[NBLUG/talk] zaurus [again]

[William L. Thomson Jr.]

I have a Zaurus as well, a nice Christmas present.

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 08:49, error wrote:
> I can ping from one usb port to the zaurus.
> 
> icmp over usb!
> 
> yay!
> 
> _[root at eris:/etc/hotplug/usb] [Tue May 06] [05:42 AM]_
> $ ping 192.168.129.201
> PING 192.168.129.201 (192.168.129.201): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.129.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=17.0 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.129.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.1 ms
> 
> If I run ifconfig manually it all seems to work for a network.

So you were able to get two way communication with the Zaurus over USB?
Or are you going the wireless route. I have yet to go the wireless
route, and because of which my Zaurus is some what useless to me. I am
planning on getting some wireless stuff for it, but it's more a luxury
than a necessity. Really if the Zaurus was wireless all I could do is
surf and talk to my machines while I am on the toilet. That's the only
place it's not comfortable to have my laptop with me.

Now what I do want to get is the wireless modem and wireless service
from Verizon. So I can have ISDN speeds 128kbps-156kbps any where there
is digital cellular service. So if I am at the beach, club, or meeting,
I can reach my servers and network if need be. Or if I need to surf or
send an email I can. So that is more lucrative to me than wireless
around the office.

> It still won't sync right.

My 2 cents on the syncing with QTDesktop. It's doesn't work, so do not
waste your time.

I have had the Zaurus perfectly networked, but the damn qtdesktop would
not see it or sync with it.

About the best use I have found for the desktop is the get it to add
some headers or something to a directory on my web server that allows me
to see and pull packages off the web server from my Zaurus.

I tried just putting the files there and pointing the Zaurus to that dir
but no go. So the QTDesktop did help out there, but that's the only use
I have for it so far.

> Even over 802.11b

Not surprised.

> I cannot get the qtopiadesktop stuff to work.

You are not alone.

> Any ideas?

Forget about it. I would like to use the perl script that someone wrote
to sync the Zaurus with Evolution. I am not sure if it's any good, or
even works, but I like the theory.

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/search.php?q=evolution&x=0&y=0

Also if you need some further Zaurus links I have a few I could post or
email you.

Good luck, and please let me know if you every get the QTDesktop to
sync.

-- 
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
3548 Jamestown Ln.
Jacksonville, FL 32223
Phone/Fax  904.260.2445
http://www.obsidian-studios.com