Re: GTA04 Boot speed comparison

2011-09-21 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:16 +, Michael Sokolov wrote:
 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote:
 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG31rCHZXh4
 
  The winner is ...
  ... find out yourself!
 
 Some of us can't access YouTube because it's blocked (employer/etc).
 Would you mind telling us in plain ASCII?

GTA04 wins by a wide margin, GTA02 looses by an even wider one.

But to be honest, I almost never reboot my phone. I prefer a fully
working power management system.

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Re: [Shr-Devel] Palm Pre 2

2010-11-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 11:16 +0100, Sylvain Paré wrote:

 Hi!
 
 So I have it! 


So now that you had time to play with it, I'd like to know if it cas
easily replace an N900 ?
In particular:
- is there a merged addressbook (with phone + gtalk + facebook + skype +
etc.) ?
- what's the IM/phone backend ?
- how many good Free apps are there in the app store ?
- and .. is there a shell (i.e. how open is it) ?

Thanks,

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Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?

2009-12-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 21:30:53 Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Do you use FR as your daily/primary phone?
 Do you use FR as your primary PDA?

Nope, sold it to buy an N900.
I enjoyed the concept a lot, but I needed something that works.




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Re: Centralization of graphical awesomeness

2009-10-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:18 +0100, Matthias Huber wrote:
 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schrieb:
  , since I did not realize the awesomeness
  and importance of dbus early enough... it's not too late though for us
  (as in the community) to fix this.

 when i understand you right, you think, the dbus concept is wrong ?
 
 and if so, could you please explain deeper, why you think so ?

I think it's just the reverse: he saw too late that dbus is really good.

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Re: Internal pressure sensor

2009-10-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 15:02 +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
 On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:04:30PM -0400, tom wrote:
  actually i think they should already be built in...they are so cheap...
 
Depends on what you mean when you say cheap. I see it listed at just
 under USD 10 for one sensor or the price of a 1.3 mpix camera module. It's
 also not as small as you would like for something you throw in mostly for
 fun.

Add an electronic compass and you have the equivalent of a high-end GPS
used in all kind of outdoor sports.

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Re: Selling/giving damaged Neo Freerunner.

2009-09-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 17:27 +0200, Radek Bartoň wrote:
 Dne úterý 15 Září 2009 16:53:06 Laszlo KREKACS napsal(a):
  On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Radek Bartoň black...@post.cz wrote:
   except of damaged PCB and missing
   micro-USB and micro-BNC connectors.
  
  What the hell did you do with this poor freerunner? Messed hardware fixes?
  
 It started with felt off external GPS antenna connector. When I opened the 
 case 
 to fix this two other parts felt off quite easily - USB connector and rear 
 speaker link (or whatever it is). Missing USB connection was really a problem 
 because I wanted to show some application running on my Freerunner on a 
 workshop. I gave it to my friend to fix it but although it seemed fixed fine 
 first, a bad contact appeared soon. I decided to fix it myself but when I was 
 trying to unsolder USB connector one of the connector's printed circuit has 
 wrenched from the PCB. That's it. I learned my lesson :-(.

I know of a guy with a working FR with just a broken LCD. Maybe he'll be
interested.

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Selling FreeRunner, like NEW, for 200€ (France).

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

I'm selling my FR. It's way underused (I didn't even remove the
protective film from the screen). It's not buzzfixed.

You'll need to learn how to flash it, because it's currently running a
very old version of Qi (buggy) + Om2009 if I remember correctly (in
short, slow and unusable).

I'm selling it with the battery, charger, cable, pouch, box. I lost the
pen. I didn't buy a bigger SD card, so I only have the small original
one if you want it (and if I find it, no promise).

I'm selling it for 200€, plus shipping.

I'm living in Grenoble, France.

Thanks,
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Re: Selling FreeRunner, like NEW, for 200€ (France).

2009-08-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 27 août 2009 à 18:52 +0200, Xavier Bestel a écrit :
 Hi,
 
 I'm selling my FR. It's way underused (I didn't even remove the
 protective film from the screen). It's not buzzfixed.
 
 You'll need to learn how to flash it, because it's currently running a
 very old version of Qi (buggy) + Om2009 if I remember correctly (in
 short, slow and unusable).
 
 I'm selling it with the battery, charger, cable, pouch, box. I lost the
 pen. I didn't buy a bigger SD card, so I only have the small original
 one if you want it (and if I find it, no promise).
 
 I'm selling it for 200€, plus shipping.
 
 I'm living in Grenoble, France.

Oh, and please contact me directly at xavier.bes...@free.fr (not on the
list).

Thanks,
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Re: Koolu.com?

2009-05-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 02:46 -0500, Rene Horn wrote:
 It's not resolving for me anymore.  Anyone know what's going on?
 
 -- 
 Sigs are boring, except this one...
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IMPORTANT README BEFORE REPLYING TO MICKEY !!!!! (Was Re: Is Israel a Democracy? -- The problem with intellectually insecure whites -- Should Christians Support Israeli Terrorism in Gaza?)

2009-01-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
Please oh please don't get too nervous !
This is a spam that circulates nowadays on several mailing-lists, and it
hasn't been sent by Mickey. It already happened elsewhere, the mail
address is faked.

Xav

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:09 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
 The Jewish State of Israel has no constitution, nor does it name its
 borders. Israel's hidden constitution is Judaism. Israel's undeclared
 borders range from the Nile to the Euphrates rivers. Israel's desired
 jurisdiction extends over the entire Earth.
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Re: Syncing OpenMoko with Sunbird/Lightning events and tasks

2009-01-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:31 +0100, Yoann ARNAUD wrote:
 Pander a écrit :
  Hi all,
  
  Which applications on OpenMoko would be suitable for importing and
  exporting (syncing) data like events and tasks from Sunbird/Lightning?
  
  Preferably via the use of http://www.opensync.org/
 
 Pimlico, but it's not realeased yet.
 
 http://pimlico-project.org/sync.html

And from the Changelog, hasn't been touched since 2006 ...

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Re: 2Gb Mobile DRAM

2008-12-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 31 décembre 2008 à 11:00 +0100, Michele Renda a écrit :
 Hello to all
 
 I just read this: Hynix Semiconductor Develops First 2Gb Mobile DRAM
 http://tinyurl.com/84f72s

Don't be too excited. That's 2 giga-BITs, i.e. 256 mega-BYTEs.

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Re: New 2008.12 Release

2008-12-19 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:22 +0200, Yogiz wrote:
 On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:56:20 -0800 (PST)
 abatrour abatr...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  
  Just noticed on the server. I'm going to try it out right now.
  
  http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.12/
 
 Good news. I'll still wait for the announcement and for some feedback
 before I roll it on. I've spent too much time customizing my 2008.9 to
 mess with it.

Can someone tell me if it's a recent kernel, or still 2.6.24 ?

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Re: Wifi - wep or wpa enabled

2008-12-19 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi Rodney,

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 21:58 -0800, Rodney Myers wrote:
 Default install.
 
 Does the wifi work only with wpa? or does it also work with wep?
 
 My internal wifi is wep enabled only, and  I cannot get the phone to  
 recognize the key.

In my experience none of the GUI tools work with WEP, but using a
terminal you can manage to make the FR sort-of work, i.e. it sometimes
connects to a WEP network for a short while.
Apparently with latest kernels this is fixed (the driver side, not the
UI side), I've had better experience with Andy's tracking kernel.

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Re: OpenVibe is out

2008-12-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:21 +0200, Margo Koppelmann wrote:
 Another good idea would be to use 2 freerunners and accelerometer -
 the faster you shake your freerunner in your hand the faster your
 girlfriend's freerunner vibrates.

Awesome ! How to sell twice as much Neos ...

BTW, here's an official request for GTA03 to have a stronger vibrator :)

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Re: No more optimization team

2008-12-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 16:52 +0800, John Lee wrote:
 Dear community,
 
 I'm writing this to inform you that the optimization team is
 dismissed, so there won't be weekly updates anymore.  Further details
 and reasons behind this are inappropriate to be answered by me.

And you switched your email from .com to .org ... please spare us the
politically correct, bring the gossip !

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Re: No more optimization team

2008-12-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 18:13 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
 The latest image, including all optimizations from the optimization  
 team are in
 http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/testing/
 (openmoko-testing-om)
 
 We were testing this image a bit, haven't seen the full test report  
 yet. More or less it will be the same as Om2008.9, the most noticeable  
 improvement will be boot time reduction to about 1 minute.

To me the most noticeable improvement is that the neo stopped being a
power drain while suspended. I don't know whose work it is, but it
showed in these testing images and I appreciate it.

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Re: Optimization team update (11/30 ~ 12/06)

2008-12-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 11:44 +0800, John Lee wrote:
 On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:16:03PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
  On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 11:24 -0800, Christoph Siegenthaler wrote:
   I've been testing todays openmoko-testing-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2 together
   with testing-om-gta02-20081207.uImage.bin after following the ML without
   actually flashing my freerunner a lot (for a few weeks).
  
  BTW I just tested these images too, and I have no wifi (i.e. the
  settings allow to turn on GPS and Bluetooth, buth there's no more a WIFI
  entry). Is that expected ?
  
  Xav
 
 yes.  please refer to
 
 https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2003

Mmh .. the ticket reads:
Summary: 
Please take out suspend time 10 sec. 
So we only left 30 seconds, 60 seconds and Off.
Let's but this in Milestone Om2008.10.

I couldn't find an equivalent ticket in trac.

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RE: Optimization team update (11/30 ~ 12/06)

2008-12-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:47 +0100, KaZeR wrote:
  
  -Message d'origine-
  De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de 
  Xavier Bestel
  Envoyé : mardi 9 décembre 2008 10:15
  À : List for Openmoko community discussion
  Objet : Re: Optimization team update (11/30 ~ 12/06)
  
  On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 11:44 +0800, John Lee wrote:
   On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:16:03PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 11:24 -0800, Christoph Siegenthaler wrote:
 I've been testing todays openmoko-testing-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2 
 together with testing-om-gta02-20081207.uImage.bin 
  after following 
 the ML without actually flashing my freerunner a lot 
  (for a few weeks).

BTW I just tested these images too, and I have no wifi (i.e. the 
settings allow to turn on GPS and Bluetooth, buth there's 
  no more a 
WIFI entry). Is that expected ?

Xav
   
   yes.  please refer to
   
   https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2003
  
  Mmh .. the ticket reads:
  Summary: 
  Please take out suspend time 10 sec. 
  So we only left 30 seconds, 60 seconds and Off.
  Let's but this in Milestone Om2008.10.
  
  I couldn't find an equivalent ticket in trac.
  
 
 In the first comment : 
 
 commit log: disable wifi frontend (backend currently broken)

Ugh.  :(

Thanks for the hint.

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Re: andy-tracking kernel?

2008-12-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi Andy,

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Green wrote:
 ~ - WLAN driver now uses mainline SDIO stack (should fix some probs)

Does that mean WiFi is working now ?

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Re: andy-tracking kernel?

2008-12-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 09:55 +, Andy Green wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Somebody in the thread at some point said:
 | Hi Andy,
 |
 | On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 16:36 +, Andy Green wrote:
 | ~ - WLAN driver now uses mainline SDIO stack (should fix some probs)
 |
 | Does that mean WiFi is working now ?
 
 Wifi has been working (for some values of working) for a long while...
 what bad behaviour does not working look like for you?

Well, if you ask for it:
- can only connect through command-line (not that important)
- weak signal
- connexion lasts only for a few minutes
- after connexion is lost, reconnecting nearly always involves rebooting

I think I already sent the kernel messages that appear in that case
somewhere. I must confess that, as I wanted to use my Neo as a sort of
internet tablet, it now just gathers dust somewhere, waiting for a WiFi
fix.

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Re: andy-tracking kernel?

2008-12-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 11:38 +, Andy Green wrote:
 I must confess that, as I wanted to use my Neo as a sort of
 | internet tablet, it now just gathers dust somewhere, waiting for a WiFi
 | fix.
 
 Changing the SDIO stack is enough of a jolt it's probably worth blowing
 the dust off and having another go according to your optimism / schedule
 :-)  At any rate if you do this please post on kernel list about your
 experiences.

Right, I'll try in my copious spare time.
Would it be possible for you to put a small README in your directory, to
explain how to use these files ? Even if it's just a pointer to
somewhere on the wiki, it'd be great.

Thanks,
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Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience

2008-10-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:47 +0800, John Lee wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Like Wolfgang said in
 http://n2.nabble.com/Weekly-Engineering-News-41-2008-td1336450.html
 
 We assembled a team to focus on improving the user experience.  Here
 is our todo list at the moment:
 
 * Reduce boot time.
 
 * Optimize the touch screen driver on freerunner for finger usage.
 
 * A generic python loader to enhance the start up time of python
   scripts.
 
 * Work with system team to improve suspend/resume user experience.
 
 
 I would like to ask the community:
 
 What do you want us to work on?

Definately a working WiFi driver (the current one is half-working only,
just have a look at opened bug reports).

Generally more working low-level stuff.

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Re: OpenMooCow 0.1

2008-10-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
As far as I understand, it should mimick that toy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQ126DUsyQNR=1

Xav

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 17:19 +0200, Thomas Bertani wrote:
 sorry I can't understand what this software is. is there a video or
 image aviable?
 
 2008/10/15 Joseph Reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  I just loaded this onto a colleagues phone - he said he wanted a cat
  and suggested the name OpenMeowKo
 
  :)
 
 
 
  2008/10/14 Thomas White [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  I'm pleased to be able to announce version 0.1 of my advanced
  accelerometer and audio framework testing system, OpenMooCow.
  Available from http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~taw27/openmoko/openmoocow/
 
  When installed and run, OpenMooCow displays an artistic rendition of
  a fine specimen of Friesian dairy cattle.  Invert the device and return
  it to an upright orientation to experience the pinnacle of audio
  rendering kwality.
 
  The sound effect can be altered by putting a suitable WAV file
  in /usr/share/openmoocow/moo.wav.  A credit is due to Chris Hendricks
  who is the author of the original sound file (obtained from
  www.flashkit.com).
 
  Comments/abuse to this address.
 
  Tom
 
  --
 
  Thomas White
  Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
  Electron Microscopy Group (PhD Student)
  University of Cambridge / Downing College
 
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Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 16:19 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote:
 Just did that. I reorganized the WLAN page and incoporated a number of 
 community suggestions, including Tom's.
 
 In particular, this should work for most people:
 
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Wifi#Using_iwconfig_manually
 
 Feedback and other working examples appreciated.

Is feedback by mail ok ?

I always use the manual iwconfig+udhcpc method. It works most of the
time right after reboot, but often looses the network after a few
minutes (sometimes it works for hals an hour). After that, redoing the
iwconfig sometimes works, sometimes not and another reboot is in order.

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Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeudi 09 octobre 2008 à 09:10 -0700, Michael Shiloh a écrit :
 Xavier Bestel wrote:
  I always use the manual iwconfig+udhcpc method. It works most of the
  time right after reboot, but often looses the network after a few
  minutes (sometimes it works for hals an hour). After that, redoing the
  iwconfig sometimes works, sometimes not and another reboot is in order.
 
 
 Very interesting. Do you kill udhcpc in between invokations? I think 
 it's a daemon.

Yes (in fact I tried both ways).

 Of course the real issue is why in looses the connection. I presume you 
 have suspend disabled?

Yes.

 Have you tried a different channel? One of my neighbors is on a close 
 channel and things got better when I changed my AP to an unused channel. 
 iwlist is a great help here.

I didn't try that, but every other wifi device had no problem so far.
Changing the channel on the other end is a bit tricky.

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Wifi#Disable_power_management 
 suggests that power management caused problems. You might try this too.

I tried that long ago, thought I found the magic bullet at first, but
nowadays it seems it doesn nothing.

 Please let us know what works and what doesn't. Better yet add it to the 
 wiki.

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Re: The Lost Openmoko Community

2008-10-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le samedi 04 octobre 2008 à 13:22 -0600, Angus Ainslie a écrit :
 Wifi is working as well as any basic distro install. You need to
 edit /etc/network/interfaces and or wpa_supplicant.conf but it is
 working.

Nope. No amount of scripting and tinkering will change the fact that the
kernel driver is broken. It may work in some specific conditions, but
it'll fail in others.

That said, I admit people buying a Freerunner thinking it would work out
of the box got it wrong. It's still a hacker's toy.

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Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:58 +0530, Nishit Dave wrote:


 All this discussion does not help if you realize that even after
 placing the FR *next* to the blooming router, you get reported a
 signal strength of 65%.  What does the hardware expect, building the
 router *inside* the FR?

Note that interferences may weaken an otherwise perfectly good signal.
So the proximity isn't always synonymous with good signal strengh.

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Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 17:36 +0530, Nishit Dave wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:58 +0530, Nishit Dave wrote:
 
 
  All this discussion does not help if you realize that even
 after
  placing the FR *next* to the blooming router, you get
 reported a
  signal strength of 65%.  What does the hardware expect,
 building the
  router *inside* the FR?
 
 
 Note that interferences may weaken an otherwise perfectly good
 signal.
 So the proximity isn't always synonymous with good signal
 strengh.
 
Xav
 
 No?

Well, the closer you are, the better the signal is.
But in my building, there are many other wifi networks. And in the
evening, when they are all in use, I get a worst signal even when near
my AP, whereas e.g. during the night it's better. At least I seem to
have observed that.

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Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-09-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 11:06 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm using the Wifi-method described in
 
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Wifi#Using_WPA_and_.2Fetc.2Fnetwork.2Finterfaces
 
 i.e. having a working config file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 for all my known access points (which is just a copy of that I'm using
 daily and stable in my two FreeBSD based laptops); and I'm trying to bring
 up the eth0 with
 
 # ifup eth0
 
 this works very unreliable; in (let's say) 8 of 10 cases it can't
 associate to the AP, even not after fresh re-boots and independently if
 the AP at my home works with WEP or in my office with WPA;

I found that, for WEP networking, the only working way is to manually
configure the interface:
iwconfig eth0 key yourkeyhere
iwconfig eth0 essid yourssidhere
udhcpc eth0

And even then, it's not guaranteed to work, or if it works, it won't for
long.

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Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-09-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 11:42 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
 El día Tuesday, September 30, 2008 a las 11:28:18AM +0200, Xavier Bestel 
 escribió:
 
  On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 11:06 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
   Hello,
   
   I'm using the Wifi-method described in
   
   http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Wifi#Using_WPA_and_.2Fetc.2Fnetwork.2Finterfaces
   
   i.e. having a working config file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
   for all my known access points (which is just a copy of that I'm using
   daily and stable in my two FreeBSD based laptops); and I'm trying to bring
   up the eth0 with
   
   # ifup eth0
   
   this works very unreliable; in (let's say) 8 of 10 cases it can't
   associate to the AP, even not after fresh re-boots and independently if
   the AP at my home works with WEP or in my office with WPA;
  
  I found that, for WEP networking, the only working way is to manually
  configure the interface:
  iwconfig eth0 key yourkeyhere
  iwconfig eth0 essid yourssidhere
  udhcpc eth0
 
 As I said, with WEP at home I have had it working today morning (sometimes) 
 with:
 
 # cat /etc/network/interfaces
 ...
 iface eth0 inet dhcp
 wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 up route del default gw 192.168.0.200
 down route add default gw 192.168.0.200
 
 # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 ...
 eapol_version=1
 ap_scan=1
 fast_reauth=1
 network={
 ssid=tarara
 scan_ssid=0
 key_mgmt=NONE
 wep_tx_keyidx=0
 wep_key0=
 }
 
 and then the eth0 just comes up (sometimes) with:
 
 # ifup eth0
 
 and DHCP IP and DNS from my AP;
 
 there are some minor bugs in the two shell scripts
 /etc/wpa_supplicant/*.sh which I've had to fix too (sed of busybox does not
 know the flag --quiet);

Look at 'dmesg'. When the wifi driver starts spewing messages about
failed connexions, in my experience the device is hosed.

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Re: 2008.9 GPS

2008-09-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 13:33 -0400, Matthew Lane a écrit :
 I can't get my GPS to get a fix, even outside.  I'm using the latest 
 2008.9 distro from the wiki (as of 9/18/08).  My Locations app shows a 
 map, attempts to get a fix, and always tells me I can't get a fix in 
 sunny weather!
 
 Is anyone else having this issue, or does anyone know of a solution?

Never got a fix myself.

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Re: WiFi doesn't work

2008-09-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 00:18 +1000, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
 The solution is absurdly simple.
 Use udhcpc not dhclient. Both are installed on 2008.8, only udhcpc
 does the right thing.

So .. it works, thanks, but as noted by Tore it works only once after a
reboot. Even letting the FR suspend causes the wifi to fail.

I see there are some open bugs about wifi in the bug tracker. I think
I'll let my FR sleep for a few weeks, waiting for the bugs to be
resolved.

Thanks,
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WiFi doesn't work

2008-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

I have a FR whith 2008.8 + latest updates, and I can't connect to any
wifi network with the GUI. The settings page shows correctly the list
of available APs, when I click on one it asks for a password, and that's
all.

At home, I have a WEP network (which is working very well), and I could
try connecting with the commandline. An iwlist scan shows the APs, then
iwconfig essid and key connect to the AP, but that's all.
When I then run dhclient eth0, it goes into an infinite loop where it
receives an OFFER, then does a DECLINE.

Here is the log seen from the server side (dnsmasq):

Sep 10 23:37:17 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPREQUEST(ath0) 192.168.4.178 
00:19:7d:87:60:4e 
Sep 10 23:37:17 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPACK(ath0) 192.168.4.178 
00:19:7d:87:60:4e 
Sep 10 23:37:50 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPDISCOVER(ath0) 00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:50 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPOFFER(ath0) 192.168.4.179 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:50 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPDISCOVER(ath0) 00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:50 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPOFFER(ath0) 192.168.4.179 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:50 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPREQUEST(ath0) 192.168.4.179 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:50 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPACK(ath0) 192.168.4.179 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:50 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPDECLINE(ath0) 192.168.4.179 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:53 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPDISCOVER(ath0) 00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:53 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPOFFER(ath0) 192.168.4.180 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:53 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPREQUEST(ath0) 192.168.4.180 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:53 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPACK(ath0) 192.168.4.180 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:53 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPDECLINE(ath0) 192.168.4.180 
00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
Sep 10 23:37:56 awak dnsmasq[14577]: DHCPDISCOVER(ath0) 00:12:cf:8e:fe:59 
etc.

dhclient on the FR shows the same kind of thing.


Any hint ?

Thanks,
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Re: WiFi doesn't work

2008-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 14:28 +0200, Tore Martin Hagen wrote:
 The problem is not WLAN but the dhcp client, as you see you get a 
 response, but then you send back a DHCPDECLINE.
 
 What you can do is to stop the dhcp client and then configure the 
 interface manually.
 
 ifconfig eth0 192.168.4.180 netmask 255.255.255.0

I tried that, but I couldn't get a ping to get through.
Even after manually fiddling with routes to be sure they were setup
correctly, I couldn't get anything to work.
USB works perfectly though.

Is the GUI thing (in settings from 2008.8) supposed to work with a WEP
network ?

Thanks,
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Re: WiFi doesn't work

2008-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:39 +0200, Tore Martin Hagen wrote:
 Hi
 
 If you manage to get a DHCP reply it means that the WIFI connection is 
 OK. But my experience is that WIFI can only connect once. So to test out 
 the setup I would reboot. Do the iwconfig then do the ifconfig with a 
 know address and then see if you can ping.

Now that's impractical, seeing how long the boot time is :(
Ok, I'll try that. Or maybe some rmmod+modprobe first.

Thanks,
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Re: WiFi doesn't work

2008-09-11 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 00:18 +1000, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
 The solution is absurdly simple.
 Use udhcpc not dhclient. Both are installed on 2008.8, only udhcpc
 does the right thing.

Thanks, I'll try when I'm back home (not today).

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2008.8 update

2008-08-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

there's an updated image of 2008.8 from yesterday, I still haven't
flashed it - does someone know if it's worth it, what's new inside ?

Thanks,

Xav



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