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Schweizer Walter | 2 Feb 2004 19:07
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RE: Bootldr patches

Great Alex!
You are right, the second chip needs also the reset.

In WinCE we did some tricks to work around limits of the
old bootloader. I will have to look at these to see if it
is possible to run WinCE with bootldr. Don't hold your breath!

Regards
Walter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Lange [mailto:alexgrosy <at> t-online.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:12 PM
> To: simpad-general <at> lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Simpad-general] Bootldr patches
> 
> 
> Hi Walter,
> 
> this seems to work great! I have used the original 1x16 
> FlashSectors in 
> btflash.c to reset the second chip using the IPCOM value. If it's not 
> resetted then bootldr times out when reaching the second chip.
> I can finish off the rest on my own I think.
> Last question: Is there any chance to boot windoze ce using 
> this bootldr?
> 
> thanks for this help!
> Alex
>
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Schweizer Walter | 2 Feb 2004 19:14
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RE: Re: NE2000 compat list

Well, I said this card would work. I have one.
There is an issue with NFS though, it crashes.
Seems being a problem in the Linux driver of the card.
It needs a patch to set duplex modes according to google.

Walter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert Huitsing [mailto:albert <at> huitsing.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 9:32 AM
> To: Ralf Miunske
> Cc: simpad-general <at> lists.sourceforge.net; Schweizer Walter; Juergen
> Messerer
> Subject: Re: [Simpad-general] Re: NE2000 compat list
> 
> 
> Ralf Miunske wrote:
> 
> >Thanks guys!
> >
> >As Albert said 'Planet PC-card Fast Ethernet ENW-3502F' 
> works great with the 
> >simpad and is distributed in germany by www.avanis.de :-)
> >  
> >
> eeh...: I didn't say that! but I'm glad to hear it does ;-)
> 
> Albert
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Guylhem Aznar | 6 Feb 2004 00:08

sound support status?

Hello

Just a quick question - how is doing sound support?
Anyone working on it? No hope for the next release?

Any suggestion for a keyboard that would be supported *and* available in Europe?
(I'm sick of trying to have the ibiz work-I'll buy a new one)

Guylhem

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Michael Lauer | 6 Feb 2004 12:03
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Re: sound support status?

> Just a quick question - how is doing sound support?
> Anyone working on it? No hope for the next release?

What is the problem with sound support? I can record and play 
through /dev/dsp here - it's just a initial crackle when
first opening the device.

Generelly it doesn't look to good. It seems at the moment noone is
directly working on something SIMpad related except Alex doing the
bootloader and me doing the build system migration.

We hope to do the next OpenSIMpad release to be based on kernel 2.6,
however iirc there has yet to appear a ucb1x00 oss driver in that
kernel, so things aren't likely to improve until someone fixes that

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Juergen Messerer | 6 Feb 2004 13:18
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Re: sound support status?

Hi Guylhem,

I know I have to work on the 2.6 kernel, but at the moment I have so 
many things to do that I have no time to
hack the kernel.

For your keyboard. I would suggest the following one. I know it is 
exspensive but it works greate:

http://www.man-machine.com/FX100.htm

They also have an open source driver for the zaurus. I have this 
keyboard. One for my simpad and one for
my zaurus. Under X11  I have used an newton driver. Sometimes it works 
and some time not.
But under Opie the driver works perfectly. Easy to install. :-)

You can buy it also in europe but you have to pay.  You can order it 
from this website.

One problem. I don't know from where you can get the siemens connector.

I have used my spare serial  cable.

Maybee Walti knows where you can buy one.

Best regards

Juergen
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Guylhem Aznar | 6 Feb 2004 13:24

Re: sound support status?

Hello,

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:03:56 +0100
Michael Lauer <mickey <at> tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> > Just a quick question - how is doing sound support?
> > Anyone working on it? No hope for the next release?
> 
> What is the problem with sound support? I can record and play 
> through /dev/dsp here - it's just a initial crackle when
> first opening the device.

Wow. Opening opie mixer crashes the simpad. Yet I haven't flashed december 2003
release based on 1.0.3 - that may be the reason.
I will try to reflash it this afternoon
[Regarding crackles, I can reproduce them restarting opie - I think it's related
to some hardware access made by opie at startup time instead of just opening the
device, but I'd have to try to boot without any kind of gui to test that]

> Generelly it doesn't look to good. It seems at the moment noone is
> directly working on something SIMpad related except Alex doing the
> bootloader and me doing the build system migration.
> 
> We hope to do the next OpenSIMpad release to be based on kernel 2.6,
> however iirc there has yet to appear a ucb1x00 oss driver in that
> kernel, so things aren't likely to improve until someone fixes that

Ok :-(

Best regards,
Guylhem
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Guylhem Aznar | 17 Feb 2004 14:55

simpad - hardware mods question

Hello

I can no longer find the simpad motherboard pictures on google...

I'd like to know why pcmcia-cs tools are detecting 2 ports - is there one port
that's inside the simpad which could be used to solder a pcmcia wifi card or a
128 Mb  CF?
Regarding the replacement of the DECT module by a bluetooth module, any news?
I was put in touch with somebody at siemens but he refused to sell me a
bluetooth module.

If there's a possibility to solder something, that would be great...

Bien a vous - Best regards,
Guylhem

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Schweizer Walter | 17 Feb 2004 15:07
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RE: simpad - hardware mods question

Hi Guylhem

The pictures are on opensimpad.org.

StrongArm has 2 PCMCIA ports but the SIMpad hardware has only drivers
for one port. You would need to change the hardware consirably to add
the second port.

Walter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guylhem Aznar [mailto:simpad <at> externe.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:55 PM
> To: simpad-general <at> lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Simpad-general] simpad - hardware mods question
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> I can no longer find the simpad motherboard pictures on google...
> 
> I'd like to know why pcmcia-cs tools are detecting 2 ports - 
> is there one port
> that's inside the simpad which could be used to solder a 
> pcmcia wifi card or a
> 128 Mb  CF?
> Regarding the replacement of the DECT module by a bluetooth 
> module, any news?
> I was put in touch with somebody at siemens but he refused to 
> sell me a
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Guylhem Aznar | 17 Feb 2004 15:51

IBIZ SUCCESS ! [was Re: sound support status?]

Hello,

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:18:11 +0100
Juergen Messerer <juergen.messerer <at> freesurf.ch> wrote:
> For your keyboard. I would suggest the following one. I know it is 
> exspensive but it works greate:

Well well I *no longer need this* :-)

After some extensive tests of the keyboard, the serial port, etc. I realised the
problem was in input-attach [which should be removed from the distribution BTW
since it makes the kernel crash].

My solution : get qpe-flexis. replace /dev/ttyS0 in one file by /dev/ttySA0.
recompile. install the ipk, restart opie, select "flexis" and test - IT WORKS!

I'm done with that thing. Ok it looks easy [stupid port name convention] but
I've been trying various software combinations, serial port setup (speed, etc)
for a very long time until I realised the ibiz, the serial cable and serial port
as well but the mistake was in the software. Now it works just fine [if you
don't press the green button which hangs my simpad]

Crossposted to opie lists where someone asked me the solution 2 weeks ago [while
still looking for it]

Best regards,
Guylhem

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Guylhem Aznar | 17 Feb 2004 16:01

Re: simpad - hardware mods question

 Hello,

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:07:07 +0100
"Schweizer Walter" <walter.schweizer <at> siemens.com> wrote:
> The pictures are on opensimpad.org.

Thanks !

> StrongArm has 2 PCMCIA ports but the SIMpad hardware has only drivers
> for one port. You would need to change the hardware consirably to add
> the second port.

Too bad :-( I guess I will have to work until wifi "connect plus" pcmcia (128 +
wifi) works under linux.

Best regards,
Guylhem

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