Re: SHR: monitoring charching rate, voltage, ...

2013-11-08 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Matthias Apitz writes: > I would like todo some charching tests with my special charger (a > minty-boost, http://learn.adafruit.com/minty-boost?view=all ), > is there a simple way with some shell scripting to monitor every minute > or so the current charging rate, voltage etc. of the process?

Re: [QtMoko] Wireless connention to eduroam

2013-03-11 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani writes: > wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth0 > -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-eduroam.conf -B > sleep 30 > dhclient eth0 I have two alternative suggestions for you here: 1. Read /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian and configure it in "roaming mode". That way

Re: [ANN] Tweakable finger-friendly Xmonad + xvkbd + dzen2 ready-to-use config

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi David, "dmatthews.org" writes: >> Along with Xmonad config, xvkbd tweaks and a bash wrapper for dzen2 >> I've also added some notes about from-scratch X.org configuration for >> gta02, gta04 and about creating a custom Xkb setup. >> > have you managed to integrate the phoneui stuff? I haven'

[ANN] Tweakable finger-friendly Xmonad + xvkbd + dzen2 ready-to-use config

2013-02-18 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, After getting tired enough of my inability to make E17 Illume do what I wanted, I decided to try another route and prepared a configuration that I was actually able to fine-tune to my liking, based on simple to understand and tweak software. Along with Xmonad config, xvkbd tweaks and a bash w

Re: GTA02 power death

2012-12-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 08:15:22AM +, Dmitry Shalnoff wrote: > thank you very much for answer and all hints and links! BTW, the bass rework looks very similar to what i was doing, i wonder who did that :) too bad it looks like i didn't warn everyone strong enough (though i did put a big f

Re: GTA02 power death

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Fertser
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:38:56AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: > Dmitry Shalnoff writes: > > here is HiRes picture of the patient > > http://www.shalnoff.com/pics/freerunner_pcb.JPG > > You easily find it by burning fume around it :) ... > found another that was similar e

Re: GTA02 power death

2012-12-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Dmitry Shalnoff writes: > here is HiRes picture of the patient > http://www.shalnoff.com/pics/freerunner_pcb.JPG > You easily find it by burning fume around it :) Hi. I think that's the same that happened with another device i did bass rework for. The large shield is too easy to tilt a bit and it

Re: About the future of the freesmartphone.org middleware

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Enrico Zini writes: > This said, oFono does have one very compelling feature: on my N900, it > works reliably. Far better than any version of FSO that I ever managed > to put on my FreeRunner ever did. If you think that Nokia's N900 firmware is using oFono, you're wrong. Or do you mean something

Re: Stop whininig / be friendly

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi Christoph, openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) writes: > thanks for your advices, which are intelligent ones, really. > You are right, bitterness is what I feel. Why ? ... > Coming to an end with my rant, 50% may be my personal bitterness, but > 50% are in some way true. The fail of Openm

*.openmoko.org infrastructure

2012-05-06 Thread Paul Fertser
s quo? Thanks in advance for your replies and commitment. Sincerely, Paul Fertser -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Sharing TSM30 source

2011-11-17 Thread Paul Fertser
msoko...@ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) writes: > What I'm basically saying is that for as long as the recognized / > trusted / respected leaders of this community are acting selfishly and > refusing to share a piece of ware with brothers in need, I feel no > incentive to contribute to this comm

Using dumb batteries (was: Re: GTA02 fails to charge)

2011-10-02 Thread Paul Fertser
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > I've tried it, and on SHR it works out of the box, however only the > kernel supports charging the battery, not the bootloader, so I need the > original battery for flashing it trough the NOR uboot. To the best of my knowledge, the NOR u-boot doesn't implement the

Re: community Digest, Vol 254, Issue 2

2011-09-28 Thread Paul Fertser
msoko...@ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) writes: > I am in a disadvantaged position because I have come to the party > late. You're a very smart fellow indeed, and your reasoning about the "holy grail" being in the form of many object files seem to be correct (though ELF is unlikely there). I ca

Re: Liberated Calypso docs found

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Fertser
msoko...@ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) writes: > But if they aren't there yet, I will *not* abstain from hacking TI's > original code, assuming that I can succeed in physically laying my > hands on it, however illegal it may be. What exactly do you want to change in it? Disabling RRLP? Having

Re: Liberated Calypso docs found

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Fertser
msoko...@ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) writes: > Yup, technical aspects such as the Calypso chipset and its firmware. > Before we can start improving the latter, we need to obtain a copy of > whatever at least partially modifiable source the Openmoko company > had. But why? All OM had were som

Re: NAND vs SD on GTA02

2011-09-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, msoko...@ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) writes: > Hence my question to the community: is the flash wear-out concern I've > just outlined the primary reason for the recommendation of using SD > instead of NAND to hold the OS/distro, or was that recommendation driven > by some other, complete

Re: My VoIP experience in Freerunner

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Thanks for sharing the valueable info :) Tiago Bortoletto Vaz writes: > • I was not able to have default Freerunner headset working on an > acceptable quality. Help will be very welcome. I think the voip-handset state file is supposed to be used with the handset (i.e. builtin mic and spea

Re: hifi headphones & flac

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Fertser
phifmr writes: > It is for treat a tinnitus. I need to make tailor-made notched > music...and to listen to with hi fi headphones. Make sure you've got the bass fix[1] (and even with that i can't promise you hifi headphones would work properly, you'll probably need other adjustments) or use blueto

Re: Freerunner won't charge

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Fertser
Ronald Tallent writes: > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 15:05 +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Replacing pcf50633? I'm not sure anyone has ever tried that, it's BGA >> iirc. Have you investigated other options? > > The purpose of this thread was kind of to discover and exp

Re: Freerunner won't charge

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Fertser
clemens kirchgatterer writes: > I have the same problem. Can you pls report if replacing the chip actually > fixes the moko? Replacing pcf50633? I'm not sure anyone has ever tried that, it's BGA iirc. Have you investigated other options? -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free

Re: Freerunner won't charge

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Ronald Tallent writes: > So, there's no way to fix this thing? If I need to take it to an > electronics repair shop to get it fixed I can, just need to know what > part(s) will need to be repaired/replaced. Anyone know were I can get > hold of schematics for the mainboard? If it's a simple re

Re: [openmoko-announce] Shiftd

2011-06-14 Thread Paul Fertser
openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) writes: >> We were fascinated, yet totally overwhelmed by the shear volume of >> videos on the web. > > I am bored, yet totally disgusted of the video trash flowting around. > 95% is pure waist of livetime, for the other 5% go and meet friends, > paint a pict

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-30 Thread Paul Fertser
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 04:40:13AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> Without CSD the most reasonable option imho would be to keep a persistent >> connection over GPRS to some internet host you control and use it as a proxy. >> An alternative would be to establish GPRS connection upon an incoming (voi

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-30 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:24:49AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> I assume you're already using pppd for establishing the connection >> from the remote system to some host in the internet that you >> control. > > No - when I plug the dongle in, I just let NetworkManager find it and > set it

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:59:33AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: > On 2011-05-28 04:25, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Philip Rhoades writes: >>> I am wondering if it would be possible to use minicom on the >>> Freerunner to dial the phone number of the remote dongle, mak

Re: Dialling INTO a wireless broadband modem with OpenMoko

2011-05-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Philip Rhoades writes: > I am wondering if it would be possible to use minicom on the > Freerunner to dial the phone number of the remote dongle, make a > connection If CSD[1] is available from your provider, then you can do that, right. If not, all you can do is to write some smart enough script

Re: power drain after wifi connection

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak writes: > On Thursday 26 May 2011 13:01:05 Alfa21-mobile wrote: >> and are executables... but I do not know neither if they are called >> after a wifi disconnection, nor if after an unbind/bind cycle the >> power consumption during stdby returns to the same state like after a >> reboot

Re: power drain after wifi connection

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Alfa21-mobile writes: > so I can find the unbind here: > root@neo:~# find /sys/bus/ -name '*unbind*'|grep sdi > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/s3c-sdi/unbind ... > how I can check if it's in bind or unbind state? If ar6000 is listed among the files at the path you mention, it's binded. > maybe the sc

Re: power drain after wifi connection

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Fertser
Alfa21 writes: > 2011-05-25@23:31 Paul Fertser >> Hm, you do not spare too many details, do you :) Are you really sure >> the ar6000 module is unbinded when you disable wifi? > > sorry, I didn't know which kind of details you meant... Basically, ``ls /sys/bus/platform

Re: [QtMoko] USB charging (and network) from Windows 7

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Fertser
Alfa21 writes: > 2011-05-25@00:05 Paul Fertser >> Alfa21 writes: >> > ah! keep in mind: if you enable wifi at least once in any boot >> > cycle, your moko will drain more current than usual, also if you >> > disconnect wifi and put the phone to sleep. >>

Re: [QtMoko] USB charging (and network) from Windows 7

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Alfa21 writes: > 2011-05-24@14:15 Xavier Cremaschi >> > If you try om utility (from omhacks package) it could have parameter for >> > enabling fast charge. Then you can edit the "Fast charge mode" script so >> > that >> > it uses "om" command (and send the result to me so that i can commit it a

Re: QtMoko v33 - More battery info and questions

2011-03-30 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 06:00:22PM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: >> Philip Rhoades writes: >>> - Even with the "dumb" battery configuration, the battery charging >>> animated icon continues after USB (power) disconnection - should that >>> happen? >> >> Provide "uevent" files contents for both

Re: QtMoko v33 - More battery info and questions

2011-03-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Philip Rhoades writes: > - Even with the "dumb" battery configuration, the battery charging > animated icon continues after USB (power) disconnection - should that > happen? Provide "uevent" files contents for both the battery driver and pcf50633-mbc drivers. > - Using the methods above, bo

Re: QtMoko new replacement battery - charging oddness

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Philip Rhoades writes: > My original Neo battery lasts about 3.5 hours from a full charge with > no activity with QtMoko v33. I bought replacement BL-6C batteries but > when I plug either of them in, they appear to be charging (~20 hours) > but when the USB is disconnected the battery icon a

Re: Audio path gain

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Hrabosh writes: > giacomo 'giotti' mariani píše v Út 08. 02. 2011 v 10:40 +0100: >> > Yes, I really meant bass fix. I have replaced each 1uF cap with 2x 47uF >> > caps in parallel. They are isolated by heat-shrinking tube and >> > everything even fit under the metal cover. >> > >> > It really

Re: [GTA04] When is the next and more powerful openmoko releasing

2010-11-13 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" writes: > time for another update. ... >> Current status: the 1.8V is now working but the VDD2 (1.2 V) not. >> The TPS chip aborts the power up sequence early. > > We could solve that by adding a jump start resistor. ... Nikolaus, this project is a very interesting

Re: WM8753 Speaker Playback ZC Switch

2010-11-12 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Ed Kapitein writes: > I am happily hacking on my FR and was toying with the wolfson. > I happen to notice that in order to get any sound from the earpiece i > had to switch on the Speaker Playback ZC Switch. This is used to enable/disable Zero Cross detection, i.e. the gain will be changed o

Re: backup battery and case screws questions

2010-10-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Benjamin Deering writes: > I use an allen (hex) wrench to remove them, I am seeking replacements > because I lost one. FYI i'm using my gta02 as my only daily cell phone for more than a year without any screws whatsoever. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) softwa

Re: community Digest, Vol 204, Issue 8

2010-10-06 Thread Paul Fertser
openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) writes: > an intelligent marketing idea. My idea on the later is, to point the > finger in the Apple direction and naming the evil by name. This sounds really cool to me, Christoph. Honestly, i'd prefer to see more Apple (and Android as well) bashing. But do

Re: Testing freerunner's audio quality

2010-09-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Gennady Kupava writes: > Many gossips flying around about bad fr's audio subsystem quality. I > promised to proove that FR audio subsystem is good, just default > headphones quality below anything. I thought we did the bassfix on this device, didn't we? That makes hell of a difference, i tried co

Re: qtmoko v26 bluetooth headset

2010-09-16 Thread Paul Fertser
Jim Morris writes: > Paul Fertser wrote: >> This [1] page and this guy might help. Also feel free to ping me or >> him on irc, we do know some bluetooth tricks :) > > Unfortunately frameworkd and the dbus stuff does not appear to be > relevant for qtmoko. Some dbus stuff

Re: qtmoko v26 bluetooth headset

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Fertser
Jim Morris writes: > Anyway I tried to get my bluetooth headset to work, and I am not > sure exactly what needs to be done to make this work seemlessly. This [1] page and this guy might help. Also feel free to ping me or him on irc, we do know some bluetooth tricks :) Also keep in mind that if y

Re: Boot selection

2010-09-12 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Ed Kapitein writes: > Is there a way to select where to boot from, nand or uSD? > and i need a software choice, no the obvious boot select with the aux > button, which requires physical access to the freerunner. With Qi you can create a special file in /boot and it will skip this uSD partiti

Re: [ANN][SHR][Debian] New Emacs interface for FSO

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Michael, let me take this opportunity to thank you for all the wonderful opportunities opened by the D-Bus integration in Emacs, it really rocks :) On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:24:05PM +0200, Michael Albinus wrote: > > Unfortunately, it’s not currently possible for one emacs > > process

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" writes: > If there is no such RFC, please report bugs for your clients that > don't wrap long (MIME encoded) lines they receive to the width of > the display window. Nikolaus, thanks for the serious attitude wrt this issue. My client does wrap long lines to the wi

Re: Mail Wrapping

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Fertser
"Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" writes: > Am 13.08.2010 um 22:35 schrieb steve: >> Nikolaus, couldn't you wrap your lines to something more standard (72 or >> so ?) Thanks, I like reading your prose, but those long lines are really >> irritating. > > there are different opinions if the 80 char line wra

Re: [Hackable:1] serial terminal program

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Fertser
"Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE)" writes: > I've been wanting to try using my freerunner as a serial terminal to > debug servers via serial. I've got a USB->serial adapter that H:1 > recognizes and assigns to /dev/ttyUSB0. My problem is, minicom won't run > because the shell screen is to sm

Re: parts for the buzzfix

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Peter Nijs writes: > Thanks for the tips. I already found them on rs-components (and I have > contacts who can order there). But aren't tantalum cap's polarised? Or is the > mic signal DC? Or is there another reason why this isn't a problem? They're indeed polarised and it's not a problem given

Re: parts for the buzzfix

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Paul Fertser writes: > Peter Nijs writes: >> find it quite difficult to difficult to find the needed components: 2K2 0402 >> smd resistor and a small ceramic 100µF smd cap. > > It'd be a bit too long for me to send you the parts but i can suggest > using 0603 R (it

Re: parts for the buzzfix

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Peter Nijs writes: > find it quite difficult to difficult to find the needed components: 2K2 0402 > smd resistor and a small ceramic 100µF smd cap. It'd be a bit too long for me to send you the parts but i can suggest using 0603 R (it fits there all right because one side of it should be connect

Re: Neo 1973 - new battery?

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) writes: >>> Where can I find a new battery for my Neo 1973? > > The Neo1973 and Freerunner share the same battery. Unfortunately, they do not. gta01 battery is almost the same as Nokia BL-6C but the average thermistor resistance is 10k (unlike ~60k in N

Re: Neo 1973 - new battery?

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Fertser
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: > Where can I find a new battery for my Neo 1973? > It is better if it is cheap, and it must charge in the phone. > So I guess BL-5C's are a no-go. The easiest option would be to solder a ~12k resistor between ID pin and the ground right to the backside of the battery co

Re: QtMoko v24 for GTA01

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak writes: > On Sunday 06 June 2010 14:08:24 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> Hmm, I don't have a SIM-card in the phone. Is that going to be a problem? > > That can be - i tried with SIM and it was working. I also sometimes get this > message when battery is very low - probably not enough pow

Re: FR as wifi access point

2010-05-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Chuck Norris writes: > Is it possible make FR act as wifi access point? > Which utils can help? Only ad-hoc. iptables + iwconfig, nothing else needed i think. Set adhoc before setting ssid. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com _

Re: qtmoko on nand - qi or u-boot?

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Corey writes: > So, is it not possible to install qtmoko to nand using qi instead of > u-boot? Qi doesn't allow to "install" (read "flash to NAND) anything because it doesn't support DFU. But you always have an option of booting NOR u-boot to flash whatever you need. -- Be free, use free (http:

Re: QtMoko v22

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:53 PM, arne anka wrote: >> what does >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules >> look like? > > Now, this is an interesting file. Here are a few lines: ... > # USB device 0x1457:0x5122 (usb) > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", D

Re: [QtMoko] adding agps support

2010-05-23 Thread Paul Fertser
tomas nackaerts writes: >> If the ephemiri data is fresh enough (2-4 hours max), the >> effect is the same as downloading the data from the internet. Other >> than that, there's no agps integration yet afaik. >> > > Don't know why, but i thought this data was useful for a couple of > days, not cou

Re: QtMoko v22

2010-05-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Linus Gasser writes: >> The new version appears to work fine here (just a quick test so far). >> BTW, my Ubuntu laptop (Xubuntu 9.10) exhibits a strange symptom: each >> time I connect my FR, the network interface name increases: >> eg. it started out with 'eth9' (what happened with usb0?), the ne

Re: [QtMoko] adding agps support

2010-05-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Radek Polak writes: >> SHR, and probably others too, have agps enabled by default. So i think it >> should be fairly easy to add this. I did a little research and it seems >> like all we have to do is to save the latest GPS data to a file when the >> GPS is shut down and feed this data back to the

Re: is wifi-driver developed anymore?

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Fertser
Ben Thompson writes: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:46:38AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: >> >> I tell you the most nasty bugs are in firmware. Which we don't have >> >> sources for and don't know a way to update anyway. Blame Atheros. >> > >> > p

[ANN][SHR][Debian] New Emacs interface for FSO

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Fertser
’ing needs. Please send your feedback to: Smartphones-userland mailing list with Cc to “Paul Fertser ” Enjoy and happy hacking! :) [1] http://blog.shr-project.org/2010/05/howto-develop-and-debug-the-shr-phone-stack-on-your-desktop.html -- Be free, use

Re: Running SHR in Qemu

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Fertser
saravanan T writes: > How can I run SHR in the qemu. What's your objective, man? Why run SHR in emulator when you can run it natively on any device (including your PC)? What are you trying to do and why? -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer..

Re: [Debian][HOWTO] using bleeding edge FSO (Cornucopia aka vala rewrite)

2010-05-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Neil Jerram writes: > On 6 May 2010 21:59, Paul Fertser wrote: >> I like using Debian on my FR (in fact it is the only system i use as >> my daily phone since i bought it) and i decided i want to start >> getting all the great improvements and fixes from git again (as i used

Re: bluetooth

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Fertser
Chuck Norris writes: > sorry for off-listing. I haven't noticed that messanger change > "from" field :) In fact it doesn't. I sent mails from my address, just as all messengers do, to you while keeping all interested parties (ML in this case) in Cc. > about crystal clearness: here is quote > > I

[Debian][HOWTO] using bleeding edge FSO (Cornucopia aka vala rewrite)

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, I like using Debian on my FR (in fact it is the only system i use as my daily phone since i bought it) and i decided i want to start getting all the great improvements and fixes from git again (as i used to when framework was pure python). Compiling everything needed natively proved to be a r

Re: why not xip?

2010-05-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Bartlomiej Zimon writes: >> Bartlomiej Zimon wrote: >> > I want ask why we not use execution in place? >> >> At the risk of maximizing technical accuracy while minimizing >> usefulness of the response, this is of course precisely what >> happens when you boot from NOR :-) >> > > Dont know why bu

Re: bluetooth

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Chuck Norris writes: > Is it only possible configure bluetooth on linux (bluez4) through > dbus? Here's the definitive and working guide, i've tested all that steps myself. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manually_using_Bluetooth#Networking -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fre

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi stopped working

2010-04-26 Thread Paul Fertser
HansV writes: > OK, I didn't see this is a switch, I thought it was a dropdown > box. Now I can switch it on manually. Still finding out how to start > wifi with wpa-supplicant. Hard to succeed when you're reluctant to read, eh? ;) http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FSO_Resources http://www.mail-arch

Re: [GTA02] disable resume on headphone jack removal?

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Fertser
Paul Wise writes: > 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? Of course it's configurable, but i'm not sure about proper kernel-userspace a

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Fertser
Kai-Martin writes: >> In SHR WiFi is powered on and off through FSO's Resource handling.This is >> usually set to 'auto' so it will be powered up if an app requests the WiFi >> resource, and shut down when nothing is requesting it. > > Does "wmiconfig -i eth0 --power maxperf" interfere with this s

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Kai-Martin writes: >> Exactly. Just add an appropriate section to wpa_supplicant.conf, it >> works for all networks. > > Assembling bits and pieces from many sites, I got wifi to work -- manually > with commands through ssh and still with wake-up issues. Add this one to your knowledge base too :)

Re: [GTA02] headphone socket issues

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Paul Wise writes: > 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 thought

Re: getting started with wlan

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Kai-Martin writes: >> Sorry cant help with wifi - I find that mokoconnect and similar gui's >> are too flaky - manual is more reliable. > > Ok, why not. > I am only half fluent with the necessesary commands. On my > laptop I used to call wpa_supplicant with some fancy config file. > The wlan devi

Re: [SHR]does wakeup-on-wlan work on SHR?

2010-03-12 Thread Paul Fertser
niubee_007 writes: > can someone elaborate how to make wakeup-on-wlan work? I tried to look into this and came to following conclusions: 1. hardware-wise, it should work (to the unknown extent, i saw exactly 0 documentation on the chip) 2. to actually give it a try one needs to do this kernel w

MIDI on FR (was: Re: Some trickery involved in getting USB Host working on FR?)

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Fertser
Denis Shulyaka writes: > Please tell me if you can get MIDI working. I tried it myself but > some kernel modules seem to be missing and I couldn't manage to build > them myself due to some dependency problems. Please describe your problem in details. -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/ph

Re: Some trickery involved in getting USB Host working on FR?

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Fertser
Jay Vaughan writes: > Does anyone have any advice for me on how to get the Freerunner to > work as a USB Host device? I'd like to use it as the main PC > surrounded by USB devices (USBMIDI cable, Powermate) .. is there some > special cable I need, or is this now all easily handled at the di

Re: My FreeRunner’s USB port still works for power, but not data?

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Fertser
Brolin Empey writes: > See the second pin from the left? I assumed it was pin 4 (ID) because > of the pinout images on Wikipedia, but I think it may actually be pin 2 > (D-). I think it is D- and it is broken, so yes, the only option is to replace the socket it seems... -- Be free, use free

Re: Help with buzz fix/SMD soldering in Hamburg, Germany

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Fertser
Jan Girlich writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 03.03.2010, 09:00 +0100 schrieb Erik Andresen: >> Would be interested in the Bass-fix. > > We'll get that managed, too, if you're in or around Hamburg. I hope > there is as nice documentation for this fix as there is for #1024 and > buzz, b/c I don't know any

Re: [QtMoko] intermittent USB networking + non-working WLAN = must use wired LAN = USB port hardware problem

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Dave writes: > Using qtmoko V16, I have found that suspending using the power > button or waking by plugging in the charger guarantee that bluetooth > is killed. And what do you mean by killed? Does BT adapter disappear from lsusb list? Or does bluetoothd get confused by something? Or what? Pleas

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-03-01 Thread Paul Fertser
Ben Thompson writes: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: >> Ben Thompson writes: >> > I will see if I can reliably reproduce the problem and submit a bug >> > report if there isn't one (where should I do this?). >> >> http://bugs.openmoko.org is the place for

Re: Problems with NWA

2010-02-27 Thread Paul Fertser
Nicola Mfb writes: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Ben Thompson wrote: > [...] >> I think this is a different bug. It happens occasionally with me too, >> but it was also there with the old QT libs. Niko - are you aware of >> this problem? > > If you are talking about complete system freeze i

ar6000 (FR's wifi) bugs, workarounds and CLI usage tips, read this for stable wifi

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, I've got involved in some wifi configuration recently and so tested FR with different APs and settings. As a result, several interesting observations were made, i hope you'll find them useful. 1. Weird SSID bug Thanks to the hint by Werner i found out that i can never connect to my WPA+RSN

Re: My FR A5 Mods

2010-02-14 Thread Paul Fertser
Bartłomiej Zimoń writes: > Just moded A5 with no bat mod and clamping mod [1]. It works :) and > both Caps are 100uF/4V 1206. Cool. For the recamping mode you could have used a much smaller capacitor but i see you found a nice place for this anyway, congratulations :) For the others who's going t

Re: What to do with a broken touchscreen?

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Fertser
"Helge Hafting" writes: > Failing that, is it possible to replace the touchscreen hardware? Is > spare parts available? Or will I have to replace the entire phone? You can replace only the entire LCD module (LCM)... It doesn't require soldering, just careful unglueing, some spare parts were avail

Re: [freerunner] compatible battery that supports charge info

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Fertser
jeremy jozwik writes: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Paul Fertser wrote: >> Please read Battery Questions and Answers at OM wiki, it has correct >> and up-to-date info wrt freerunner-compatible batteries. > > would that be the same link i posted in the first email on this

Re: [freerunner] compatible battery that supports charge info

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Fertser
jeremy jozwik writes: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Ben Wilson wrote: >> Openmoko sell spares packs, in case you weren't aware, come with two > > interesting to know. i was unaware of that. > > but... im looking to cash-in with my near future trip to golden > computer center and was looking

Re: Tracking power leackage in my freerunner

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Fertser
ri...@happyleptic.org writes: > -[ Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:48:01AM +0300, Paul Fertser ] >> Your figure is good. #1024 fix saves you about 4-8mA, a considerable >> amount during suspend-to-ram, but you won't notice the difference if >> you keep the device in &quo

Re: Tracking power leackage in my freerunner

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Fertser
ri...@happyleptic.org writes: >> I thought the #1024 fix is only helping while the freerunner is >> suspended. For me this fix only changed the current which was consumed >> while suspended and extended my standby time by a factor of nearly 2x. > > So what do you have in /sys/class/power_supply/bat

Re: OT: Where can I meet a female companion with similar interests and personality /in person/?

2010-01-24 Thread Paul Fertser
ri...@happyleptic.org writes: > Can't you stop spamming this list ? Come on, just add a procmail rule or something if you do not want to see a nice guy improving! -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com _

Re: using FSO to controll secondary phone?

2010-01-17 Thread Paul Fertser
Frederik Sdun writes: > * joa...@verona.se [17.01.2010 07:45]: >> Would it be possible to attach a secondary phone over BT to the >> Freerunner and controll it with FSO, the same way as the inbuilt phone >> device? > > I think over bluetooth is not possible. But if you can establish a > network c

Re: hands-free kit

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Fertser
Tom Yates writes: > does anyone out there supply just the handsfree kit that comes with the > stock openmoko (two earpieces, integral mic with cut-off switch and > four-connector 2.5mm jack)? Beware, with wired headset mic you'll most probably get a serious buzz problem on any device, no matter

Re: [SHR-U] Wifi?

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Fertser
"Iain B. FIndleton" writes: > Anybody actually have reliable bluetooth and/or wifi working on the > SHR-U using the .29 kernel from last December? Yes, bluetooth networking just worked for me. Please refer to [1]. Unfortunately, pidof trick doesnt't work anymore with the latest bluez4 releases s

Re: Fwd: dfu_download error -110

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Fertser
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:29:31PM +0200, Tony Berth wrote: > Tony Berth <[2]tonybe...@googlemail.com> writes: > > Tony Berth <[3]tonybe...@googlemail.com> writes: > > > when I tried to flash my FR with the latest SHR and after the kernel > > > was successfully installed, I got

Re: Fwd: dfu_download error -110

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Fertser
Tony Berth writes: > Tony Berth writes: > > when I tried to flash my FR with the latest SHR and after the kernel > > was successfully installed, I got (somewhere in the middle of the > > process): > > > > dfu_download error -110 > > It's usually suggested to try an

Re: Fwd: dfu_download error -110

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Fertser
Tony Berth writes: > when I tried to flash my FR with the latest SHR and after the kernel > was successfully installed, I got (somewhere in the middle of the > process): > > dfu_download error -110 It's usually suggested to try another usb-cable/port/no hub etc. Also make sure you flash to the co

Re: Handset sound volume issues (Re: Buzz fix)

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Fertser
-= Apertum =- writes: >> And no one can tell what hardware revisions >> affected. Inability to get the handset speaker emit loud sound is a >> clear sign. Just short those useless caps (0402 size iirc). >> > > Thanks a lot for the info. > > And where is exactly located these caps, how to recogn

Handset sound volume issues (Re: Buzz fix)

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Fertser
-= Apertum =- writes: >> " The fix will remove that buzz but won't fix other issues >> like rustling, echo or low volume. Those issues can mostly be >> addressed with >> software. " >> The same happened to me, but i didn't find a viable software >> cnfiguration to use the fr as a phone. What about

Koolu's Qi fork (was: Re: Quick e-mail poll: Still using your Freerunner?)

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Fertser
Al Johnson writes: >> I only know about Android needing forked Qi. Which other distro also >> requires you to have custom bootloader? > > I guess Android only needs a forked Qi because it needed different boot > parameters, and Qi can't read them from file when booting from NAND. I find > uboot

Re: Bootloaders - part 2

2010-01-05 Thread Paul Fertser
Torfinn Ingolfsen writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Al Johnson > wrote: > > I guess Android only needs a forked Qi because it needed different boot > parameters, and Qi can't read them from file when booting from NAND. > > It makes me wonder why the missing functionality (abili

Re: More Questions about Encrypting, Internet Access and Games

2009-12-26 Thread Paul Fertser
Rashid writes: > Is there an easy way to encrypt the whole disk (except /boot)? > Like in Ubuntu Alternate the install option "install to encrypted LVM"? > Or will you have to do it manualy by many complicated console > commands? No FR distro comes with something like that. OTOH it's all regular

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