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For Sale / Wanted / For Sale: Sl-c860 With Accessories On Uk Ebay

« on: January 17, 2008, 09:24:36 pm »

Not long to go on this now... it ends Saturday around 1pm UK time... current high bid is £76.50

Good luck, happy bidding!

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For Sale / Wanted / For Sale: Sl-c860 With Accessories On Uk Ebay

« on: January 12, 2008, 08:37:05 am »

Hi all,

I'm letting my Zaurus SL-C860 go with accessories... It is in very good condition, see the
ebay listing below for photos. Here is what you get:

• Zaurus SL-C860 with battery
• Leather Case
• Belkin Bluetooth CF Adapter
• Linksys 802.11b WiFi CF Adapter
• Retractable USB Sync & Charge Cable
• 512MB SD Card
• Stylus

I'm in the UK but I will ship anywhere. See the ebay listing below for postal costs.

I've listed it on UK Ebay with a starting price of £29.99 and no reserve. Here is the link:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=230212116370

I'm happy to answer any questions either here or privately. Thanks for looking and
happy bidding!
Matt

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Qt/Qtopia / Dialog Sizing

« on: August 04, 2005, 04:45:51 am »

Hi,

In an app I'm creating I have a dialog that pops up. I'd like to have the dialog be maximised to fill the whole screen, but I can't see how I go about doing that?

I've played around with the different "sizePolicy" settings, but none of these seem to make it fill to fit the screen. I thought that perhaps setting the policy to "Expanding/Expanding" would do the trick, but it seems not.

I'm launching the dialog by doing:

Code: [Select]

UploadDialog dialog(this);
dialog.exec();
Can anyone give me an idea how I should be doing this?

Thanks,
Matt

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Cxx0 Hardware / Serial Connector Pin-out

« on: July 25, 2005, 07:40:31 am »

zmig2,

I now built the cable and have it working with the Z after a bit of messing around. I think at some point I'll write this up as a mini-howto or something with photos etc to save others having to do the searching around etc... but anyway, for now, here is the basic info:

- I bought some Zaurus connectors from:
  http://www.fivestarassoc.com/Z/index.html

- I bought some Garmin eTrex connectors from:
  http://www.pfranc.com/

I then connected the pins as per a null-modem cable, so from the output pin of the eTrex connector to the "Recieve Data" pin of the Zaurus connector (Pin 4) and from the input pin of the eTrex to the "Transmitted Data" pin of the Zaurus connector (Pin 3). I connected the ground pin of the eTrex connector to the "Signal Ground" pin of the Zaurus connector (Pin . I left the power pin of the eTrex unconnected.

- Details of the pin outs of the Zaurus connector:
  http://www.elsix.org/downloads/sio-specifi...030121_v100.pdf

- Details of the pin outs of the eTrex connector:
  http://www.syz.com/gps/etrex2info.pdf

Then, I installed GPSBabel, which is already packaged up for the Zaurus:
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=2895

I also needed to install libexpat to make it work, which is also available:
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=2894

Right, now to do a test... plugged in the cable and turned on both the Zaurus and the eTrex. From a console, I first set the baud rate of the serial port:
stty 4800 </dev/ttyS0

Now I ran gpsbabel and told it to dump the waypoints stored on the GPS to a GPX format XML file:
gps -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o gpx -F /tmp/waypoints.gpx

And voila, all working.... for me at least

Hope it helps...
Matt

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General Discussion / Setting Baud Rate

« on: July 24, 2005, 04:19:38 pm »

Ah yes, that did it.

Thanks for the help,
Matt

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General Discussion / Setting Baud Rate

« on: July 24, 2005, 01:13:47 pm »

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to set the baud rate when using a serial cable connected to the IO connector on a C860.

I saw in some docs that I should set it by doing: stty -F /dev/ttyS0 4800

However, that doesn't seem to work. On my Z (running Cacko) it seems that stty doesn't understand the -F switch and seems not to be able to make setting changes to /dev/ttyS0

Am I missing something here? Is there some other command I should be using?

Thanks,
Matt

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Cxx0 Hardware / Serial Connector Pin-out

« on: July 20, 2005, 08:19:50 am »

OK, so after some playing around with the USB cable and a multi-meter I've been able to determine that the pin on the left as you're looking at the connector on the Zaurus is pin 1.

Right, now that's sorted I can get on with making my Z to GPS connection cable

Matt

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Accessories / Archos Compact Flash Card Reader

« on: July 05, 2005, 09:09:24 am »

Thanks for the info, the Eagletec one does look good, but unfortunately I can't seem to find anywhere that stocks them in the UK

If someone knows where I can source one in the UK please let us know!

Thanks,
Matt

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Accessories / Archos Compact Flash Card Reader

« on: July 05, 2005, 07:02:25 am »

Hi all,

Anyone have any idea whether this will work with a Zaurus:
Archos Compact Flash Card Reader

I'd like to use it to read MemoryStick cards on my Z...

Anyone know if it works, or if there is another similar solution that works?

Thanks,
Matt

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Cxx0 General discussions / Bluetooth

« on: June 25, 2005, 05:01:11 am »

I don't know if you've already got this working, or if this helps, but here are the settings I use to connect to O2 using my Z with a Nokia 6230:

Account:
Username:    o2wap
Password:    password
Phone:    *99#

Modem:
BT device    /dev/rfcomm0
Init string:    ate0v1
Speed:    115200
Flow control:    enabled
Time out:    5 sec

Works for me at least, YMMV.

Matt

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Cxx0 Hardware / Serial Connector Pin-out

« on: May 25, 2005, 09:14:14 am »

Hi all,

I'd like to build a cable to connect my Z to a serial GPS device. I've been looking at the information on this page:
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/modules.php...name=SerialPort

That info is very helpful and includes a table giving relevant pins on the zaurus connector. What I can't figure out is which way round the pins should be counted?

If I'm looking directly at my Z, should I be counting the pin on the left as pin 1? or the pin on the right?

I understand that some models have the connector upside down from others? So I'm talking about a C860 here.

Thanks for the help,
Matt

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Deals and Great Z Buys / C1000 On Pricejapan

« on: March 17, 2005, 08:32:27 am »

Yeah, I bought my accessories from brando too. Good service, arrived to the UK within a week without problem.

Matt

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General Discussion / Networking Help

« on: March 16, 2005, 02:24:48 pm »

Hmmmm.... Firstly, I would have thought that there are better forums out there for this type of topic - I'm sure there must be some network forum/mailing lists out there, and if not then probably the off-topic forum here would have been more appropriate

Secondly, the answer is "it depends". It would depend on what you mean by "network". Are you just wanting to connect multiple machines to the internet? Or to handle file storage on a central server? or give the machines access to a shared printer? Or what?

Matt

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Accessories / Flashing With Usb Power Cable?

« on: March 16, 2005, 10:52:23 am »

FWIW, mine has always been connected to a powered Belking USB 2.0 hub.

Matt

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Deals and Great Z Buys / C1000 On Pricejapan

« on: March 16, 2005, 10:50:07 am »

I used DHL.

It took about 1 week exactly from ordering to arrival.

Matt