Hi David, Michael, all,
> Hi
>
>> It looks like you will need to convince the maintainer of Qtmoko to
>> tell you (and the rest of us) how to get his popular distro working
>> with FreeCalypso tools.  Or you could try the special distro which
>> David Matthews put together - the 2nd version which works without the
>> special cable.
> Making a general purpose distro such as Qtmoko loadtools capable is likely to 
> be a non starter. As well as stopping everything that's accessing the modem - 
> which will likely be the problem Giacomo reported - it's likely to be 
> advisable to rip out all the audio stuff also. 
>
> hehe - So prepare your qtmoko (by ripping it to shreds), run loadtools to 
> flash your calypso, then reinstall and recover your data from backups :-)

It's been easier than expected:

root@neo:~# .
/opt/qtmoko/qpe.env                                                             
                                                        

root@neo:/root# /etc/init.d/qtmoko-neo stop          
root@neo:/mnt/nfs/root/ModemFFS/Backup# fc-loadtool -h gta02
/dev/ttySAC0                                                                    
        

Sending beacons to
/dev/ttySAC0                                                                    
                                                   

Toggling
/sys/bus/platform/devices/gta02-pm-gsm.0/power_on                               
                                                             

Got beacon response, attempting
download                                                                        
                                      

<p command successful, switching to 115200
baud                                                                            
                           

Sending image
payload                                                                         
                                                        

............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Sending
checksum                                                                        
                

<c command successful, sending
<b                                                                              
                                       

<b command successful: downloaded image should now be
running!                                                                        
                

                                                                                
                                                                      

FreeCalypso loadagent
running                                                                         
                                                

Loaded via UART 0 (MODEM) at baud rate
#0                                                                              
                               

TCXO clock input autodetected to be 26
MHz                                                                             
                               

                                                                                
                                                                      

Executing init script
k5a3281.init                                                                    
                                                

Script command: w16 fffffb00
00A3                                                                            
                                         

Script command: w16 fffffb02 00A3                         
loadtool> flash dump2bin
my-flashdump.bin                                                                
                                             

Requesting initial CRC-32 of the area from
target...                                                                       
                           

got
95D5AB43                                                                        
                                                                  

Requesting memory
dump...                                                                         
                                                    

Rx 4194304 out of 4194304 bytes
(100%)                                                                          
                                      

Requesting another CRC-32 of the area from
target...                                                                       
                           

match, dump successful            
root@neo:/mnt/nfs/root/ModemFFS/Backup# /etc/init.d/qtmoko-neo start

Now I'm looking at it with mokoffs :-)

Thank you very much,
  Giacomo
            
>
> Better idea - use the "special distro" (I used Qtmoko as a starting point) 
> with or without the cable - or else build your own single purpose 
> boot_and_run_from_sdcard system.
>
> http://winterveldt.co.za/leo2moko-p2.html
> --
> David Matthews
> m...@dmatthews.org
> --
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> m...@dmatthews.org
>
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