On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:33:20 +0530, Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (mercilessly snipped and interspersed with responses) > I am new to this community. I just got myself the freerunner a couple of > days back. I am a fairly experienced user of Linux/Debian/Kubuntu on > the desktop and this is my first experience with something like the > freerunner.
Welcome! Roll up your sleeves and have some fun. :) > 1) Get the wifi to connect. It currently invariably always says something > like "Error: Unable to connect to the network" http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wifi cover this. It states that the GUI "should work fairly well" in updated 2008. I never had much success with it, but honestly didn't try much in the past few weeks. I've had best success with "ifup eth0" in terminal, once I'd set up a good wpa_supplicant.conf covering my WPA home AP, WPA work AP, unsecured work AP, and falling back to any unsecured AP that would talk to it. > 2) Get my GPS working. TangoGPS says no GPS found and "locations" > says unable to get a fix. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/TangoGPS#Running_tangoGPS_on_Om_2008.8 should do the job. You need gpsd installed and config altered (GPS_DEV=/dev/ttySAC0), and you need to start gpsd, which you can do in Settings. > 3) How do i exchange data between my PC and the FR so that i could > push my MP3's and documents etc. Simplest is probably sftp or scp. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/File_transfer - although it finishes up by stating that use as a USB storage device for the desktop is unsupported, while that is in fact possible and fairly easy to achieve now. (though it only presents the microSD as a usb drive to the PC, or more precisely any single partition - which should not be mounted on the Freerunner's filesystem while shared) > 4) A good music player, web browser and PDF reader. I can't help on that one. I toyed with the available media players and web browsers several weeks ago and that was all. > > Thanks to everyone who made this product what it is. Over the next > couple of months i wish to have my Qt apps i've written for the desktop > ported to this platform. In that regard i have not read anywhere about it > but i hope the USB port operates in host mode and i would need it to > interface with certain USB (1.1) hardware. > -- > Cheers! > Kishore > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community