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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Switch Between Wireless Networks?

« on: January 29, 2007, 09:01:30 am »

I think wifi radar should meet your needs. I used to run it under beta 4. It lists all networks detected, and allows the user to enter and store any wep keys etc, then connect.

However, these days I use WPA supplicant which is configured to connect to known networks first (like my home wpa secured router), but then to connect to any open networks. But I still need to run a small script to disconnect, restart wpa_supplicant, then run dhcpcd to get a new ip address.  My script looks like this - it's not perfect but does connect most of the time. I've assigned the script to a  button on my xfce panel, and a key combination for easy connecting.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/wpa_supplicant stop
pccardctl eject
sleep 3
pccardctl insert
sleep 3
/etc/rc.d/init.d/wpa_supplicant start
sleep 3
dhcp wlan0
sleep 3
ping -c3 www.google.com

Regards
Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / No More Hope

« on: January 25, 2007, 05:30:56 pm »

almost as unusable on 860 as beta 4
no luck
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Hi Scoutme
I have a c760 I was happily using r121 on my 760 for daily mail reading with Sylpheed, Firefox or Dillo web browsing and chat when in wifi hospots. Yes, there are bugs/issues, but I found many are simple to fix and then the Z becomes very usable. The 860 is essentially the same machine as the 760, so maybe you should persevere and apply some of the fixes that are in this forum ?

I have since had hardwre problems with my 760 and have upgraded to c1000, which also runs fine with r121 despite some minor flaws.

Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Comparison R1.1.0r121 Vs Beta4

« on: December 03, 2006, 11:43:45 am »

I will attempt to downgrade in order to test whether the sound issue is hardware related - and report back progress.

My 256MB SD card is also playing up so I haven't been able to revert to the SHARP Japanese rom. Instead I tried the various sound buzzer checks in the D+M menu, but the Z crashes at each test. I am now certain that my sound issues (and the related apm issue) are related to a hardware problem. I will return my unit to Sharp for repair. It has now also become impossible to charge the battery, so this is in need of repair too. Hopefully I'll get it back in time for the next upgrade !

Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Comparison R1.1.0r121 Vs Beta4

« on: November 28, 2006, 05:18:08 pm »

Will report back once the repair is done.
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Soldering job done, fixed charging and battery issue !

1. APM - suspend/resume works intermittently
APM is still intermittent, and rarely works (e.g. one in 20-30 times).  After receiving the alsactl error mentioned above, I figured out that if I unload the module snd_soc_corgi, then I am able to suspend and resume without issue. It seems as if this module, or one of its dependencies, was somehow preventing the Z760 from suspending. Now the sound issue remains - which leads me to think that I have an intermittent hardware issue. Perhaps my soldering job blew something on the board  

2. No soundcards found
I will attempt to downgrade in order to test whether the sound issue is hardware related - and report back progress. Before I do so, does anyone else with a 760 have sound working on r121 ?

Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Comparison R1.1.0r121 Vs Beta4

« on: November 09, 2006, 07:44:26 am »

since you mention improvements in this rc, maybe you could fill me in on a few nagging questiosn?

How is video playback?  will mplayer do ok with qvga?

Audio playback?

any impovements in hd swap performance over the 2.4 based system? ( I realize beta4 was 2.6 based, just curious)

are there working gui config scripts?  The old network config suited me quite well--same with usb, I'd hate to give 'em up

native compiling, as well as a working bild system (apparently the build system works, judging from other posts today)?

Can ya play quake?  I almost never actually do, yet somehow it seems important...
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Sorry - haven't tried any of these things yet, mainly because of the apm suspend issue - once it goes to sleep, it needs a battery pull to reboot. I'm still having issues with charging. My 760 loses charge very quickly - so in order to do anything useful it has to be connected to mains pretty much all the time. Due to a dodgy connection of the power supply to the board, the cable has to be positioned "just right" in order just to get it charging and switched on. Any slight movement when the charge is low causes a restart. I need to get the soldering iron and perform repair works again (third time this problem occured).

The alsactl issue at boot prevents me from starting alsamixer, with a device not found error. This worked with beta4.

Will report back once the repair is done.

Sorearse.

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Cxx0 Hardware / C760 Charging Problem

« on: November 05, 2006, 11:19:13 am »

I had exactly the same problem, and fixed it in exactly the same way. The problem has come back though, so I'm contemplating doing another soldering fix. Seems like this could be a common issue.

Regards
Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Comparison R1.1.0r121 Vs Beta4

« on: November 05, 2006, 08:05:37 am »

Hi All,

Since upgrading to r121, I would like to summarise what has improved since beta4 (for me), and any outstanding issues....

I hope this post will be useful reference point for those deciding whether to upgrade to r121

Improvements...
1. The "double tap" issue that required a second screen tap, or key press on beta 4 in order to be recognised has been fixed in r121.
2. Auto recognition and config of Ambicom wifi card
3. Seems faster, but this may be my imagination !
4. When suspend and resume works (see below), wifi connection is re-established upon resume.
5. When exiting X, now I can key "a" without having to hold "Fn"

Issues
1. APM - suspend/resume works intermittently.
On my C760 (Husky), apm almost always refuses to suspend correctly, leaving just a flashing white cursor in the top left of the otherwise black screen. After this, the only way to bring the system back to life is by pulling out the power and battery and rebooting. I say almost always, because very occasionally it works perfectly. Could this be related to the amount of charge in the battery ? Or the flashed AD value for battery charge (currently 220).
I noticed that if the last output line after booting is

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Starting switchevd     [OK]
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1236 - No soundcards found...
pdaXrom 1.1.0r121 "Kathrin"
zaurus login:then APM fails to suspend. On the rare occasions when I can suspend, the boot messages have no errors relating to sound cards. It seems as if there is something not loading correctly which prevents alsa and apm working.
Another observation is that if I boot to the emergency system, then I can reliably suspend and resume every time - this suggests no hardware issue.

This is the most major issue I have with r121 - any help would be very welcome !
 
2. wpa_supplicant script [solved - as below]. Anyone trying to connect to WPA access points will need this.
Line 26 of /etc/rc.d/init.d/wpa_supplicant file. There is a double hyphen -- in the middle of the line that calls wpa_supplicant in daemon mode. This causes the wpa_supplicant not to load. Remove the -- and add the appropriate options at the top of the file, depending upon your driver. Then it works well. In my case, I added

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OPTIONS="-iwlan0 -Dwext"

3. Want to bring up network at boot, then set date/time
[OK - not really an issue, more of a request   ]
Installed ntp and ntpdate, which gets called during the init scripts, but this is before the network is started. Want to be able to bring up network (and wpa_supplicant) first, then start the ntp daemon.

4. JFFS2 Errors
When booting, the following message occurs...

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JFFS2 notice: (1) check_node_data: wrong data CRC in data node at 0x062b1000: read 0x82f7b3cf, calculated 0x3c09ce76
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommendedIs this anything to worry about ? I ran e2fsck on /dev/mmcblk0p1, and fixed some errors, but the errors above still occur. How can I fix this ?

5. X-Term font issue
When using xterm, each character output is followed by a square. I use rxvt instead.

6. Distorted Text at prompt after exiting X
After exiting X, once the cursor is at the bottom of the screen, the screen output doesn't properly scroll up as desired. Remnants of text from previous lines remain.

7. Keyboard mapping [Fixed in this forum]
Certain keys, like Fn for Right Click, don't work "out of the box". Fn +1, Fn+2 (Zoom in and out), and Fn+3 and Fn+4 are not working, but can be fixed - search the forum.

That's all for now. Please add any other comments.
All of the above are observations on the C760.


Regards

Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0beta4 Stable For C760

« on: October 29, 2006, 04:26:29 am »

...
Also need to install wpa_supplicant again - will report back on wireless fun later.

Sorearse
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Apm is still an issue. Every time my Z suspends, I can't wake it up again, just get a cursor blinking in top left corner. Got it working once only (by random chance it seems), but after next reboot can't suspend again. Seems intermittent, but 95% of the time it needs a battery yank and full reboot. I tried installing a newer version of APM as suggested in this forum, but this did not solve the issue. Does anyone else have this issue with 121 ? I wondered if it was somehow related to the D+M menu settings to do with battery AD values stored in the flash, but I'm only guessing.

Wireless has been more fruitful. I use wpa_supplicant to connect to my WPA access point, and other APs when roaming around. The same issue occurs as with beta4. To successfully connect, the card needs to be ejected, inserted (not physically, this can be done with pccardctl eject and insert commands), then wpa_supplicant needs restarting, along with dhcpcd. I wrote a small script to do these steps, but it would be better if these could be executed whenever the network comes up. I'm not an expert in init scripts, so could anyone suggest how I might proceed with this ? I want to simply start my network card, start wpa_supplicant and begin surfing without any manual intervention. Then my Z can pull down podcasts, email etc and start being useful again  

Regards
Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0beta4 Stable For C760

« on: October 16, 2006, 07:05:34 pm »

OK - fixed it. Here is what I did...

1. Took out the CF card before booting into the emergency system (hold down OK whilst connecting power, waited for approx 10 secs).
2. Answered no to the question about proceeding with the installation.
3. Inserted the CF card containing the kernel image etc.

4. Entered the following at the prompt

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cd /mnt/cf
./autoboot.sh /mnt/cf
Then sat back and watched the 760 regenerate itself to r121 !

First impression - I need to fix apm, as the Z 760 freezes with a blinking cursor in the top left whenever I try to suspend. I saw a fix somewhere - will work on that next.

Also need to install wpa_supplicant again - will report back on wireless fun later.

Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0beta4 Stable For C760

« on: October 11, 2006, 11:06:34 am »

My overall feeling is that my 760 is less of a machine than it was using Beta3. I haven't yet upgraded to 121, I'm waiting for something more stable, so for now I'll live with my Beta 4 setup.

I recommend at least upgrading to beta121 if you have 4. It's quite simple to do and it is way more stable. It's still not perfect, and a lot of issues are still there, but I highly recommend switching to 121. However, if you have beta 1 the do not by any means upgrade to beta 4 or 121!!

dq
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Thanks for the advice, donquixote. By coincidence, last night I decided to upgrade to 121, but I got stuck after the uboot install. The emergency system boots OK, but with the necessary update files on a CF card, the boot process ends with the following message and leaves me at the command prompt

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Processing /etc/profile... Done

-sh3.00#
So I proceed by manually to try to run autoboot.sh on the CF card, but my 760 then freezes when I try to view or access the contents of the CF card. However, after rebooting normally into beta4, I can happily see the contents of the CF card, which is FAT16 formatted, and contains autoboot.sh, kernel.img and rootfs.img in the root folder. Has anyone else seen this issue ?

Tried many times, and remembered to remove the SD card too. I'm going to download and re-extract to the card, then if necessary try another card. I'm determined to get 121 working soon !

SA

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / 1.1.0beta4 Stable For C760

« on: October 05, 2006, 10:50:14 pm »

Hello,

I've been thinking of upgrading my c760 from beta1 to beta4. Could someone tell me if the current beta4 rom is stable and works with c760?

Also, what are the benefits of beta4 compared to beta1?

Thanks,

VirtusRex
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My advice is to stay with Beta 1. If you're going to upgrade, I found Beta 3 to be most stable on my 760. The advantages of Beta 4 don't outweigh the pain of charging problems, spurious suspend issues, keyboard issues and a lot of broken settings applications.

Pain....
I've been using Beta 4 since it was released, and also found that my keyboard responsiveness has become degraded, or messed up somehow. This may be just hardware related and coincidence, but some keys (E, R and space) require a harder press, whilst others seem to repeat too quickly so that i get double characters.
The main issue was with charging - it wouldn't seem to charge sufficiently and on battery power wouldn't last more than a few minutes.  This was resolved at least partially by going into the DM menu and using the manual charging option to get more charge into the battery, then flash the new higher value to the flash memory. This now allows the battery to charge normally.
However, I still face intermittent power suspend, and then having to wait for a minute before being able to power on again. Then it will suspend again repeatedly until I can get mains power connected.


The good stuff...
2.6 Kernel
uboot
Alsa


I use wpa_supplicant to control my Ambicom wi-fi card - works OK. But, when roaming, I need to quit wpa_supplicant, then use the CF card applet to eject and insert, then re start wpa_supplicant in order to connect to a new network - very fiddly, and a complete pain when travelling on the subway because hotspots only exist in the stations. By the time I've finished these fiddly steps, the train has moved out of the hotspot !

My overall feeling is that my 760 is less of a machine than it was using Beta3. I haven't yet upgraded to 121, I'm waiting for something more stable, so for now I'll live with my Beta 4 setup.

Regards

Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom 1.1.0beta 4 And New Bootloader

« on: May 16, 2006, 01:51:02 am »

Good work Sash! UBoot should rock. I'm going to give that a try on my C3000. Do you have an idea what would be necessary to make it work on other models (tosa for one)?
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Currently i added Cxx00 and C7x0/860. Probably for tosa need add tosa NAND flash driver. That easy with one from kernel sources. I'll look later.
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Hello

Very interesting work on uboot.

Are the sources for your uboot with the addons availalbe somewhere?
Is your release (md5 : 6814ebadc2f71df24840a81334b07576) including C7x0 support?

Guylhem
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here current patch. C7x0 added but not tested fully. Add in include/config/corgi.h next lines for support Sharp NAND logical partition:

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#define NAND_LOGICAL  1
#define NAND_LOGICAL_SIZE    0x700000
For debug you need serial cable.
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Thanks Sashz for the patch file. I would like to test this on my C760, but I'm not sure how to install. Could you (or someone else who may know how) please post step by step instructions for installing beta4 onto C7x0, including what steps are needed to apply the patch ? Sorry if I'm missing something that may be obvious to others...
 
Many thanks in advance...
Sorearse

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxrom 1.1.0beta 4 And New Bootloader

« on: May 10, 2006, 10:07:01 pm »

Good work Sash! UBoot should rock. I'm going to give that a try on my C3000. Do you have an idea what would be necessary to make it work on other models (tosa for one)?
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Currently i added Cxx00 and C7x0/860. Probably for tosa need add tosa NAND flash driver. That easy with one from kernel sources. I'll look later.
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Where can I downoad the C7x0/860 beta4 ? I would love to help out with the testing effort.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / How To Reboot

« on: April 25, 2006, 09:34:58 am »

Simply type reboot in a terminal.
If the screen and keyboard have locked up, if you're on a network use ssh from another machine and type reboot at the root prompt.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Skype?

« on: January 30, 2006, 02:57:09 pm »

Just plug in the headphones into the headphone jack - the left earpiece will function as a mic.

I don't know about USB headsets on the Z 1000, you may need a usb host adapter. If your network connection is through a CF WIFI card then you wont be able to use a BT card at the same time. Maybe a BT dongle would work hanging from the Z USB port ? My 760 doesn't have USB host functionality - so I've not tried this.

This post also describes using a heaset as a mic...
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...446&hl=recorder

Sorearse