Zaurus-general Digest, Vol 9, Issue 6

[Joseph Pingenot]

Is somebody working on this, or is using a Z for mobile network
access another thing to cross off the feature list?

Exactly what do you think you are entitled to?

Sorry for the tone of my post. It seemed like such a
fundamental requirement for mobile Wifi (the main reason I
bought a Z), that I was completely stunned when it went away in
1.0.
If noboby was working on profile support, I thought I might.
It would give me a good excuse to learn Qt.

That would be awesome. The lack of such a networking feature would
keep me from OZ/Opie.
Anyone know how the PIM apps stack up on the most recent OZ/Opie
versus the Sharp 3.10 ROM? Do they sync to Linux, and how? Sharp
did itself a huge disservice by not providing Sync abilities to
Linux users (who would be its most loyal fanbase).

The Z can be used for mobile network access. The requirement
to enter ESSIDs and WEP keys is allocated to the human. The Z
does the hard part.
Some folks have posted scripts on http://zaurus.com/dev/board/
which use opie-sh to help switching between network setups. Do
the research.

Thanks I'll look into it.

If you could make it go, I'd give you a dollar. :)

-Joseph

[Grant Edwards]

Post by Joseph Pingenot

Sorry for the tone of my post. It seemed like such a
fundamental requirement for mobile Wifi (the main reason I
bought a Z), that I was completely stunned when it went away in
1.0. If noboby was working on profile support, I thought I
might. It would give me a good excuse to learn Qt.

That would be awesome. The lack of such a networking feature
would keep me from OZ/Opie.
Anyone know how the PIM apps stack up on the most recent
OZ/Opie versus the Sharp 3.10 ROM?

The apps themselves seem quite nice.

Post by Joseph Pingenot
Do they sync to Linux,

Almost.

Post by Joseph Pingenot
and how?

1) Opie will sync with QTopia Desktop, but QTD has bugs in the
timezone handling code, so calendar events are all shifted.
I guess the developers of QTD all lived in the GMT
timezone.

2) There are reports that kitchensync will sync Opie PIM data
to KDE PIM apps, but it sure didn't work for me (I lost
everything in my calendar -- partially because the "backup"
funciton in QTD doesn't work).

3) Multisync has plugins for both Opie and Evolution, but I've
run into a couple minor problems there as well (which are
being worked on).

It looked to me like #3 is the best option at this point.

Post by Joseph Pingenot
Sharp did itself a huge disservice by not providing Sync
abilities to Linux users (who would be its most loyal
fanbase).

Loyal though too small in numbers for Sharp to care about.

Post by Joseph Pingenot

The Z can be used for mobile network access. The requirement
to enter ESSIDs and WEP keys is allocated to the human. The Z
does the hard part. Some folks have posted scripts on
http://zaurus.com/dev/board/ which use opie-sh to help
switching between network setups. Do the research.

Thanks I'll look into it.

If you could make it go, I'd give you a dollar. :)

I probably won't have time to mess with it until after we move
into new offices at the end of the year.

[Joseph Pingenot]

Post by Grant Edwards

Post by Joseph Pingenot

Sorry for the tone of my post. It seemed like such a
fundamental requirement for mobile Wifi (the main reason I
bought a Z), that I was completely stunned when it went away in
1.0. If noboby was working on profile support, I thought I
might. It would give me a good excuse to learn Qt.

That would be awesome. The lack of such a networking feature
would keep me from OZ/Opie.
Anyone know how the PIM apps stack up on the most recent
OZ/Opie versus the Sharp 3.10 ROM?

The apps themselves seem quite nice.

That was my impression, but I only kept it on for a little while.

Post by Grant Edwards

Post by Joseph Pingenot
Do they sync to Linux,

Almost.

hmm

Post by Grant Edwards

Post by Joseph Pingenot
and how?

1) Opie will sync with QTopia Desktop, but QTD has bugs in the
timezone handling code, so calendar events are all shifted.
I guess the developers of QTD all lived in the GMT
timezone.
2) There are reports that kitchensync will sync Opie PIM data
to KDE PIM apps, but it sure didn't work for me (I lost
everything in my calendar -- partially because the "backup"
funciton in QTD doesn't work).
3) Multisync has plugins for both Opie and Evolution, but I've
run into a couple minor problems there as well (which are
being worked on).
It looked to me like #3 is the best option at this point.

Post by Joseph Pingenot
Sharp did itself a huge disservice by not providing Sync
abilities to Linux users (who would be its most loyal
fanbase).

Loyal though too small in numbers for Sharp to care about.

Everyone keeps saying that, but I don't see firm numbers on it.
One thing that keeps going through my head is why a Windows user
would go with oddball Sharp running embedded Linux, when Palm and
especially PocketPC have many more apps and much wider adoption
(and cheaper prices).
It'd be interesting to see the actual numbers on this.

Post by Grant Edwards

Post by Joseph Pingenot

The Z can be used for mobile network access. The requirement
to enter ESSIDs and WEP keys is allocated to the human. The Z
does the hard part. Some folks have posted scripts on
http://zaurus.com/dev/board/ which use opie-sh to help
switching between network setups. Do the research.

Thanks I'll look into it.

If you could make it go, I'd give you a dollar. :)

I probably won't have time to mess with it until after we move
into new offices at the end of the year.

Is fine; 3.10 is great except not being able to sync to Linux.
"Whenever" is quite alright. :)

-Joseph

[Grant Edwards]

Post by Joseph Pingenot
Is fine; 3.10 is great except not being able to sync to Linux.
"Whenever" is quite alright. :)

You might want to give syncing a try. Other people have
reported success with one or more of the options, so there's
always the possibility that I just couldn't figure it out...

[Tim Sawchuck]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:04:46 -0600

Post by Grant Edwards
I probably won't have time to mess with it until after we move
into new offices at the end of the year.

That's only a little over 2 weeks, we can be patient that long... ;-)

Tim