Hi, I've just upgraded my recently buzz-fixed Freerunner from Om2008 to testing release 5 and so far, things look quite good. There's a couple of minor issues I'm currently experiencing, though:
* I can log into home WLAN through Paroli's Wifi GUI and also ping my router, but I can't reach any IP address on the internet. * After an opkg upgrade (I think), paroli displays "loading" forever, and then complains about a GSM timeout (and subsequently fails to load a couple of other modules). This is currently my most critical problem as it keeps me from using the FR as a phone... (Was the upgrade a bad idea because it threw from testing to unstable?) * I can set the time through paroli, but not the date. * I'm not sure if it's just because I failed to install any extra modules, but at first boot, I was asked to select a language from an empty box. Are there any German l10n files/keyboard layouts, preferrably opkg'ed? * Docs: I've noticed the some docs on the wiki are rather outdated or at least a bit confusing -- sometimes I just miss an explicit note saying to what distro instructions apply. The same holds for some of the software: although there are those "tested on" templates, they are sometimes just blank. For example, I installed PISI for importing my evolution contacts via a vcf file into paroli, only to find out that PISI doesn't support paroli's contacts file format. Maybe this is because opkg.org is being taking over the role of providing (up-to-date) package descriptions? If so, I'd recommend moving any valid information from wiki.openmoko.org over to opkg. Also, the USB networking page should rather start with the "easy" part (OS or Distro Specific & Automatic Configuration) and list the more manual configuration only later on. If there aren't any objections, I might try to work on that. * I think proper syncing is badly needed. I'm not sure if there are any standards for this, but ideally, when connecting the FR to my Ubuntu system (via USB, Bluetooth or whatever), I'd like to be asked if I want to sync my FR contacts and/or calendar entries with Evolution. (If there are any standards, it would be cool if the same approach would cause the same for Windows or MacOS.) Also, providing GPS/GPRS/Wifi/... functionality to the host system would be great. * navit: It's good that it starts libgps automatically (as opposed to older OM200x), but I find the libgps16/17 issue unacceptable. And http://trac.navit-project.org/ticket/343 is just not satisfying. As for me, I'm the casual Joe Hacker guy with some C++ experience, so if there are any easy fixes (eg for the set date thing mentioned above) and some guidance, I can try to help out a bit; same for translating. Bernhard Reiter _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
