Re: Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-31 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. Just for reference, I filed a ticket about this issue : http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1933 Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Anyway, it seems it's rather unstable in the first times the

Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-21 Thread yves mahe
Olivier Berger wrote: Now, I have found a way to boot to OM 2008.8 from SD (actually VFAT + EXT3). But I'm too unable to use network over USB now (works fine if rebooting to 2007.2 in flash). Hi, I've just received my Freerunner yesterday. FYI, I'm able to boot to OM 2008.8 from SD

Re: Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-10 Thread Jay Vaughan
I guess it's pretty flaky :( But still I see some (slow) progress ;) It really could be related to the USB ports on your PC .. if for some reason your PC is not happy with the power-state changes demanded by the Freerunner, then it will reset the USB hard layer, and this has the effect

Re: Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | I kept trying, rebooted, tested, again, again, unplugged USB, | replugged... and TADA, at some point it magically worked ! | | I've typed-in a few commands, got networking (opkg update completed), | did a

Re: Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-10 Thread Olivier Berger
Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess it's pretty flaky :( But still I see some (slow) progress ;) It really could be related to the USB ports on your PC .. if for some reason your PC is not happy with the power-state changes demanded by the Freerunner, then it will reset the

Re: Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-10 Thread Olivier Berger
Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | I kept trying, rebooted, tested, again, again, unplugged USB, | replugged... and TADA, at some point it magically worked ! | | I've typed-in a few commands, got networking (opkg update completed), | did a few

Re: Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-10 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Anyway, it seems it's rather unstable in the first times the system is | brought up, and stabilizes after a while. | If I unplug the USB cable when I lose IP connectivity, and replug | after 1/2 seconds,

Re: Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-10 Thread Olivier Berger
Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Anyway, it seems it's rather unstable in the first times the system is | brought up, and stabilizes after a while. | If I unplug the USB cable when I lose IP connectivity, and replug | after 1/2 seconds, then

Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Olivier Berger
Martin Šenkeřík [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe can help reflashing your u-boot with some actual version... Thanks for the suggestion. Haven't tried that, but instead, I changed u-boot env to add a new menu entry including init=/sbin/init. It went a bit further this time : kernel boots and I

Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone succeeded in booting the new image from (micro)SD ? Yes, I do. Initially, I had a running Qtopia on the said microsd (small vfat partition with uImage.bin, big ext2 one with rootfs expanded on it, the normal way if

Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Cédric Berger
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone succeeded in booting the new image from (micro)SD ? I did too. I replaced my ASU image on a third ext3 partition on my SD card. (format partition, copy tar file in /tmp, untar 2008.8 rootfs into partition)

Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Olivier Berger
Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I changed u-boot env to add a new menu entry including init=/sbin/init. It went a bit further this time : kernel boots and I can see the booting splash screen (with boots and progress bar), although the X server wasn't started, I guess : I get a

Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Anyone succeeded in booting the new image from (micro)SD ? | | I did too. I replaced my ASU image on a third ext3 partition on my

Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Olivier Berger
Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | | But the first few boots I could not have USB networking working -at | all-. Now it works, but I don't really know what was wrong. If you updated your U-Boot partway through your testing, for a while we

Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Now, I have found a way to boot to OM 2008.8 from SD (actually VFAT + | EXT3). | | But I'm too unable to use network over USB now (works fine if | rebooting to 2007.2 in flash). | | lsusb reports : | Bus

Network over USB flaky ? - Re: Booting OM 2008.08 from SD - Re: Openmoko Om 2008.8 Release

2008-08-09 Thread Olivier Berger
Olivier Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somebody in the thread at some point said: | | But the first few boots I could not have USB networking working -at | all-. Now it works, but I don't really know what was wrong. If you updated your U-Boot