TomTom Navigator 6 on a Palm 755p

After a month of not having my business phone (my 2-year old Treo 650 bricked and a number of reasons prevented me from getting a replacement more readily), I finally got a replacement Palm 755p.  One of my favorite apps on my Treo 650 was my TomTom software for use with my Holux GPSlim 236 GPS receiver.  Expecting it to just work, I bought a 4GB SDHC card for my new 755p but the TomTom software didn't immediately work.

Initially I thought I was out of luck as the software installed onto my 4GB SDHC card just fine but when inserting the card into my 755p, the software would hard reset the phone.  With a little bit of assistance from the TomTom Support folks, I was able to get my TomTom 6 software running on my 755p.  The tweak is you have to install the TomTom 6 software onto the SDHC card (and for a minute or two live with the hard reset) and *then* go here:

http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/gps_nav.html

Follow the directions for the Treo 680.  Even though the page doesn't specifically say Treo 755p, this is where the TomTom Support folks directed me to and the software works just great now on my 755p.

Obviously, I do not speak for TomTom Support nor Palm Support - so call TomTom for support on your 755p assuming you hit this issue.  Just sharing my experience on my brand new 755p and getting the TomTom Navigator 6 software working on it.

Thanks for the help TomTom !!!

Posted at 03:19PM Aug 28, 2007 by ldcubed in General  | 

OpenDNS: SMF Setup for inadyn

A bit more on my efforts with OpenDNS for home use.

When I setup my OpenDNS account, I enabled statistics collection.  I'm curious to see what the stats look like.  [ I do have to say though the statistics aren't what I expected ... I know my traffic is greather then what I'm seeing ... may need to open a ticket with the OpenDNS support folks ... ] To utilize this service, OpenDNS has to keep track of my ISP provided DHCP address.  To accomplish this, OpenDNS has its users use the inadyn DDNS client.

So I downloaded the v1.99 inadyn source tar ball from OpenDNS and initially compiled it using gcc.  I immediately hit a SIGSEGV when testing it out.  Annoying I tried recompiling it with Sun's GCC for SPARC Systems ... still got a SIGSEGV.  Someone suggested I try using the Sun Studio Runtime Checker feature so I did ... and the problem went away.  Not being a strong programmer and having more important things to do, I setup the SMF service to include the LD_FLAGS_32 variable as part of the startup initialization - no more SIGSEGV.  Interesting ... but still annoying.

This is my /etc/inadyn.conf file contents: 

--username <username>
--password <password>
--alias opendns
--secure
--background
--dyndns_server_name updates.opendns.com
--dyndns_server_url /account/ddns.php?
--verbose 0

Nothing really special here except to note that the --verbose flag is very nice for debugging inadyn when running it manually. 

Here is the inadyn SMF manifest I setup in /var/svc/manifest/application/inadyn.xml: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE service_bundle
  SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/service_bundle.dtd.1">

<service_bundle type='manifest' name='inadyn'>
  <service
    name='application/inadyn'
    type='service'
    version='1'>
    <create_default_instance enabled='false' />
    <single_instance />

    <dependency
      name='multi-user-server'
      grouping='optional_all'
      type='service'
      restart_on='none'>
        <service_fmri value='svc:/milestone/multi-user-server' />
    </dependency>
    <exec_method
      type='method'
      name='start'
      exec='/lib/svc/method/svc-inadyn %m'
      timeout_seconds='60'>
      <method_context>
        <method_credential user='nobody' />
      </method_context>
    </exec_method>

    <exec_method
      type='method'
      name='restart'
      exec='/lib/svc/method/svc-inadyn %m'
      timeout_seconds='60'>
      <method_context>
        <method_credential user='nobody' />
      </method_context>
    </exec_method>

    <exec_method
      type='method'
      name='stop'
      exec='/lib/svc/method/svc-inadyn %m'
      timeout_seconds='60' >
      <method_context>
        <method_credential user='nobody' />
      </method_context>
    </exec_method>

    <property_group name='startd' type='framework'>
      <propval name='duration' type='astring' value='contract' />
    </property_group>

  </service>
</service_bundle>

Here is the inadyn SMF method I created in /lib/svc/method/svc-inadyn.  [ The inclusion of the LD_FLAGS_32 variable is visible at the top of the script.  I have no clue at this point if this is necessary for other Solaris versions, just svn_67, or just me ... YMWPV ]

#!/sbin/sh
# Start/stop client inadyn DDNS Client
#
. /lib/svc/share/smf_include.sh

# The LD_FLAGS_32 is only necessary in Solaris 11 svn_67 currently
#
LD_FLAGS_32='preload=watchmalloc.so.1'
export LD_FLAGS_32

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/opt/csw/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

case "$1" in
'start')
        if pgrep -x -u nobody inadyn; then
           echo "$0: inadyn is already running"
           exit 1
        fi

        /usr/local/bin/inadyn
        ;;
'restart')
        pkill -x -u nobody inadyn
        sleep 2
        /usr/local/bin/inadyn
        ;;
'stop')
        if pgrep -x -u nobody inadyn; then
           pkill -x -u nobody inadyn
        fi
        ;;
*)
        echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit $SMF_EXIT_OK

And finally, here are the simple steps I used to import the manifest and startup the inadyn service: 

# svccfg
svc:> validate /var/svc/manifest/application/inadyn.xml
svc:> import /var/svc/manifest/application/inadyn.xml
svc:> quit
# svcadm enable svc:/application/inadyn:default

And that's that.

Posted at 09:43PM Aug 01, 2007 by ldcubed in Other-Than-Solaris  |  Comments[1]