RE: [jornada] Re: Ubuntu, some people interested in ARM/handhelds

Greetings,

You got the official keyboard? nice :D Would love to get my hands on one of
those.
The best item I got is a VGA out PCMCIA card, which will probobly never
work.

/Kristoffer

>From: Steven Rosario (snickersmd) <srosariomd_at_gmail.com>
>To: jornada_at_handhelds.org
>Subject: [jornada] Re: Ubuntu, some people interested in ARM/handhelds
>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:54:39 +0000 (UTC)
>
>rafael2k <rafael <at> riseup.net> writes:
>
> > For me my jornada is a workstation too. a subnotebook, as you said.
> > One thing I'd like to try is a pcmcia usb controler and connect a mouse,
> > keyboard, monitor and external hdd, if possible
> > Is always nice to have a lots of options. arm-ubuntu would be great.
> >
> > anyone tried connecting a serial mouse in jornada?
> >
> > bye,
> > rafael diniz
> >
>
>PCMCIA USB would be nice, but every single USB PC card out there is USB 2.0
>and
>Cardbus. People have searched far and wide for an old PCMCIA USB 1.1 card,
>and
>it would seem that no one ever made such a product.
>
>The closest thing out there is a CF USB 1.1 made for PDAs, then plug that
>into a
>PCMCIA-CF adapter. However, a CF USB card is very, very expensive, not to
>mention rare. (It's like searching for a CF I Microdrive, a product which
>never
>came into being because the company behind development just disappeared.)
>
>As far as adding serial peripherals to the Jornada 720, this is a definite
>yes
>on my todo list. I have been amassing all manner of peripherals for use
>with my
>Jornada, simply to further the development of the distro. I have the
>official
>Jornada external keyboard, for one (*that* is a rare find) and I intend to
>find
>a way to plug in a serial touchpad into the serial port. I already have
>the
>parts to build an adapter (a cut up synch cable and a male DB-9) and now
>all I
>need is a good small sized serial touchpad and a bit of time. :)
>
>External hard disks through PCMCIA have been done, see HPCFactor.
>Unfortunately, you need the old style SCSI over PCMCIA notebook harddisks,
>not
>the USB external harddisks so common today.
>
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