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Hi,
I purchase a sharp zaurus SL-5600 PDA. I am unable to connect to it with Suse 9.0. It uses a USB port. Suse OS tell me it is a modem. The file transfer function will not work with Linux, but will work with Windows 2000. Any suggestion.
It's kind of a pain, surprisingly, to get the Zaurus to sync under Linux. Probably the first thing to do would be install QTopioa Desktop if possible (and once again, it's a pain since they don't make binaries available for all Linux distros). You may also want to check out this howto; it's oriented more towards OpenZaurus, but it should be applicable if you're using the regular Zaurus software too.
Wow! Wapcaplet, thanks for the link about configuring your Z for networking and NAT and DNS. I only have one computer but I didn't think I could use my Z as a networkable computer! This will give me lots of fun times configing a simple network.
I guess its true: the Z is just a small Linux computer.
Heck yeah! If you have a wireless network card you can even walk around with Apache in your pocket, serving webpages to the world. If Linux can do it, the Z can do it too.
Though, mostly I just use mine as an address book and grocery shopping list
wapcaplet, how are things in the Springs? Can't say that I miss the weather
Not that I would be professing my age, but I remember Academy Blvd when it was a two lane road.
I fooled with setting my Z up in Q but it was too much trouble (I did get it to work, but I promptly lost the config when I upgraded my desktop. D'oh!). Sharp could of done better.
All I do now is simply use a card reader to read the flash card (hardly a hotsync, but it works well).
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mostly I just use mine as an address book and grocery shopping list
Yup
Nonetheless, I've been drooling over the SL-860...
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