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Nokia Tablet / Nokia N810

« on: November 14, 2007, 03:27:31 am »

Indeed,

I have had a 770 for ~4 months now (got it from expansys for £70!!) This works great, and I have been picking up the 770 more than the 3100 for most of that time.

A doubling of Clock speed and RAM, 2GB of onboard Flash AND a gps, along with the existing integral BT & Wifi will probably knock the Zaurus permanently to the sidelines I'm afraid, so a 3100 plus all the addons may be up for grabs in a month or so...

Cheers,

Alistair

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wireless Cf With Best Support

« on: October 29, 2007, 12:55:16 pm »

The Ambicom WL1100C works for just about everything AFAIK, and it hasn't broke on me yet (the plastic I mean, not that other stuff has). The drivers load fine for it.

I believe it was ~65 USD

I think I got mine from ebay for less than 30. I agree, good card- Id had both linksys and d-link previously (the d-link got slightly better range,  but it was massive)

I also agree on the Ambicom WL1100-CF. I have had them working fine on Cacko, pdaXrom and Debian Titchy, with WEP and WPA.

Currently a few Taiwanese sellers have got them on Ebay for £20/E28 + p&p. I got a second one from one of these guys a couple of months ago, and it even came with up-to-date firmware!!!

HTH,

Alistair

Also the Ambicom is physically the smallest CF Wifi card I have found so far.

Alistair

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wireless Cf With Best Support

« on: October 29, 2007, 12:54:26 pm »

The Ambicom WL1100C works for just about everything AFAIK, and it hasn't broke on me yet (the plastic I mean, not that other stuff has). The drivers load fine for it.

I believe it was ~65 USD

I think I got mine from ebay for less than 30. I agree, good card- Id had both linksys and d-link previously (the d-link got slightly better range,  but it was massive)

I also agree on the Ambicom WL1100-CF. I have had them working fine on Cacko, pdaXrom and Debian Titchy, with WEP and WPA.

Currently a few Taiwanese sellers have got them on Ebay for £20/E28 + p&p. I got a second one from one of these guys a couple of months ago, and it even came with up-to-date firmware!!!

HTH,

Alistair

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UK / Uk Zaurus Owners Meeting

« on: October 02, 2007, 08:41:27 am »

What do people think of the idea of a UK zaurus owner's club get-together?

We could have a swap-fest (bring disks of downloads, documents etc), people could demo their machines in action, etc. Wifi would be a necessity of course.

And we could have a few beers.

Location would have to be central UK-ish and with cheap-ish local accomodation.

Any thoughts?

Oxford would be good for me obviously, but being teetotal and a biker, pretty much anywhere in the Midlands/South East is OK. Preferably not London though...

Alistair

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Off Topic forum / Motorcycles Anyone?

« on: September 28, 2007, 05:52:56 am »

Anyone else here ride?

Just about to upgrade my CBR600 to a Blackbird a senior colleague is 'getting too old for'. He's after a BeeEmm 1200 for what he calls a more comfortable ride.

Should shave at least 5 seconds of my 15 mile commute to Oxford...

Cheers,

Alistair

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Debian / Debian On C3xxx (merged Topics)

« on: September 20, 2007, 11:31:08 am »

3. Given the mirror installation choice, picked http, does anyone have a 'good' UK choice?

Try http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/

Plenty of bandwidth here!!

Cheers,

Alistair

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For Sale / Wanted / [ordered]:wireless Card For C1000

« on: August 12, 2007, 05:20:35 pm »

Hi,

I have just bought a 2nd hand c1000 and I would like a wireless card to go with it.

I am really only interested in buying from within Europe.

Thank you for reading my post,

Douglas
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I know it's from Taiwan, but I bought an Ambicom Wl1100-CF from these guys a few weeks ago who were excellent and a good price. Arrived in 7 days and works a treat. Even comes with WPA capeable firmware.

[a href=\"http://stores.ebay.co.uk/microlight-KVM-USB-MP3-GPS-SD-WIFI]http://stores.ebay.co.uk/microlight-KVM-USB-MP3-GPS-SD-WIFI[/url]

Cheers,

Alistair

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Woes

« on: August 07, 2007, 12:09:03 pm »

After using Windows to reflash the AmbiCom card with 1.8.2, my WPA-PSK now works just fine. If I didn't have a laptop with a PCMCIA slot, I don't know what I would've done. Sure, the wifi card works now, but "hostap_diag wifi0" still gives me the same error. dmesg can see the card just fine. If anybody has a clue as to why, I'd still like to hear it.

Glad you've got the WPA working now. It took me a couple of weeks of playing around...

Have you tried using

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hostap_diag wlan0as that works on mine, although I am running padXrom?

One note I didn't see anywhere else: if you want WPA, you must use 1.8.2 station firmware on the AmbiCom card. Neither 1.7.4 nor 1.8.0 support WPA.

Interesting, I have the same card and mine is running 1.8.0, and WPA works prefectly.

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root-:) hostap_diag wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'
NICID: id=0x801b v1.0.0 (PRISM III PCMCIA (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.0 (station firmware)Where did you find that info on v1.7.4 & 1.8.2?

Cheers,

Alistair

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Security and Networking / Ambicom Woes

« on: August 04, 2007, 12:44:45 pm »

Replying to my own post...

I found this site, http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/, which is all full of good info. I'll read it all and try what is suggested there and get back here.

Asterix
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HI, have you installed 'hostapdriver'. Not sure if it is in Cacko, but it was not in pdaXrom and this solved the problem when I was getting the same error.

Also, if you do flash the card, only flash the station firmware, and I would recommend only 1.8.0 as later than this is apparently buggy.

Cheers,

Alistair

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wpa Help Needed

« on: August 02, 2007, 04:10:15 pm »

yes YES YES!

That was the problem, thank you!

Walt
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Groovy!! Took me a week to figure that one out...

Cheers,

Alistair

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wpa Help Needed

« on: August 02, 2007, 03:54:56 pm »

Actually, I get the same error message with hostap_diag as I did with prism2_srec.

In other ROMs (Opie for sure, maybe others) you have to tell Linux what drivers to use:

card "AmbiCom", "WL1100C 802.11b CF-Card"
manfid 0xd601, 0x0002
bind "hostap_cs"

I find nowhere to do this in pdaXii13, and it looks like the hostap utils don't know what to do with the card.

Any ideas?

Walt
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Hi Walt,

Probably an obvious one, but have you installed 'hostap-driver' (v0.4.7 IIRC), from the beta3 feed? That's what originally solved my 'operation not supported' error I got.

Cheers,

Alistair

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wpa Help Needed

« on: August 02, 2007, 03:37:43 pm »

2. Ambicom card upgraded to 1.8.0 secondary firmware. Primary was already 1.1.1)

How?

I have the same card, and when I give the command (Which worked in Angstrom):

prism2_srec -r wlan0 /etc/pcmcia/firmware/rf010804.hex

I get the message:
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD] operation not supported
Missing wlan component info
Could not read wlan RIDs


(This has been my primary stumbling block in getting this ROM working.)

Walt
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What firmware rev does your card have on it?

install hostap_diag on your Z, insert the card and run

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hostap_diag wlan0I get

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NICID: id=0x801b v1.0.0 (PRISM III PCMCIA (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.0 (station firmware)
Allegedly station f/w >=1.74 will work, but googling suggests going with 1.8.0, which it what my card came with, as >1.8.0 apparently have a few issues too.

If you do need to reflash the f/w, then you will either need to need to compile hostap from source on the Z with a few flags set. See [a href=\"http://http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/]http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/[/url] for details of the flags needed. I have not tried this though.

Or you can use a Windows updater, download link on the same page above, assuming you have access to a laptop, PCMCIA adaptor and the Ambicom drivers installed from http://www.ambicom.com/support/drivers/wl/...0xpcpciv350.exe

I killed my old Ambicom card using the Windows version, but that was trying to update both primary & station f/w at the same time, and the new replacement came with 1.8.0 already, so no need for me to try the Linux route, although I did successfully flash a Netgear MA701 to 1.8.0 earlier this week using the Windows updater.

My recommendation using either method would be to only update the station firmware, and leave the primary alone.

Hope this helps,

Alistair

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Wpa Help Needed

« on: August 02, 2007, 12:01:34 pm »

Good luck (and it would be nice if you could outline what you did to get it working if you do, in fact, get it working -- I know I and others would benefit).
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Hi All,

FInally after a few weeks of p**sing around, I've finally got WPA working on my C3100 +Ambicom WL1100C-CF setup running pdaXii13.

Steps finally sorted to get it running :

1. Install hostap_diag (0.4.7) (useful for checking firmware rev on card)

2. Ambicom card upgraded to 1.8.0 secondary firmware. Primary was already 1.1.1)

3. Install wpa_supplicant (0.4.7)

4. Install hostap_driver (0.4.7)

5. Edit your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file as required

Taken from a previous post :

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cp /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.bak
# just to backup your old file.
sudo wpa_passphrase your_ssid your_password > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# this generates a new file with the minimum-settings. In addtion your password is not written in clear-text which increases security.
more /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# should result in
network={
              ssid="your_ssid"
              psk="your decrypted password in hex-code"
}
This worked for me, and also I added details for our 'eduroam' service which uses radius authentication, so is a little more complex, but still works fine.

6. Start up the Lan and Wifi config and create a new profile for your SSID

7. Edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and add

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WPA="y" into the relevant section for your ssid.

8. Test it with following commands :

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cardctl scheme "your_ssid"
cardctl eject
cardctl insert
ifconfig wlan0 up
wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D hostap -i wlan0 -B
dhcpcd wlan0
If all is OK, you should connect and now have an IP address and access over the WPA wireless link.

Then you just need to write a script to connect automatically, see JohnX script at

[a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=22285]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=22285[/url]

for a starting point, although he uses udhcpd instead.

Don't think I've missed anything out, but hope this helps,

Cheers,

Alistair

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Install Errors, Pdaxii13

« on: July 27, 2007, 12:25:43 pm »

Any ideas?  A known good package?

Hi,

1.5.0 appears to be broken in the tyranozaurus feeds.

Try 1.3.1 from http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/cacko/pdaXrom/1.1.0/beta3/feed

The feed should be available in your /etc/ipkg.conf file

Just remember to comment out the tyranozaurus feeds first, and run

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ipkg updatefirst

Works OK for me.

HTH,

Alistair

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Interesting Problem With Ambicom Wl1100c

« on: July 26, 2007, 07:01:10 am »

I have a similar issue with my Ambicom card (I have had this problem since day one).

My primary & secondary firmware are also 1.1.1 & 1.8.0

...I wonder if we all bought our cards from Taiwan/Ebay ?!

...anyway, now that I've found my CF to PCMCIA adapter, I was considering trying to upgrade the firmware at some point....what's putting me off is overcoming the ambiguities in the firmware-flashing instructions on the websites posted elsewhere on oesf.....it's not that they're particularly bad, it's more that I don't seem to read the instructions at the right time of day (too knackered/kids asking questions/baby crying etc  )
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Juts be careful, and make sure you do it from a linux box. I tried to flash mine from Windows this week, and it did not update the secondary, so it's now a very small doorstop!!

[a href=\"http://www.geek-fr.com/#update_the_prism2_firmware_of_a_wifi_card]http://www.geek-fr.com/#update_the_prism2_..._of_a_wifi_card[/url]

Cheers,

Alistair