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Sharp ROMs / Mplayer For Sl-5500

« on: January 01, 2007, 09:59:51 am »

Hello All,

I have an old SL-5500 I am attempting to make into an iPod (that is, and iPod that plays Oggs). I have been very pleased with Zplayer (with mplayer underneath) on my SL-6000. However the mplayer binary I run on my SL-6000 doesn't play (illegal instruction, or some sort).

I have downloaded several 'pre' version of mplayer 0.90 (ie. mplayer_0.90pre10_arm.ipk), but they only play when root, not as an unprivilaged user. I have tried running Zplayer as root (doesn't work), changing mplayer to SUID root, doesn't work.

Does anyone have a mplayer ipk which does work on an SL-5500 as non-root?

TIA,

Craig...

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Software / Ir Keyboards - Belkin Support?

« on: July 05, 2006, 12:07:17 pm »

Hello all,

Sorry if this has been brought up before.

My Pocketop keyboard is dying (too many open and closes has caused the right side keys to be intermittent). I use my SL-6000 and the keyboard everyday (I take a lot of notes at work). So I am looking for a replacement which will be compatible with the IRK driver. I know the Targus is, however it is a bit large.

Has anyone had any experience with the Belkin F8U1500 IR Universal Wireless Keyboard?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008W81...glance&n=172282

It looks like the IR port is in a good place (for typing on the SL-6000 while rotated to the left), and the price is right.

Any one have any experiences with this keyboard and IRK?

TIA,

Craig...

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X/Qt / Wi-spy And X/qt

« on: June 17, 2006, 02:54:02 pm »

Hi there!

Anyone see this cool little thumb-drive sized spectrum analyzer?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/80ce/

They even say that the friendly folks at Kismet have created X/Linux based software:
http://www.kismetwireless.net/wispy.shtml

Since it looks like gtk libraries are used, will this work on X/Qt? Is it possible, Meanie? It would make a really cool Wireless analyzing machine.

TIA

Craig...

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6000 - Tosa / Samba On The Sl-6000

« on: November 05, 2005, 10:33:21 pm »

Hello All,

I am hoping someone has conquered this problem. I am trying to get Samba running on the SL-6000, and the smbd daemon just dies.

I am using the same smb.conf file that works well on my SL-5500, and everything seems to be the same as the SL-5500 (same config file, daemons are the same length in bytes, same version of kernel). I have run the daemon with -d 10 (to see debug) and there is no explaination as to why the daemon dies.

Both machines are running Sharp ROMs (the latest for each).

Anyone have this working on a SL-6000?

TIA,

Craig...

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General Discussion / Too Much Uptime

« on: October 03, 2005, 09:30:55 pm »

Hey All,

I have two Zaurus's, a SL-6000 which I use as my PDA everywhere, and my old SL-5500, which spends most of its life on a shelf, turned on, and on my wireless network (a great thing to ping when I need to test the wireless network).

So the SL-5500 has lots of uptime, since it is on 24x7. I have been monitoring the uptime, and it has been incrementing nicely. I thought it was doing pretty well after it passed 400 days of uptime.

Imagine my surprise when I checked the uptime today to see that it is only 7 days of uptime! Checking the last log, it is clear that the SL-5500 hasn't rebooted since 9 April 2004, so something was off.

Not the end of the world. I guess Sharp (or Embedix) wasn't planning on the Zaurus being "up" for so long. The little Linux box that could.

Craig...

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Security and Networking / 860 VPN Client ipk?

« on: July 13, 2004, 07:11:39 pm »

Hi all,

I have read in a couple Zaurus reviews that there is an IPsec VPN client built into the network control panel of the C-860.

I have an SL-6000, which has no such client, but I am interested in getting one. Specifically I am interested in logging into a NortelNetworks Contivity IPSec gateway.

Is there an IPK for the C-860 VPN client?

TIA,

Craig...

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6000 - Tosa / Run Java Applets in Opera

« on: May 27, 2004, 12:54:18 pm »

Hello All,

Anyone know how to get Opera (7.25) to work with Java Applets? What I mean is, if you click on a web page which has a java applet embedded (such as http://www.opera.com/applets/clock/) I would like Opera to fire up Java and display the applet in Opera (or in a separate window).

TIA,

Craig...

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6000 - Tosa / SDG VNCserver 0.95 working?

« on: April 05, 2004, 09:50:13 pm »

Hi All,

Has anyone gotten the new SDG VNC server working with the 6000? I have it running, I can see the screen on my VNC Client (TightVNC on linux) but it won\'t accept any mouse clicks.

I see the \"calibration\" square in the upper left corner and click on it (many times) but still no mouse click actions.

Any sucesses out there? What did you do to get it to work?

TIA

Craig...

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6000 - Tosa / SL-6000 touch screen not responding?

« on: April 05, 2004, 12:07:22 pm »

Has anyone seen the touch screen on the SL-6000 become non-responsive (such as taps don\'t work)?

I have seen this a couple of times, restarting Qtopia (read: not rebooting) seems to fix it.

I was getting this in conjunction with trying to get Kismet running last night. After quiting Kismet (in a terminal) and re-enabling the wlan interface, the touch screen stops working.

This could be something with the way I have kismet configured (since it isn\'t detecting anything right now). I am still trying to get 2.8.1 (in which the ipk says that it is 2.6.0) working.

But I thought I would pass on this oddity.

Craig...

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6000 - Tosa / IRK works on SL-6000

« on: April 02, 2004, 01:06:57 pm »

Just got my SL-6000 last night (from Amazon).

I keep quite a few notes on my Zaurus (was SL-5500), and have been using the Pocketop IR keyboard for about a year.

I am happy to report that IRK 10.0 works just fine on the SL-6000. Just make sure that you put it in \"SL5600/SLC7xx\" mode.

I also found that Zeditor works great on the SL-6000. I had been using it fine on the SL-5500 as well.

The SL-6000 is a nice machine, but I definitely feel like Dirty Harry (\"This is the most power PDA made\") walking around with it in my pocket. Although it isn\'t that much bigger than the SL-5500, it feels big when one is used to the petite 5500.