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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gps App That Actually Works...

« on: April 08, 2008, 01:39:34 am »

Qpegps works very well on sharp rom. Use the gpsd ipk from the qpegps sourceforge page.

Yes but as noted, neither I nor the other poster are using the Sharp Rom ;-)

That's why you have to use the Sharp compatabilitly libs on OZ 3.5.3

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Gps App That Actually Works...

« on: April 08, 2008, 12:25:34 am »

OpenZaurus team

EPS : dont even know the executable name to run it! if i try 'eps' on the command prompt after installation, NOTHING.

QpeGPS:  Install places icon in Apps tray, click on the program Icon, the timer icon appears for a breif 2 or 3 seconds then peters out to nothing, the app
wont even start.  

zGPS: same as QpeGPS, click on icon, timer appears for about 3 seconds, then app fails to start.  

Could the Gentleman that started this thread contact me at allelectrix2@yahoo.co.uk to discuss how we can sort these issues out.

I am a newbie to Linux systems being ported over from Windoze. So, if anyone can put my ignorance to side, I would be most greatful.  

On a better note, at least i got Kismet and Wellenreiter to work on Oz 3.5.3 .  

PS How do you start your own thread on this forum ?

                       Thanks for any help to anyone, Jim Delaney

ROTFL, I gave up on the Zaurus as a reliable GPS navigation platform years ago.  I only know of a single commercial GPS Nav program  

http://www.sygic.com/linux/index.html

IIRC, the Garmin stuff is actually Linux based, but they don't sell any linux stuff as they seem to be primarily into the hardware market.

I went to a Ipaq 3600 which will run linux, but I used it with PPC2k2 to run mapopolis, then moved to a Dell Axim X51v running Windows Mobile 5. If I could get a good GPS package and the Axim was well supported by Linux (it's not yet, about half the hardware works), I'd give it another go. At the end of the day, I need something that just works and that my spouse can easily use.

When Mapopolis got out of the market, I switched to iGuidance which works pretty well.

Still use linux to sync with Axim (check out funambol, supports network, wifi and OTA syncing cross platform between desktops and pda's)

http://www.funambol.com/

I still have 3 x SL-5500's which I occaisionally use for wifi sniffing and network mapping, if I can get the linux software

http://kismetwireless.net/spectools/

for the Meta-Geek Wi-Spy to work/cross compile on the SL-5500, now that I've got a cf to usb adaptor that's supported, I may give it a go for wifi interference mapping.  Also I may revisit using the Z's for wifi wep and wpa cracking.

As to QpeGps, you'll find there's lots of info here in the forums, as I remember it you need to install the Sharp Zaurus compatability libs and link QpeGPS to those libs for it to work, the same is true of a few others you mentioned.

Good luck

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sandisk Wifi Worked Now Not Recognized, Reboot How

« on: October 07, 2006, 01:18:09 am »

After installing all the hostap stuff, plugging in my Sandisk ConnectPlus 128, worked great, it was detected properly and the hostap driver loaded, in the process of getting all my wpa_supplicant scripts setup and after several reboots, now when the card is inserted, the pcmcia/cf applet shows "card not recogized".

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Okay, the weird thing about this is that the System Log, shows it being detected as the sandisk connect plus, but the cardmanager gui apps still says unrecognized card, what gives?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Sandisk Wifi Worked Now Not Recognized, Reboot How

« on: October 03, 2006, 07:34:57 pm »

A few Questions, got a dual boot collie running OZ 3.5.4 with altboot, running Opie and GPE.

After installing all the hostap stuff, plugging in my Sandisk ConnectPlus 128, worked great, it was detected properly and the hostap driver loaded, in the process of getting all my wpa_supplicant scripts setup and after several reboots, now when the card is inserted, the pcmcia/cf applet shows "card not recogized".

Note it works without issue under Opie, so it's not a hardware issue.

Also I've noticed the pcmcia/cf applet doesn't eject a card when you select card > eject, I have to then click card > reset before the applet shows the slot empty.

Lastly, how does one reboot, other than via command line, in Opie, there's a "control panel" applet that allows me to reboot the unit, what package do I need to install to get that functionality under GPE?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installed Gpe Rom With Altboot, Get Opie Instead

« on: October 03, 2006, 03:19:29 pm »

DOH!!! Used the wrong image file, I used the image to flash the rom, rather than the rootfs.tar.gz file, since opie rootfs.tgz was already on the memory card altboot  installed that into the loopfile.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Installed Gpe Rom With Altboot, Get Opie Instead

« on: October 03, 2006, 02:32:39 pm »

Bit of an odd one, running OZ3.5.4 on my collie using altboot from a Opie loopimage on the sdcard. This morning, I decided to setup a dual boot between opie and gpe, while logged in under opie, I downloaded

gpe-image-3.5.4-collie.rootfs.ext2    

to the /media/card/boot-images directory, renamed the file to gpe-image-3.5.4-collie.rootfs.bin

as per

http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/howto/the-altboot-faq/

Reboot, select advanced and created a new 450mb loop image and installed the gpe image onto it. However when I actually chose the gpe image from the altboot menu, it takes me into an opie installation.  Not sure what I did wrong.

Suggestions?

Also, can I just delete the gpe loop file created above and try again, or will altboot barf by not seeing the loopfile it created previously?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Is There A Wifi Sitesurvey App For Oz?

« on: September 18, 2006, 01:42:16 am »

I don't know if there is an OZ specific one, but I use Wifi-Radar which works well in OZ &  pdaXrom. You can find it here: http://wifi-radar.systemimager.org/[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=122873\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

If anyone's interested, attached is a installable ipk I created from the debian packge. Works ok AFAICT.
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Hmm, I've tried both the ipk posted in this thread and the one from the 3.5.4 feeds on both my 3.5.3 and my 3.5.4 based SL-5500's, both using opie. In both cases I end up with a similar error:


This error is from the ipk posted in this thread
:~/downloads# wifi-radar
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 1889, in ?
    import gtk, gobject
  File "/local/pkg/oe/multi/tmp/work/arm-linux/python-pygtk2-2.6.2-r2/image/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display


This is the error using wifi-radar from the 3.5.4 feeds

 wifi-radar
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 1895, in ?
    import gtk, gobject
  File "/local/pkg/oe/multi/tmp/work/arm-linux/python-pygtk2-2.6.2-r2/image/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display


Any ideas or suggestions, or will it only run under GPE?

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5x00 General discussions / Oz3.5.3 Wpa_gui, What Other Packages Needed

« on: August 11, 2006, 10:33:34 pm »

wpa-gui use qt4/x11 so it need X11 enviroment. OPIE users have to edit /etc/wpa-supplicant.conf by hand (it is easy).
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Sure, when you only have 1 or 2 access points to connect too, it's easy, when you have say a dozen or more that you use regularly and that change the keys regularly, it gets less easy. Add in random other access points that you connect to on a random/infrequent basis and easy goes out the door. Add in a mix of AP's that use different crypto algo's and authentication methods and you end up wishing for a gui based wifi network configurator.

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5x00 General discussions / Oz3.5.3 Wpa_gui, What Other Packages Needed

« on: August 11, 2006, 12:15:50 pm »

Also running export DISPLAY= results in

export xx DISPLAY: bad variable name

where xx is a number the increments each time the command is run. Doesn't matter what you have after the '='

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5x00 General discussions / Oz3.5.3 Wpa_gui, What Other Packages Needed

« on: August 11, 2006, 05:29:59 am »

It will pull in *all* dependencies it needs to run, OZ prides itself in having working depencies, unlike all other distros for the Z.
And no, it won't pull in a Xserver, since it doesn't need that to run, because you can point the $DISPLAY to your workstation running X.
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Hmmm, well on my 3.5.3 unit, I had to do a LOT of the dependencies manually :-( Even though I'd set my sources pointing to the 3.5.4 feeds as you'd (Koen) recommended to me under the "Pwm/pi Won't Work On Oz 3.5.3" thread.  Now I am at running wpa_gui from the cli and getting:
 
   wpa_gui: cannot connect to X server

echo $DISPLAY comes back blank. I assume this is what you are refering too?

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5x00 General discussions / Oz3.5.3 Wpa_gui, What Other Packages Needed

« on: July 17, 2006, 03:24:30 pm »

OKay, running 3.5.3 and want to get wpa-gui running on the unit. Using the 3.5.4 base and opie sources under recommendation from another thread, I also added the x11 source for 3.5.4, and got wpa-gui and it's dependencies all installed, but when run I get "cannot connect to X server"  what packages do I need to install now to resolve this issue??

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Software / Pwm/pi Won't Work On Oz 3.5.3

« on: July 13, 2006, 05:22:32 pm »

Well so far so good, other than bootup time taking a bit longer, pwmpi is working and kapi and kopi are both still working fine.

A few other apps I've tried also seem to be okay.

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Software / Pwm/pi Won't Work On Oz 3.5.3

« on: July 13, 2006, 05:07:10 pm »

Decided to take a chance ;-)

# ipkg -force-overwrite install pwmpi
Upgrading pwmpi on root from 2.0.6-r0 to 2.2.5-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....2.5-r0_arm.ipk
Upgrading libmicrokdelibs on root from 2.1.1-r0 to 2.2.5-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....2.5-r0_arm.ipk
Upgrading libz1 on root from 1.2.2-r5 to 1.2.3-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....2.3-r0_arm.ipk
Upgrading libgcc1 on root from 3.4.3-r10 to 3.4.4-r3...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....4.4-r3_arm.ipk
Upgrading libc6 on root from 2.3.2+cvs20040726-r15 to 2.3.5+cvs20050627-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...0627-r0_arm.ipk
Upgrading libqpe1 on root from 1.2.0-r2 to 1.2.1-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...1-r0_collie.ipk
Upgrading libstdc++6 on root from 3.4.3-r10 to 3.4.4-r3...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op....4.4-r3_arm.ipk
Configuring libc6
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 is not a symbolic link

Configuring libgcc1
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 is not a symbolic link

Configuring libmicrokdelibs
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 is not a symbolic link

Configuring libqpe1
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 is not a symbolic link

Configuring libstdc++6
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 is not a symbolic link

Configuring libz1
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.7 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 is not a symbolic link

Configuring pwmpi
Collected errors:
    Warning: remove /port.png failed: No such file or directory

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Software / Pwm/pi Won't Work On Oz 3.5.3

« on: July 13, 2006, 05:00:20 pm »

End result

# ipkg update
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.3/upgrades//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/upgrades
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.4/feed/base//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/base
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.3/feed/libs//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/libs
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.3/feed/console/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/console
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.3/feed/devel//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/devel
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.4/feed/opie//Packages
Updated list of available packages in /usr/lib/ipkg/lists/opie

# ipkg install pwmpi
Upgrading pwmpi on root from 2.0.6-r0 to 2.2.5-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.4/feed/opie//pwmpi_2.2.5-r0_arm.ipk
Upgrading libmicrokdelibs on root from 2.1.1-r0 to 2.2.5-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.op...g/official/unst
able/3.5.4/feed/opie//libmicrokdelibs_2.2.5-r0_arm.ipk
An error ocurred, return value: 1.
Collected errors:
Package libmicrokdelibs wants to install file /opt/QtPalmtop/lib/libmicrokde.so
        But that file is already provided by package kmicrokdelibs

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Software / Pwm/pi Won't Work On Oz 3.5.3

« on: July 13, 2006, 02:24:37 pm »

Say what? I've never heard that or seen that before. It seems to be pretty common practice on the forums here.

I mean the worst that should generally happen is the single package won't work.

Okay, well I'm crossing my fingers that this won't blow up my unit :-(

Okay, so only change my source for base and opie and leave the other sources at the 3.5.3 ones then?