[iPAQ] Building Serial Console for iPAQ 3600 to Access Cisco Equipment

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:50:30 +0000

After I got the iPAQ 3660 working again, I wanted to use it as Serial Console to Work on the Cisco Equipment “on the road”. To achieve that, we need two or three things:

1.) An special connector Cable to attach the Serial Console of the iPAQ with an RS232 Connector / the Cisco Rollover Cable 2.) An Terminal Software. I did choose vxHpcPlus for that ( http://www.cam.com/vxhpcplus.html ) 3.) Something that makes it possible to use Landscape Mode so that you can read the Console Output more easily: NYDITOT Virtual Display, Version 5.02 ( http://www.nyditot.com/Products.asp )

[iPAQ] Upgrading HP iPAQ 3660 from CE 3.0/Pocket PC 2000 to Pocket PC 2002

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:46:55 +0000

As the 3600 Series came out in 2000, it was one of the top notch Personal Digital Assistants and became very widely known through Business Class Users and Geeks. The only downside to this nice product was the big price tag which could go to nearly 1000 bucks. Now, after 10 Years, you got these machines for really less money and so the second named user class (Geeks, Nerds, etc - call it as you want) can accquire and use the now considered outdated Hardware. The 3660 does come with an 206 MhZ Arm (v4, SA1100) Processor, 16 MB Rom and 64 MB Ram (which are seperated dynamically into 32 MB “real” Ram and 32 MB “Flash” to save Work and Programs in). The Display takes it to an Resolution of 320x240 and does show 4096 Colours. For Connection, the 3660 does use and IRDA Port aswell as an Sync Port which can be used over USB and Serial Connection through the Cradle or an Adaptor Cable. As Expansion Slot “Sleeves” were aviable. They could contain 1 or 2 CF Card Slots or one PCMCIA Slot. Both with Battery so they extended the Running Time on the iPAQ a lot. To Upgrade the whole thing to the “not meant to be installed” Pocket PC 2002 install but than Shutdown Active Sync on your Windows PC. Attach the iPAQ to the Cradle and the get Following Software from the Compaq Site ( ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/):

IPAQ on Nico Maas

[iPAQ] Building Serial Console for iPAQ 3600 to Access Cisco Equipment

[iPAQ] Upgrading HP iPAQ 3660 from CE 3.0/Pocket PC 2000 to Pocket PC 2002