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Security and Networking / Kismet / Wellenrieter Setup

« on: December 24, 2004, 02:24:49 am »

I'm a newbie to these tools so bear with me.

I am running a 5600 with the special kernel and i have both socket and ambicom wifi cards.  I am trying to get something up that will allow me to see what wireless networks are available.  From what I understand, Kismet or Wellenreiter should do the trick.

That being said, I have not had any luck getting Kismet to run, and it appears Wellenreiter is built for opie.

I get the following message when I try to startup kismet_server:

FATAL: Source 0 (Socket): Pcap support was not compiled in.

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6000 - Tosa / Prices?

« on: December 13, 2004, 11:01:44 pm »

What's the deal with the availabality of the 6000?  Amazon and PC Connection both have no stock.  EBay has a ton of listings.

Any word on what is going on?  Is Sharp giving up on it after so short a period of time?  

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5x00 General discussions / 5600 Lock-up on reboot

« on: September 14, 2004, 12:19:58 am »

I just went ahead and formatted the internal flash, and that fixed it - at the loss of my data.

I don't know if this problem was related to the patched 5600 ROM at all.

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5x00 General discussions / 5600 Lock-up on reboot

« on: September 13, 2004, 10:52:57 pm »

My 5600 is locking up on reboot.  It just sits at the "INIT: version 2.78 booting" prompt.

I am running the Sharp 1.32 kernel with the cache patch.  A few days ago a had a note on the machine saying my internal flash had become fragmented, and did I want to repair it.  Foolishly, I clicked yes.

I have tried re-flashing the ROM back, and even the vanilla Sharp 1.32 ROM, but no dice.  I'd hate to have to format the internal flash, as I will lose some stuff.

Any advice?

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Personal Java/Jeode/J2ME Personal Profile / Compiling with jdk 1.1.8 javac

« on: July 11, 2004, 11:13:21 pm »

Has anyone had any luck compiling on their Z using the jdk 1.1.8 javac?  I have it all set up using the jeode evm and the sun classes.zip.  For command line programs it compiles great.  When I try to compile an AWT program however, it throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when attempting to load java.awt.GridBagLayout.

Out of curiousity, I compiled it using the wintel jdk 1.1.8 and it compiled fine.  I tried both the windows and and solaris classes.zip, and both give the same behavior.  I also tried including the classes.zip before the jeode jars in the classpath , and the only difference is that I get a ClassCastException instead.

I've switched to jikes in the meantime, but I was wondering if anyone actually got this to work on an awt program.

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5x00 Hardware / Memory Status: available work area is becoming very low

« on: March 15, 2004, 11:07:50 pm »

Disable the \"fast-load\" feature of the built-in apps if you haven\'t already. That\'ll help some.

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5x00 Hardware / CE-BC21 Charger compatible with EA-BL08 battery?

« on: March 14, 2004, 12:57:17 pm »

I assume its compatible, but I just wanted to be sure before I give it a shot.

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Linux Applications / Where to get started on buillding a custom kernel?

« on: February 23, 2004, 01:13:24 am »

Where can I get the info and downloads to get started on building my own custom kernel for my Z ?  With the devnet site down, I don\'t know where to go.  This would include kernel source, as well as the cross-compiling utils.  Basically the whole 9 yards.

I have an sl-5600, and I would like to get started with the official Sharp ROM source.

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5x00 Hardware / Socket and WEP ?

« on: February 15, 2004, 11:59:17 pm »

Thanks for the advice, but I\'m still not having any luck.

I upgraded the firmware on my access point as you suggested, and tried various settings (64 bit instead of 128 bit; Open vs. shared key. etc.) and still no luck.  I am using a D-Link access point (DWL-2000AP).

The website for the driver says it does not support WEP with the standard Sharp ROM, althoug this could be an old comment.  Any other suggestions?

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5x00 Hardware / Socket and WEP ?

« on: February 14, 2004, 12:41:28 pm »

Has anyone had any luck getting the Socket WL6000 working with WEP ?

I am running a 5600 with the standard pre-emptive kernel v1.2.  It works fine with no WEP, but can\'t connect with WEP enabled.

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5x00 Hardware / HELP! - Socket wifi card locks up my 5600

« on: February 07, 2004, 12:52:56 am »

Total newbie here, just got my 5600 yesterday. I\'ve been reading all the posts on WiFi cards, and bought the Socket Low Power CF card. Now, I\'ve updated the ROM to 1.32 and I can\'t get the 5600 to recognize the card at all. I\'ve tried the driver that\'s linked on the Socket website, and I\'ve tried the Z. Anynergy ROM. Any ideas what I\'m missing?

Sorry to post such an overly discussed question, but I\'ve the threads and ideas I\'ve tried running haven\'t worked. I\'m afraid it might be a bad card, but I don\'t know how to check that. 

The install probably installed the drivers into a new 2.4.6 kernel directory eventhough you are running 2.4.18.  Try moving the 4 files (hermes.o, orinoco.o, orinoco_cs.o, spectrum_cs.o) under /lib/modules/2.4.6./kernel/drivers/net/wireless to the same folder structure under /lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix.  If this does not make sense, poke around using file manager and it should make sense.

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5x00 General discussions / Looking for a 5600 kernel....

« on: February 07, 2004, 12:45:24 am »

The Spectrum driver at KSI installed another module directory for what I believe was the 2.4.6 kernel.  There were files with the names: herme, 
orinoco (2), and spectrum_cs.  I did notice that the spectrum driver has been merged with the orinoco driver.  Again, I need to get a system set up to build it and the card hasn\'t arrived yet.

Did you try moving those files into the corresponding folder for the kernel you are currently using (should be 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix).  It worked fine for me.  I didn\'t do any recompiling of the source.

Just out of curiosity, why do you say you have to migrate your RH9 system to Fedora before compiling.  I ask because I am running RH9, and I\'d like to compile my own kernel for my Z.

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5x00 Hardware / HELP! - Socket wifi card locks up my 5600

« on: February 05, 2004, 11:36:46 pm »

abcdef,

Just a clarification - Symbol/Socket supports WEP, however the zaurus driver does not.  If WEP is important to you, then I would consider the Ambicom.  I hear that is a very good card.

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5x00 Hardware / HELP! - Socket wifi card locks up my 5600

« on: January 29, 2004, 10:52:31 pm »

Here is some data on some of the wifi cards I researched when I bought mine recently.  All of the data is per the respective manufacturers website.

Card                                 Idle Power      Transmit Power    Receive Power
Netgear MA701                80                350                        250
Socket WL6000-320         20                280                       170
SMC SMC2642W             100              320                        250
Ambicom WL1100C-CF   100              370                        250

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5x00 Hardware / HELP! - Socket wifi card locks up my 5600

« on: January 29, 2004, 07:30:17 pm »

I guess I should have said that I had to install the Symbol/Socket driver for it to work.  But now it works like a champ.