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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro Slide Germany: finding a mobile network operator that actually works

« on: January 05, 2023, 08:24:16 am »

What APN are you using, and is the correct one? Also try to switch to IPV4 only, if you're using an IPv6 connection.

Varti

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Mobile connection flipping

« on: December 20, 2022, 03:55:46 am »

the mobile connection on my Astro is flipping. Sometime I have connection, sometime not. My german SIM card is from Telekom. I tried first and second SIM slot. First slot seems to work better. After restarting the device I have a connection for several hours. Then the connection ist lost ("No SIM Card"). Second slot ist flipping every few minutes from connected to not connected and reverse.

This seems to me like a bad SIM contact issue in the SIM holder, providing that the "No SIM Card" error is actually correct. Have you tried using another SIM card?
Though I see that all of you are having issues with the same mobile operator. It might be worth checking if the APN is correct. If the type of connection is set to IPv6, it might be worth to try to set it to IPv4 only too; where I live IPv6 support is still under testing or must be deployed, only one operator officially supports it.

Varti

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Astro Slide - Android / Re: Astro won't boot -- userdata corrupt?

« on: December 12, 2022, 05:42:18 am »

Unfortunately the attachments' sizes limit is set (to 20MB if I remember well) by the database's settings, it cannot be overridden by the forum's software and it can be only changed by the host provider. I can however store the file on the forum's account and add a direct link to it, if you wish.

EDIT:
File mirrored here: https://www.oesf.org/repository/planet-devices/astro/boot_a.img

Varti

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Re: Current status of Gemian on Cosmo

« on: October 10, 2022, 10:11:49 am »

The repository is currently still offline, there's no indication on when it will be back online:

https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?topic=36786

Varti

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Cosmo Communicator - Linux / Re: Gemian-planet Thinkglobally buster repository down error

« on: September 14, 2022, 06:49:53 am »

Thanks for this tutorial, I hope the build server will be eventually put back online. I have fixed a couple of URLs in your post (https:/ -> https://).

Varti

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Re: Attachments and avatar uploads now working again

« on: July 26, 2022, 05:50:04 am »

I have been notified that uploads weren't working anymore, this was due to a wrong permission set on the Attachments folder. This has now been fixed, sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks to Daniel W for the report.

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Word/Spreadsheet for Openzaurus sl3000

« on: July 21, 2022, 03:19:00 am »

What are the missing packages? There's still a couple of feeds around, they might have the required packages.

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Word/Spreadsheet for Openzaurus sl3000

« on: July 19, 2022, 03:32:43 am »

You should then install all the required packages first, once installed then proceed with the installation of both abiword and gnumeric.

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Word/Spreadsheet for Openzaurus sl3000

« on: July 18, 2022, 03:39:42 am »

Does it return what dependencies it requires? Failing that, the required packages for each ipk are listed in the archive itself, it's in a file called control, compressed as control.tar.gz. It can be extracted with

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tar zxOf whatever.ipk ./control.tar.gz | tar zxOf - ./control | grep '^Depends: '
For example, the list of dependencies for abiword_2.4.4-r1_armv5te.ipk is

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enchant, glibc-gconv-ibm850, glibc-gconv-cp1252, glibc-gconv-iso8859-15, glibc-gconv-iso8859-1, libgcc1 (>= 3.4.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5+cvs20050627), libglade-2.0-0 (>= 2.5.1), gtk+ (>= 2.6.10), libatk-1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), pango (>= 1.8.1), libglib-2.0-0 (>= 2.6.4), libsm6 (>= 6.0.3), libice6 (>= 6.3.3), libx11-6 (>= 6.2.1), libgnomeprintui-2-2-0 (>= 2.8.2), libgnomeprint-2-2-0 (>= 2.8.2), libgnomecanvas-2-0 (>= 2.12.0), libxml2 (>= 2.6.10), libz1 (>= 1.2.3), libart-lgpl-2-2 (>= 2.3.16), enchant (>= 1.2.5), libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.4), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8), libpopt0 (>= 1.7), libxft2 (>= 2.1.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.10), libxrender1 (>= 0.8.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.95), libstdc++6 (>= 3.4.4)
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New products and alternatives / Re: MNT Pocket Reform

« on: July 15, 2022, 03:18:09 am »

I have been following MNT's products development since they started to develop their first product, the VA2000 video card for the Amiga. Interesting stuff, the most attractive part is the CPU/RAM module, which means you'll be able to upgrade the device with a faster module in the future, providing that they will be available.

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Word/Spreadsheet for Openzaurs sl3000

« on: July 15, 2022, 03:11:51 am »

You could give abiword and gnumeric a try:

https://feed-zaurus.dahwa.fr/zaurusfr/openzaurus/3.5.4.1/feed/x11/

This feed is for 3.5.4.1, there are feeds for older OZ versions as well. The packages themselves are old, for newer ones you could try to upgrade to Ångström.

Varti

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Cosmo Communicator - General Discussion / Re: A Red State error ..repair help wanted.. BH or DEFcon

« on: July 08, 2022, 04:33:53 am »

Sorry to hear about your issues, I hope someone will be able to help with that.
I have deleted the other thread you opened as it was a duplicated of this one.

Varti

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: SL-C860 Doesn't detect CF card

« on: July 05, 2022, 07:20:26 am »

Hi and welcome! You can follow the guide and use the files stored here:

http://trisoft.de/en_c860howto.htm

Follow the steps under "Backup for download" in case your 860 has already a japanese stock ROM installed. In case it has a different one, then do a NAND restore (chapter "In case a backup won't work").

I have deleted the other post since it was a duplicate of this one.

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: Linux kernel version 6 support

« on: July 05, 2022, 07:00:49 am »

Thanks a lot for taking care of this, I really hope that Zaurus' support will be kept in the future 6.x kernel. I also hope that sa1100 support for the 5500 will be kept too, I have read that qemu already supports it and Linus Walleij seems to be interested to port it to DT:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/CACRpkdY2_ZbmcSuuMB9t5bB-tGE0iAc-nE26JwxidRFocRahSw@mail.gmail.com/

I'm not a developer, and unfortunately in general I don't have much free time, but I can help with testing the kernel builds on real hardware, as I have a collection of working Zauruses: I have all the models starting from the 5500 to the SL-C3200.

Varti

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Zaurus - Hardware discussion / Re: Difficulties in "using" a 4G Micro-Drive in the standard CF slot C--750/SL-6000

« on: May 05, 2022, 04:10:53 am »

I believe CF cards under Cacko are mounted under /mnt/cf. Anyway, microdrives are mechanical devices, so there's some possibility that yours are broken. Best thing to do is to see if they're correctly mounted on a computer, using a CF adapter.

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