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Sharp Zaurus C-1000 Kismet CACKO

 

Up for auction my beloved but underused Zaurus C-1000 imported by myself and owned for less than six months.

I have decided to get a Nokia N800 instead as all I need it for is web access and really have far too many toys.

Sharp is discontinuing these superb PDA’s / Mini Laptops, which I’m sure will make them even more highly prized.

If you like Linux and generally messing around trying different distro’s this little baby is for you.

I have recently used the PdaXii13 rom (NAND) on there and was very nice, like a full Linux desktop distro

although have now put CACKO back on which is more PDA ish and have installed  KISMET, SLapASS and

WELLENREITER II, all working with the PRISM2 C/F card included with the sale; I have not got round to patching the (HostAP) drivers for injection but this is relatively easy to do. I will include a 1GB S/D card with the Zaurus with PdaX, CACKO & Ångström distro’s on there plus a collection of IPK’s. I’ve had all of the different ROM’s working fine but will leave a copy of CACKO with all the WiFi side installed as is a bit of a fiddle if you don’t know what you’re doing getting it all going.

 

Host and Client mini USB cables are included as well as the 1 GB S/D card with various bits of software on. CF Prism2 Wi-Fi card and a new ‘PDair’ leather wallet all shiny and as new; everything you need. The original packaging is included along with the original documentation as well as a 2A mains PSU (PSP); the original psu was 100v only and has been binned.

 

All in all and compared to the Nokia N800 I now own, the Zaurus is a far more capable device and will be sad to see it go. I just hope someone has as much fun as I have getting things installed and running. I’ll be happy to provide any help via e-mail to get you up and running but as the wireless side is all working there should be nothing else you have to do. Any more piccies or questions, no problem. Please no offers to end the auction early and bidders with less than a feedback rating of 5, please contact me first.

 

Happy Bidding!

 

 

Review here; http://www.gelhaus.net/cgi-bin/showpage.py?zaurus/+review_C1000.html

 

Software here; http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:96HA-7kgbbsJ:zaurus.spy.org/feeds/bryandeluca/+libpcap0_0.7.2_arm.ipk&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=7

 

More stuff here; http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/

 

And here; http://zaurus.palmopensource.com/

 

Installing Kismet and other useful tips; http://atoah.com/zaurus/?page_id=2

 

Other Zaurus OSes

this post describes other OSes such as Cacko ROM, pdaXrom and Angstrom.

Wrong Linux kernel

It seems from this post that the OpenBSD installation file for the Zaurus: zbsdmod.o is designed to work with the 2.4 linux kernel, while the OpenZaurus I have installed has version 2.6.

Bugger.

Archives of the OpenBSD mailing list

Installing OpenBSD

So I copied all the openbsd files into a directory on the SD card called ‘boot-images’ and then rebooted, but it still said:


Note: No INIT [/sbin/init.sysvinit] found on target
Note: No boot-images found in [/media/card/boot-images]


Actually the command /sbin/shutdown -r now didn’t work either because it said “shutdown: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory”. When I touched that file to create it, then issuing a shutdown command let me bring up the alt-boot menu.

Next I tried running ipkg install openbsd41_arm.ipk while booted onto the SD card. It gave a segmentation fault.
So I tried the manual way: insmod zbsdmod.o, but this gave the same error as while booted normally:

Error inserting zbsdmod.o: -1 invalid module format


OpenBSD

I’ve put the boot files for OpenBSD in the root of my micro SD card, and I booted into altboot in OpenZaurus, which allowed me to boot from the SD card. These are the messages I saw:

Checking file system on /dev/mmcblk0p1
/sbin/fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/mmcblk0p1
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:     e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

Mounting /media/card...ok
Note: No INIT [/sbin/init.sysvinit] found on target
Note: No boot-images found in [/media/card/boot-images]
ERROR: Nothing to do!
/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

Maybe I need to put the boot image in that directory instead of the root?

Power

All mobile devices suck.

My iPod nano loses it’s charge completely if you don’t use it for a few days, and takes much too long to charge by USB.

My SPV M3100 smartphone just fails to come back from suspend mode, more and more often.

My Zaurus with the OpenZaurus OS installed also fails to turn back on, too frequently.

And my Road Angel satnav doesn’t hold its charge, and switches off and on all the time.

Zaurus

I had already installed OpenZaurus onto my Zaurus C3200, because I thought it would be easier to get gcc installed and compile in some development software. It wasn’t, for several reasons. So next I’m trying OpenBSD, which also supports the Buffalo AirStation wireless LAN card I’ve got.

Following the instructions in the OpenBSD instructions INSTALL.zaurus I typed:


ipkg install openbsd41_arm.ipk

and saw the following messages:

installing to root...
can't cd to /root/etc/rc.d
postinst script returned status 2


And even trying it the manual way:

insmod zbsdmod.o
cp bsd.rd /proc/zboot


…gave this error:

error inserting zbsdmod.o: -1 Invalid module format.


However, when I tried installing the ipkg again recently, I got a different error. Something like:


cannot access root parition '/' because it is in use.


This makes more sense to me — Maybe I need to first boot onto a ramdisk or similar, in order to boot the OpenBSD loading program?