Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-15 Thread kardan
Am Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:17:48 +0100 schrieb joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org: [quote] Lastly, the baseband processor is usually the master processor, whereas the application processor (which runs the mobile operating system) is the slave. [/quote] Nothing more to say. This article isn't

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-15 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:03:33 +0100, kardan wrote: [1 multipart/signed (7bit)] [1.1 text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)] Am Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:17:48 +0100 schrieb joerg Reisenweber jo...@openmoko.org: [quote] Lastly, the baseband processor is usually the master processor,

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-15 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Neal H. Walfield n...@walfield.org wrote: As long as the modem and CPU only communicate via the serial port, i.e., there is no shared memory, then the application CPU is (relatively) safe from attacks started from the baseband CPU. As I understand it, this is

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-14 Thread kardan
Hey, Excuse me for reading the thread only cursory, On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 01:39:22 +0400 Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am wrote: I would write instructions in wiki. So far I did not understand your setup from the links you gave. Your findings seem to be quite fresh. It is probably great work

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-14 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:50 AM, kardan kar...@riseup.net wrote: The following is more generally related to the GSM subject: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone I really don't understand this article. It's like it's some kind of surprise

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-14 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 15 November 2013 01:59:10 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:50 AM, kardan kar...@riseup.net wrote: The following is more generally related to the GSM subject: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_e very_mobile_phone I really

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am wrote: Hehe, flashed your image! http://norayr.arnet.am/tmp/2013-11-09/Screenshot-2_patched.png Nice! Thanks a lot. You're welcome. :) I don't use gsm usually, I'll check how gprs works over gsm. It did not work before, usually SHR did not want to

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
So, I were getting messages in SHR, that the SIM SMS card storage is full, and I need to remove some messages. However by running SMS program in SHR I could not get list of messages previously. Neither I can get this list now. What is interesting, is that after second reboot it had received a

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
I have documented what I have done, and I have a manual draft on my computer. If I can get a wiki account, I will add the information there. 11/10/13 01:33 -ում, Norayr Chilingarian-ը գրել է: So, I were getting messages in SHR, that the SIM SMS card storage is full, and I need to remove some

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 10 November 2013 10:33:47 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: What's also interesting, I have an impression, that power managment works much better. With turned on gsm, it lasts more than 3-4 hours, as before. I'll measure how long will it stay today. But I already see it's becoming usable. Yes,

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 10 November 2013 11:15:22 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: I have documented what I have done, and I have a manual draft on my computer. If I can get a wiki account, I will add the information there. A good example why we should keep wiki in moderated mode. All you could contribute based on

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
What I would write in wiki is step by step instructions how to build the firmware, free loader, and flash it. I don't think it can confuse someone in some way. What about moderation, then, well, what you are saying is against collaborative work, like it is in Wikipedia. Everyone, by even not

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
I know, that people tend to make connection between events. I know, that often it is useful, and often it is wrong to make those connections. I don't know why do I see an improvement, and I accept the possibility, that it's because of other firmware. How can we know if it is? More testing, more

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 10 November 2013 18:03:36 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: I know, that people tend to make connection between events. I know, that often it is useful, and often it is wrong to make those connections. I don't know why do I see an improvement, and I accept the possibility, that it's because

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Nick
Quoth Norayr Chilingarian: What I would write in wiki is step by step instructions how to build the firmware, free loader, and flash it. I don't think it can confuse someone in some way. What about moderation, then, well, what you are saying is against collaborative work, like it is in

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 10 November 2013 18:27:45 Nick wrote: Quoth Norayr Chilingarian: What I would write in wiki is step by step instructions how to build the firmware, free loader, and flash it. I don't think it can confuse someone in some way. What about moderation, then, well, what you are saying

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Wow, I went to bed after my last post, and when I got up this morning, there had been a lively discussion between Norayr, Joerg and Nick! As much as I would love to be proven wrong on this, I consider it *very* unlikely that there is any functional defect in moko11 which somehow gets magically

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
Okay, I see what you say. As Nick mentioned I would write instructions in wiki. As I have written previously in this mailing list, it would be good if someone could document how to build and flash it step by step. Wiki is good for collaborative editing, and if I have made unnecessary steps,

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
Also, I never did write anything about moko11 bugs. I don't know about them. I did write that my perception is, this firmware seem to have better power management. I believe in medicine, and I don't believe in ghosts. If you say, it's unrelated, I don't argue. What can I say now, it worked ~10

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-10 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 10 November 2013 22:53:55 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: About wiki, first of all, we have new, legally free (in those repressive countries (: ) tool - the flasher. Secondly we have the alternative firmware _with_source code. I belive it worth to write there about free flasher, how to build

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-09 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
Okay, so first thing I did is I have compiled loadtools, as planned right on freerunner. opkg install gcc opkg install gcc-symlinks opkg install libc6-dev opkg install binutils opkg install make and synced time before build. /etc/init.d/fsotdld restart then I have edited makefile, as suggested

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-09 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am wrote: Okay, so first thing I did is I have compiled loadtools, as planned right on freerunner. [...] After short build I have three binaries installed fc-iram fc-loadtool fc-xram I believe they will run. Congrats, you have successfully navigated one

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-09 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
Hehe, flashed your image! http://norayr.arnet.am/tmp/2013-11-09/Screenshot-2_patched.png Thanks a lot. Let's see how it works. I don't use gsm usually, I'll check how gprs works over gsm. It did not work before, usually SHR did not want to connect. But I also had problems with iliwi, so I

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-11-09 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
I can already tell that I could not use sms's previously, they did not work. I just received many sms's after reboot, and I was able to remove them. It did not work before. 11/09/13 11:42 -ում, Norayr Chilingarian-ը գրել է: Hehe, flashed your image!

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-31 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
No, it's not fixed. I'll try one day. (: 10/30/13 12:50 -???, Radek Polak-? ?: Do you have fixed hardware and enabled deep sleep? I can get standby of 4 days with my Freerunner. BR Radek ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-30 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
I believe that I can do all those steps without difficulty. Also, I am motivated to try this firmware because with current moko11 fw, battery is getting drained too fast, it doesn't work for whole day. May be the battery is in bad condition, but anyway, I can do it. I just need a free day, I

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-30 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
okay (: 10/29/13 02:03 -ում, Michael Spacefalcon-ը գրել է: P.S. If anyone manages to get as far as the loadtool prompt, please give me a shout before you type any flash erase or flash program commands - I would not want you to ruin your device by wiping out its very hard-to-recover RF

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-30 Thread Radek Polak
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 08:33:28 AM Norayr Chilingarian wrote: I believe that I can do all those steps without difficulty. Also, I am motivated to try this firmware because with current moko11 fw, battery is getting drained too fast, it doesn't work for whole day. Do you have fixed

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-29 Thread dmatthews.org
This is something I've quietly had an interest in for a year plus. I'd like to suggest that it would be beneficial not only to have some hand holding for people that want to compile, but also sample binary for those of us that may not have easy access to necessary hardware and software. I

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-29 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
dmatthews.org m...@dmatthews.org wrote: This is something I've quietly had an interest in for a year plus. Yup, I remember you from 2011. :-) I'd like to suggest that it would be beneficial not only to have some hand holding for people that want to compile, but also sample binary for those

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
Why not add information about free fw and loader to the mentioned wiki page? So that people who are not in this mailing list, may know about this fw and a free fc-load tool. Also, it would be good to have step by step instructions like get this source here, compile it like that, get another

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am wrote: Why not add information about free fw and loader to the mentioned wiki page? So that people who are not in this mailing list, may know about this fw and a free fc-load tool. Adding the info to the wiki would be a good idea indeed, but there would be

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/28/2013 10:03 PM, Michael Spacefalcon wrote: * Most of the Openmoko community sees my FreeCalypso work as being illegal, because they have voluntarily chosen to live and/or accept citizenship in repressive countries which deem it to be so. I suspect that the power-keepers of the Om Wiki

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Ian Stirling wrote: There are separate issues around the IP that you do not have permission to use. This is the illegality that he is referring to, not any potential spectrum/GSM/IMEI issues. I guess he would ignore the latter as well as the former though. On

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-28 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Ian Stirling openm...@mauve.plus.com wrote: However, once anyone has used your work to change the IMSI of their phone I assume you meant IMEI. Phones don't have IMSIs, those are numbers stored in SIM cards. and you are aware of this, Yes, I will most likely be aware of it, as I will

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-22 Thread Patryk Benderz
[cut] You can thus use either fc-loadtool or the original fluid.exe to flash [cut] Can't we just use dfu-util? It was used to write OS to NAND... and AFAIR it was also used to flash GSM firmware?... -- Patryk LeadMan Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-22 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
El Tuesday 22 October 2013 09:51:07 Patryk Benderz va escriure: cut] You can thus use either fc-loadtool or the original fluid.exe to flash [cut] Can't we just use dfu-util? It was used to write OS to NAND... and AFAIR it was also used to flash GSM firmware?... The procces to flash GSM

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Jose Luis Perez Diez jl...@escomposlinux.org wrote: The procces to flash GSM firmware used linux, the serial port, and the fluid binary see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing#Manual_Update_.28GTA01.2C_GTA02.29_.2F_geek_way Yes, and that exact same procedure should work just as well

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-18 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
For those following the FreeCalypso project, I have just put out a packaged release of my GSM flash reading/writing etc tools: ftp://ftp.ifctf.org/pub/GSM/FreeCalypso/loadtools-r1.tar.bz2 Of course the source for these tools has been available all along in my freecalypso-sw Hg repository on

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Norayr Chilingarian
then flash into your GTA0x GSM modem Wait, it works both on gta-02 and gta-04? Also, did you test if data connection works? I don't use phone calls, only encrypted ssl over tcp over 3g/wifi. I am very interested if this can be flashed to gta-02 device, (unfortunately I don't own gta-04). Also,

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am writes: Sorry if my questions are a little bit off topic. Anyway I am very interested in free fw for my devices - OM gta-02 and n900. ^^^ Afaik the firmware in question won't meet the FSF free software definition or OSI open source

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Balint Szente
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:49:30 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am writes: Sorry if my questions are a little bit off topic. Anyway I am very interested in free fw for my devices - OM gta-02 and n900. ^^^ Afaik the

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Ian Stirling
On 10/16/2013 10:13 AM, Balint Szente wrote: What is not clear for me is that can a software be FSF/OSI free but illegal to use? In principle, one can take osmocombb through your local approvals process, and get it approved for use in your country. It may also be legal to use in certain

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Nick
Quoth Balint Szente: On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:49:30 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am writes: Sorry if my questions are a little bit off topic. Anyway I am very interested in free fw for my devices - OM gta-02 and n900.

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Balint Szente bal...@szentedwg.ro writes: Isn't the situation the same with osmocombb as well? Based on what is written here: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/LegalAspects#Usingmodifiedphonesoncarriernetworks can osmocombb considered free software in FSF's or OSI's definition? What is not

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 16.10.2013 um 19:31 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors: Balint Szente bal...@szentedwg.ro writes: Isn't the situation the same with osmocombb as well? Based on what is written here: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/LegalAspects#Usingmodifiedphonesoncarriernetworks can osmocombb considered

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Bob Ham
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 20:03 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Am 16.10.2013 um 19:31 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors: Balint Szente bal...@szentedwg.ro writes: What is not clear for me is that can a software be FSF/OSI free but illegal to use? Free is a term only considering

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Michael Spacefalcon
Norayr Chilingarian nor...@arnet.am wrote: then flash into your GTA0x GSM modem Wait, it works both on gta-02 and gta-04? By GTA0x I meant GTA01 and GTA02. GolDeliCo' so-called GTA04 is rather badly misnamed: GTA originally stood for GSM-TI-AGPS; thus a device that does not use a GSM chipset

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
Afaik you can use it legally if you connect it directly to your own base station. If you connect it by shielded cable or if you place both in a big shielded box. I.e. if the spurious emissions stay below some defined level and don't disturb If you can demonstrate you know what you

Re: First small steps toward free GSM firmware

2013-10-16 Thread Bob Ham
On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 14:30 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: Afaik you can use it legally if you connect it directly to your own base station. The other approach would be to start a kickstarter/selfstarter to buy some spectrum licenses That's not really necessary; GSM development