ConnectPlus on OZ 3.5.4

The following is the contents received in an e-mail from Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri (lists at pavri dot net) on June 1, 2006. It details his steps to get the ConnectPlus 128 MB card working with OpenZaurus 3.5.4 with a Sharp Zaurus 5500. Thanks, Dr. Pavri!

Subject:Success w/ SanDisk ConnectPlus on Z5500 w/ OZ 3.5.4
From:Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri <lists at pavri dot net>
Date:2006-06-01 06:38 PM +0200
To:acb at bentzon dot net

Hi!

I went through the whole procedure (twice) and here is what is needed: (Only change is that this is installed on sd as a loop image). Could you put this up on your website ?

  1. Flash w/ 3.5.4
  2. ipkg update << doesn't seem to work without this
  3. ipkg install hostap* << see below for list of files

If you get an error about hostap-conf execute steps 5 & 6 below else go straight to step 7

  1. ipkg remove -force-depends hostap-conf
  2. ipkg install hostap-conf_1.0-r4_all.ipk
  3. ipkg install prism3* << again see below for list of files

insert the card and voila !!! wi-fi works :)

You will need these files:

hostap-modules-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix_0.4.7-r4_collie.ipk
hostap-modules-cs-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix_0.4.7-r4_collie.ipk
hostap-modules-pci-2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix_0.4.7-r4_collie.ipk
hostap-conf_1.0-r4_all.ipk

these are available from upgrades/machine/collie

you will also need

prism3-firmware_1.8.3-r2_arm.ipk
prism3-support_1.0.0-r0_arm.ipk

I got these from here:

http://oz.pdai.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/base/prism3-firmware_1.8.3-r2_arm.ipk
http://oz.pdai.org/official/unstable/3.5.3/feed/base/prism3-support_1.0.0-r0_arm.ipk

anyway I'm glad I could help.

Now has anyone got the storage part of it working ? I tried fiddling with the options in /etc/pcmcia/hostap.conf but to no avail.

regards,

Sharukh

Last updated: June 1, 2006 by acb.