adding data services with t.mobile for neo 1973

2007-07-08 Thread Jeff Rush
The one guideline you need to be aware of is that you CAN NOT get data GPRS or EDGE on a pay as you go plan (T-Mobile to go). It has to be on a post paid monthly account. To my knowledge and research, neither ATT or T-Mobile will permit a data package on a pay as you go basis. It wouldn't

Re: Reason for openmoko - bugsafe?

2007-07-15 Thread Jeff Rush
Edwin Lock wrote: My main point was if the state, well, anyone who had connections to the carriers, could turn the neo into a bug too.. And it seems that it isn't possible cause of the software mixer being off when the device is off :) Actually one may want to implement this on the OpenMoko

Re: Binary tarball of toolchain/build environment

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Rush
Al Johnson wrote: I was going to suggest this too. This is the approach taken for the Neuros OSD, another linux-based device. It would give a known-working build and test environment, rather than having potential developers spending time trying to put such an environment together. Mokomakefile

Re: gentoo qemu (was Re: Binary tarball of toolchain/build environment)

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Rush
Al Johnson wrote: On Monday 16 July 2007 11:38, Jeff Rush wrote: Al Johnson wrote: I was going to suggest this too. This is the approach taken for the Neuros OSD, another linux-based device. It would give a known-working build and test environment, rather than having potential developers

Unusual Bluetooth Gadgets?

2007-07-18 Thread Jeff Rush
I was thinking this phone has so many possibilities, and one of them is neat bluetooth gadgets we could make use of. But searching I don't see a lot of innovative bluetooth gadgets to buy. Has anyone seen a small bluetooth camera you can wear on your lapel? Even if it was the size of a

Re: community Digest, Vol 36, Issue 45

2007-07-20 Thread Jeff Rush
Steven ** wrote: Is that searchable? Is it threaded? Will there be someone on 24/7 that is knowledgable and helpful? I understand that some people love IRC and mailing lists. But users expect to search and ask questions in a forum, not on a mailing list and IRC. I think it's about time

Significant Numbers of Non-Developers?

2007-07-20 Thread Jeff Rush
I've been reading the archives of the various OpenMoko lists and I've noticed a significant number of people who admit they are not programmers at all, or that this is their first exposure to Linux. I'm curious what a non-programmer is going to do with this device in the next few months. And if

Re: community Digest, Vol 36, Issue 45

2007-07-20 Thread Jeff Rush
Mathew Davis wrote: And I don't understand why we can't have both. I really don't see the problem so if someone could explain why not having a forum would be advantageous and not just personal preferance I am all ears, because I could list a lot of reasons why forums could be advantageous.

Re: Significant Numbers of Non-Developers?

2007-07-21 Thread Jeff Rush
Ortwin Regel wrote: Order #1833 here and not a developer at all. My last Linux experience was that I changed the screen resolution in Suse 9 to something that didn't work and wasn't able to change it back and get back to the GUI. :P Still, I need this phone and I need it now. It's the phone

Re: qemu trouble...

2007-07-22 Thread Jeff Rush
Lars Hallberg wrote: Daniel Robinson skrev: Hey Lars, Huzzah to you, sir, for getting that far. I got my ubuntu system up yesterday, but I haven't gotten some of the other pieces working. I haven't used OpenEmbedded or bitbake before. I use perforce at work. I have not set up a

Re: OpenMoko trademark issues...

2007-07-22 Thread Jeff Rush
Jae Stutzman wrote: OpenMoko.Inc needs to have a clear trademark policy on the name OpenMoko and associated logo, etc. Right now the maemo people are going through some stuff do to recent changes. This is something that Sean and co need to figure out. If it is already figgured out then it

Re: building openmoko devel image

2007-07-22 Thread Jeff Rush
Charles Lohr wrote: To any willing to help: I'm a gentoo user who is considering buying one of the FIC1973 phones for developing new software for. I figured I should be able to 'make' the phone before buying it. Note that if this is being sent to the wrong list, please direct me in the

Re: email vs forum (was Re: OK, the forum is coming..)

2007-07-24 Thread Jeff Rush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, then, why not have forums for people who want them, and leave email for people who don't want them? The thing is, it doesn't work very well in practice. If experience is any guide, then the technically knowledgable people will use email, and won't waste

Re: Duplicate message troubleshooting

2007-07-25 Thread Jeff Rush
Nicolas Bougues wrote: Here is the kind of things my SMTP relay logs while talking to openmoko's list server : Jul 24 18:46:21 cassis postfix/smtp[9586]: 7E28BE0BA0: to=community@lists.openmoko.org, relay=sita.openmoko.org[88.198.124.203]:25, delay=12360, delays=12279/0.16/0.15/80,

Phone arrive! - Torx required?

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Rush
Yay, my basic Neo1973 arrived today. It looks quite cool smaller than I expected and lightweight. But I think I'm about to fail my geek status - can't figure out how to insert the microSD card that came with it, without full disassembly of the unit. I, uh, don't own a Torx toolset and didn't

Seeking Extra Packages for FSO Milestone 5.5

2009-07-28 Thread Jeff Rush
I've successfully installed FSO Milestone 5.5 onto my GTA01 hardware and it is working fine. However I miss many of the optional tools I have installed on prior milestones. The directory: http://downloads.freesmartphone.org/fso-stable/milestone5.1/updates/ is missing and that's probably

FSO Going Out of the Distro Business? - Questions

2009-08-05 Thread Jeff Rush
Freesmartphone.org is going out of the distro business. We will focus on the framework itself and will rely on SHR for building a real distro and GUI around it. I got the above comment on a bug report I just filed and while I've heard it mentioned, I don't understand the ramifications. 1. How