thanks

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Problems crosscompiling ... sample apps ...

« on: November 10, 2004, 10:24:47 pm »

BVer,
i had same problem trying to crosscompile this and although i see how to get it compiled,
i'm wondering what the fix should be to make crosscompile work correctly.......if the ld program isn't recognizing the env variables does that mean the ld needs to be replaced/recompiled? i'm using the rc5 crosscompile package........

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Cxx0 General discussions / Cacko feed?

« on: November 09, 2004, 10:35:49 pm »

stupidkid....
i'm having some trouble with the ettercap package, i get an error about not
supporting utf-8......is there a way to set the zaurus to use iso-8859-1 encode?
this may also fix the way mc looks.....i'm using the cacko 1.21b rom on my c860

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General Discussion / Overseas Travel

« on: November 04, 2004, 07:55:50 am »

thanks guys, i'm looking forward to watching movies and listening to mp3s on the flight, which will drive my wife crazy, (jealous).
i know it used to be no problem, but i haven't flown since before 9/11...
and it will be the first trip out of the country.
thanks again

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General Discussion / Overseas Travel

« on: November 03, 2004, 01:00:36 pm »

with the increased security now days, has anyone any advise on travelling with a
c860? i will be flying from US to europe in december and want to keep the zaurus on my person during the flight.

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Sharp ROMs / what feed to use with sl5500_cacko?

« on: July 31, 2004, 09:54:35 am »

lardman-
i recently moved back to sharp (tkc actually) rom ....i was using OZ 3.3.5....i had purchased a tkc application and couldn't get it to install .....i thought it was because OZ used opie instead of Qtopia? the actual error message was something about there being no architectur defined...........

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / OZ 3.3.5 can't exit opie

« on: July 29, 2004, 10:32:53 pm »

hey,
i can't seem to drop to the console in 3.3.5 on my 5500
if i use the shutdown app and select stop opie i get a kinda xdm login screen, then if i select "quit"
i get "login:" in a black bar on the left side of the sceen, at this point any typing does not echo on the
screen
is it broke or am i just doing something wrong? it used to work in 3.3.2..........
my /home, /root, and /opt directories are on SD...........