SL 5500 TCK ROM 2.0 Aplha 3 with Home on SD script

[Ventmore]

I have just installed this ROM, with the home on SD, and the async kernel.

It seems to be working a treat, however, my wireless network card no longer works.  It worked fine on Sharp ROM 2.86 (I think) and 3.13 without any tweaking of the /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf file, but it now refuses to work with tkrom.

The device does detect a card, and labels it as an Intersil PRISM2 11Mbps card, but when I go into the network settings, it says there is no network available.

I tried adding the card manually to the wlan-ng.conf file, but that doesn't work either.

I don't want to go back to the Sharp ROM, as this one is great...apart from this problem

All input appreciated
Ventmore

[Ventmore]

Well...I've just gone trhough the whole process again, and this time it is working perfectly.

This time, I installed the wireless card after the initial flash.  It was working fine, so I went ahead and flashed the async kernel.  I checked the card again, and again it worked.  After that, as the card was working, I ran:

prep-home-sd.sh -s 20 -t -c

Success!!!

The only thing I did differently, was to run the prep script with -c instead of -i.  Also, I haven't reset again to clear the RAM out, but I don't think that should make a difference...in fact...I'll try that now.

Still working, and all of my apps are still intact

Cheers
Ventmore

[Ventmore]

Ok...I've lost it again.  The card shows that it is recognised, as usual, but no network connection is hown, and if I run opera, it pops a net connection box, but there is nothing in the list.

Also, when I insert the card now, the light comes on and stays on, whereas, when it's working properly, the light only comes on when connected.

Any help would be very welcome
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[kb7sqi]

I know this is an older thread, but I thought I'ld let everyone know that I took some time to mess w/ my old 5500 last night and I was successful in taking the /root/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script from the TKC ROM 2.0 Alpha 3 and modifying both the original TKC 1.0 ROM and the Sharp 3.13 ROM w/ the script.  The process was pretty quick and easy.  While doing it I went ahead and replaced the /lib/modules.rom/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/kernel/drivers/block/sharp_mmcsd_m.o module w/ the patched one that is also mentioned here in the thread.  My reasoning for doing this is,  I never had much luck w/ the Cacko ROM/Kernel being stable w/ home on my sd card.   The TKC ROM  2 has always ran stable.  Anyway, I was getting errors when trying to use tun.o and ipsec.o modules w/ the TKC kernel.  Both worked fine w/ the Original Sharp Kernel/3.13 ROM.  So, now I have the 3.13 ROM running vpnc w/ no problems and still have my /home on my SD card.  Everything is stable.   Besides, re-installing alot of packages, I'm pretty happy using the stock Sharp ROM for now, but I'm going to revisit this area eventually and make an new updated ROM for my 5500.  If anyone is interested in the initrd.bin files, feel free to drop me an email.   I usually read the site daily when I can, but hardly ever post.  I haven't used my Z in awhile because of work, but I've been growing tired of my Palm PDA's again & have a re-newed interest in the Z.  In fact I just bought a 5600 today & will hopefully have 6000 this week.  I'm also looking forward to getting a 3200 to replace the 3000 I sold to loc4me last year along w/ my Palm LifeDrive and a TX.  He just got those not too long ago and has been having fun w/ lately.  :-)

[arniel]

I know this is an older thread, but I thought I'ld let everyone know that I took some time to mess w/ my old 5500 last night and I was successful in taking the /root/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script from the TKC ROM 2.0 Alpha 3 and modifying both the original TKC 1.0 ROM and the Sharp 3.13 ROM w/ the script.  The process was pretty quick and easy.  While doing it I went ahead and replaced the /lib/modules.rom/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/kernel/drivers/block/sharp_mmcsd_m.o module w/ the patched one that is also mentioned here in the thread.  My reasoning for doing this is,  I never had much luck w/ the Cacko ROM/Kernel being stable w/ home on my sd card.   The TKC ROM  2 has always ran stable.  Anyway, I was getting errors when trying to use tun.o and ipsec.o modules w/ the TKC kernel.  Both worked fine w/ the Original Sharp Kernel/3.13 ROM.  So, now I have the 3.13 ROM running vpnc w/ no problems and still have my /home on my SD card.  Everything is stable.   Besides, re-installing alot of packages, I'm pretty happy using the stock Sharp ROM for now, but I'm going to revisit this area eventually and make an new updated ROM for my 5500.  If anyone is interested in the initrd.bin files, feel free to drop me an email.   I usually read the site daily when I can, but hardly ever post.  I haven't used my Z in awhile because of work, but I've been growing tired of my Palm PDA's again & have a re-newed interest in the Z.  In fact I just bought a 5600 today & will hopefully have 6000 this week.  I'm also looking forward to getting a 3200 to replace the 3000 I sold to loc4me last year along w/ my Palm LifeDrive and a TX.  He just got those not too long ago and has been having fun w/ lately.  :-)
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I'd certainly be interested in a new ROM for the 5500, looks like things have stagnated a bit... all the alternatives to OZ are at least 2 years old.  In fact, I just installed Cacko 2.4.18 w/1.6.2 yesterday as I'm looking for a more stable alternative to OZ, but of course it's not a pretty/functional and I've yet to get some useful IPKs together for pdf reading and opera.

[tux]

 

Just thought I'd bump this thread up a bit.

The threads about using the tweaked Sharp and TKC roms that have  home on sd with the >2gb drivers seem to have made it more topical.

(Oh and thanks very much to kb7sqi for the work and the product!)

If any admin reads this and has the time would it be possible to move this thread to the 5500 general forum?

If that happened would it be possible to make it a sticky thread?  

If that happened perhaps the two other threads mentioned above could also be made sticky?

Cheers