Re: Zaurus keeps crashing

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:42:35PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> I have installed on the Zaurus sl5500 the native-debian crow+deb rom
> from pocketworkstation.org, with the big-v.15 tar file extracted onto
> my 128Mb MMC card.  I have the Socket2 wireless card (orinoco driver).
> I went into Xbvnc and did some stuff there, and when I connected with
> the card to the internet, after about a minute it disconnects.  I had
> about 2MB left on the MMC card at that point.  It would also hang on me.
> I wonder if the disconnecting and hanging is related to small free space
> on the disk.  I tried not to use Fbvnc but the problem repeated itself
> with the wireless card.  Every time it hanged and I rebooted it fixed
> up the MMC disk where the whole file system is placed, and after a few
> reboots like that fsck goes into an infinite loop and prints a bunch
> of numbers.  I have to redo the MMC card now.  Has anyone had a similar
> experience ?

This sounds suspiciously like the flaky MMC/SD driver issue (see "known
issues" on http://pocketworkstation.org ), have you been writing to disk
when the crashes occured?

> Does anyone have a similar system like me and got things working in a stable
> fashion ?

In my case the problem went away with more expensive SD cards (i.e.
Panasonic), and later by switching to the SL-C750 which apparently has a
better driver.

-Klaus