Strange Prototype

[marx]

Did you try a serial cable?
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I tried a USB-Cable for the normal Zaurus, but the connector of the "Iris" is smaller then that of the Zaurus. As I do not want to destroy the device by "trial and error", I did not try further.

@lpotter: Any clue about the "Key combination"? That would be a great help.

Thanx

marx

[guylhem]

Hello

Following up. I purchased it from marx. I totally panicked when it took longer than expected to arrive :-)

Hardware
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It works fine. It uses the same battery as the SL5500, but the connector is a little bit different. The phone hardware works ! I guess marx was having issues with the frequency. I'm on a 1800 Mhz network, and I could successfully call myself.

The connector is physically different when compared to a Zaurus connector, but it looks similar. 2x2 power lines at each end, like on a 5500. I'll solder it, plug it on my pc and see if there's anything on the other end.

It runs on 2.4.6-rmk1-np2 for which I could find back the old patches on:
http://adorphuye.com/files/linux-2.4.6-rmk...500-20020910.gz

The system type is a "LinkUp 7200". There's plenty of comments in the sourcecode - I learned the IRIS has at least one UART (accessible on the software side by ttyLU, major 204). First I'll try to find a way to know which prototype version it is (there seems to be hardware differences between them) the if magic keys are defined.

Software
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Yet the GUI is very unlike anything I know - certainly a very old version of qtopia. D+M at bootup brings a "filesystem not initialised" then a "ok" button and finally "initializing" that never goes away. Will try other sequences sharps uses and search in the kernel source for others.

Other ideas- Maybe having special filenames on the SD can make it boot on it/have qtopia start it, like an autoexec?

Maybe someone here knows previous version of qtopia, and how their packages where? Installing a terminal would make everything much easier.

Any help is welcome.