syncing with zaurus on gcc 3.2

srepmub · n00b Joined: 20 May 2002 Posts: 10

hi!

I'm going crazy here just wanting to send a file to my @$#% zaurus. it's totally incomprehensible to me why this should be so difficult. I plugged the zaurus into some windows computer and everything worked instantaneously, without being asked anything.. indeed, how hard can it be? we have a zaurus, a pc, and some wires between them.. how difficult can it be to send some stuff over the friggin wires?! what are they thinking at sharp? 'well, our developers use linux, the zaurus runs linux, and probably only linux people will buy it, so.. let's not even try to support linux!'

I patched and compiled my 2.4.20 kernel, loaded usbcore and usb-uhci, entered the required ifconfig commands and I can ping the zaurus. but now I have no idea how to communicate with it. the qtopia desktop synchronisation software, which seems to be stuck in an eternal beta phase, wont start, probably because of my use of gcc 3.2. (I'm starting to dislike trolltech more and more by the way. why is there still no Free version of qt for windows, do they want to kill their own company? and why not put the !#$ qtopia desktop sourcecode online?! argh)

if anyone is still reading this.. is there any way to send a file tot the zaurus? like, running qtopia desktop under wine? oh, the irony of having such beautiful systems such as gentoo linux and a zaurus that cannot communicate! thank you, sharp corporation.

mark.

hook · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 9:06 am Post subject:

...i want a zaurus too

i was wondering if that was true that there is no linux support for zaurus

...damn!

can't help you though, but why don't you contact sharp or a site that specialises in zaurus?

btw: is zaurus any good? ...i mean as a PDA
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hook · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 9:12 am Post subject:

i looked a bit using search and found some interesting info for you

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=26144&highlight=zaurus

and
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21987&highlight=qtopia

...hopefully this will help

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plate · Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 9:27 am Post subject:

Keep calm, take a deep breath, have a drink. There. Now, first of all, a quick search for "Zaurus" right here in the forums may already answer your questions. As to the rant against the corporation that brought you this extremely cool device, it may help to know that most guys there are a little embarrassed about this themselves, but Marketing tells them what to do, as is the case everywhere else too, I suspect. And if it's of any consolation to you, they don't have support for Mac OS, either...

The Sharp devs (at least the ones in Nara at the Zaurus plant) are all RedHat boys, every single one of them, and consequently that's the only distro to be more or less "officially" supported. Everybody else, check the net.

There's a huge amount of information at zaurus-general@lists.sourceforge.net that you may want to check, there's the unofficial Zaurus FAQ maintained by Bill Kendrick, there's our own Japanese club, the ZOK, and so on and so forth. Gentoo, by the way, was the first non-RPM distributions to support usbdnet, the driver you need to access the USB network connection to the Zaurus. It's been patched into the gentoo-sources kernel since two months or more...

As to how cool the Zaurus as a PDA really is - why don't you go ask someone who doesn't run a fanclub...