April 27, 2024

My little Zaurus FAQ:

Q) How can SL-5000D owners get Hancom Office?
A) http://www.zaurus.com/dev/hancom/registration.php

Q) How do I type the | (pipe) character from the keyboard?
A) Shift-Space (if that doesn’t work, try Function-Space)

Q) How do I type the (backslash) character from the keyboard?
A) Shift-Tab

Q) How do I type the ~ (tilde) character from the keyboard?
A) Function-Backspace

Q) How do I hit the escape key in vi?
A) Cancel button

Q) How do I format a CF card?
A) http://www.zauruszone.farplanet.net/howtos/managing_sd_cf_howto.shtml

Q) How do I update the SL-5000D flash ROM?
A) http://more.sbc.co.jp/slj/download.asp

Q) How do I update the SL-5500 flash ROM?
A) http://www.myzaurus.com/ROMupdate2.asp

Q) How do I connect to a Linux computer?
A) http://humphrey.applitec.com/zaurus/

Q) How do I download a http file from the command line?
A) wget http://location

Q) How do I boot to shell (don’t start up Qtopia)?
A) Push the ‘/?’ button during ‘count down’ and then press ‘a’

Q) How do I get a detailed description of what happened during boot?
A) dmesg

Q) How do I enable telnet on the Zaurus?
A) Edit /etc/inetd.conf
Remove the # from:
#telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd

Q) How do I enable the ftp server on the Zaurus?
A) Try…

http://www.qnx.com/developer/docs/momentics_nc_docs/neutrino/utilities/f/ftpd.html
http://www.qnx.com/developer/docs/momentics_nc_docs/neutrino/utilities/f/ftpd.conf.html

Q) How do I find out what packages are installed?
A) ipkg status

Q) How do I find out what files are installed for a package?
A) ipkg files

Q) Are there any Chinese ROMs?
A) http://zaurus.cis92.net/chinese_rom/