OE/OZ project got tosa and poodle

Marcin Juszkiewicz June 27th, 2006

About one month ago one OpenZaurus user contacted me and Michael ‘mickeyl’ Lauer with info that he want to donate two Zaurus machines to project - SL-6000L (tosa) and SL-5600 (poodle). After some discussion we decided that both machines will be sent to me. I will keep tosa for some time to resolve some of bugs, poodle will go to Mickeyl when we will meet in Berlin during OpenEmbedded developer meeting. Both machines are added into OpenEmbedded project devices.

As donor could not send them overseas I contacted Aman ‘TheMasterMind1′ Gupta (one of old time OpenZaurus developers) and he agreed to get them and resent to me. Last Friday I got mail from customs office that package wait for me. I went there, paid 22% VAT (110 USD) and got box with two Zauruses.

I plan to flash tosa to OpenZaurus 3.5.4 + upgrades and check what need to be fixed. Next I will check how poodle works but this machine is something which I prefer to not touch too much rather - it’s 2.4 support was already marked as ‘terrible, awful’ and we want to move into 2.6 kernel on it. I will check how both machines works with 2.6.17 and maybe will try to hack it a bit - time will show.

9 Responses to “OE/OZ project got tosa and poodle”

  1. # Paul Mansfield/speculatrixon 27 Jun 2006 at 12:01

    An updated kernel will be great news. I tried OZ/GPE on Tosa and it was pretty good, although I did have to hack the suspend/resume scripts for usbnet as they were completely wrong (I will provide a copy when I can, not possible now as mine is broken awaiting repair).

    good luck!

  2. # Ericon 30 Jun 2006 at 18:38

    I still cannot get wireless working on my tosa this has been a huge disadvantage for me.

  3. # Laurenton 02 Jul 2006 at 00:18

    I am so eager to get 2.6 kernel into my poodle :) Let’s hope this donation, as well as coredump’s work on kernel 2.6 for poodle will lead to something we can use and enjoy.

  4. # bazmion 04 Jul 2006 at 09:58

    2.6 kernel on 6000 would be just fantastic.

    i had problems with the wifi with GPE but with the opie image it is just fine. for some reason with WEP enabled, it doesnt work well with GPE. since base is the same, i guess it has something to do with the gui and the way it stores info.

  5. # Benon 05 Jul 2006 at 11:11

    Nice, Tosa really needs love !
    In particular, wireless on Tosa is … quite unstable presently :(

  6. # on 06 Jul 2006 at 06:45

    Yes.. WiFi on tosa is nightmare.. hard to configure (GPE network setup does not support wlan-ng at all), fails too often.. I’m going to move to 2.6 to test how machine behave (got too much used to 2.6 kernel on c7×0).

  7. # Gosheron 09 Jul 2006 at 08:21

    True. Wifi (and suspend/resume shortcomings) is the weak point on this machine. To the extent that we can’t say, right now, that on Tosa OpenZaurus is in any way better than Sharp’s ROM (in Tosa, Sharp’s is better).
    Plus nowaday, the lack of WPA is quite a showstopper.

  8. # Paul Mansfield/speculatrixon 18 Jul 2006 at 08:48

    I managed to get wifi to work - see the wiki, and improved suspend/resume so that usbnet would work after resuming but my 6000 has been temporarily broken so I couldn’t finish.

  9. # Paul Mansfield/speculatrixon 18 Jul 2006 at 08:48

    p.s. I was using GPE on SL-6000L