Zaurus SL-5500 troubles

bdrake · 01-21-2005, 08:37 PM

Mine were all pre-owned, from eBay.

--Barry

Analyticworm · 01-21-2005, 10:33 PM

yeah thats what i figured i will probably try and trade an older laptop I have for one. or something. will look on ebay also

how is it for monitoring network security? which is what I would use it for.

bdrake · 01-22-2005, 03:09 AM

"It depends"
It runs Opera pretty well, and there is an rdp client for it (under OpenZaurus), so the connectivity is pretty good. I was working on setting it up as a laptop replacement for travel, but I don't travel often enough to make it worth activating the web service on my cell phone (the Z would link through the IR port to the cell). Everything except that part was very promising.
So it really depends on how you want to monitor your network.

--Barry

Analyticworm · 01-22-2005, 12:30 PM

well I have a internet card i use for my laptop and tablet PC and it works on linux. my thought was to have 100% complete monitoring.

Pcghost · 01-23-2005, 12:34 AM

You mean packet sniffing, connection tracking, that sort of thing. The 5500 (and of course the 6000) are fully capable of running ethereal as well as a host of other networking tools. I occasionally use mine at work to find rouge machines (personal laptops, pdas, etc) on our network. Works like a charm.

channelislands · 04-03-2005, 04:02 PM

I just bought a Zaurus SL-5500 on eBay and want to sync it to my Lispire desktop. I don't have any idea how to do it; my husband the software engineer tried it, too, and couldn't get it to work. Is there a way to do it, or should I consider this the last straw (the next-to-last straw was all the software I lost doing the 5.0 Linspire upgrade) and change to Suse or RedHat or Debian?