Authoritative information about Linux with Zaurus SL-5600.

[troywill]

Hi,
I\'m a Linux user ( Mandrake 9.2 ) who has been trying to sync my Zaurus SL-5600 with my Linux computer. Ironically, Sharp has no software or documentation about syncing the SL-5600 with Linux. There are some web pages that mention networking/syncing a Linux computer with a Zaurus but I think they only work with the 5500 model, not the SL-5600.

I have a web page at http://grantlinux.com/sl5600.html where I am putting some links to authoritative information about the SL-5600 model. If anyone has a link or some useful information to pass long please email me ( troy AT troywill DOT com ) and it will put it on my page.

In particular, I believe that:
1. There is no way to ftp a file to stock SL-5600.
2. There is no way to sync with Qtopia on a Linux computer.

I bet there are people wasting time trying to do these 2 things when they are in fact impossible.

Troy

[Anonymous]

1. try using samba on linux to connect to sharp roms v 3.1 (whats on the 5600), or install ssh
2. For Sharp rom true. If you use OZ, it will sync using Qtopia Desktop from Trolltech

[tumnus]

Try looking through the Howtos and FAQs on this website.

[Anonymous]

how you like mandrake 9.2...i reinstalled 9.1 after i realized that mandrake 9.2 uninstalls the start group after a new software install.  So i went back to 9.1

[troywill]

The problem seems to be that the Howtos and FAQs are outdated (for the 5600). For example, there is an FAQ that states the Zaurus has a ftp server running on port 4242. Well, I think thay may apply to the 5500, but the 5600 has no running ftp server, not even a ftp binary. I wonder how many schmucks like me have spent hours trying to ftp into the 5600 because of that? If I am wrong, and there is a FAQ or HOWTO that adresses ftp on a default 5600 please point it out to me.

Whatever the case, I\'ll put the answer about ftp at http://www.grantlinux.com/sl5600.html

Try looking through the Howtos and FAQs on this website.

[tumnus]

The FAQs and Howtos should be fairly up to date as a few others and I trawled through them about 3 months ago.

If you have some examples that are misleading then please point them out and I will fix them if someone else doesn\'t get to it first.

BTW, the SL5500 with the latest Sharp ROM doesn\'t have FTP builtin either.

[Anonymous]

how you like mandrake 9.2...i reinstalled 9.1 after i realized that mandrake 9.2 uninstalls the start group after a new software install.  So i went back to 9.1

mandrake 9.2 did not uninstall software. It\'s just small bug in menu, just type in xterm (as root) command: ]update-menus -v
It will recover lost menu items. There is a way to do this from GUI, I do not remember comletely, but it is something like:
  edit menu -] save
Hope it helps.