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Software / maps/travel software

« on: June 08, 2004, 12:39:34 pm »

tz,

I will be grateful if you can send me version 1.05. I have version 1.02 downloaded from the net and it\'s still crashign heavily whenever GPS is connected and moving. At frist the less detail zoom works ok but it\'s crashign more frequently now. At street level the program almost crashes right away.

The program you are working on looks really good. Does it use the same road database as the Zraodmap? Zroamap\'s database is a bit outdated. I will welcome your program either as freeware or \"payware\". One thing I want my Z to do is to be able to tell me where I am at all times. It may sound naive but have you thought about making a program to convert commercial mapping softwares? Delorme Street Atlas and Microsoft Street and Trips can be had for less than $50. If you can write a program to convert those maps and use it in your program, it may be cheaper than buying expensive commercial database. Of course the userd of your program will have to get their own copies of SA or S&T to comply with the copyright laws.

FW

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Security and Networking / Cannot connect to Bluetooth Device

« on: June 08, 2004, 10:21:36 am »

Thanks for the advice Tumnus.

The strangest thing happened the other day: after I reformatted the Z and still couldn;t get it to connect to GPS, I gave up and restored to the previous setting. Since then, everything works again!!! It\'s a really strange thing becasue the restoration point was when sdptool gave me the \"permission denied\" message. I just ended up buying a D-link bluetooth dongle to use on my laptop and just keep the Ambicom CF exclusively (for now) for the Z. Hopefully I don;t have to see that message again...

BTW, since SL6000 has teh USB host feature, is there a way for your BlueZ package to work with dongle instead?

Thanks

FW

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Security and Networking / Cannot connect to Bluetooth Device

« on: June 05, 2004, 10:01:11 am »

Ok, I reformatted the Z this morning to start from scratch.

After the refomatting, I installed Qkonsole first, then BlueZ package. Nothing else

Tried \"sdptool browse\":

]sdptool browse
Inquiring...
Failed to connect to SDP server on 11:22:33:44:55:66: Permission denied
]sdptool browse
Inquiring...
Failed to connect to SDP server on 11:22:33:44:55:66: Protocol error
]sdptool browse
Inquiring...
Failed to connect to SDP server on 11:22:33:44:55:66: Too many level of symbolic links

What on earth is wrong with the connection!!! The GPS is freshly charged, in range and tested find using the same Ambicom BT2000E CF card in my Windows XP laptop. It can;t be the PIN in /etc/bluetooth/givepin, could it? I am just looking for a Serial Profile, not trying to pair with it(yet).  \"sdptool searh SP\" returns the same set of results. I have searched high and low on the internet but no one seems to have encountered this strange error meaasge. Can anyone help?

SL6000L
Default Sharp ROM
Ambicom BT2000E CF card
Bluez

Thanks

FW

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Security and Networking / Cannot connect to Bluetooth Device

« on: June 01, 2004, 10:55:29 pm »

I have a strange problem connecting to bluetooth device for the past two days:  When I type sdptool browse or spdtool search SP, my newly acquired Pharos BT GPS will return:

Failed to connect to SDP server on 11:22:33:44:55:66: Permission denied

where 11:22... is the MA address of the GPS. /etc/bluetooth/givepin has the correct PIN for the GPS. I tried different combinations inside hcid.conf, restarted blueZ, cardctl, cardresume, reboot but nothing works. Z has no problem seeing my BT cellphone though.

I am using old Ambicom BT2000 CF card on SL6000L with BlueZ. Running as root has the same Permission Denied message.

What can be wrong?  The strange thing is that it also happened two days ago but suddenly worked fine but return again today.

Oh, the GPS unit pairs with the same card when I use it in my laptop so it\'s unlikely the culprit.

Thanks in advance for your help

FW

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Software / maps/travel software

« on: June 01, 2004, 05:38:24 pm »

TZ,

Thanks for the help. The version I download is 1.02. Where can I get 1.05?

I had much better luck today. At the beginning, the program was crashing right after starting. Then I realized by accident that I have a start and destination point. I cleared the trip but still crashes. Finally I was able to start the program when I ran into stop-and-go traffic. Amazingly, the program kept running. Even after I left the congested area and was driving at highway speed, the program was able to keep pace. This is quite different than yesterday.

So I am thinking it\'s either the program cannot keep up with real-time routing requirement (during the crahses yesterday, I saw numerous error messages about \"unable to calculate route\" etc) or it doesn\'t like to start at high speed. It\'s difficult to test the latter since you are supposed to concentrate on the driving instead of reading error messages :-)

But anyway, today\'s events encourage me not to give up this program yet. In fact the irony is that while I can use the GPS successfully on Z only half of the time, I had no luck at all using it in both Street Atlas and Street And Trips on my XP laptop with the same Ambicom CF BT card!

FW

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Software / maps/travel software

« on: May 31, 2004, 08:52:07 pm »

A quick update:

cardctl suspend
cardctl resume
sdptool search SP
gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm1 -s 4800

from the console works at the beginning. But now \"sdptool search SP\" can\'t seem to find anything.

There are two other problems as well:

1) Zroadmap crashes in less than 5 minutes after the car starts moving
2) when I put the 4 commands in a shell script, sdptool doesn;t find anything.

FW

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Software / maps/travel software

« on: May 31, 2004, 05:27:06 pm »

I received my Pharos Bluetooth two days ago and had a lot of \"fun\" since then....

First of all, the Z: SL-6000 w/ Ambicom BT CF card and BlueZ installed. I added \"rfcomm1\" into /dev/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf with the right MAC and channel \"1\". Was able to get Zroadmap to work with the GPS right away.

Then comes the second day: The Z just will not pair with the GPS. Typing \"sdptool search SP\" returns somthign like \" Cannot connect to SDP xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; Permission denied\" or \".......too many symlink\". xx:xx was the MAC address of GPS and I was running as root. Got really frustrated so I gave up after a couple of hours.

Now today: I typed \"gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm1 -s 4800\" in Qconsole. Then \"roadgps\" and \"roadmap\" works fine and launch their respective programs. BUT.... if I click on the icon for \"Zroadmap\", all I got is the explosion icon and nothing else!!! How\'s that possible? I thought if I can launch the program from terminal, the icon should work just fine!

Sorry for the rant but for the group member who got a BT gps to work, what did you put in \"preference-]GPS\"? Should I leave it as \"gpsd://localhost\" or should I change it to \"gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm1 -s 4800\"(which worked for the first day but not afterwards)?

If I have to start gpsd manually everytime, is there someway I can create an icon whcih will execute \"gpsd -p /dev/rfcomm1 -s 4800\". I tried adding an icon in \"Tab Setting\" but it will not let me add the options.

Thanks

FW

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6000 - Tosa / Zaurus expansion sleeve...

« on: May 14, 2004, 11:56:28 am »

Coolass, aren\'t you refering to Bluetooth? 2.4GHz RF with max range of 10m seems to describe bluetooth prefectly.

I have search for existing CF GSM/GPRS but all requires you to use the WIRED handfree set they supply. I hope this will change as they introduce newer sets.

But either way a expansion sleeve w/ PCMCIA slot is welcomed. A Toshiba 5GB PCMCIA HDD cost aroud $170 while a CF counterpart will cost many times over.

FW

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6000 - Tosa / Zaurus expansion sleeve...

« on: May 14, 2004, 10:19:40 am »

coolass,

You are completely correct. But after using a bluetooth headset with my current phone(w/o wires), I don\'t know if I can get used to using regular hands-free set anymore. At first I thought holding your PDA to your face to answer the phone is strange but after seeing some of my co-workers do it with their PPC phones, it looks less strange nowadays.

Now if someone can make the GSM module use the bluetooth card to talk to a bluetooth handsfree.......

fw

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6000 - Tosa / Zaurus expansion sleeve...

« on: May 13, 2004, 04:42:11 pm »

Hmm... I guess I will have to wait a bit longer then....

FW

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6000 - Tosa / Zaurus expansion sleeve...

« on: May 13, 2004, 03:25:57 pm »

Doesn;t the expansion sleeve have an extra CF slot instead of PCMCIA? It will be so much better if it is PCMCIA but as far as I remember it\'s jsut another CF.

FW

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6000 - Tosa / Zaurus expansion sleeve...

« on: May 13, 2004, 02:31:53 pm »

If you attach the sleeve,  it will block the speaker and mic, right? That\'s one of the concern I have about the sleeve because eventually I want to have a GSM module attached to the 6000 and use it as a phone.

Thanks

FW

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6000 - Tosa / Any need to stop USB device before unplug?

« on: May 08, 2004, 03:55:05 pm »

For devices you connect to 6000 USB plug, is there any need to unmount or any other action before you disconnect it physically from the Z? So far I just turn the Z off and unplug the device.

Thanks

FW

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6000 - Tosa / Got Earthmate USB GPS, now what?

« on: May 07, 2004, 09:56:32 pm »

Could you elaborate a little as I am not familiar w/ the program (or linux) at all.

Do I actually need to install gpsd seperately? and how do I tell what \"USBXXX\" I should put?

Thanks

FW

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6000 - Tosa / Got Earthmate USB GPS, now what?

« on: May 07, 2004, 09:37:22 pm »

I took the plunge and got the Delorme Earthmate USB GPS.

The 6000 recognize it right away as \"Delorme USB Earthmate\". dmesg says something about

USB HID v1.00 Pointer [Delorme Publishing Delorme Earthmate] on usb 1.27.0

Now what do I do? I installed qpegps but the defualt path is

-p /dev/ttyS0 -s -4800

Is that for connection through serial cale? What should I change it to?

One good thing about the setup is that the Z can power the GPS all by itself. The bad is that if qpegps is run in 640x480 mode, it looks skewed.

Please help me set this up.

Thanks

FW