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« Reply #45 on: January 06, 2004, 11:29:56 am »
tummus are you running the special kernel on your 5500?
Does it support the socket low power wireless card?
Is it easy for a lightweight to use?
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« Reply #46 on: January 06, 2004, 11:43:23 am »
I\'m not running the special kernel on my 5500 (my wife uses that one). I\'ve only got it on the 5600.

Dunno about the wireless card. I don\'t have any myself.

I (or someone else) could upload a kernel image, which would be flashed in basically the same way as any custom ROM (except without the initrd.bin)
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« Reply #47 on: January 06, 2004, 11:52:37 am »
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tummus --] could you let me know if my latest tutorial section is correct?  I\'m just guessing here because I haven\'t got any bluetooth card...
Nearly. The problem is that all the Bluetooth patches fail to patch the serial driver because of changes the pre-emptive patch or some other patch makes. This causes problems in compiling

You don\'t need any of the USB based drivers compiling as you can\'t use them on the Zaurus and I couldn\'t get the UART based drivers to compile.
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« Reply #48 on: January 06, 2004, 12:06:35 pm »
I didn\'t have any issues to compile... I\'ve got aswell -] btuart_cs.o & hci_uart.o drivers
I\'ve compiled everything under bluetooth because I didn\'t know what it\'s need it... :-)

give me your email (in a private msg...) and I\'ll send you the kernel and the bluetooth modules so you can test it
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« Reply #49 on: January 06, 2004, 03:01:50 pm »
Wierd. I retried your instructions and apart from a few failed chunks from the Bluetooth patch, everything compiled fine.

I guess I have the same kernel and modules now. (I also recompiled the Ambicom driver that does not get distributed with the kernel)

I\'ll add a BlueZ package for the pre-emptive kernel at the Community site at some point.

Just wondering, since Wireless Lan was turned on in the Network Device Support kernel config section, does that mean that Wireless Extensions is on?
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« Reply #50 on: January 06, 2004, 06:47:10 pm »
I have just uploaded the latest \'special\' kernel to the ZUG downloads area in the \'5600 Patches\' section again. I guess we have to wait for an admin to approve it again. All credit goes to ced of course.

I have also uploaded a version of the BlueZ package to http://community.zaurus.com/projects/bluez/ which has the kernel modules recompiled against the \'special\' kernel.
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« Reply #51 on: January 06, 2004, 07:14:51 pm »
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I guess we have to wait for an admin to approve it again. All credit goes to ced of course.

Done, it\'s up there.  
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« Reply #52 on: January 06, 2004, 07:17:28 pm »
Just to add the recompiled bluetooth works on the 7x0 series as well but only with a preemtif kernel so don\'t use on a std kernel.

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« Reply #53 on: January 06, 2004, 11:20:20 pm »
Thanks Ced & Tumnus for this work.    A quick thought on the install directions...  

Since this is based upon the 1.32 ROM, should you warn others to upgrade to 1.32 first?  I was still on 1.0 so I upgraded to 1.32 first and then ran it for couple of days to make sure that the system was stable and that the new version of the Synch software was also working.

If someone using 1.0 reads this thread and then jumps into using this version, then I think they\'d have problems with using the synch software.

Since I have to work tomorrow, I\'ll have to put off trying your special kernel until tomorrow night.  Can\'t wait :!:
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« Reply #54 on: January 07, 2004, 06:13:22 am »
I didn\'t think there were that many changes between v1.0 and v1.32 of the 5600 ROM. I thought v1.0 also used the DTM based PIM engine and Samba instead of FTP.
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« Reply #55 on: January 07, 2004, 09:55:05 pm »
Yes, I agree that they both use DTM and Samba but 5 of the 8 feature changes that they list refer in some way to synching with the PC.  

According to their download page http://www.myzaurus.com/ROMupdate6.asp, they\'re recommending that you upgrade the PC synch software with the ROM.
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I\'d hate for someone to try the ROM and have problems later synching and blame it on the ROM when they actually should have upgraded the PC software.
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« Reply #56 on: January 08, 2004, 12:13:16 am »
I took the plunge.  It appeared to upgrade rather quickly - quicker than the 1.32 upgrade ran.  Now that I\'ve run the upgrade, how do I confirm that it\'s what I\'m running?  I went for just the pre-emptive patch and not the overclocked version.  

Is there something on the System Info/Version screens that I\'d see?  I did the cat /proc/cpuinfo and got the same bogomip 397.31.
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« Reply #57 on: January 08, 2004, 03:28:12 am »
do -] $ cat /proc/version

you should see the kernel compiled by tummus...
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« Reply #58 on: January 08, 2004, 08:15:30 am »
It returns:
Linux version 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-021129
<some other stuff>
#1 Fri, 2 Jan 2004 01:00:14 +0000

I\'m thinking that the Jan 2 date would make it Tumnus\' version?
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« Reply #59 on: January 08, 2004, 09:14:33 am »
It\'s pretty certain since the 1.32 ROM has been out for months now, although I didn\'t realise I was up that late compiling it

The other stuff should contain \"colin@paravel\" somewhere as that is me on my home PC. Got a theme going on
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