Re: greetings from the freecalypso project

2015-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote: > If you have voluntarily chosen to obey a law that deems the abandonware > in question to be proprietary rather than public domain, it is YOUR > problem and not ours. You are reminding me of this talk and cartoon by Nina Paley.

Re: greetings from the freecalypso project

2015-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:01 AM, David Matthews wrote: > Please excuse touch of plug and slight bit of off-topic-ness, but just to let > anyone here with interest in free (as in source code available) baseband > firmware, that the freecalypso project is making strides. Are you planning to

Re: State of FreeCalypso

2015-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote: GSM What is it about GSM that would make you move across the world just to use it? Do your family and friends feel the same way about GSM? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:PaulWise

Re: State of FreeCalypso

2015-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Spacefalcon the Outlaw wrote: I do have a mobile phone for communicating with my family and friends In 2017, ATT will be shutting down their GSM network in the USA in favour of 3G/4G. Macau is planning to shut down their GSM services in June 2015. I would hazard

Re: Free phone: smart or not?

2015-03-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Nick wrote: That said, I do like the idea of having access to strong encryption for SMS type messages and voice, but the way to do that which is compatible with what other people use is to use android apps that communicate over the internet. Which would

Re: qtMoko getting bad Network Time

2015-01-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Jorge wrote: Thanks for the confirmation. A question, can you confirm that the session excerpt is the one of interest, and it actually says the provider is giving the +34 time zone? That would be strange, being the biggest celular provider around here. With my

Re: qtMoko getting bad Network Time

2015-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Jorge wrote: I have a correctly set time timezone (America/Montevideo), and when my qtMoko boots up, after connecting to the cellular network a weird dialog appears : The network time is (GMT +34). Set this new time?. If I say No, everything keeps working. If

Re: Indiephone.eu

2014-06-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Their claim that there is no other product appears to be completely ignoring all our efforts of the past years. I expect they simply didn't research the various projects out there already. Here are another few projects/groups

Re: [ot] Pi-Phone or blackberry-pi ?

2014-06-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Ed Kapitein wrote: I took a model A raspberry pi [1] a tft screen [2] and a Arduino gsm shield [3] to create a mobile phone [4] These folks did something similar: http://www.freetronics.com/products/arduphone-arduino-compatible-cellphone -- bye, pabs

Re: I tried to install agpsui but failed

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Wuzzy wrote: PS: This mailing list seems to be pretty low volume. Is this normal? Yes, the OpenMoko community is shrinking as people move away to other communities focussed on other devices. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:PaulWise

Re: IMEI changing kit for GTA02

2014-02-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: what is semi-legal? I assume that means it is illegal in some parts of the world and not in others. For example illegal in the UK, not illegal in Michael's micronation. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:PaulWise

Re: Freerunner GPIO locations

2014-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: problem is, i can't locate the gpio pins on the motherboard. are there any schematics out there with their location? ideally something which relates them to the nodes in /sys/class/gpio/ These are the schematics I can find related to this:

Re: Looking for Info on Neo Freerunner

2014-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:27 AM, auto78240314 wrote: I am wondering if someone can tell me about the Neo Freerunner's features? Please take a look at the wiki page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner How long does the battery last between charges?

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Ian Stirling wrote: There are separate issues around the IP that you do not have permission to use. This is the illegality that he is referring to, not any potential spectrum/GSM/IMEI issues. I guess he would ignore the latter as well as the former though. On

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: I already told you that the hardware source files are open and public. I agree with Bob Ham on this. The source files are not public and even the PDFs are not open, they are licensed under a non-commercial license (CC-BY-NC-SA).

Re: GTA04-N900 vel. Neo900

2013-08-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:12 AM, arne anka wrote: maemo isn't great If I were using Maemo, I guess the biggest problem for me would be security support, I wonder if there is any right now? imo, the way to go would be to port all of maemo to debian thereby getting Your wording isn't clear

Re: Releasing GTA04 hardware source files (was: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3)

2013-08-24 Thread Paul Wise
For the GTA04 adapter board you are already distributing the files that Bob Ham is asking for (AFAICT - not an EE). http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/downloads/42/ The adapter board license (CC-BY-SA) is more friendly than the GTA04 board license (CC-BY-NC-SA). So I'm wondering about

Re: community Digest, Vol 353, Issue 3

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bob Ham wrote: I don't understand. What is the green light with respect to the GTA04? That was already mentioned; money for components being available. -- bye, pabs ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Building a new totally free phone

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
Security experts have moved on from that line of thinking long ago I think. The problem with it is that a GSM/3G/LTE modem is not just a communications channel. It is a generic processor running software. Probably buggy, insecure, proprietary software. Same goes for GPS, WiFi, Ethernet and other

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Ben Wong wrote: I wonder if OpenPhoenix has an opportunity now, with all those frustrated would-be buyers out there. Are the Ubuntu Edge specs (or something close) achievable by OpenPhoenix? -- bye, pabs ___

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-08-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Bob Ham wrote: No. I think a better question is whether OpenPhoenix can achieve production of *any* phone? Not currently in stock, but as I understand it, GTA04 exists and is a phone. https://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04 -- bye, pabs

Re: GTA02 Screen broken..

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Neil Jerram wrote: I'm sorry to hear that. I've had a few similar falls, usually when I forget that the USB cable is still plugged into my laptop. But so far I've been lucky not to end up with a fracture. Likewise, my gta02 bounces rather than breaks. I hope

Re: [ANNOUNCE] openmoko.org server move

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Patryk Benderz wrote: [cut] Maqui Berry supplement is the latest discovery in medicine Oh really? Epic fail Radek ;) - I hope you have a backup of your web page. QtMoko moved to sourceforge years ago: http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/ -- bye, pabs

Re: GSM Firmware+Wiki

2013-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Paul Wise wrote: I've contacted him multiple times on IRC and email last year and this year but I never get a response. I looked at my mail again and discovered this isn't actually true. I did get one response from him last month stating he hasn't had time

Re: GSM Firmware+Wiki

2013-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:46 AM, joerg Reisenweber wrote: anyway thanks for reporting, glad it worked for you, enjoy MOKO11! I dunno about wiki admins, isn't it a wiki and thus should be editable by registered users at least? If you have problems with the wiki, contact LaF0rge aka Harald

Re: [QTmoko] Qx problems

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Radek Polak wrote: I wonder what happened with xserver-xorg-input-tslib for wheezy - it looks the package is missing: It got removed because the RC bug did not get fixed in time: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xf86-input-tslib.html

Re: community Digest, Vol 333, Issue 4

2013-04-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Christoph Pulster wrote: Fairphone aims ... supply chain for conflict minerals, poor working conditions or environmental destruction sounds all very nice and political correct, but is blabla only. I would wager that there are more folks that care about that

Re: Take a look at these stupid people...

2013-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Sebastian Reinhardt wrote: They said: There is no fair smartphone on market, so we have to invent it Nothing about GTA04 or OpenMoko! Stupid people! A new example for bad journalism... It probably isn't a good idea to start calling potential allies stupid,

Re: QtMoko v54

2013-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Radek Polak wrote: it should work out of the box in v54. You can try youtube.com/html5, enter html5 trial and search for QtMoko - that's how i tested. Video is damn slow - it's more like slideshow, but audio should be usable. Btw for youtube there is nice app

Re: WIKI is in read-only mode?

2013-03-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Radek Polak wrote: Maybe i am wrong but openmoko as company is for years dead and nobody of the old admins is willing to spend much time on maintaining the infrastructure. There are other folks willing to maintain the infrastructure (such as me), but it seems

Re: QtMoko v54

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Radek Polak wrote: If you want to upgrade (also untested) I tried this but I could not find out where to get your OpenPGP key 0x91B27C1E1DC56A1F and unfortunately squeeze apt doesn't have the trusted=yes option in sources.list to override this. What should the

Re: QtMoko v54

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: I encountered similar issues with obsolete sources.list. Radek told me on IRC that the new sources.list and gpg key information is on github: https://github.com/radekp/qtmoko/blob/master/doc/txt/debian_rootfs_howto.txt -- bye, pabs

Re: tizen released

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
SRPMs are here: http://download.tizen.org/releases/2.0/tizen-2.0_20130218.10/repos/base/source/ http://download.tizen.org/releases/2.0/tizen-2.0_20130218.10/repos/main/source/ git repos here: https://review.tizen.org/git/ -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/

Re: tizen released

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
[I'm subscribed, no need to CC] On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: was it ported on some real devices beside the emulator? When I was compiling the links at [1] I asked on the IRC channel and was told there is no general page about ports. There was a developer

Re: tizen released

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
I asked on IRC again and got a couple of links: https://www.tizen.org/irclogs/%23tizen.2013-02-19.log.html#t2013-02-19T02:51:25 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: FreeTSM30/FreeCalypso project started

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Harley Laue wrote: I wish you all the best to be successful in your project It would be much better for him to spend time on getting NuttxBB/OsmocomBB working, at least the results would be Free Software and distributable in projects like SHR, QtMoko, Debian,

Re: Qtmoko - broken app repository

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Peter Viskup wrote: What armhf? http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort Was the repository changed somehow It looks like yes, hopefully one of the QtMoko folks can comment. -- bye, pabs ___ Openmoko community

Re: Qtmoko - broken app repository

2013-01-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Peter Viskup wrote: I just tried to install one of the Qtmoko applications and it failed. Maybe you need an apt-get update? The deb is here: http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/apps/qtmoko-qgcide.html

Re: qtmoko keyboard focus enhancement

2013-01-17 Thread Paul Wise
I would suggest to reduce the opacity too (maybe to 0.5), I keep having to show and hide the keyboard when in the Terminal app. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:PaulWise ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: [QtMoko] power off GSM?

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:51 PM, robin wrote: did you also try just to echo -en AT at POFF\r /dev/ttySAC0 without setting the modem to dummy beforehand? Doesn't appear to work, at least Linux still thinks GSM is on: # cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/gta02-pm-gsm.0/power_on 1 I guess

[QtMoko] power off GSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Does anyone know if it is possible in QtMoko to power off GSM on startup and keep it off? I'm only using my gta02 as a computer right now and don't want to waste energy on GSM. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:PaulWise ___

Re: [QtMoko] power off GSM?

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Wise
Unfortunately if I do that then QtMoko doesn't start. qpe seems to be using 100% CPU and the child processes of qpe have all died and become zombies. Setting the modem to dummy seems to be the cause of this. PS: I'm subscribed, no need to CC me. -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/

Re: possible to use wifi and usb networking at the same time? (qtmoko)

2013-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
Thats a bug in QtMoko's network setup, it seems to take full control of the kernel's networking setup without asking the kernel what networks are setup already and should remain. It also needs to be aware that not all network interfaces are managed by the QtMoko network UI. You can work around it

Re: [off-topic] smartphone alternatives?

2012-12-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: Yes it's a really good device: it's almost like the GTA02, but faster, better, less hardware bugs, but also has a non-free wifi firmware. GTA02 also has non-free WiFi firmware, but it is in the WiFi chip's internal storage instead

Re: OpenMoko wiki needs to be set to read-only due to spam

2012-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: How can I get a database dump of the wiki so I can clone it? What I'd really like to be able to do is run a read-write fork/clone of the mirror, and have the backend database be files in mercurial or git, and then we can have an

Re: OpenMoko wiki needs to be set to read-only due to spam

2012-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 18:57 -0500, Harry Prevor wrote: Sorry for bringing this somewhat old topic up, but why did this have to be done? I can understand restricting editing to registered users only or adding CAPTCHAs to prevent spam, but isn't making the (still very important) wiki entirely

OpenMoko wiki needs to be set to read-only due to spam

2012-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
Hi Harald, all, To whoever is able to make the OpenMoko wiki read-only, please do so since no-one is monitoring it for spam and removing that: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Neon image viewer?

2011-06-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi, I'm wondering where the Neon code and development repository after projects.openmoko.org was shut down, anyone know? If so, please update the wiki page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neon -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Linux 2.6.38?

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Are any of the 2.6.37 patches merged into mainline 2.6.38-rc1? Is it too late for them to be merged or are they mostly fixes that could be submitted for mainline inclusion outside the (now closed) merge window? -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ signature.asc Description: This

OM/FSO/SHR related stuff for CELF embedded project proposals for 2011?

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Wise
From http://lwn.net/Articles/419696/: The CE Linux Forum is looking to fund proposals for embedded Linux projects. Each year, CELF spends money on contract work to improve Linux for use in embedded systems. Some of the projects we have sponsored in the past include Linux-tiny, DirectFB

Re: [Debian] aplay/mplayer broken with pkg-fso linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02?

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 23:38 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Is anyone else having broken audio on Debian with pkg-fso linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02?' gena2x seems to have found the cause, I had 'Stereo Out Switch' and 'Right Mixer Right Playback Switch' turned off in my alsa settings. Zero idea how

[Debian] aplay/mplayer broken with pkg-fso linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02?

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
Is anyone else having broken audio on Debian with pkg-fso linux-image-2.6.34-openmoko-gta02? Timo Jyrinki can reproduce it with one GTA02 but not with another one. Here are some symptoms: r...@booph(Debian):~# uname -a Linux booph 2.6.34-20101108.git1508bbb5 #1 Sat Nov 13 22:33:10 UTC 2010

LCA2011 Mobile FOSS Miniconf CfP

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
The miniconfs at LCA2011 in Brisbane, Australia was recently announced and includes a Mobile FOSS miniconf. Are any OpenMoko folks planning on submitting any talks? The CfP closes Friday 22nd October 2010. http://lca2011.linux.org.au/media/news/34

repairing FR back cover?

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, So, I dropped my FR one too many times and broke the remaining short prong (I broke the other one a while ago) that holds the end of back cover (near the hole) in place. The two longer prongs on the side of the cover are still intact so the cover stays on but it comes off more easily when

OLPC ARM

2010-07-08 Thread Paul Wise
Interesting news: http://lwn.net/Articles/395544/ http://www.olpcnews.com/laptops/xo-175/multi-touch_sugar_arm_xo_laptop.html http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-July/011319.html Some of the more interesting bits are: They're open-sourcing (almost all of) their embedded controller code

Re: [GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Wise
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: USB usb power while swapping batteries so that you don't need to power the system down. Most of the times that I need to remove the battery I don't have USB power, so that isn't very helpful. Yet another hardware design issue I guess, I'm quite surprised there

[GTA02] clock reset on battery removal?

2010-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I've noticed that the clock gets reset to the year 2000 after shutting down, swapping batteries and starting again. It doesn't happen when I leave the battery in. I usually deal with that by turning on the GPS until FSO (in Debian SHR) sets the system time to the GPS time. Is there any

[GTA02] disable resume on headphone jack removal?

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [Please CC me in reply] My FreeRunner resumes from suspend-to-memory if I remove the headphones from the headphone socket. Does anyone know if that is configurable or if the hardware just doesn't allow it to be changed? -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ signature.asc

Re: [GTA02] headphone socket issues

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 12:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Earlier I used Nokia headphones with a 2.5mm plug and had the same one-bud sound issue. At that time I hadn't yet figured out the workaround of pulling it out a little bit, I'll test that later today. I confirm that the workaround of pulling

[GTA02] headphone socket issues

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, When I plug headphones all the way in to the headphone socket, only one of the buds works, but when I don't push it all the way in I get sound from both buds. Same thing happens in both Debian and SHR. Does anyone else have this issue with their FreeRunner or have thoughts on the cause or

Re: [GTA02] headphone socket issues

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 03:08 +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: Hey, this looks very much like you used an ordinary 2.5-3.5mm plug converter which doesn't work due to wrong pinout. Just use correct wiring for the converter (check the wiki), it should work out of the box. I did use a plug converter in

Re: Linux dyn-ticks on S3C24xx support?

2010-01-01 Thread Paul Wise
Thanks for the info. Hopefully the recent frequency scaling patch[1] will help. I'm also excited about the FSCE patches[2], hopefully that will get upstream soon. 1. http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td3920523 2.

Linux dyn-ticks on S3C24xx support?

2009-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Back in 2008 there was a patch[1] to enable dyn-ticks on GTA02, does anyone know what happened to it? I get a steady 200 wakeups from idle per second in powertop when using the 2.6.29 version of Linux from SHR. The /proc file mentioned in that thread does not exist. I have added