Neta 980 IR Port / Neta 980 Bugs

oh how much i hate those sites that cant get registered both with a www and without

the worst sites are that dont work with www, only without

David G,

What type of NE2000 NIC PCMCIA card did you have? I cannot get this CF card to work properly. Rather than risk buying the newer version only to find that it doesn’t work I’d rather find one that have been known to work.

I racked my old brain to try to remember the manufacturer of the card....

Finally, using the internet ( http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/peripherals/pccardethernet.htm ) I found the name:

IC-Card CT (note: I remember looking up the part number on this card several years ago and it had the same number (Part Number, FCC, or similar) as a DLINK card.)

I bought this card at a flea market several years ago. It came complete with a big old dongle (That could handle several different type of lan connections).

(remember I used the term "swear I remember it working". I still stand by it, not 100% sure, but at least 79% sure. - I tested everything I had on the Neta when I first got it. I don't remember having problems with it.)

In a couple of weeks, I should be able to borrow the card from my friend's daughter (when she returns from school) to test it and ascertain that it did, in fact, work...

Also, In the back of the Neta manual it lists some cards that work with machine. You may want to check and see if there are any lan cards. I can't give the cards names at this time because I don't have my manual with me.

DG

Thanks. I’ll have to check my manual. RTFM.

My manual has a load of correction sheets glued in. All the cards listed, both CF and PCMCIA, are wireless.

According to the original notes about the programs that were to be in the OS distro, I think it was better than what they ended up going with.

There are a lot of 4.2 programs that simply will not run on this tablet. One of my old favorites, GSPLayer, generates a long list of coredll.dll errors.

Cmonex,

I asked before just to check, but what set of extra dlls should I have on this unit? Most of the programs work properly by using the 301 hexedit (where applicable) and GAPI, but I’m also seeing some programs that use to function of the X-Pilot citing wrong processor on the NETA. I am using the ARM version of the program. Is that a common issue?

DataHaunt, check out the mediaplayer cenet thread about gsplayer.. heck ok i'll post the direct link here too http://izemize.fw.hu/GSPlayer.exe try this!

as for the CPU thing, it is quote common with some cenet devices... show me such an app, and we'll fix it hopefully. i'd guess it says armv4i about itself, and that's easily fixable, but i need to see the program to be sure.

That worked for the most part.

I meant to tell you earlier as well that the copy of pocketwarrior that you have on your site worked like a champ on the tablet.

Let me check again into the app(s) giving me the CPU errors.


Edited by DataHaunt 2006-05-09 3:08 PM

glad to hear pocketwinc works..

looking forward to the cpu errors.

When I ran into a program that generated that error, I normally deleted them. One I still have that does list the wrong CPU is Tweaks2K2.NET Lite.

If you could tell me how to edit or address this problem, I would be grateful.

ok, open the exe in a hexeditor and search for c2 01 (hexa). if you find one close to the the beginning of the file (i repeat, close to the start of the file!), edit it to c0 01 and lets see what happens

Okay, I found the c2 01 close to the beginning of the exe. Unfortunately, the same error is generated by a dll. I edited the DLL in the same fashion and the exe errors out. This program is not that important, but I can test this fix for some others.

hmm, well, maybe theres another problem with the program?

this fix does work at other times

Wow,

Thanks, a working version of GSPlayer. I've been using TCPMP (great program - but overkill and not as well suited for streaming radio.

Its great to have a version that works on my Neta..

DG

I’ve got one other issue with GSPlayer and some other apps while configuring the NETA to work with GAPI. The only profile available for the NETA is 16 bit video. Under this setting, there are a few programs that do not display properly. For example, GSPlayer’s text is darker than the programs background and in GSfinder, the icons are just black shadows.

I can just run the NETA in a higher graphic mode, but it is a pain to have to reboot every time I want to use something requiring GAPI. I have tried some of the X-Pilot definitions but none of them work. I plan on writing the author(s) of GAPI to see if there is a possible fix for this.

Anyone else have a similar problem or is this just a quirk of the NETA?