Sharp Zaurus

vcolombo · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

Hello,

Just wondering if anyone knows how to get a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 working under Gentoo 1.2. I've found other documentation saying you're supposed to use a patched version of the usbnet driver but I haven't found a version of that patch for the 2.4.19 kernel. The usbnet driver included with the kernel doesn't even seem to recognize the Zaurus. The CDCEther driver will recognize it however, but it doesn't work after that.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Vince

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 6:03 pm Post subject:

Easy way out: run 802.11b

Do you have any docs on what you're talking about?

vcolombo · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

Here's the documentation that I found:

http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/ethernet-over-usb-howto.html

Vince

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 6:24 pm Post subject:

So, I assume you attempted to follow the document... where does this stop working?

vcolombo · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

It stops working immediately. The usbnet patches available from that site are for 2.4.17 and 2.4.18, not 2.4.19 and it gives me an error if I try to apply one of the two.

As far as using the built in usbnet driver (the one already in the kernel), that doesn't have an option to put in the device and manufacturer ID info as stated in the instructions. If I build usbnet the way it is it just doesn't recognize the Zaurus cradle as a usbnet device.

Vince

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 6:55 pm Post subject:

Can you use vanilla-sources?

vcolombo · n00b Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 11

I don't know where else to get the usbnet patches from. The patches in this documentation are all I've been able to find.

I'm just using the gentoo-sources for my kernel right now.

metalhedd · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 2:43 pm Post subject:

You probably won't get errors if you use a vanilla kernel. the gentoo sources are already heavily patched.

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 4:38 pm Post subject:

dleuen · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2002 Posts: 1

@vcolombo

I don't know if you solved this yet but I was successful in applying
the usbdnet patch for the 2.4.18 kernel into the crypto-sources
gentoo kernel tree. The only thing I did different is used fuzz factor
4 as a patch option (patch -p0 -F 4 ). If you look at the patch, the
usbdnet files are new files. The Makefiles are the only ones that really
need patching/mergeing and the fuzz 4 gets it close enough where
there were no problems with the kernel compile. I only tried it with
the crypto-sources but I would think it would work with the standard
kernel too.

Don Leuenberger

needlern1 · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 8:43 am Post subject:

I just applied the usbd patch for the vanilla 2.4.18 kernel to the 2.4.19-gentoo-r7 kernel. My steps were right out of the 'ethernet over usb' howto and were pretty much as follows(I'm just posting the patch process I used):

IIRC, with the patch in /usr/src, cd into /usr/src and 'gunzip -c 2.4.18.patch.gz'(without the quotes when shown in this post); 'patch -p0 2.4.18.patch'; at this point 4 or so of the files patched successfully. The two that did not (Makefile and Config.in) generated reject files(rf). The rf showed where it failed in the patch process. As Don mentioned above, look at the patch file itself. You're simply adding new text to the Makefile and Config.in files. Using text editor of choice I copied/pasted the appropriate new text into each of the Makefile and Config.in files. Then was able to compile the new kernel with usbdnet in it.

BTW, I also updated my Portage ports tree and had the latest updates to build with first. My Zaurus, with fbvnc added, now shows on my monitor(via http://) and I use my full size keyboard and mouse to enter data into it. How sweet it is! HTH, Bill

fmalabre · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 376 Location: Chicago

Just received my Zaurus today

I followed the instruction given in your link for my Kernel 2.4.19, and everything works fine.
At least, I can ping my Zaurus...

I need to find stuff to synchronize with kde pim. Any idea where I can find that?
Also, I will try VNC...

shadow303 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 101

I just tried last night. The patch worked on my 2.4.19 gentoo-r7 source, and I was successfully able to ping my zaurus. The problem is that after I rebooted, X quit working. I remembered to remerge the nvidia kernel modules after installing the new modules (I have a Geforce2 MX 400) It's pretty weird. When I boot the machine, it displays the nvidia splash screen and then the screen goes black (it repeats this a few times before it dumps to the command prompt). If I try to do a start X, it doesn't work and I get some strange error message about not finding the font 'fixed'. ANy ideas?

fmalabre · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 376 Location: Chicago

Don't know for that ,I have an ATI.

But I tried VNC, and it rocks.

Cthulu23 · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 8

I've experienced the same problem twice and I had to reemerge Xfree86 before I got X working again. Sorry.

shadow303 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 101

I reinstalled my system since emerge rebuilds didn't seem to help. I have the module installed now, and X still works, but now the device refuses to show up under ifconfig. Hmm... maybe I missed something in the kernel config.

fmalabre · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 376 Location: Chicago

You know, it's weird, it was working fine.
Since then, I haven't done nothing and it doesn't work anymore...
I can't even ping it.
I will search for that later on, once I will have Gentoo 1.4 installed.

dioxmat · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 3:40 pm Post subject:

shouldnt this thread be in the new "Gentoo on Alternate Architectures" ? (the xbox one is :)

shadow303 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 101

No, since this isn't about running Gentoo on the Zaurus itself. This is about getting the zaurus to sync with a Gentoo linux pc (the problems being on the pc side).

dioxmat · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 8:06 am Post subject: Re: Sharp Zaurus