Re: Updating freerunner to latest snapshot (WAS: Re: )

2008-07-31 Thread Christopher White
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:06 +1000, Robert William Hutton wrote: Then upgraded all the packages: # this has to be done on the terminal on the openmoko opkg update opkg upgrade dropbear So, I never had to do that -- or more precisely I have never done that. *Should* I be doing it, or is that

Re: [openmoko-announce] Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Christopher White
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:02 +0200, Michele Renda wrote: I think this require some hours hour man-time (let suppose 3-4 h) I'll agree that responding as Jay has takes considerable time, but I disagree with what a person can do. In 3-4 hours a person can do: To learn a bit how to write

Re: [openmoko-announce] Openmoko on Design

2008-07-29 Thread Christopher White
Hi Michele, Cristopher, let me to understand why you are so in angry. Forgive me if I came across as very angry. I actually am not. I am frustrated, but I do not find fault with anyone in this regard. Like you I sent my 350 Eur postcard (= 2 month of my house rent) for a phone that I was

Re: Flashing ASU Image

2008-07-27 Thread Christopher White
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:42 +0200, Michael Münch wrote: Quoting arne anka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think the more changes in basic packages as gtk+- gtk+-fastscaling there are, the superior the packetmanagement has to be. Resolving the dependencies, removing old files and so on. I am not sure

ATT 3G 71234 D (was Re: service with NorthState in NC)

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 14:42 -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote: Hi Chris, Can you please add your situation to this page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FreeRunner_unable_to_work_with_3G_SIM_cards#Compatibility_table Done. One interesting note that I added to the wiki was that I did get strong

Proper opkg config?

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
I'm trying to figure out how exactly to setup opkg conf files to keep up to date with latest. At first, I grabbed the conf files from Michael Sheldon: http://www.mikeasoft.com/~mike/opkg-asu.tar.gz This was a marked improvement. Then later after a daily opkg update/upgrade stuff was not

Re: Proper opkg config?

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 20:12 +0200, arne anka wrote: from a brief glance your current errors seem to be caused by an error in building the kernel/modules packages. could you please check which infos the kernel (uname -a) and the module (modinfo bluetooth) reveal? Thanks for taking a look

Timezone problems

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
I'm having trouble setting the timezone on my phone running ASU. I set the time/date via the command line (date -s) and that works fine. Next, I link /etc/localtime: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime But date still show UTC time: [EMAIL

Re: 'hwclock' not working? (ASU)

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:56 +1000, Lorn Potter wrote: Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: I'm running ASU on my FR. It seems that something is broken or missing for the 'hwclock' command to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock --systohc hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or

Re: Timezone problems

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 20:53 +0200, arne anka wrote: did you reboot? Doh! That took care of it...I thought /etc/localtime was an immediate thing, thanks. ...cj ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: 'hwclock' not working? (ASU)

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:33 +0200, Holger Freyther wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2008 20:55:15 Christopher White wrote: I ran into the same issue. After running the above link, I also had to stop the atd daemon which had /dev/rtc0 open: We run atd on the ASU image on purpose. It allows

Re: Timezone problems

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher White
This was discussed just today under the title 'hwclock' not working? (ASU) ...cj On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 16:50 -0600, michael irons wrote: When I try: hwclock --systohc I get: hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or directory On the ASU/openmoko-qtopia images. I have

Re: What is Exposure?

2008-07-25 Thread Christopher White
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:57 +0200, Yorick Moko wrote: i'm using a fully up-to-date ASU, but exposure wont load is this normal? i've never been able to load it Once I followed Micheal's instructions to point to downloads.openmoko.org and update/upgrade, I can now launch exposure. ...cj

What is Exposure?

2008-07-24 Thread Christopher White
I'm running stock ASU package set, just did an opkg update and upgrade. I launch Exposure from the front screen, get the Starting Exposure at the bottom, but then nothing. Where would I look for log messages and enable debug messages for such problems? logread -f shows nothing Thanks ...cj

Re: What is Exposure?

2008-07-24 Thread Christopher White
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 11:45 -0400, Jeff Tickle wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:20:53 + Christopher White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running stock ASU package set, just did an opkg update and upgrade. I launch Exposure from the front screen, get the Starting Exposure at the bottom

gpsd not in ASU repository?

2008-07-24 Thread Christopher White
I recently pointed opkg towards: http://downloads.openmoko.org/openmoko-repository/ASU/armv4t I notice that gpsd in not there. I installed it from http://downloads.openmoko.org/snapshots/2007.11/ipk/armv4t Is there any particular reason it's not in ASU? I ran it along with TangoGPS without

Re: gpsd not in ASU repository?

2008-07-24 Thread Christopher White
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:49 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:42:10AM +, Christopher White wrote: I notice that gpsd in not there. I installed it from http://downloads.openmoko.org/snapshots/2007.11/ipk/armv4t Is there any particular reason it's not in ASU? I

Re: Rogers SIM (Canada) causing crash on Dialer

2008-07-19 Thread Christopher White
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 17:05 -0400, Sparrow wrote: I have an issue with a rogers (Canada) SIM card crashing the dialer application when a call is started. After hitting dial on the dialer app the screen moves cuts over to the out going call screen and then the dial crashes. I have seen

RE: service with NorthState in NC

2008-07-17 Thread Christopher White
I get the same error: ATT blazing 3G SIM: 71234 D / 2022 It's a prepaid SIM I just got for testing. Steve, are you saying it's a bad SIM, a bad type of SIM, or a bad provider? I've not dealt much with SIMs before, so when going back to the ATT store, I'd like to know how best to get them to

Re: Neo security: running everything as root, and lacking a root password (was: Re: root)

2008-01-10 Thread Christopher White
Regarding security and mobile phones.. I recently read an interesting interview with Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of F-Secure in IIEE Security and Privacy (Nov/Dec 07). He touched on the topic of security and mobile phones, even mentioned that he has received four worms on his mobile