Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-12 Thread halbtaxabo-om
On Thursday, April 9, 2009 10:44:13 PM Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 13:34 -0700, halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com wrote: I think sections 4 and 5 of the Getting started document (i.e. most of the document) need to be rewritten, unless there's already an updated

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-12 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 06:55 -0700, halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com wrote: I added some text and a section 6: - For Om 2008.12 - to the Getting_Started_... wiki. Nothing elaborate, just the things that would have helped me get started. The pictures are photos, not screen captures, so look pretty

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-10 Thread Fernando Martins
William Kenworthy wrote: Then the wiki needs to do something for people NOW. They buy a freerunner, see that the next version in the progression is 2008.12 and flash accordingly with the resulting questions here, and a really bad user experience - they are at where we were months ago - ready

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 13:34 -0700, halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com wrote: Presumably I can ssh into the device over a USB connection. But ssh requires a user name and a password. What are they? I don't see how to find out what user names are defined, or how to reset passwords, except by getting to

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Angus Ainslie nyt...@openmoko.org wrote: I think sections 4 and 5 of the Getting started document (i.e. most of the document) need to be rewritten, unless there's already an updated version on some page I don't know about. Yes, I know this is

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 23:53 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: Looking forward to seeing you updates to the wiki. Don't waste all your time there, we're expecting the new 2009 version of the Openmoko distribution to arrive (well, there was a promise to have something last month already) at some

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread halbtaxabo-om
Sean Chadwell smchadw...@gmail.com wrote: I found Tom Yates' pages really helpful. Start with More fun with our Openmoko (it's about 2008.9), but most of it will apply to 2008.12, as well, which he covers here (albeit in less detail). Thanks, they look really useful! Don't waste all your

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread Johny Tenfinger
But why to waste time with docummenting unsupported software? Om2008 is deprecated. If you want to be supported, you have to use some FSO based system (SHR, Om2009). 2009/4/9, halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com halbtaxabo...@yahoo.com: Sean Chadwell smchadw...@gmail.com wrote: I found Tom Yates' pages

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Then the wiki needs to do something for people NOW. They buy a freerunner, see that the next version in the progression is 2008.12 and flash accordingly with the resulting questions here, and a really bad user experience - they are at where we were months ago - ready to throw the FR at a wall -

Re: OM2008.12 - basic usage instructions?

2009-04-09 Thread Craig Woodward
Can I make a small request for the next release of 2009.X? When a new release does come out, can we get a tarball/snapshot of the source used to build with posted somewhere along with the image? Yes, I know having history in git is useful, but it's also really nice to have snapshots.