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For Sale / Wanted / For Sale: SL-5600 with Symbol WiFi and Ambicom BT2000E-CF

« on: May 22, 2004, 11:18:12 pm »

Information here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5701318620


AIM: madcatmurphy

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Cxx0 Hardware / Difference betwen c760 and c860.

« on: April 15, 2004, 12:23:21 pm »

So can the displays of the C760 and C860 be seen in the daylight or not?

I\'m ready to trade my SL-5600, but daylight visibility is a must...

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5x00 General discussions / New cache-errata-free kernel! Thanks, tumnus!

« on: March 14, 2004, 09:31:25 pm »

This is the one I downloaded from the download section, said it was ver 1.3: zImage_Special5600_No_Preemptive_No_Overclock-c860ROMv1.10.  Rename to zImage.bin and put on CF with Sharp\'s updater.sh.  Same result as before.  Curiously, when I unzipped Sharp\'s package there was a file called mversion.bin.  Do I need to mess with this?  Nerver had to in the past.

Dunno... that worked for me, but I\'m using the base Sharp ROM too, where you are still using Zynergy?

I haven\'t needed any files other than update.sh and zImage.bin

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5x00 General discussions / New cache-errata-free kernel! Thanks, tumnus!

« on: March 14, 2004, 08:52:23 pm »

Well, that seemed to do the trick, sorta.  I got the thing to appear to update (no progress dots, but it said it was updated and showed the Success! words).

However, now when I cat /proc/version it still says the old kernel info and yamade@yampc.

That\'s not the right kernel then.  Make sure the kernel is named zImage.bin (case-sensitive!) and try again.  You should see progress dots too.

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5x00 General discussions / New cache-errata-free kernel! Thanks, tumnus!

« on: March 14, 2004, 08:13:39 pm »

For those that were able to flash the newer kernerl, can you list what updater file you used?  I\'ve downloaded the zynergy version and tried to flash the kernel as both zImage and zImage.bin.  Another thing I noticed, when I download the kernel windows saves it as a bin file.  So I name it zImage, thinking that the full name is zImage.bin.  But the flash does not recognize the file.  Interestingly, when I unpack the zynergy file, the zImage has no extension.  Windows recognizes it as a file, vice a .bin.

I used update.sh from the Sharp 1.32 ROM update.  Tried Zynergy some time ago and while it looked good, a number of things didn\'t seem to work quite right.

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Cxx0 General discussions / Is the C760 worth upgrading to from a C700?

« on: March 11, 2004, 01:44:51 pm »

How are the keyboards on these clamshells and what are they comparable to?

How are the constructed?  i.e. membrane like the old Sinclair ZX81 or something better?

I\'ve had a SL-5600 for the past month, and I don\'t really like the builtin keyboard, nor the hunt-n-peck screen keyboard, and the handwriting recognition is worse than my Palms ever were.  Using a ssh session from a desktop is blissfull compared to the alternatives.

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5x00 General discussions / New cache-errata-free kernel! Thanks, tumnus!

« on: March 11, 2004, 12:36:35 pm »

So, how did you get wireless extensions to work with sharp kernel?  
The linksys card is a prism based card.

\"It just works!\" ™

Sharp ROM, Special kernel V1.3.

Wireless worked with stock Sharp ROM, but Kismet did not.
Kismet works with the special kernel.

The only other problem that I had is making sure all of the
associated configuration files were present in /etc/pcmcia ,
i.e.:

spectrum
spectrum.conf
wireless
wireless.opts
wlan-ng
wlan-ng.conf
wlan-ng.opts

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5x00 General discussions / New cache-errata-free kernel! Thanks, tumnus!

« on: March 10, 2004, 10:51:03 pm »

It didnt have wireless extensions   i have wpc12 wireless card. Anyone gotten wireless extensions to work?

It works for me with a Symbol card.  I didn\'t find many references to the wpc12 card with Google, but I did find this quote about the chipset it uses:

{
FCCID PKW-WPC11-V29 (approved 11/7/2002) uses ISL3873B or Prism2.5
FCCID PKW-WPC11-V31 (approved 7/23/2002) uses ISL3871xxx  or Prism3
FCCID PKW-WPC11-V3  (approved 2/1/2002) uses \"

The PKW-WPC12 uses the TI ACX100 and to my knowledge never saw the light
of day.
}

If it\'s not based on the Prism chipset, you may have a hard time finding support for it...

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5x00 General discussions / New cache-errata-free kernel! Thanks, tumnus!

« on: March 09, 2004, 03:18:19 pm »

The pre-emptive patch does very little for the performance. Only v1.3 of the Special Kernel should be used now, which does NOT include the pre-emptive patch. The speed increase is due to a workaround for a bug in the PXA250 CPU being turned off. The workaround that is in the default Sharp ROMs effectively halves the speed of the CPU.

Thanks...  this kernel works for me and the touch screen still works though it did need recalibrating.  Even Kismet seems to be working in some fashion now.

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5x00 General discussions / 5600 won\'t suspend!?!?

« on: March 03, 2004, 01:00:55 pm »

OK, was messing around trying to get kismet installed on my SL-5600, and have noticed that the device won\'t go into suspend, either via a long press on the Cancel key, or by selecting \"Suspend\" from the QT menu in the lower left corner of the GUI.  

I\'ve uninstalled the kismet .ipk, I\'ve restored a backup (using the Sharp PC-based Backup-Restore) from a couple of days ago--when I know the On-Off button was working (hard to miss a thing like that), but the problem persists.

Next on the to-try list is a complete reflash of the stock ROM, but I was hoping someone here might have a suggestion to spare such drastic measures...

Did you try ejecting or removing the network card?

I\'ve noticed that the card\'s status seems to be persistent even through a reboot cycle.

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 02, 2004, 09:37:35 am »

In order to have a sane wireless extension setup I recommend disabling all builtin wireless drivers (_not_ the subsystem) and build them externally. We do this in OZ and have much less problems with wireless networking.

Is this external as in modules?

If not, please explain....


TIA

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 10:44:44 pm »

w4lna:

You said you had orinoco .12 not .13 ?

Yep...

you sure you have the stock kernel (check under sysinfo)

Yep...

Also run df after a reboot and see what message you get about wireless exstensions (you may well get two entrys so check entire text)

Assuming you meant dmesg, here are the relevant parts:

$ dmesg
Linux version 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-021129 (yamade@yampc) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:52:01 +0900
CPU: Intel XScale-PXA250 revision 4
Machine: SHARP Poodle
Converting old-style param struct to taglist
Memory clock: 99.53MHz (*27)
Run Mode clock: 199.07MHz (*2)
Turbo Mode clock: 398.13MHz (*2.0, active)
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
zone(0): 8192 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sharpsl-nand:7168k@0k(smf),22528k@7168k(root),-(home) jffs2_orphaned_inodes=delete
GA Chip: L1
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 397.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 32MB = 32MB total
Memory: 29772KB available (1800K code, 541K data, 96K init)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
RCSR = 2
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.14)
FCS : CCCR = 241
batok installed
Starting kswapd
JFFS2 version 2.1. © 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications AB.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 30x40
get comadj 107
keyboard initilaized.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
SharpSL serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8100000x (irq = 14) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xf8700000x (irq = 12) is a 16550A, using IRDA
ttyS02 at 0xf8200000x (irq = 13) is a 16550A
rs_init: IRDA H/W initializaion
sharpled_init: done.
Cotulla Real Time Clock driver v1.00
Cotulla Touch Screen driver initialized
block: 64 slots per queue, batch=16
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
PPP BSD Compression module registered
ide_cs.c 1.26 1999/11/16 02:10:49 (David Hinds)
Poodle audio driver initialize
Sharp SL series flash device: 1000000 at 0
Using static partision definition
Creating 1 MTD partitions on \"sharpsl-flash\":
0x00120000-0x007f0000 : \"Filesystem\"
NAND device: Manufacture ID: 0x98, Chip ID: 0x76 (Toshiba TH58512FT)
Creating 3 MTD partitions on \"Toshiba TH58512FT\":
0x00000000-0x00700000 : \"smf\"
0x00700000-0x01d00000 : \"root\"
0x01d00000-0x04000000 : \"home\"
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pm]
Intel PXA250/210 PCMCIA (CS release 3.1.22)
pxa_pcmcia_init(0)
pxa_pcmcia_init(1)
orinoco.c 0.12 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
hermes.c: 7 Jun 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco_cs.c 0.12 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
spectrum_cs.c 0.3.4
Frontlight Driver Initialized.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 © 1998-1999 Rebel.com
IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
cramfs: wrong magic
FAT: bogus logical sector size 480
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing init memory: 96K

<and>

eth0: Station identity 0021:0002:0002:0001
eth0: Looks like a Symbol firmware version [F3.10-06] (parsing to 31006)
eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth0: MAC address 00:A0:F8:A0:41:81
eth0: Station name \"Prism  I\"
eth0: ready
eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 39, io 0xf6000000-0xf6000047

iwconfig output is same as connected mode before...

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 09:23:43 pm »

sbarman: 
I think tumnus kernel (last one) has it installed. He has stated that he included it. I don\'t know if he used the ones I sent or did it himself. Try it out if it doesn work I will compile one and post to the ZUG.

w4lna:
No the driver you mention will not work. To check (anyway) follow my instruction in the last post if you get \"no wireless exstentions\" then you don have them.

Edit: Forgot to add that the main reason for doing this is so you can use Wellenreiter or Kismet for sniffing out Access Points.

Richard

Ok for your edification with stock 1.32 Sharp ROM and kernel, and also notice that SSH doesn\'t require password  for unknown reasons:

Last login: Mon Mar  1 19:57:55 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
[Infinity:~] w4lna% ssh -l zaurus 192.168.129.201

This system is for the use of authorized users only.  Individuals using this computer system are subject to having all of their activities on this system monitored and recorded.  Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring and is advised that if such monitoring reveals possible criminal activity, system personel may provide evidence of such monitoring to law enforcement.
$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:\"\"  Nickname:\"zaurus\"
          Mode:Managed  Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm  
          RTS thr:off  
         
usbd0     no wireless extensions.

$


So it looks like wireless extentions to me though I have not been able to get Kismet to do anything useful yet...

Now if I start a connection with 128-bit WEP, I get this:

$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device eth0 has been compiled with version 12
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 13.
Some things may be broken...

eth0      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:\"Murphree\"  Nickname:\"zaurus\"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462GHz  Access Point: 00:01:24:F0:67:B5  
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm  
          Retry limit:16   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=0 B  
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:21/92  Signal level:128/153  Noise level:107/153
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

usbd0     no wireless extensions.

$

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 05:17:11 pm »

Just to clear this one up:

In order to enable wireless exstensions you need to patch the kernel source with the latest spectrum drivers (24-0.4.2) and then apply the orinoco patch (0.13e or later) to add the exstensions. The wireless exstensions are enabled by default in hte kernel config but needs these patches to work. In order to test if you have wireless extensions enabled you MUST connect to your AP or something before running iwconfig from the terminal.

The Sharp 1.32 ROM for the SL-5600 contains the spectrum driver 0.3.4 and orinoco 0.12 driver.  Any clear cut method of determining if the wireless extentions are there and what would they offer beyond 128-bit WEP access that I currently have?

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Sharp ROMs / sl5600 kernel configuration and source

« on: March 01, 2004, 03:17:58 pm »

Yes I think the wireless extension was in ROM 1.21 and then when I upgraded to ROM 1.32, then it seems not to have the wireless extension. The reason I am saying that is because when i do \"iwconfig eth0\" it complains:
eth0 no wireless extension  
which is the case when wireless extension is not availalve. I compiled the kernel and used the poodle configuration with CONFIG_NET_RADIO option set to y and still the wireless extension doesn\'t seem to exist when i install the kernel on my 5600. Wireless extension is different from wireless support in that it provides extra functionalities in the driver level for scanning and other WIFI related features.

You haven\'t said what kind of WiFi card that you are using.  Until I added spectrum and spectrum.conf to my /etc/pcmcia directory, my Symbol card would not return anything for iwconfig or show the little world in the taskbar either.  I got these files from the spectrum driver package, but I don\'t need anything else from this package to get a working setup with the Sharp 1.32 ROM and kernel.
 

I tried the last special kernel from the 4 kernels in http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...download&sid=53 and still no luck --- it says the there is no wireless extension.

In some cases, I\'ve noticed that iwconfig doesn\'t return anything if the card is not powered up, though it\'s not exhibiting that behavior for me now.