OK, Now the Real New Cacko Qtopia ROM

[maslovsky]

Has anyone been able to get Wellenreiter working with the new ROM? If so, how did you do it. I thought it would work because the new ROM is supposed to have wireless support in the kernel, but no luck for me.

The ROM has wireless extentions enabled in the kernel. But they are only supported in orinico/spectrum drivers. Most cards still use default wlan-ng drivers, which don\'t support wireless extentions. To make your card use orinico driver, you need to comment  its definition from wlang-ng.conf file and add it into hermes.conf file. This file is located in /etc/pcmcia and renamed to .hermes.conf by default.

Or better install hostap drivers package.

To make wellenreiter work, make sure you run it as root (tap & hold its icon and selecr \"Run as root\" option)  and start it when there is an active wireless connection.

[toadatrix]

maslovsky--Many thanks for your great work and help.  Have you actually tried and been successful in getting Wellenreiter to work with the new ROM using the instructions you posted above?  When I install host-ap drivers my wifi stops working all together.  When I uninstall them everything is fine once again.  Perhaps you are using a different version of Wellenreiter.  Could you please point us to the version you installed.  A number of us are really trying hard to get Wellenreiter working with the new ROM, but so far we have no luck.  Thanks so much once again.

[tamarian]

When I install host-ap drivers my wifi stops working all together.  When I uninstall them everything is fine once again. 

Me too. I guess this depends on the card you\'re using. I\'m using the Buffalo Wi-Fi, and installing hostap doesn\'t work.

[ScottYelich]

mas: thanks.. I\'ll compare (soon).

ok, latest -- real -- qt rom flashed... on the 700.  the hostap wireless drivers breaks usability for my dlink660w.
the overclocking power save works, and it is slow... the default 250 works.  all of the others lock the machine.
I\'ll go post in the hardware section more.

[Anonymous]

qt rom flashed without any pb!

But still unable to conect via USB neither tcp/ip nor usb storage under mandrake 9.2. But it must come from me as it never worked anyway with the previous rom :roll:

Any idea?

[zbones]

still unable to conect via USB neither tcp/ip nor usb storage under mandrake 9.2

Have you enabled usb storage in the pclink app (in the settings tab).

If so, it may be your mandrake box that needs tweaking.

Peter.

[maslovsky]

Regarding HostAp drivers - I\'ve tried them with the two cards I have - Pretec and Ambicom. They worked fine.

What exactly goes wrong with HostAp drivers? Does your card gets recognised? Does it connect to to an access point without WEP? If you use DHCP try to increase DHCP timeout in wlan-ng.opts file, in qpewlan0 section.

Also, as I said you may want to try orinico drivers instead of default wlan-ng:
Uninstall hostap drivers, go to console and do:

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su

cd /etc/pcmcia

mv wlan-ng.conf .wlan-ng.conf

mv .hermes.conf hermes.conf

/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

Then reinsert your card.

Let me know if orinico drivers work better.

[maslovsky]

the overclocking power save works, and it is slow... the default 250 works. all of the others lock the machine.

Sorry, but there is no garantee if overclocking wil work for for a particular processor.

[rlackey]

I finally decided to install a new ROM and choose slc7x0-Qtopia-1438050304. All is well except the the Zaurus can only see my Viking 256MB SD card as Read Only. I tried reformatting it via my PC but all to no avail. I can read and write using my PC. It was working with the default Sharp ROM. Can anyone tell me how to fix it so I can write to my SD Card?

Thank you.

[maslovsky]

Some people/had similar problem with Sharp ROM. Search these forums - there are topics on such  issue.

[zbones]

rlackey,
What did you format your card to?  if it was fat32, then try formatting it to fat (which is fat16).

[rlackey]

Thanks. I have tried both FAT and FAT32. After reformating, anything I put on the SD is invisible to the C700. I will do a search to see if I can find any other info. If you have any ideas, they would be welcomed. Thanks, Richard

LATEST - I did a fsck on it and it is ALIVE. Thanks

[tamarian]

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su

cd /etc/pcmcia

mv wlan-ng.conf .wlan-ng.conf

mv .hermes.conf hermes.conf

/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

Then reinsert your card.

Let me know if orinico drivers work better.

Yes, it works!

I just had to add the Buffalo card to hermes.conf, and welllenreiter works..

Thanks Mas!

[toadatrix]

tamarian--Please explain a little more about what you did.  Did you comment the Buffalo card out of the wlan-ng.conf file?  Did you rename wlan-ng.conf to .wlan-ng.conf?  Did you add the Buffalo card to the .hermes.conf and specify that the orinico drivers should be used for it?  Did you rename .hermes.conf to hermes.conf?  Finally did you restart using the /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart command?  Thanks for your help.

[tamarian]

tamarian--Please explain a little more about what you did.  Did you comment the Buffalo card out of the wlan-ng.conf file?  Did you rename wlan-ng.conf to .wlan-ng.conf?  Did you add the Buffalo card to the .hermes.conf and specify that the orinico drivers should be used for it?  Did you rename .hermes.conf to hermes.conf?  Finally did you restart using the /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart command?  Thanks for your help.

Yes

I followed the instructions:

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su

cd /etc/pcmcia

mv wlan-ng.conf .wlan-ng.conf

mv .hermes.conf hermes.conf

And then added my card info (obtained through cardctl ident) to hermes.conf:

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card "BUFFALO WLI2-CF-S11"

  manfid 0x026f,0x030b

  bind "orinoco_cs"

and finally:

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/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart