Re: Flashing GSM firmware (was Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?)

2009-02-24 Thread Peter Klassen
2009/2/23 Steve 'dillo Okay armad...@roadknightlabs.com: r...@om-gta02:/usr/sbin# echo 0 /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm- gsm.0/power_on r...@om-gta02:/usr/sbin# echo 1 /sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm- gsm.0/power_on r...@om-gta02:/usr/sbin# echo a...@poff /dev/ttySAC0

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-24 Thread Takke
Hi guys, I received the Freerunner today and I went trough the same issues with a 128KB Vodafone SIM. All you have to do is to follow (as suggested) _carefully_ this guide [0] and I can confirm that your brad new vodafone SIM will start working properly. Bye, Takke [0]

Flashing GSM firmware (was Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?)

2009-02-23 Thread Steve 'dillo Okay
From: Paul Fertser fercer...@gmail.com Date: February 23, 2009 2:09:45 AM GMT+01:00 To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ? Reply-To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org GNUtoo gnu...@no-log.org writes: it's a bug

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-23 Thread GNUtoo
GNUtoo gnu...@no-log.org writes: it's a bug in the GSM modem's firmware...it can be updated but I advise you against doing it because there is some command to type and if you makes a typo it can brick your gsm modem That's a lie. sorry that was not intentional...so we should change the wiki

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-23 Thread Paul Fertser
GNUtoo gnu...@no-log.org writes: GNUtoo gnu...@no-log.org writes: it's a bug in the GSM modem's firmware...it can be updated but I advise you against doing it because there is some command to type and if you makes a typo it can brick your gsm modem That's a lie. sorry that was not

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Michele Renda
On 22/02/2009 16:26, Steve 'dillo Okay wrote: Greetings OM-heads, I'm currently in Trieste for a seminar and brought my Freerunner here with me from the US. I bought a Vodaphone SIM which doesn't seem to work in my GTA02, but works in just every other phone I've put it in. I don't know

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Steve \ 'dillo\ Okay armad...@roadknightlabs.com writes: Could this be an OS/distro problem? Could this be a never upgraded GSM Firmware problem? -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Federico Belvisi
Michele Renda ha scritto: On 22/02/2009 16:26, Steve 'dillo Okay wrote: Greetings OM-heads, I'm currently in Trieste for a seminar and brought my Freerunner here with me from the US. I bought a Vodaphone SIM which doesn't seem to work in my GTA02, but works in just every other phone I've

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Michele Renda
On 22/02/2009 17:07, Federico Belvisi wrote: I have a Vodafone sim 128K that isn't working (the first and last time I tried was when I bought my Freerunner back in august). Till then, I put in the FR an old 64K (or 32K, maybe, I forgot), Vodafone Italy. Maybe you have a 64K... I have a

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Giovanni
I live in Italy. I bought a new 128K Vodafone SIM about 3 months ago, but it didn't work with the Freerunner. Then I found an older 64K Vodafone SIM and it works well. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Federico Belvisi armal...@alice.it wrote: Michele Renda ha scritto: On 22/02/2009 16:26,

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Michele Renda
On 22/02/2009 17:26, Giovanni wrote: I live in Italy. I bought a new 128K Vodafone SIM about 3 months ago, but it didn't work with the Freerunner. Then I found an older 64K Vodafone SIM and it works well. May be is a Vodafone 128Kb sim related problem. Someone of you tried to upgrade the Gsm

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Steve 'dillo Okay
On Feb 22, 2009, at 17:21 , Michele Renda wrote: On 22/02/2009 17:07, Federico Belvisi wrote: I have a Vodafone sim 128K that isn't working (the first and last time I tried was when I bought my Freerunner back in august). Till then, I put in the FR an old 64K (or 32K, maybe, I forgot),

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Steve 'dillo Okay
On Feb 22, 2009, at 16:36 , Michele Renda wrote: On 22/02/2009 16:26, Steve 'dillo Okay wrote: Greetings OM-heads, I'm currently in Trieste for a seminar and brought my Freerunner here with me from the US. I bought a Vodaphone SIM which doesn't seem to work in my GTA02, but works in just

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread GNUtoo
Greetings OM-heads, I'm currently in Trieste for a seminar and brought my Freerunner here with me from the US. I bought a Vodaphone SIM which doesn't seem to work in my GTA02, but works in just every other phone I've put it in. Can anybody recommend a Euro SIM/carrier that is known to work

Re: Recommended SIM for Italy ?

2009-02-22 Thread Paul Fertser
GNUtoo gnu...@no-log.org writes: it's a bug in the GSM modem's firmware...it can be updated but I advise you against doing it because there is some command to type and if you makes a typo it can brick your gsm modem That's a lie. You can't brick your modem at all, as it has a ROM bootloader.