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Sharp ROMs / Cacko+sd Boot?

« on: July 01, 2006, 05:05:31 pm »

Hello everyone,

Has anyone succeeded in installing cacko on a sd card?(or at least most of the filesystem)
(the idea is that the sd card will be permanently there, and that i'd like a "single" filesystem when installing everything(and not to have to split application between "main memory" and "sd card"(which fails 50% of the time)(i hate that package installer).

Thanks for any help,

DeathWolf

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Roms And Boot From Sd

« on: May 22, 2006, 09:01:06 am »

Hello all,

I have a c1000.
I've been using cacko 1.23 is the most standard way for quite some time now but i'm looking at reinstalling everything in a "cleaner way", especially since main memory gets cluttered.


Basically i heard it is possible to have a sort of lilo/grub/whatever to auto-boot from sd, hence freeing totally the main memory.

I currently have a 4GB SD card which works fine with cacko 1.23.
I also needto be in full jp mode(ime essentially).

What rom would be recommend for such use?(i'd assume something based on the sharp rom like cacko, but i heard pdaxrom has good jp support)

And how does one make it to install everything on sd and have the z auto-boot on it.

Thanks for all help,

Paul Cahier

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Sharp ROMs / Questions: A Way To Work From Sd? X?

« on: May 05, 2006, 09:52:17 pm »

I have a c1000 with not much memory builtin and iI was kinda wondering if:
1.there would be a way to install cacko or some of the roms directly to the sd card, and then at start boot it up on it, so as to have all the files on the same filesystem(and optionally  use all the builtin memory as "temporary memory")
2.how to install x in qt properly(i saw many sweet shots with an X running in one of the qt tabs but never found the package to install to do that)
3.know which packages cant be installed on external memory(cf/sd) since it gives the warning everytime...
4.if there's a decent package manager, the builtin one is just horrid.... slow... not verbose at all(i dont mind something on command line provided it auto-gets and install the package, and allows to search packages lists, like apt)
5.How much memory should be put in the partitioning when installing cacko... i used 100MB last time(out of the 128) but i'm not sure how did the memory get split in the end.

Thanks,

Paul Cahier

Note: i'm using cacko 1.23 atm

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Sharp ROMs / Prism, Cacko 2.5 And Wifi Problems

« on: April 28, 2006, 01:47:16 pm »

Hello all,
I have bought a dcf-660W for my z running cacko 1.23.
First it wouldnt work so i reflashed it to this:

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# hostap_diag  wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x800c v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) PCMCIA (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.4 (station firmware)
Then i cleaned my z by reflashing a clean 1.23.

After that i went into the network config, and configged it to conenc to my 128bit wep network.
After 10s it connected! Joy!
I started opera, went straight to oesf... and i started noticing it was pretty slow...
At first i thought it was because signal wasnt good enough, so i went straight in the line of sight of the router, at ~3 meters. Signal was around 90%.
But pinging the router or any other comp resulted in very unstable results:

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64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=4.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=3.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=3.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=12.1 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=39.4 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=12.1 msThe ping seems to vary from 4ms(good) to 300ms(bad) with ~20-30% packet loss.
(at best, i'm getting 15% packet loss which is imho gigantic)

I'm pretty surprised considering all other devices on my network are working really fine even from very far of this router( a wrtg54).

The annoying consequence of all this is that i cant use opera/netfront who seem to have long timeouts and be monothreaded(any way to fix that? waiting 50s for a webpage that loads usually in 1.2s on my old laptop can be pretty frustrating.)

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wifi0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"sephiroth"  Nickname:"zaurus"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:10:0C:97:FD
          Bit Rate:1 Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=10/70  Signal level=-77 dBm  Noise level=-88 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:5  Invalid misc:15176   Missed beacon:0

I tried both on ac and without, with the same results.

Anyone can confirm/give a solution maybe?


Paul Cahier


EDIT: some more info
dmesg has many:

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wlan0 (WE) : Buffer for request 8B1B too small (0<9)
system info:

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# uname -a
Linux zaurus 2.4.20 #20 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:54:08 +0300 armv5tel unknown
# uptime
 17:46:36 up  2:29,  2 users,  load average: 2.24, 2.12, 2.15
iwconfig says:

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Warning: Driver for device wifi0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 16, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Bricked? Or Not...

« on: March 09, 2006, 10:48:07 pm »

Hello all,

I was... up until yesterday a happy c1000 owner.
I have had in the past some trouble with the battery... but after that i got 3 brand new batteries.
Now lets get to the problem:
I left the z plugged for a quite few days closed... and someday recently, i looked at  it and saw no light. So i went and tried to turn it on... nothing....
Tried changing the batteries.. no effect...
The charger seems to work i think(it's an ea-70, and i got a small jolt from touching it with my tongue(i know this isnt proper measurement, but it's all i have atm)

So i'm wondering... am i missing anything?
should i be pressing something else than the power button? something else than changing the battery and relocking the bay? Anyway to see if it's the charger circuit that died?

NOTE: i am not totally sure the charger was actually on for all these days... it might have been off for quite some time

Thanks for any help,

Paul Cahier

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Battery Ea-bl11 Ea-bl08, Where To Buy In Europe?

« on: November 11, 2005, 06:58:16 pm »

basically, i'm searching for either of these 2 batteries for my sl-c1000 and i was wondering if theres any place they sell them at reasonnable price to europe, laptopforless would be perfect if their shipping fees werent so unreasonnable.
Ideally somewhere in europe would be ideal.

Thanks for any suggestion,

DeathWolf

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General Discussion / Ea-bl08 And Sl-c1000

« on: November 11, 2005, 06:49:30 pm »

the title says it all, are they compatible?
they are much much cheaper than bl11, and i could buy 4 bl08 for the price of a bl11.

Thanks for any help,

DeathWolf

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General Discussion / C1000 Battery Problem

« on: November 11, 2005, 07:28:25 am »

Hello all,

I have a c1000 with an ea-bl11 battery. 5 weeks ago i left my z with low charge at my work and forgot it for 5 weeks.  Came back, wouldnt light up, so i plugged it in the power charge, the thing light up for 20s then stopped, i started getting worried.
I tried pluging it back in but it lit up only for 10s, tried agian, 5s, and again 2s then nothing, no more lighting up... Took my Voltmeter, measured 2.7V... sounded normal for a totally discharged battery.

Worried i read some old oesf posts and found that letting the battery discharge out of the z could help. so i took it out and left it like that for 16 hours.
When i came back early to test it, it litteraly said 0V, nothing whatsoever...
Even more worried i tried everything, until i put it back in the z, and put back the charger where it did the 20s light, then 10 after unplug and replug, then 5 then 2 then nothing, and again 2.65V.

What am i supposed to do?
I heard that charging the z's battery outside of the z could help but i have no idea on how to do this. There's 3 connectors on it and i dont know what voltage/amp to put on it...
If anyone has a clue i'd like to know.


Thanks for any help,

DeathWolf
A Desperate z user

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Info/questions

« on: August 20, 2005, 06:34:31 am »

Hello all,

Sorry to bother with so many questions but since i just got a c1000 and none of the 5 peripherals i bought for it work(confirmed by some other posts too) i inted to do a good deal of code editing/Recompile(thank god that the source code is available).

So i was wondering:
1.how can one recompile the z's kernel(where to get source?)
2.how does one install the newly compiled kernel
3.where can one get the original japanese sharproms/and it's applications(dictionaries, etc)
4.if anyone has more info on the following supports i'd be very grateful:
 a.2+GB sd cards(atm they kernel panic)
 b.linksys usb bluetooth(not recognized i think)
 c.linksys wireless 54g cf card(WCF54G)
 d.generic connexant/cohiba usb wifi 54g dongles
5.also if anyone knows any mini-A/B(whatever is used for host mode) cable that can directly take the normal big bulky usb port at the other side, the hub seems to be a power monger, and i dont intend to go around carrying an usb hub charger
6.any other rom than the sharp rom that can do japanese ime and have nice dictionaries(even paying software/paying dictionaries are fine, it's for my work so i can put it on work expenses)


anyhow, thanks for any help,


DeathWolf

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Security and Networking / Wireless C1000

« on: August 19, 2005, 11:38:30 am »

Hello all,
I'm getting pretty desperate about getting a wireless access on my c1000 with original sharp rom.


These are the devices that can do wireless i have:
-bluetooth linksys dongle
-cohiba/connexant wifi dongle
-wcf54g


any of these have any luck of working with my c1000?


thanks for any help,

DeathWolf