Greetings,
Seems the ol' Zaurus community is dwindling all too quickly from what I've seen of so many related sites and forums shrinking, and yet there is still no real replacement for it alas.

Anyhow, I recently dusted my c3100 off, and I have a Linksys CF wifi card. I was wondering, anyone know of a combo Wifi & Bluetooth CF card that would work for the Zaurus?

Thanks!

Just joined the forum, so I'll start with the ultimate newbie question.

I just picked up a SL-5500 at a yard sale, without the driver disk. When I got home, I discovered that Sharp is no linger hosting the file, and it appears nobody else is either. Are appearances deceiving? Is it out there, but I'm just not good enough at googling to find it?

I did find a lot of posts from frustrated Zaurus owners who posed this exact same question in numerous forums. I also found hosts for the 5000 and 6000 CDs, because apparently the 5500 was the last file Sharp continued to host before they abandoned it altogether. So if anybody here can turn me on to the file, I would be very grateful.

ETA: Oh, and in case it isn't clear, I need a driver because I'm running WXP.

So, Sharp just launched their new netbook incarnation called the NetWalker in Japan powered by Ubuntu. I think this is probably the first time Sharp takes another stab at the Linux portable computing space since the demise of the Zaurus.

http://www.h-online.com/open/Sharp-launch-Linux-based-Netwalker-in-Japan...

What do you guys think of this new device?

Hello,
For those of you that are excited about an official announcement, here it is!
http://cli.gs/n900announce

I realize this is not a Zaurus, but many consider the N Series to be the next best thing since the Zaurus line was axed.

Cheers!

Does anyone know of a shop that repairs zauri?

Hi all

Finally got some time to work on my Z again.
I can happily report that as of today I have Zubuntu and Cacko running in my C1000! Cacko is running from internal flash!
I had to do a completely fresh reinstall of Cacko:
First, flash Cacko 1.23 original
Then flash Katastrophos kernel with sd modules (>1GB)
Finally, flash Cortez' kernel.
Ta daaaa!!! 8D
*dances happily*

I might have to copy the whole thing to a 4GB sd card. 2GB is a little tight with 1 GB for Zubuntu, 450MB for Cacko (plus internal flash), and 420MB for a future distro (pdaXrom?). Or I might just turn the latter into a common /home partition.

On the Zubuntu side I am trying to deal with a few minor issues (lxlauncher is not stable, installed Ka/Pi, but will not sound alarms, etc...)

I've been looking for a free software that allows me to quickly jot and scribble notes (free hand drawing) at the same time flip into multiple pages. I've been using ImagePad for all these years and it's starting to grate me how cumbersome it is. The space of the image is just not enough for me to scribble on.

If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears.

nothing obvious on the ibiblio status page:

http://www.ibiblio.org/systems/system-status.php

hope it returns as I need my daily zaurus fix!

We bow our head on this solemn day:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-17192-Bye+Bye+Zaurus+!+Sharp+officially+discontinue+its+Linux+PDA..html
or shortened URL:
http://tinyurl.com/endofzaurus

I have recently determined a new path for my Z. Due to circumstances I'm now using a G1 as my PDA. I want to make my Z more of a palmtop. Which distro best supports this? Angstrom, PdaXRom, or OpenZaurus??? I'd like to have hdsc support and perhaps do a 32GB cf replacement of my microdrive(if it's advantageous). I'm hoping to someday teather to my phone for all connectivity.

Any suggestions or warnings of potential potholes with these choices is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

I've been contemplating on getting one so I get some extra disk space. I remember on the old Tyrannozaurus forum, I was told there was a size limit to what my Z (sl-5600) can support.

Can anyone help me figure out what I should be looking out for?

Thanks a lot.

EDIT:
Clarification, Compact Flash Memory Cards. NOT Microdisks.

Hi everyone,

I just added some more explanation to my page of examples of short shell scripts, hopefully making it more useful to people with little or no experience writing scripts.

The point of scripts is to make life with a computer easier, and that's why I like writing short scripts so I don't have to work so hard to do what I want with my zaurus.

http://sdjf.esmartdesign.com/scripts/shortsh.html

Have fun!

sdjf

Hi everyone,

So I've just started thinking about syncing my Z to my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I've begun digging some information and I hope you folks can chime in.

First thing is that I need a way to connect the two together. I saw this product...

http://serialio.com/products/adaptors/ZThinCableUSB.php

I'll be looking in hardware shops for something remotely similar to this. But assuming I get through that I need a software to sync. I heard that Qtopia Desktop is supposed to do that job, but it's so hard to figure out Trolltech's site now.

I saw this on the Qtopia site...
http://www.qtopia.net/modules/about/index.php?op=about_pda

But it's pretty difficult figuring out which one is which. Has anyone tried to go this route?

Howdy,
I'm finding that with two little kids, two jobs, a wife, starting University (you're never too old), home reno's, etc, I'm not really left with much free time to work on tyrannozaurus proper.
Changes...
-The forum has become a bit of a ghost town, so I'm thinking I'll disable it and make an off-line copy available.
-"it's a good linux morning podcast" has been moved to a dot com address and we're planning on starting up again in a few months (before Christmas).

Okay, I have added an sl6000l as a big brother for my Collie, and am struggling to learn how to work with devices!

I have plugged a CF card into the USB port and it is recognized by mount as in:

usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)

How do I make a permanent change so that my system will know that there is an ext2 or vfat file system (depending on the card)? dmesg tells me:
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: LEXAR Model: CF CARD Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 1001952 512-byte hdwr sectors
(513 MB)