From: Woody Smith (woodysmith_at_comcast.net)
Date: Sat Jan 21 2006 - 08:45:06 PST
Hi Cameron,
Your eMate may not be ready on Monday.
The Newton format on the card that you have cannot be read by your
Mac or Dell, so that won't get the offending packages off your card.
The technique mentioned by Daniel will allow you to selectively load
packages (on the emate touching near the top of the screen works
better for me). But I don't think this will solve the problem of
using wireless on Monday.
You will need to have appropriate ethernet and wireless drivers
installed on internal memory so that the flash card can be removed to
insert the WiFi card. If the card is 5 volt read and 5 volt write
then you will be able to move necessary packages to internal store,
but if the eMate tells you that the card is read only then you won't
be able to. see wikiwikinewt for bootstrapping tips
Once everything is installed and working you will need to get onto
the network, and if it is using WEP for security then you will need a
registered copy of the wireless driver.
So now you have all this ready to go, you will probably only able to
connect to postscript printers and the internet, not other computers
on the network. With a non-upgraded eMate you will probably only be
able to use Courier as a web browser. Sending email is also an
option. The non upgraded eMate has 2 mg storage and 1 mg heap/system
memory.
If you are new to the Newton, get acquainted with its built in
features that are quite impressive such as handwriting recognition in
Notes and the Assist feature.
While the eMate can browse the web, it is slow and not impressive.
be sure to see wikiwikinewt link at bottom of this email
Woody
On Jan 21, 2006, at 4:39 AM, Cameron wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am now a proud owner of an emate and am looking forward to showing
> if off at work on monday. However I have a problem with a flash card :
>
> I have a 16meg Centennial Linear flash card. The card contains
> software (including the wireless driver for my wavelan card) which I
> bought on ebay.
> When I insert it into my emate, the card loads and you can see it
> reading the packages. Once loaded if I press the extra button to get
> to the card icon
> the emate shows the warning "not enough memory to process the
> request, a restart may help". If restarted the same happens.
>
> I think that there are two packages on the card that are causing the
> problem or are opening whilst load so the emate crashes (bbtext edit
> and vnc).
>
> What I would like to do is to get into the card and delete some of
> the software, I have a powerbook G4 on OSX 4.2 and an Dell running M$
> XP.
> When I insert the card all the mac will do is show it in the task bar
> and the only option I have is to power the card on or off (i dont
> have classic). On the Dell
> It shows the card as D drive but when I try to open it all I get is
> an error.
>
> This has now taken a more serious turn because 1. I would like to
> have it up and running on Monday to prove a point to all the doubters
> that it can work and run on wireless.
> 2. There is a rather loud Apple hater at work who will revel in it if
> I can't !
>
> So the question is : How can I get into the flash drive or is there
> any way to get into via the emate.
>
> Many Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Cameron
>
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