Re: AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap

2007-07-06 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
From: Frank Coenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap Message: 5 Whoops. I was to excited to read the rest of the article: India and China as well. That is just mindblowing good news! see:

combined shopping/shipping to the Netherlands

2007-07-09 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Dear Listers! It almost slipped my mind that today it already IS the 9 of Juli. Checked the website and did not find it offline, as before. Everything seems to work out fine, congratulations Sean and the team! I guess there are quite a few Dutch subscribers to the list. Does anyone want to share

Congratulations! Re: Cleared to start Mass production

2008-06-05 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Way to go! Please send best regards to all who have made it possible so far :-)) Kind regards, Boudewijn --- steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest update I have from the factory indicates that mass Production ( that means running the SMT line without stopping to check stuff every

Re: Openmoko official resell partners

2008-06-11 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Great news, thanks for the update! --- On Wed, 6/11/08, Harry Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Harry Tsai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Openmoko official resell partners To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 11:43 AM Dear

bluetooth proximity

2008-06-16 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, I wondered, can two bluetooth devices ping each other and find out their distance or relative speeds? Not in the first place as some security tag to unlock my PC or house, but to use in a game-like setting. Imagine some live role playing game, where weapons not only are simulated

Re: bluetooth proximity

2008-06-18 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Mon, 6/16/08, Tilman Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AVee wrote: (...) There are a lot of reasons why this is not feasible. Sorry. I tend to agree, however, things might change if you add gps. You'd might just (...) That leaves only the 'exact measurement' to be solved.

Re: tossing contacts / bluetooth proximity

2008-06-18 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
(Macross tossing...) Would be a cool application of the gesture project. The receiver would have to catch, not exactly at the same time, in order to confirm receipt. Possibly incompatible with consumption of buttered toast. Hey, that app would also enable my opponent to throw her

Re: Possible Camera

2008-06-18 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
just expressing my interest in this thread. Replying for the same reason. I was comparing the phone with the PCB, http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Menu9.jpg with http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Gta02a5_pcba_cs.JPG , and it seems that there is quite not a lot of space left. The site got

Re: Slashdot post but no web store?

2008-06-27 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Joerg Reisenweber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...troll-hunting/killing...) To me he looks quite trollish. I think so too, but thanks for the in depth and clear reply! Boudewijn ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Number of shipped devices

2008-07-02 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi all, Is there information on the number of produced, tested and shipped devices? Is that information public, or is it sensitive in some way? I was triggered by Pulster having sold out for this month, and wondered how demand and supply line up. Any comments? Boudewijn

Re: Reason for GPS problems found!

2008-07-15 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Olivier Migeot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should only insert the card once the fix is acquired. At least at times where we want to use both GPS and SD. Not much of a solution, It takes removal of the battery to insert the SD, so it's a bit of a cumbersome

Re: order from Pulster

2008-07-21 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Christoph Pulster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The stock (..)new delivery on 15.08. (..) Thanks for the update. Does it mean that the 25.07 stock has been sold out as well? I also only got the automatic reply so far. Is there a way to find out whether one is on the 25.07 or

[SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-17 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi list and readers, I am trying to figure out how to export my display when using ssh -Y (or X). The only hint I found was a thread (exactly) a year ago (let's celebrate and make 15-8 ssh -Y-day ;-) ): X forwarding doesn't work (*) I have been fiddling with it time and again over the past

Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-17 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Xavier Cremaschi omega.xav...@gmail.com wrote: From: Xavier Cremaschi omega.xav...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY? To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 4:10 PM Basically, you need a computer with : - a working

Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-17 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Gerald A geraldabli...@gmail.com wrote: (an elaborate help on asking help, as below) Thanks Gerald for your extensive suggestions! I think my problem is solved, but for the record I'll update my problem description. One thing would be more information in your problem

Fw: Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-17 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
excuse me for going through the mailing lists for dummies stage... This mail is for community, not just for Dirk :-) From: W. B. Kranendonk wankelwan...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY? To: Dirk Gassen shrd...@dirkgassen.com Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 4:32 PM

Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-17 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
... and this one should have some answer, before sending it.. (do I already have a monopoly on this list? Sorry for spamming) --- On Tue, 8/17/10, Xavier Cremaschi omega.xav...@gmail.com a computer with : - a working X server (mainly Xorg) - a working ssh client with -X option (mainly

Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-17 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Xavier Cremaschi omega.xav...@gmail.com wrote: - if you use kdm or xdm, I don't know :S I recall having edited /etc/kde/kdmrc to set XDMCP to true instead of false, and Xacces (in /etc/X11?) to get XDMCP between laptop and desktop, but too long ago to recall the details

Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-18 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Niels Heyvaert nielsheyva...@hotmail.com wrote: This looks like a pretty comprehensive how-to.   Anyone documenting this on the Wiki?   I benefited most of the conversation, so I had a look on the wiki and searched for ssh $DISPLAY forward, which gave some 40 (not always

Re: [SHR] X forwarding: export DISPLAY?

2010-08-18 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak d...@dosowisko.net wrote: Maybe we should enable it by default? Are there any disadventages? +5 for this. I think OM20x distros had it enabled by default, possibly also debian based distros. And it was

[SHR] toolchain (again)

2010-08-19 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, I'd like to start trying to contribute to the Openmoko-ecosystem in a more meaningful manner than lurking the mailinglists. I also like to see if I can add my own twist to my phone (running SHR-U). I imagined combining those two wishes by getting a toolchain running and see what

Re: [SHR] toolchain (again)

2010-08-20 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Fri, 8/20/10, Thomas Zimmermann m...@vdm-design.de wrote: (...) 8Gb ram) and downloads about 15Gb of data, so a more powerfull machine then your laptop would be good. Hahah... The harddisk is 20GB.. I lend my desktop (with about 3GHz single core AMD a bit more up to date) to my

Re: [SHR] toolchain (again)

2010-08-20 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
it is not the right way to do it but you may try downloading the old OM toolchain, replace the opkg sources (then opkg-target upgrade) with the shr ones and pray :). I think for a first start in the SHR world until you have your new laptop it could work maybe. Praying is not my

Re: [SHR] toolchain (again)

2010-08-20 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
And fresh new SHR toolchain: http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/sdk/ And fresh it is! Long live SSH, allowing me to run it on a remote desktop (should have thought of that before :-) ) Downloaded the files and now extracting to /usr/local/shr/* Am I correct in understanding that I can

Re: [SHR] toolchain (again)

2010-08-20 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Fri, 8/20/10, Martin Jansa martin.ja...@gmail.com wrote: angstrom-next is using almost the same toolchain as we're, (...) http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/narcissus sdk toolchain options are shown only after switching to advanced options, but there is no option for angstrom-next..

Re: Freerunner - small and fast distribution only for GPS

2010-08-31 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Mon, 8/30/10, Radek Polak pson...@seznam.cz wrote: On Sunday 29 August 2010 16:03:39 Carsten Gerlach wrote: What would be a good starting distro? I would take (...) openwrt. It's very very small and the build process is very easily configurable with menuconfig. I second OpenWRT.

Re: Freerunner - small and fast distribution only for GPS

2010-08-31 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 8/31/10, Carsten Gerlach daswaldh...@gmx.de wrote: Thanks for this hint to openWRT. But i have problems to get a connection over wifi to the internet. I did read the wiki (...) How can I solve this? I intended to give a hand, but I can't find the uSD with OpenWRT anymore to

OpenWRT with WPA

2010-09-02 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, I am trying to use OpenWRT with my WPA access point. I can't figure out whether there's anything on board in the standard image to support WPA protected connections. Opkg gives wpa_supplicant, but it is not available for Freerunner (architecture). The same goes for some other

Re: ANN: Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available

2010-09-12 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sun, 9/12/10, Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: after lots of hard work I'm happy to announce that the Freerunner Navigation Board v2 is finally available! It looks great, congratulations! Boudewijn ___ Openmoko community

Re: Happy Programmers' Day!

2010-09-13 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Am 13.09.2010 um 10:44 schrieb Patryk Benderz: Best wishes to all of you guys writing code or filing bug reports for FreeRunner devices! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer_Day From: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com Good idea! We should have and celebrate that day

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience

2010-09-15 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 9/15/10, Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be wrote: (...) probably close to 2 hours writing this message. I do not want to feed the trolls nor intend to hijack this thread, but I seem to have missed the mention of a Freerunner? Besides that, I can recognize you put a lot of effort into

Re: Broken AUX :-(

2010-09-16 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Thu, 9/16/10, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Christ van Willegen cvwille...@gmail.com wrote: I think I broke my AUX button tonight. Is there anyone who can fiox this? how about i trade you my working AUX switch if you give me your

Re: Openmoko Beagle Hybrid - was: [Community Updates] 2010-08-01 is out

2010-10-13 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 10/13/10, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Again good news: we have won one of the new PandaBoards (OMAP4 / ARM Coretx () Congratulations! Best regards, Boudewijn ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: let's launch a FR into space

2010-10-19 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Would a FR be able to connect to GSM cells from 30km above ground? I don't know but would doubt it from theory. Antennas [directed at] earth's surface. I second the theory. How about wifi? Line of sight should not be a problem on a cloudles day... The baloon could be shaped as a

Re: let's launch a FR into space

2010-10-19 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Would a FR be able to connect to GSM cells from 30km above ground? I don't know but would doubt it from theory. Antennas [directed at] earth's surface. I second the theory. How about wifi? Line of sight should not be a problem on a cloudles day... The baloon could be shaped as a

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

2010-10-21 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
The board looks great! Quite professional ;-) My (probably naive) impression is that you're only missing the case plastics to provide a complete GTA4 phone. The LCD comes in handy at times, was my first thought... Most of the parts are here: http://www.handheld-

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

2010-10-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 10/23/10, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Well, an alternative approach could be to open a funds for a new injection mould. I.e. a Openmoko Case Production Foundation (or German e.V.). Everyone who gives some money for the funds can buy cases at a reduced rate.

Re: pisi calendar sync over caldav?

2010-10-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Well. Sry. I'm atm busy with building a RepRap (Huxley) Good luck with the reprap :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

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

2010-10-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
- besides Vietnam, Czech is another country that can provide moulds at competitive prices Cases like that of the Freerunner, with more than one plastic, need more than one mould per piece. To say more of the price, it is necessary to have the design available. The Maybe you can ask

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

2010-10-26 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 10/26/10, Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it wrote: mmh... why not include the button(s) in the same mould? it could be a shape like a C= attached to the main shape by a little plastic That's what he (Nicolaus) wrote: Yes. Some parts could be combined in a single mould and then broken

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

2010-10-26 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 10/26/10, Andreas Fischer cyberf...@gmx.net wrote: On 26.10.2010 12:14, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: How many new cases would you and your friends buy if it costs: * 20 EUR * 50 EUR * 100 EUR * 200 EUR (...) 20 Euros is a no-brainer (...) 50 Euros still sound

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

2010-10-26 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 10/26/10, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: Since it seems so hard to have a custom made case, why not use an existing case for a HTC, nokia, iphone or the like? (or a chinese replica) The layout of the PCB needs to be alltered ofcourse, but it seems that it might be an

Re: [gta04-devel] Fwd: FOSDEM 2011 Devroom on SHR/FSO declined

2010-10-31 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sun, 10/31/10, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mic...@vanille-media.de Am Sonntag, den 31.10.2010, 10:48 +0100 schrieb David Lanzendörfer: Seems as we lost our devroom after all. Not surprising. That we got it last year was an exception thanks to Xorg not being able to fill in their slot.

Re: Address the WM8753 directly

2010-11-10 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: From: Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk The ultimate goal is to make a FR to FR modem conection, using the GSM voice band. Why? Is this just to see whether it's possible, or how bad the voice channel is as a

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

2010-11-14 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 11/13/10, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: (one series of problems) We could solve that by adding a jump start resistor. Then, we soldered the OMAP3530 and Pop Memory chip and connected RS232:     http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/DSC00679.jpg

Re: [e-users] Someone is trying to patent Quickwriting

2010-11-23 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 11/23/10, Daniele Ricci daniele.ath...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 21:01, Bryan Petty etie...@gmail.com wrote: A patent (6031525) was already filed for Quickwriting in 1999/2000: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6031525.html The patent office will realize

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-21 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hallo Nikolaus, --- On Tue, 12/21/10, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@computer.org wrote: we are happy that we can make an announcement to the Free and Open Hardware Community, right in time for X-mas and New Year: I am happy to read it! Congratulations! So we are very confident that the

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 12/22/10, Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it wrote: -[ Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:58:06AM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller (always innovating) (or at least keep open the possibility to connect any external bigger display and standard keyboard) That reminds me... The BeagleBoard can

Re: [ANN]: GTA04 (Beagleboard inspired Openmoko Upgrade) - Early Adpoter Program

2010-12-22 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 12/22/10, Alfa21 freerun...@my.is.it wrote: 2010-12...@14:21 W. B. Kranendonk That reminds me... The BeagleBoard can provide up to 1280*1024 or 1280*720 if I recall correctly. Do we have options to channel that power out of the box? Nikolaus why not?? If all we need is a piece

accelerometer calibration

2010-12-23 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, One of my FRs is dizzy: the accelerometers are off. Using mokomaze as testing tool for the time being, the ball runs off to the top right if I put it flat on the table (imagine my furniture not too fashionable - that is: the table surface is horizontal ;-)) I can keep the ball from

Re: Re : Re: accelerometer calibration

2010-12-24 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Le 23 déc. 2010 10:11, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi a écrit : W. B. Kranendonk writes: One of my FRs is dizzy: the accelerometers are off. Can you send a sample of the accelerometer data? (Preferably in the binary format that you can read from /dev/input/) On Thu, 12

Re: Re : Re: accelerometer calibration

2010-12-24 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: W. B. Kranendonk wankelwan...@yahoo.com writes: Is that useful? Raw binary output would be a lot easier to parse. Lying on its back again, cat /dev/input/event4 event4.log See attachment. ¤ÌMÃ

Re: Re : Re: accelerometer calibration

2010-12-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: li...@ginger:~$ accelerometer-dump event4.log | head | cut -d ';' -f2-|tr ';' ' ' x y z 108 36 900 144 36 900 126 36 900 li...@ginger:~$ accelerometer-dump /dev/accelerometer-top | head | cut -d ';' -f2-|tr ';' ' ' x

Re: QtMoko v30; UBIFS; can't boot

2010-12-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Ivan Matveev imatvee...@nm.ru wrote: Trying 2010-12-06 03:03 qi-v30.udfu 2010-12-06 02:11 qtmoko-debian-v30.ubi 2010-12-06 03:03 uImage-v30.bin I am able to boot with SHR kernel uImage-2.6.34-r4-oe15-om-gta02.bin, but qpe crashes right after start with SHR

Re: Re : Re: accelerometer calibration

2010-12-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: W. B. Kranendonk wankelwan...@yahoo.com writes: Would that mean that (one of) the meter(s) is connected at an angle? Are they not calibrated in software? top and bottom accelerometers are oriented differently

Re: Re : Re: accelerometer calibration

2010-12-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Iain B. Findleton ifindle...@videotron.ca wrote: The output from the chip is quite noisy. The problem is not that the signal is not reliable: it is. It is just that it is off by a few degrees. There is a script I wrote in TCL on the SourceForge web site under the

Re: Re : Re: accelerometer calibration

2010-12-27 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: W. B. Kranendonk wankelwan...@yahoo.com writes: I found it after searching for accelerometer-dump, but (the FR) Just capture the data on FR but run it on your PC. Like li...@sauna$ ssh neo cat /dev/accelerometer-top

Gamepad Happy new year! was:Re: QtMoko on N900

2011-01-01 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, happy new year all! I have to agree with Radek, the Freerunner has been my favourite toy for over two years now (sometimes to annoyance of the better half in my life ;-) ). Many thanks to everyone for making it possible! I am looking forward to another year lurking the mailinglist and

gestures (on SHR)

2011-01-06 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, Now and again I try using gestures on SHR. I can't seem to get past the initial make the gesture after selecting a model and pressing the train button. Should the frontend still function as described in the wiki? I started looking into the underlying scripts, but haven't found the

Re: QtMoko: Dangerous alarm issue

2011-01-10 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Mon, 1/10/11, Hrabosh zbyne...@volny.cz wrote: do not rely on QtMoko's alarm to wake you up :-) It was not -by coincidence- the first or second of January? It seems to be a common problem with design(ers) phones ;-) Boudewijn ___

Re: some advertising

2011-01-11 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 1/11/11, Sylvain Paré sylvain.p...@gmail.com wrote: I did a video today Nice :-) ps if you don't like/have flash http://pare.sylvain.perso.sfr.fr/video /FRvsP2.ogg Thanks for that! Boudewijn ___ Openmoko community mailing

openmoko as mouse

2011-02-03 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, I read about Apple -of all companies- trying to run away with an idea that was discussed (at least by myself, and probably by others as well) on the mailing list as well as off line: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20110012838.pdf It seems to cover using a telephone's touchsreen as

FOSDEM 2011

2011-02-06 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi list, I just returned from FOSDEM 2011. The GTA04 team had a seat available at the boot, so I spend most of my time showing the semi-/demi-populated GTA04-boards to the masses, explaining the various uses of the Navigation board, introducing even more people to the Openmoko-concept or just

Re: QtMoko v31

2011-02-18 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Fri, 2/18/11, HeaDCase openm...@psychonautical.org wrote: Another thing is that after a cold reset (pulling the battery for a second) the HW clock is reset to 01.01.2000. That is probably caused by a dried up backup battery. People have replaced it with capacitors, see the archives.

Re: FOSS GSM security camera?

2011-02-25 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Fri, 2/25/11, Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net wrote: Does anyone know of an open source (hardware/software/both) GSM security cameras? I.e. a device with at least the following features: * Mains powered. * Includes rechargeable battery to provide uninterruptible power supply for

Re: MicroSD cards support questions in gta02

2011-02-28 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Fri, 2/25/11, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος apreka...@gmail.com wrote: 1)(...) Doesnt that imply that there is no general bootloader working like in desktop pcs? Nail on the head: ARM does not come with BIOS. One of the effects is that the processor can not find out easily what hardware is

Re: FRNBv2 is dead. Long live FRNBv3!

2011-03-01 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi Christoph, --- On Mon, 2/28/11, Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: unfortunately the compass chip included in the FRNBv2 is no longer available. (...) and therefore requires a new PCB layout. Which software do you use for the layout? I've tried both pcb (gEDA) and pcbnew (KiCAD),

Re: GPRS and QTMoko

2011-03-09 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 3/8/11, Wesley Frazier wes.fraz...@gmail.com wrote: If I boot my freerunner up from a cold boot and manually start GPRS it works fine. (...) it seems to stop working,(...)Regardless of whether or not it is set to On Demand or not. I got the same issue on QTMoko 0.33. I can

Re: GPRS and QTMoko

2011-03-09 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, W. B. Kranendonk wankelwan...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 3/8/11, Wesley Frazier wes.fraz...@gmail.com wrote: If I boot my freerunner up from a cold boot and manually start GPRS it works fine. (...) it seems to stop I got the same issue on QTMoko 0.33. A while

Re: [qtmoko33] wifi doesn't power off and drains the battery (was: qtmoko v33)

2011-03-09 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Alfa21-mobile freerun...@my.is.it wrote: if you successfully connect to any wifi network (in v33 only open networs are accessible) then the hardware remains in active state, draining the battery flat in few hours depsite you disable the connection via the software

Re: GPRS and QTMoko

2011-03-09 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
message -- From: Brian bn...@rochester.rr.com To: community@lists.openmoko.org Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:40:39 -0500 Subject: Re: GPRS and QTMoko On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 04:14:42 -0800 (PST) W. B. Kranendonk wankelwan...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 3/9/11, W. B. Kranendonk

[QTMoko] Battery running low on v33

2011-03-10 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
Hi List, I have been using QTMoko v33 for the last few days. One of the things that bother me, is that the battery drains much faster than I am used to, _even_ if it's connected to USB with force-fast-charge. Checking Neotool, the battery status is charging (and changes to discharging on

Re: Qtmoko and u-boot

2011-04-01 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: On 04/01/2011 05:20 PM, Gennady Kupava wrote: В Птн, 01/04/2011 в 17:00 +0200, Ed Kapitein пишет: On Friday 01 April 2011 14:52:02 David Matthews wrote: I had a few problems with several uSD Any chance all of them are broken? I

Re: Another open hardware mod experiment: RFID-tag/Reader board for the Freerunner, Nanonote (?) and Beagleboard

2011-04-11 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Mon, 4/11/11, Denis Shulyaka shuly...@gmail.com wrote: Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 12:41 PM 2011/4/11 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com: There are three potential issues whiy it could not work: (...) Wikipedia says that it uses Mifare UltraLight chip (ISO 14443 Type A

Re: GSM Firmware Flashed, now UBIFS problem and Kernel Panic

2011-04-14 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Thu, 4/14/11, Dave dave...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Raphael Wimmer raphael.wim...@ifi.lmu.de wrote: If there is a better solution that preserves the FS, I would be happy to learn about it. I wonder if it would be possible to boot into a distro on the sd card

Re: ROS on Freerunner

2011-04-19 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Tue, 4/19/11, Neil Jerram neiljer...@gmail.com wrote: Am 19.04.2011 um 09:46 schrieb Jan Tuennermann: Right now I'm trying to get a gpsd_client node to run on the OpenMoko. On a remote PC a gpsd_viewer node will run, subscribing gpsFix messages which it viewer: note that this

Re: Re: ROS on Freerunner

2011-04-20 Thread W. B. Kranendonk
--- On Wed, 20/4/11, Jan Tuennermann tuennerm...@get.uni-paderborn.de wrote: useful for using the phone as a control unit on a robot, but probably not  for it's original intention as a phone ;) I guessed so :-) I think the one could easily forward the port gpsd uses to run tangogps on a