OK, more data this morning. Since the cyanogen upgrade, no linux vm I have on OSX/VMWare can enumerate the phone over USB. This is a very common problem as revealed by any search.
On the one linux box I have, the phone is enumerated as a USB storage. There may be some setting I need to reset ... but that box, having been turned off since april, seems to have decided it can't do wifi more ... so, that's not an option at present! I did try downloading the android sdk on a clean vmware-based linux platform. No fastboot in there. So far the only fastboot I have is the one I built from source during android bootcamp. You can NOT install inferno from anything but Linux. There are a few linux tool dependencies in th scripts that can not be satisfied (yet) on a mac. I am going to see what is possible. I continue to be amused that all these Java "write once run everywhere" environments always come with a huge stack of "this CPU, this OS, this version" programs without which they can not function. Hmm. All I need with inferno is emu. Maybe inferno can teach them some things :-) Finally, it's a linux phone: I keep thinking I ought to be able to do the install scripts on the phone, not on some other box and download them. If I can figure out where to plug in an SD card -- it claims to have one! -- I might just give that a go. ron
