car charger

2008-10-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
Just wanted to post that I received http://www.cross-mark.com/charger-adapter-black-1000mah-p-962.html in the mail today. The FreeRunner automatically kicks into 1000ma charge mode. :) Best $3.00 (delivered) I've spent in a while. j ___ Openmoko co

[Raster] safe repo?

2008-10-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
What package feeds are safe to use with the Raster image? (what about Raster plus frameworkd & zhone?) I bricked my FR a few times making the mistake of doing "opkg upgrade" against the FSO-unstable feed I set up to get frameworkd and zhone. As long as I manually opkg what I want from that feed I

Re: [Raster+FSO] Silent Zhone

2008-10-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:52:18 +0200, "Julien Cassignol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are describing a bug. > > I opened two tickets about that, #174, which describes your situation > and is closed, and the next one, #176, which another one altogether > :-). > > You can find them on trac.freesma

Re: Accelerometer question

2008-10-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:01:14 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Big question: > Are the accelerometers constantly draining battery life? > > or... > > The rate at which they feed me data only starts up when the file > handle is opened, and

Re: [Raster+FSO] Silent Zhone

2008-10-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:41:42 +0200, Richy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arkanoid-Sid Tune ist the ringtone. > You need to install gst-sid (Or gst-plugins-sid or similar) > to hear that. gst-plugin-sid, still nothing. When a call comes inbound the screen doesn't even undim, and I get no audible ring

Re: [Raster+FSO] Silent Zhone

2008-10-08 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:03:18 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > >> Well I still get no sound with Zhone, calls are silent both ends, and it >> never rings. I can play back audio with aplay and mplayer (wave, ogg, >> mp3

[Raster+FSO] Silent Zhone

2008-10-08 Thread Joel Newkirk
Well I still get no sound with Zhone, calls are silent both ends, and it never rings. I can play back audio with aplay and mplayer (wave, ogg, mp3), and Raster's alarm clock works. If I manually invoke 'alsactl -f /usr/share/openmoko/scenarios/gsmhandset.state restore' while in a silent call, I g

Re: [Raster+FSO] USB Host keyboard problem

2008-10-08 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:26:30 +0100, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > | Under the latest Rasterman image with FSO repos (frameworkd, zhone, > | supporting installed) when I switch to USB Host mod

Re: [2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

2008-10-08 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:42:00 -0700, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Yates wrote: >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Steve Mosher wrote: >> >>> Thanks, >>>Maybe you could work with micheal to put this on the wiki. >> >> i also wrote up my positive experiences with openmoko (see at >> http:/

[Raster+FSO] USB Host keyboard problem

2008-10-07 Thread Joel Newkirk
Under the latest Rasterman image with FSO repos (frameworkd, zhone, supporting installed) when I switch to USB Host mode (via sysfs, not dbus), it will automount my USB thumbdrive, but doesn't do anything with the keyboard that previously worked, and 'lsusb' is always empty. Module hci_usb is inse

[FSO] LED state 'blink' suggestions

2008-10-07 Thread Joel Newkirk
In the past I'd played around with the LEDs a bit manually, and harking back to that when I poked into /etc/freesmartphone/events/rules.yaml and saw under PowerStatus: SetLed("gta02_power_blue", "blink") So I set BOTH to blink, which will produce purple. Unfortunately, it only works out once in a

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-07 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:46:56 +0200, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:32 PM, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Richy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I somehow managed to get it to work to some extend. >>> The phone isn' ringin, just vibrat

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-07 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:19:58 +0200, Eildert Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raster's keyboard is nice! So I tried his Image and installed fso as a > phone > stack. Further I like tangoGPS and also installed it together with > fso-gpsd. > > However, tangoGPS does not show up on the desktop.

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:52:13 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:52:00 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > >> So this is a little utility I wrote [1] to check the frequency of each >> word and writing back a ne

Re: Cannot ssh to Freerunner

2008-10-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
o change were the > "ACCEPT" commands since they were not accepted. > > Thanks. > > cu, > Nick > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:28:58 -0400, "Joel Newkirk" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Sorry, I'd expected to be in front of a compu

Re: Cannot ssh to Freerunner

2008-10-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
68.0.100 > dns-nameservers 192.168.0.100 > dns-search gamma.vz > > auto usb0 > iface usb0 inet static > address 192.168.0.200 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:28:21 +0200, "Nicolas Linkert" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Cannot ssh to Freerunner

2008-10-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:53:16 +0200, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick, > >> Any other ideas? It's really strange since this worked with the Neo >> 1973. >> > > Not sure if this helps you, but this is what I stuck in my firewall > script for the Neo: > > # Freerunner's USB: > $iptables -A FO

Re: Cannot ssh to Freerunner

2008-10-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:42:41 +0200, "Nicolas Linkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > no, that does not change anything. > > ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 > route add -host 192.168.0.202 gw 192.168.0.200 > >> > Host IP: 192.168.0.101 >> > DNS: 192.168.0.100 >> > >

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:46:56 +0200, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:32 PM, gromez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Richy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I somehow managed to get it to work to some extend. >>> The phone isn' ringin, just vibrat

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-05 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 19:38:14 +0200, Markus Huggler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Richard > > Did you install frameworkd from fso repository and its dependencies? > Worked for me. > > Markus > > On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 15:55:33 +0200 > Richy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey, I'm trying to get FSO

Re: Looking for Free time zone map data

2008-10-05 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:53:48 +1300, "Robin Paulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/10/6 Jan Lübbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> We were thinking about how to handle timezones in the FSO framework and >> decided we would like to be able to detect the time zone automatically >> based on the current locat

u-splash

2008-10-05 Thread Joel Newkirk
I've got a question on splash screen changes. I've got a new splash screen that I want to flash onto my FreeRunner. I follow all the directions i can find at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Configuring_the_boot_splash_screens and http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/splash/README and http://svn.o

Re: which u-boot?

2008-10-02 Thread Joel Newkirk
Yes. v5 is the design revision of the first retail Freerunners, earlier versions of GTA02 were never manufactured in significant quantities. j On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:12:48 -0600 (MDT), "Vince M. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this u-boot safe for any gta02? What is the "v5_and_up" for? >

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-02 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:37:58 -0700, Steve Mosher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to have a bunch of them when I was doing a NLG ( natural Language > generation) pet project. I sent you a link to US names as well. from the > US census. > For personal dictionaries, people could just run a simple

Re: [qtopia]how to rotate screen from the shell?

2008-10-02 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:11:00 +0200, Fabian Henze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02.10.2008 at 17:01:37, Joel Newkirk wrote: >> Google 'x11 rotate' or 'linux screen rotate' and you'll quickly find the >> command 'xrandr'. Resolution and Rotat

Re: [qtopia]how to rotate screen from the shell?

2008-10-02 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:01:32 +0200, "Thomas Bertani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I need to rotate the screen from the shell with a command. Anybody > knows > how to do that? > > Thanks in advance Google 'x11 rotate' or 'linux screen rotate' and you'll quickly find the command 'xrandr'. Resol

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:11:21 +1000, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for entering sms/email/"human stuff" its great. if the word is not in your > dict > - it will be listed always at the top of the long-suggestions list (tap > the > top-left arrow). it will then be adde

Re: New Rasterman Image...

2008-10-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:32:34 -0600, "Ori Pessach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a question about the "predictive" keyboard shown in one of those > movies - what on earth is the justification for providing the following > predictions - User input is on the left, prediction is on the left: >

Re: [Om2008.9] launching GPRS by hand

2008-10-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:18:33 +0200, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Wednesday, October 01, 2008 a las 09:55:31AM -0400, Joel Newkirk > escribió: >> What you need is referred to as Multiplexing - the wiki page you > referenced >> talks about it. The

Re: [2008.09][FSO] Programming interface to wifi Icon

2008-10-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:39:08 +0100, Arigead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry Yes I would like to use the Icon on the top of the illume bar. I > was thinking interfacing this to my daemon so regardless of app you can > see the wifi status the same as you can see the GSM status at present. >

Re: [Om2008.9] launching GPRS by hand

2008-10-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:32:23 +0200, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El día Wednesday, October 01, 2008 a las 01:37:52PM +0200, Matthias Apitz > escribió: > >> >> Hello, >> >> The Wiki page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPRS describes how to make >> GPRS working by hand in Om2007.2 and

qemu

2008-09-30 Thread Joel Newkirk
In the course of working on my development VM, I installed qemu using Mokomakefile. It seems it installs a Qtopia image. Can someone lead me by the hand, or point out a howto/faq I missed, that clearly tells me how to set up other images with it, particularly FSO and 2008.9? I know that I need t

Re: dead battery

2008-09-30 Thread Joel Newkirk
nect the battery directly to the charger? The battery usually lays in just like it does in the phone. The battery will fit into the Nokia, but I'd be surprised if the Nokia agreed to charge it, since it won't recognize it. j > - Original Message - > From: "Joe

Re: dead battery

2008-09-30 Thread Joel Newkirk
A desktop charger for a Nokia BL-5c or BL-6c battery will do the job, at least the two non-Nokia ones I've tried. I've done it a few times. I've never let it sit on the charger until full, so I don't know if the charger can recognize full charge on the FreeRunner battery or not, but left on the c

Re: Development environment suggestion ?

2008-09-29 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:19:04 +0200, "Olivier Migeot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> It currently uses 2.3gb of that partition, while a 7zip archive of the > entire VM weighs in a

Re: Development environment suggestion ?

2008-09-28 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:42:54 +0200, Michael Tansella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello community lists ! >> This may be virtualbox images.. Nothing fancy, just ubuntu with >> toolchain, maybe even a "ready" eclipse version. Publish this by >> torrents, Maybe even with "good" to go software used d

Re: New to Freerunner!!

2008-09-25 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:33:20 +0530, Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (mercilessly snipped and interspersed with responses) > I am new to this community. I just got myself the freerunner a couple of > days back. I am a fairly experienced user of Linux/Debian/Kubuntu on > the desktop and this is my

Re: [2008.09] resolv.conf

2008-09-25 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:24:18 +1000, "Sarton O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 22:06:29 Joel Newkirk wrote: >> IMHO the "simplest effective solution" should always head the list. In >> this instance I think that is

Re: [2008.09] resolv.conf

2008-09-25 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:45:32 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joel Newkirk wrote: >> So for example, usb0 coming up stuffs 192.168.0.201 in as nameserver, > but >> does it by executing resolvconf. Then eth0 comes up and tells > resolvconf >> its nameserver(s) - reso

Re: [2008.09] resolv.conf

2008-09-24 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:21:08 +1000, "Sarton O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 10:32:00 Joel Newkirk wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:01:24 +0300, Flyin_bbb8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> wrote: >> >> In 20

Re: [2008.09] resolv.conf

2008-09-24 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:01:24 +0300, Flyin_bbb8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In 2008.8 resolvconf didn't populate it >> with the nameserver supplied by dhcp when the wifi interface was brought >> up. >> I don't know if this is still the case in 2008.9. >> > > hmm actually it always filled it in f

Re: inotify-tools on openmoko

2008-09-24 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:44:34 +0100, Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2008, jitendersingh wrote: >> hi, >>Do openmoko has support for inotify-tools. >>(more information on inotify tools on >> http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/) >>if not, how can I

Re: Measure of the file /dev/input/event3 (Accelerometer data)

2008-09-23 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:59:00 -0700 (PDT), daniel103 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello again, > > > in /dev/input/event3 (or /dev/input/event2) you can see something like > that: > > > 00030e0 c157 48d7 82df 000c > 00030f0 c157 48d7 a770 000c 0002 0012 > 0003

Re: Nokia BL-5C replacement battery

2008-09-22 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:04:02 +0200, Joerg Reisenweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you bought a Nokia BL-5C for a spare battery, you might want to check > this > site: > http://batteryreplacement.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/ > > cheers > jOERG Wow. After reading this I went to check the BL

Re: accelerometer jitter

2008-09-22 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:36:00 -0400, "Michael Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I wrote a short shell script to repeatedly take the raw output from one > of >&g

Re: DeadAccelerometers?

2008-09-21 Thread Joel Newkirk
) j On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:27:57 -0400, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:44:34 -0400, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:36:00 -0400, "Michael Fisher" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wr

Dead Accelerometers? (was Re: accelerometer jitte r)

2008-09-21 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:44:34 -0400, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:36:00 -0400, "Michael Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>

Re: accelerometer jitter

2008-09-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
but > you'll get the basic idea. > > http://www.freescale.com/files/sensors/doc/app_note/AN3397.pdf?fpsp=1&WT_TYPE=Application%20Notes&WT_VENDOR=FREESCALE&WT_FILE_FORMAT=pdf&WT_ASSET=Documentation > > > Joel Newkirk wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008

Re: accelerometer jitter

2008-09-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:08:42 +0100, Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2008, Joel Newkirk wrote: >> With my Freerunner sitting flat, face up, on the concrete slab of my > house, >> the 'Z' reading (positive Z is toward the back

Re: accelerometer jitter

2008-09-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:36:00 -0400, "Michael Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I wrote a short shell script to repeatedly take the raw output from one > of >&g

accelerometer jitter

2008-09-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
I wrote a short shell script to repeatedly take the raw output from one of the accelerometers (/sys/devices/platform/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.1/spi0.1/dump) and massage the data to output X,Y,and Z-axis readings in decimal, -128 to 128. With my Freerunner sitting flat, face up, on the concrete slab of my

Re: USB Networking vs. iptables

2008-09-19 Thread Joel Newkirk
; Thanx a lot. > > Am Freitag, den 19.09.2008, 07:35 -0400 schrieb Joel Newkirk: >> Try "iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 192.168.0.202 -j ACCEPT", or the >> same rule inserted at the top of INPUT and FORWARD chains. You're most welcome. The one problem with yo

Re: USB Networking vs. iptables

2008-09-19 Thread Joel Newkirk
Try "iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 192.168.0.202 -j ACCEPT", or the same rule inserted at the top of INPUT and FORWARD chains. Your FORWARD chain simply jumps to RH-Firewall-1-INPUT, the same as the INPUT chain. RH-Firewall-1-INPUT blocks SSH from various specific IPs, then accepts only ver

Multimedia messaging

2008-09-18 Thread Joel Newkirk
Has any progress been made on this front? (I'm running OM 2008.8-update ATM) Being able to receive messages with pix/audio attachements is very important to me - my asterisk server is set up to forward voicemails to my cell, and occasional still images (when motion is detected) from security webc

Re: USB Networking vs. iptables

2008-09-18 Thread Joel Newkirk
I notice that you list the DNS server as 212.6.108.140 (resolver0.ewetel.de), but have the DNAT rules pointing at 212.6.181.140 (an unnamed IP that seems to be owned by 'claranet')... Checking from the 'outside' (IE I'm not on your ISP's network, and I presume you are within the ewetel.de network)

Freerunner Firewall

2008-09-16 Thread Joel Newkirk
For anyone interested, I've posted two articles on my blog (I hate blogs) regarding firewalling on the Freerunner - http://jthinks.com/freerunner-simple-firewall and http://jthinks.com/freerunner-advanced-firewall - that link to the required package(s) and include the scripts and support to firewal

Re: (OM2008.8-update) (audio/GSM) alsamixer names

2008-09-16 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:01:51 +1000, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I'd like to suggest different names for the Alsa controls, because > quite >>> frankly I cannot relate to the ones I see in alsamixer. But first I'd >>> like to ask you guys if you feel the same need

USB host/power script (was Re: Fantastic Experience)

2008-09-16 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:52:55 +0200, Christian Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 13.09.2008 um 01:29 schrieb Joel Newkirk: >> automatically switching things around. I wrote a shell script to >> let me >> choose (manually) among the various configurations more easi

/space/fic/openmoko-daily/...?

2008-09-16 Thread Joel Newkirk
Odd. I'm building (cross-compile toolchain) wireshark/tshark, and encountered the error: /bin/sed: can't read /space/fic/openmoko-daily/openmoko/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/glib-2.0-2.16.4-r0/glib-2.16.4/glib/libglib-2.0.la: No such file or directory Where is this reference coming from?

Re: update-alternatives question

2008-09-13 Thread Joel Newkirk
That did it, thanks. j On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:09:11 -0700, Charles-Henri Gros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joel Newkirk wrote: >> Quick question, hopefully someone can instantly see my error: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ip ip ip.ip 100 &

update-alternatives question

2008-09-13 Thread Joel Newkirk
Quick question, hopefully someone can instantly see my error: I've built the full iproute2 toolset, and am working on an ipk/opk for ip and tc. The default om2008 at least, has /bin/ip linked to /bin/busybox. So that should be changed. For inspiration, I looked at the postinst script for grep

Re: Fantastic Experience

2008-09-12 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:20:13 +0200, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one question to the community: normally you can't switch easy between > normal USB mode, i.e. a host is talking to a USB device, and > host-to-host mode where two computers are talking to each other; the USB > FAQ even

Kernel 2.6.27?

2008-09-10 Thread Joel Newkirk
Has anyone tried to move up to kernel 2.6.27? (for ASU/2008 or FSO) The latest I find at git.openmoko.org is 2.6.26. I'm interested because that's the first release with GSPCA webcam driver rolled in. j ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@li

Re: USB host successes

2008-09-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:35:44 -0700, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried to answer many of these questions here: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_host > > If you feel this information is unclear, lacking, or wrong, please > correct or please let me know. > > In particular, I

Re: Get spare parts in NYC (batteries)

2008-09-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:49:50 -0400, Daniel Benoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered a spares pack? > http://us.direct.openmoko.com/products/spares-pack > > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 04:12:09 Stefan Fröbe wrote: >> Yes, I know as I also own quite a few BC-5s and remakes ;-) >> But I

Re: USB host successes

2008-09-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:23:43 +0200, Maciej Delmanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 25, Joel Newkirk wrote: >> probably still useful - the question is really whether the Freerunner > can >> power a hub and two adapters) > > I've thought about differe

Re: Stylus Ink Replacement Cartridge?

2008-09-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 21:13:15 -0400, "Charles Pax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to replace the ink cartridge in the stylus that comes > with the Freerunner? It seems like I can just pull it out, but I don't > want > to break it. Also, does anyone have a Staples of OfficeMax item

Re: USB host successes (good to have)

2008-09-09 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:36:55 +0200, Michele Renda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello > > I want to share something that I found in a shop: > > http://www.conectica.ro/display/1-63-19-Adaptoare/Adaptor_USB_A___USB_A___.html > > With it I could

Re: A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-07 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:50:20 -0400, "Charles Pax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dale Maggee > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I was more bored and wanted to exercise my scripting skillz, so I made >> some changes to this script. >> >> I saved your code into a file call

Re: A little zenity-gui for flashing images to the neo

2008-09-07 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 14:50:20 -0400, "Charles Pax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dale Maggee > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I was more bored and wanted to exercise my scripting skillz, so I made >> some changes to this script. >> >> I saved your code into a file call

geomagnetic sensor?

2008-09-02 Thread Joel Newkirk
Wondering if anyone has explored this yet. The wiki has the page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist_-_Hardware:_Digital_compass on the idea. The AKM device is apparently no longer produced (link is dead, search of their page produces no results), and the Honeywell is significantly larger

Re: Duped Messages (OffTopic but important to lists.openmoko.org operations)

2008-09-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
Sarton O'Brien wrote: > On Monday 01 September 2008 23:23:21 Joel Newkirk wrote: > >> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> >>> Since we're talking about the mailing lists, I still receive (randomly), >>> three repeated mails, two repeated mail

Re: 2008.8 update: Wrench doesn't appear even with illume-configinstalled

2008-09-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:13 +0200 "Yorick Moko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> babbled: >> >> >>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 2:03 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Since the first update of 2008.8, I cannot get the wrench for >>> configuring >>>

Duped Messages (was Re: Please split this list!)

2008-09-01 Thread Joel Newkirk
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Since we're talking about the mailing lists, I still receive (randomly), > three repeated mails, two repeated mails, etc... > > This mail from Vasco... I received it three times already! :) > > Rui > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:24:03PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: WLAN troubles

2008-08-26 Thread Joel Newkirk
Derick Rethans wrote: > I get a DHCP lease, with nameservers and all, the route is correct too. > However, I can't do any sort of connection - nor ping. I have a similar problem when I fire up wifi, and it's caused by having two default routes. Try "ip r" and see if it lists two default routes -

Re: USB host successes

2008-08-26 Thread Joel Newkirk
Unless I'm very mistaken, those are both the same USB->Ethernet adapter. j ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: USB host successes

2008-08-25 Thread Joel Newkirk
David Samblas wrote: > can you post model and where did you buy the ethernet adapter? > thanks a lot > El lun, 25-08-2008 a las 20:01 -0400, Joel Newkirk escribió: >> I've been playing around with USB host mode for a couple weeks now, and >> wanted to itemize my result

USB host successes

2008-08-25 Thread Joel Newkirk
I've been playing around with USB host mode for a couple weeks now, and wanted to itemize my results. (previously touched on some of this in one of the USB keyboard threads and on my blog) Any questions just ask, but I mostly envision this as a thread where we can post results of various USB host

Re: Tester please?

2008-08-23 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:02:06 +0200, Joachim Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joel Newkirk wrote: > [...] >> When all is said and done, I suspect the better solution will be a >> standalone single-binary dns cache, but I looked at dnsmasq and decided > to >> st

Re: Tester please?

2008-08-21 Thread Joel Newkirk
it if I can pare it down and polish it a bit further. j On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:25:42 +0930, Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: >> Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> http://newkirk.us/om/dnscache_2.1.5_armv4t.ipk and let me kn

Re: Substitute batteries

2008-08-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:49:05 -0700, Michael Shiloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Joel Newkirk wrote: >> My guess is that it incorporates some constants that depend on the > actual >> battery pack. Note that I don't actually KNOW that it's in the batte

Re: Substitute batteries

2008-08-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
My guess is that it incorporates some constants that depend on the actual battery pack. Note that I don't actually KNOW that it's in the battery, but previous ML posts by folks at Openmoko refer to it as 'in the battery', and with a bl-5c installed almost all battery-related entries in sysfs are u

Tester please?

2008-08-20 Thread Joel Newkirk
I've packaged up the dnscache and daemontools programs by Dan J Bernstein (djbdns) and would like someone to test the ipk for me. I've got the full thing installed on my Freerunner now, including unnecessary files and additional files used for testing and unused services, so installing the package

Re: USB keyboards "silent" in terminal (FSO)

2008-08-19 Thread Joel Newkirk
I've gotten a few keyboards to work successfully in 2008.08, and a few would not work. One that would not work was no surprise to me - a Dell keyboard with a builtin USB hub - the keyboard and volume knob appear as individual USB devices, requiring an internal hub in the keyboard. That particular

Re: openvpn?

2008-08-19 Thread Joel Newkirk
What are you having trouble with? I was able to cross-compile http://openvpn.net/release/openvpn-2.1_rc9.tar.gz on the first attempt with ". /usr/local/openmoko/arm/setup-env;./configure --host=arm-angstrom-linux;make" after easing http://people.openmoko.org/~zecke/om2008.8-dev/armv4t/openssl-dev_

GPRS while ringing?

2007-05-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
Is it possible and feasible to establish a brief (3-5 seconds?) GPRS connection when ringing an incoming call? I've been thinking about callerid name lookups. j ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/

Re: Audio Jack 2.5 mm

2007-04-24 Thread Joel Newkirk
Especially with bluetooth available for handsfree. j Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:58 +0200, Vladimír Lapáček wrote: >> I would like to ask about the decision to use the 2.5 mm audio jack in >> Neo 1973. If it is seriously intended to be used as a music player, >> people would

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-18 Thread Joel Newkirk
Knight Walker wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 18:57 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote: >> I really like the "custom drawn symbol" idea. It introduces a lot of >> variables. Not only the lines, but also the timestamps on when scribbling >> it. > > Yes, lots of variables, like fuzzy-matching the symbol, bec

Re: Proposal: Personal Data Encryption (maybe SoC?)

2007-03-17 Thread Joel Newkirk
Tobias Gruetzmacher wrote: > What I'm proposing is a user-friendly encryption scheme of the data the > user stores in his phone, so any illegitimate user will not be able to > get personal data about the owner of the phone. > Greetings, Tobi > I'd like a good gestural interface for authentica

Re: What moblie service to get, part 2

2007-03-10 Thread Joel Newkirk
I used to sell T-Mobile, Cingular, AT&T (before they merged), & Sprint. I've been a T-Mo customer for about seven years, and I wanted to offer the benefit of my experience and knowledge. The info I offer is based on T-Mobile USA service. [Disclaimer: I don't - and never did - work for a carrier

Re: Camera and MMS

2007-02-13 Thread Joel Newkirk
I agree. My work environment is as free and open as can be imagined, (sysadmin for a wireless broadband ISP - I work from home much of the time, most of the rest is at a tower or our NOC) but there are a variety of situations/locations (list growing) where camera phones are prohibited. Like many

Re: Idea: Virtual desktop

2007-01-07 Thread Joel Newkirk
Pedro Aguilar wrote: > Hi, > > Since devices like the Neo are used for several things that can be > executed simultaneosuly in the GUI, it could make sense to have a > windowing or virtual desktop support. > > For example, if I'm using a browser in virtual desktop 1 and I receive a > msg from a f

Re: Idea: WiFi to GPRS gateway

2006-12-27 Thread Joel Newkirk
Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:16, Ole Tange wrote: >> I actually thought it was more a software/firmware issue. I might be wrong. >> > > Once you have the two systems talking to each other (for which adhoc would > likely be fine if AP mode doesnt work [1]), the softwar

Re: Peer Discovery

2006-12-10 Thread Joel Newkirk
Richard Franks wrote: > On 12/8/06, Colin Curtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Put two Neos in a room with no cell service - can they find each other? >> > Even with service, if nobody punches in 'codes' on each? >> > >> Oh, if only it had bluetooth. > > If the speaker could output frequencies

Peer Discovery

2006-12-08 Thread Joel Newkirk
Presuming that V1 devices will lack bluetooth, what other means exist for one device to recognize proximity of another? With SMS we could communicate with a few 'friends' and keep updated as to GPS locations, but that depends on cell carrier and manually inputting number/email/something. GPRS wou

Re: some more hardware questions

2006-12-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
Robert Michel wrote: > Salve Mickey! > > On Wed, 06 Dec 2006, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Normal-SD, mini-SD and micro-SD differes not only in size, also > in the number of connectors. Would be an external mirco-SD to Normal-SD > adapter (selfmade hack) possible? >> 3.) our micro-sd slot is

Re: FPGA

2006-12-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 12/5/06, Markus Stehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What do you think about giving the Neo1973 a FPGA? > What hardware peripherals would you add, if you had this options? > > USB 2.0? > That second SIM card? > Other FLASH card interfaces? > I2C, SPI, One-

Re: Adding an overview page to openmoko.{com,org}

2006-12-06 Thread Joel Newkirk
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Atlasz wrote: >> Well, having bluetooth or wifi would be important for me. Any chance, >> that SDIO bluetooth or wifi card could be used with Neo1973? > > Unfortunately not -- for a variety of reasons: > > 1.) sdio cards in micro-sd cards are very rare > 2.) we hav

Re: Bluetooth, WiFi, Australian Market

2006-11-30 Thread Joel Newkirk
Ben wrote: > On 11/30/06, Joel Newkirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Currently wifi VOIP handsets range in price from $200 to $600 USD. Food >> for thought - that's solely a wifi phone. The ability to seamlessly and >> automatically switch among various carrie

Re: Bluetooth, WiFi, Australian Market

2006-11-30 Thread Joel Newkirk
Ben wrote: > I'm not sure what it's like in the rest of the world, but in Australia > the price of mobile data (ie. GPRS/3G/etc.) is incredibly high. > Relying on GPRS or quad band based methods of data access and > synchronisation would push the phone into the too expensive category > for many.

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