Hello, I wanted to share my experience with FR and Windows Vista.
I received my FR last Saturday. So far, so good, except that the device doesn't do much and the UI is quite buggy. After a day or so reading the Wiki, I finally managed to get my Vista system to recognize the FR both as an RNIS device and as a uboot device. I'd like to state that there is an awful lot of information in the Wiki but it is very hard to follow. It is quite difficult to understand which distribution needs what. I finally settled on 0m2008.8 because that's what I read first. If possible, I'd suggest to create a slimmed down web site for the newcomers with step by step advices. openmoko.org should be that web site, it shouldn't redirect automatically to the wiki as one may think that this is not the official web page. Going back to my upgrade, FYI, flashing rootfs lasted 2 hours! Is that normal? Or is it just because dfu_utils is slow under windows? Anyway, here is what I did: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/devel/OpenMoko $ dfu-util.exe -l dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=1, cfg=0, intf=2, alt=0, name="USB Device Firmware Upgrade" [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/devel/OpenMoko $ dfu-util.exe -a kernel -R -D ./Om2008.8-gta02-20080826.uImage.bin dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Opening USB Device 0x0000:0x0000... Setting Configuration 1... Claiming USB DFU Runtime Interface... Determining device status: state = appIDLE, status = 0 Device really in Runtime Mode, send DFU detach request... Resetting USB... Opening USB Device... Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=2, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=3, name="kernel" Setting Configuration 1... Claiming USB DFU Interface... Setting Alternate Setting ... Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0 dfuIDLE, continuing Transfer Size = 0x1000 bytes_per_hash=37877 Starting download: [##################################################] finished! state(2) = dfuIDLE, status(0) = No error condition is present Done! Resetting USB to switch back to runtime mode [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/devel/OpenMoko $ dfu-util.exe -a rootfs -R -D ./Om2008.8-gta02-20080830.rootfs.jffs2 dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc. This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Opening USB Device 0x0000:0x0000... Setting Configuration 1... Claiming USB DFU Runtime Interface... Determining device status: state = appIDLE, status = 0 Device really in Runtime Mode, send DFU detach request... Resetting USB... Opening USB Device... Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=2, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=6, name="rootfs" Setting Configuration 1... Claiming USB DFU Interface... Setting Alternate Setting ... Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0 dfuIDLE, continuing Transfer Size = 0x1000 bytes_per_hash=1431306 Starting download: [##################################################] finished! state(2) = dfuIDLE, status(0) = No error condition is present Done! Resetting USB to switch back to runtime mode OK, time to reboot. 3 minutes later, it's rebooted! :-) I click settings, click Wifi, select my network and now I am lost on how to use this keyboard, no backspace, no number. I guess I have to go back to reading the wiki :-/ Maybe I should switch to qpe? Do I have to reflash the kernel for that? Well, that was just a first time user experience :-) Abdel. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
