Zaurus Networking
Note
General
Because the Zaurus is running Linux, it has all its great Networking capabilities. You can do nearly anything from normal Webbrowsing/Email to running Web/FTP/Filesrvers to installing an iptables firewall. Despite all this possibilities I will concentrate on normal Borwsing/Messaging and Security- and Networkchecking. This page focuses on the software side, for the used network hardware see the main Zaurus Pages Hardware section
WPA on Cacko
First a note on the Hardware: For prism2 based cards you need at least Firmware 1.7.0 for WPA to work. See the Main Zaurus Pages Links section for a Howto on flashing newer Firmware.
In Cacko, all the tools neede for using WPA-enabled WLANs are installed by default. To use WPA you need to do this steps:
- Open the Cacko Network configuration
- Add a new WLAN-connection
- On the “Account” Tab set a name for the connection, e.g. “WLAN-WPA”
- Leave the rest as it is (in “Config” Tab “Non-Spec ESS-ID “ANY”” should be enabled)
- Close the settings window with OK, saving the connection and also close the Network-configuration
- open the console and open /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts in your editor of choice as root
- search a section in the file which starts with “qpewlanX,*,*,*)” (where X is a number, e.g. 0 if WLAN-WPA is the only network you created) followed by INFO=“WLAN-WPA” (or whatever name your connection has)
- now add a new line below the INFO=.. line which says “WPA=y” (without quotes)
- Save the file
- Now create/edit the file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and add the networks you need there (look up its docs if you dont know the files syntax)
After adding the networks simply connecting to “WLAN-WPA” should connect you to the network using WPA. (note: you need DHCP enabled in the network)
Software
IM: Centerim
A little CLI-program that can do many of the popular Instant Messaging protocolls (e.g. ICQ, AIM, jabber). Altough being a commandline prog its pretty user-friendly (IMHO ^^). It was distributed as a static binary, I've made an ipkg for it (get it from my feed).
Warwalking: Kimset
The standard install of kismet didn't work out of the box for me, you can find my way of getting it to work on a seperate page.