Re: Help on building the OpenBTS / OsmoBTS Transceiver branch

2021-07-21 Thread Craig Comstock
I tried the instructions here: https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/CalypsoBTS on a pretty clean and up to date Debian 10 vm and had no problems. I used the arm-none-eabi-* packages that come with Debian. arm-none-eabi-gcc --version arm-none-eabi-gcc (15:7-2018-q2-6) 7.3.1 20180622

Re: Free board offer to OBB developer with a CMU200

2019-04-08 Thread Craig Comstock
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 09:39:25PM -0800, Mychaela Falconia wrote: > > So at this point I have some work that others did to transmit a burst on a > > specific ARFCN. > > What you are describing sounds like a low-level RF test mode, > transmitting a burst by itself, without any synchronization

Re: Free board offer to OBB developer with a CMU200

2019-04-06 Thread Craig Comstock
Mychaela wrote: > Now please present your story (meaning Craig) - how long have you been > actively working toward your respective goal? What do you have to > show so far? I have been working with osmocom-bb since around 2010, dabbling in porting layer1 to nutt-xand starting 2-3 years ago

Re: Free board offer to OBB developer with a CMU200

2019-04-06 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi all, On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 12:12:54PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > thanks a lot for your generous offer. I'm very happy to see this, but > I have very limited hope that at this point somebody would still show > such substantial interest in testing compliance of OsmocomBB :/ I am determined

MT6260 Datasheet available

2018-12-19 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi all, Somoene shared what looks like a quite useful datasheet for MT6260 at the kosagi/fernvale forum. I have downloaded it and looked a bit and it looks very helpful. I have linked to it in the wiki at: https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/MT6260 Original post at kosagi forum:

Re: Osmocon

2018-05-14 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi Nikos, > Planning to add usb support to osmocon. > Is there any interest for a patch, or should I do it just for myself? > > PS: You can convert a USB port to serial with a USB2serial converter:) Exactly. I have mostly used a USB to serial adapter without modifying osmocom-bb code at all.

Re: sciphone dream g2 mtk 6235 status? ;)

2018-02-13 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi All, A few comments: - Can I get edit rights to some mediatek related pages, there are some things I might clear up/freshen up: https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/SciphoneDreamG2 https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/MTKRomloader

Re: sciphone dream g2 mtk 6235 status? ;)

2018-02-13 Thread Craig Comstock
Thanks Mychaela, I have opted to wait and purchase a CMU200 as you suggested. Can you suggest which features I should look for? I'm more of a hands on learner.

re: sciphone dream g2 mtk 6235 status? ;)

2018-02-03 Thread Craig Comstock
Sorry for the premature mail posting. I did some more digging and found a quite good thread of information from around 2011 or so. http://baseband-devel.722152.n3.nabble.com/Mediatek-MT6235-status-Sciphone-G2-td2519606.html I note that Harald mentioned whether Marcin had suitable lab equipment

Re: [PATCH] mtk: fix firmware makefile to work with current osmocom-bb makefile system

2017-12-06 Thread Craig Comstock
> My congratulations! Could you please write a brief (or more detailed, > if you wish) description of the work you're doing, so I could create > a dedicated wiki page? Or is one already there? https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/SciphoneDreamG2 This wiki page would probably be good. It

Re: [PATCH] mtk: fix firmware makefile to work with current osmocom-bb makefile system

2017-12-06 Thread Craig Comstock
Some good news, I played around with the device and the loader and found that things work "as they did" if I follow the instructions more carefully... press and hold the button UNTIL LOADING IS FINISHED! ;) It says it there but I didn't quite understand I had to hold it down the whole time.

adjust gnu arm toolchain directions for newer gcc (7.2.0-14)

2017-11-18 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi all, Just got a new laptop and was trying to build and run fernly (for fernvale/mtk6260) and found that arm-none-eabi toolchain from debian (9ish I think... PureOS is what I am using) doesn't run succesfully. This is a known issue. What really caused me trouble was when I went to use the

Re: to qcom hexagon porting

2017-05-07 Thread Craig Comstock
> what are problem should i expect > while porting to qcom hexagon > is it a bad idea There would be a lot of questions and things to research. I am not familiar with qcom hexagon SDK. I am a little familiar with osmocom-bb source code and 2G GSM details. I am currently in the very beginning

Re: Fun with the MTK 6573 Baseband (Patching / Replacing)

2017-04-18 Thread Craig Comstock
11B1308-V2 On Thu, 4/13/17, bruce lee <bbs...@live.com> wrote: Subject: Re: Fun with the MTK 6573 Baseband (Patching / Replacing) To: "Craig Comstock" <craig_comst...@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, April 13, 2017, 11:40 AM check this out.

[PATCH] adjust Makefile.mtk so that mtk-firmware works again

2016-10-14 Thread Craig Comstock
--- src/target/firmware/Makefile.mtk | 10 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/target/firmware/Makefile.mtk b/src/target/firmware/Makefile.mtk index 30fa2fc..927e31a 100644 --- a/src/target/firmware/Makefile.mtk +++ b/src/target/firmware/Makefile.mtk @@

Re: OsmocomBB hardware migration to SDR

2016-06-23 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi All, I hope to make a usable phone. Currently my plan is to dig into the MT6260 as started by the fernly/fernvale project. Current target is the SIM800H which contains the MT6260. I saw both that sysmocom has a $150 fernvale setup and Lime SDR has a USB bare-board for $250+ but I have to

c113a works

2015-06-15 Thread Craig Comstock
FWIW, someone asked me whether c113 worked. I found a cheap 113a and hello_world loaded pretty well. The screen on my phone is shot but the backlight did come on.it works fine with the following command: craig@craig:~/c115-osmocom-bb/src$ host/osmocon/osmocon -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -m c123xor

c139 nuttx bringup - irq problem?

2015-05-11 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi, I'm working on bringing up nuttx on the c139. I am running this as I described previously by jumping from 0x2000 to 0x1 with a small firmware image there and then nuttx is configured to run from flash at 0x1. I configured nuttx RAM to live at 0x800100 to skip the exception vectors

patch on jolly/menu for jumper app

2015-05-07 Thread Craig Comstock
:00 2001 From: Craig Comstock craig_comst...@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 01:18:29 + Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for e86 flash and loader configs as well as simple jumper app which replaces menu and simply jumps to the second flash page on e.g. c139 phone. --- src/target/firmware

nuttx, menu, loader, running from flash

2015-05-06 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi, I'm trying to get nuttx running on my C139 compal_e86(88?) phone. I have been reading some emails and loader scripts but am a bit unexperienced with this area of software. I've managed to use the menu app with flashing successfully but so far am unable to get nuttx to run either due to the

nuttx-bb?

2015-04-16 Thread Craig Comstock
Hi all, Was starting to work on making a usable phone again and wondered about the status of nuttx-bb git on osmocom.org versus nuttx source. It seems nuttx source is more up-to-date and has configs for my device: compal_e86/c139. Wondering if there is something in nuttx-bb that is unique that

Re: nuttx-bb?

2015-04-16 Thread Craig Comstock
Craig Comstock craig_comstock at yahoo.com writes: Craig Comstock craig_comstock at yahoo.com writes: Hi all, Was starting to work on making a usable phone again and wondered about the status of nuttx-bb git on osmocom.org versus nuttx source. It seems nuttx source is more up