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« Reply #60 on: July 19, 2004, 12:38:34 pm »
Got my response from Mobile Link:

Dear Sir,

The driver for Sharp Zaurus SL-C760 is not available at this moment. It must look forward from C-Guys. When it is available, you must be the first one we will apprise.

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« Reply #61 on: July 19, 2004, 08:50:31 pm »
It is with much excitement that I post the following reply from C-Guys:

Hi Bryan:
Thanks for asking.
C760 was the target and it did work for beta in the early this year.
While we were working on the GUI (for similar to Windows OS), Sharp
upgraded it to C860.  Therefore, the product (the driver) we will be
issuing will be for 860 and it should be available in the early next
month.  We will be performing the GUI beta test at the end of this
month.

We will update the sheet very soon.
H. Ide

So, according to C-Guys the 760's and 860's both have SDIO capability and they will be releasing a driver for their SD-Link11b card within months.  How great is that?
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« Reply #62 on: July 20, 2004, 06:15:47 am »
This changes everything, no need to worry about only having a maximum of 1GB storage due to only being able to use SD memory cards and forced to use a CF WiFi card...

I can imagine the SDIO based WiFi card won't even be able to handle the full 11MBit bandwidth offered by the 802.11b protocol but it should still handle broadband perfectly fine.

Also, in theory, you could have a 4GB Storage WiFi FTP if you're at a expo or something

This opens many doors. I hope it works out!
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« Reply #63 on: July 20, 2004, 06:53:18 am »
excellent news stupkid
Gorgeous C860, 256 Sandisk SD, 1Gig Pretec 40x CF, PDAIR leather case & the really cool retractable iPDA USB sync/charge cable. Powered by PDAXROM BETA 1.

My wish - to have a Command & Conquer style game on my Z! (FREECNC!!!) Simcity 2000 would also be great.

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« Reply #64 on: July 23, 2004, 05:52:15 pm »
     wwwwhhhhhhhooooooooo!!!!!  

Good news indeed! I'm getting one!

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« Reply #65 on: July 23, 2004, 06:31:21 pm »
That's actually very good news, but OTOH, I'll probably stay with CF WiFi despite the fact that the SDIO driver is coming now.

OTOH, everything that adds choice in this sector is good.

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« Reply #66 on: July 23, 2004, 06:56:28 pm »
Any idea about the license yet?
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« Reply #67 on: July 23, 2004, 07:51:53 pm »
http://www.c-guys.com/Softagreement.txt


With WiFi, my 4GB Hitachi/Muvo, Cacko and Debian pocketworkstation in XQt simultaneously, the Z will be a laptop in my pocket. What else is missing?
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« Reply #68 on: July 23, 2004, 08:59:20 pm »
WOW, this thread has moved on a bit since my last read, a SD Wifi card? Am I reading this right? I'm feeling dizzy..  This is excellent news, and may make me move to wifi at home, that and a 4GB Microdrive and I'll be in heaven.

Great news.
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« Reply #69 on: July 24, 2004, 12:29:42 am »
Mickeyl,

<My Message>

Hi Hiroshi,

Do you have any idea on the license for this driver?  Specifically will
it be an OpenSource license (GPL, LGPL, etc.)?

Thank you,

<Reply>

We have not consider that yet.
There are a few proprietary parts that cannot be open.  But other parts can
be opened.
We will define which will be open and which will be closed once it is a
shape to something, which is soon.

H. Ide

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« Reply #70 on: July 24, 2004, 04:55:18 am »
stupkid, thanks for asking.

Please communicate to them that it's technically possible (e.g. using hal modules or firmware) to have the non-disclosable parts binary only yet having it distributed as source code.

Not having the driver as source code would render it useless for all non SharpROM users once we upgrade the Zaurus kernel.
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« Reply #71 on: July 24, 2004, 12:27:02 pm »
I directed Hiroshi to the Linuxant drivers:

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/

as an example of this partially open solution.  Hopefully they will see the benefits.

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« Reply #72 on: August 04, 2004, 06:06:48 am »
Check out the third post...the guy is a HP employee...

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=...9875173#9876101

Does this mean we could get opensourced SD drivers soon?

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« Reply #73 on: August 10, 2004, 09:04:50 pm »
Just an update on the C-Guys card. I noticed that the release date for their Zaurus drivers have changed; before it was supposed to be this month, now it says September

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« Reply #74 on: August 31, 2004, 09:36:38 pm »
Another update on the C-Guys SD WiFi card: they've updated their support table yet again... the 'end of September' date for Zaurus support still stands, but they've now marked the C750 as not supported. I'm curious as to the reason... I thought that the C750 and C760 were pretty close hardware-wise. I wonder if this implies that Cx60 can do SDIO, but the C750 cannot?

Weird.

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