How Well Does Pdaxrom Work On The C3200?

[zi99y]

I am running pdaxrom on my C3200 since I got the unit a week and a half ago - from my personal experience I can tell you that there is a steep learning curve to get everything working and setup as you like it (see my thread on this), but once you get it there it works very nicely.

Regarding the suspend/resume issues I at first thought it didn't work until I realised that when you resume, you should press the on button and WAIT, depending on how full the memory was when you suspended it can take a little while to resume - if I adhere to this, it does not fail me.

There are still various niggles - but none that make it unusable - the worst problem is that crashes are not unusual. I think once I have it all working and I don't need to keep fixing/changing things, it should be quite stable.

i got a planex gw-cf11x card that i got with my 3200 but pdaxrom sees it but i can not get it to connect to my wireless network any help woul be apreciated because i like the look of pdaxrom but right now i use cacko 1.23 and the pdaxrom was beta 3
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PLANEX GW-CF11X problem -

I did plenty of investigation on this, and the actual fix (posted somewhere) is to create a folder /etc/pcmcia/firmware and copy in the 2 firmware files I have attached to this post - copy it to the firmware folder and run

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tar xvzf firmware.tar.gzthen just delete the original compressed file and next time you insert your wifi card it should pick it up and you can configure in the usual lan/wifi control program. Let me know if you need any more help but as you have the same setup as me it should be that simple.

 

[daniel3000]

I am running pdaxrom on my C3200 since I got the unit a week and a half ago - from my personal experience I can tell you that there is a steep learning curve to get everything working and setup as you like it (see my thread on this), but once you get it there it works very nicely.

Regarding the suspend/resume issues I at first thought it didn't work until I realised that when you resume, you should press the on button and WAIT, depending on how full the memory was when you suspended it can take a little while to resume - if I adhere to this, it does not fail me.

There are still various niggles - but none that make it unusable - the worst problem is that crashes are not unusual. I think once I have it all working and I don't need to keep fixing/changing things, it should be quite stable.

Crashes?
I cannot remember one single real crash during my intensive experimentations (see http://www.daniel-hertrich.de/zaurus/zps_pdaxrom.

However, I have experienced situations which look like crashes and found out that they occur when

1. I have set date / time during X is running or
2. I have closed the lid of the Z for some time and reopened it (maybe also a time adjustment action here?)

The system still runs, but the GUI is not responsive anymore.
This is not too annoying at the moment, because I can avoid these situations.
Maybe I will have to find workarounds once I change my usage patterns and,k for example, need the Z to run during the lid is closed. We'll see.
Anyway, I have seen much more crashes and negative surprises with Sharp / Cacko ROM!

PLANEX GW-CF11X problem -

I did plenty of investigation on this, and the actual fix (posted somewhere) is to create a folder /etc/pcmcia/firmware and copy in the 2 firmware files I have attached to this post - copy it to the firmware folder and run

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tar xvzf firmware.tar.gzthen just delete the original compressed file and next time you insert your wifi card it should pick it up and you can configure in the usual lan/wifi control program. Let me know if you need any more help but as you have the same setup as me it should be that simple.

 
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Sounds great! I'll try the method you describe later today. Then I can finally reactivate my Planex card! :-)

Thanks a lot!
daniel

[daniel3000]

Sounds great! I'll try the method you describe later today. Then I can finally reactivate my Planex card! :-)

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Have tried it now. It really works!
The firware loading commands exist already in the pcmcia scripts, so adding these two firmware files is the onlys thing necessary to make the card work.
Well, I had to reboot. Just adding the files and putting the card intot eh slot did not work. No idea why. Maybe the D-Link card I used before did sonthing wierd to the driver and it had to be reloaded.

I also looked into my other Z which has Cacko ROM and it indeed does the same (these two prism2_srec commands loading up the two firmware files).

So now it's not magic anymore why it works under Cacko but didn't work under pdaXrom so far :-)

Thanks a lot!
daniel

[Capn_Fish]

How about USB stuff? Iwould like to be able to use my (powered) USB hard drive, USB mouse, and memory stick. Do these work out of the box or with a little tinkering?

Thanks.

[daniel3000]

How about USB stuff? Iwould like to be able to use my (powered) USB hard drive, USB mouse, and memory stick. Do these work out of the box or with a little tinkering?

Thanks.
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These kinds of devices should work out of the box.

daniel

[Capn_Fish]

Now I want one even more!

Thanks for your input.

[InSearchOf]

I had my choice of c860... or C1000... and the USB on-the-go was the determining factor...

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