Re: SD-Card Slot is Dead

2008-10-03 Thread Edgar D' Souza
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | As in, in the phone, or put in a card reader to verify it's working,
> | or something else? No, this isn't important, I'm just curious :-)
>
> As in the phone, we use SD Card boot to hold the production test software.

That's nice to know; thanks for the info :-)
Cheers
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Re: SD-Card Slot is Dead

2008-10-03 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the factory, SD card is used for production, so it is 100% tested
> (and fairly unlikely to die).

As in, in the phone, or put in a card reader to verify it's working,
or something else? No, this isn't important, I'm just curious :-)

Regards
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Re: Any ebook readers/textfile viewers you could recommend for 2008.8?

2008-09-30 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
Wow, this looks like JUST what I was hoping for - thanks for the link!
Unfortunately, I'm unable to handle the bitbake part... I didn't even
manage to get a working qemu OM VM on my system :-( the build failed -
let alone the full OE (which I think is required for testing the
updated bitbake recipe?)
Would some kind person who may also be interested in FBReader and who
has the required skills/knowledge to update the recipe(s) necessary
please help with this when you have the time and inclination? Much
appreciation and thanks in advance...

Regards,
Ed.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> someone needs to look into updating bitbake recepies for fbreader[1,2]. There
> were few releases of fbreader since existing OE bb for fbreader which is
> present in openmoko branch of OM (v0.8.2) but it fails to build and that
> elderly 0.8.2 (found ipk for it somewhere) didn't work nicely
>
> [1] http://www.fbreader.org/
> [2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FBReader
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Robin Paulson wrote:
>
>> 2008/9/30 Edgar D' Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > Hi all,
>> >  I feel terribly lost without my old Palm PDA, which bit the dust some
[...]
>> i too would be interested in this
>
>> i was hoping plucker would be in the repos, then i could tap directly
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Any ebook readers/textfile viewers you could recommend for 2008.8?

2008-09-29 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
Hi all,
 I feel terribly lost without my old Palm PDA, which bit the dust some
time back - I used to have a mini-library on it :) Having exhausted
most of our little collection of hard-copy books re-reading them, I
tried out evince under 2008.8 on a couple of PDFs (that were A4
papersize, AFAIK) and they were pretty not exactly pleasant to read. I
wonder if anyone knows of any more congenial ebook reader software
that would work on the FR - especially if it handled PDF, PDB, and TXT
files. I don't mind trying to convert PDB and PDF and other files to
text - if I could find an effective text file viewer for the distro.
Or if someone could point me to a way to reflow or otherwise convert
the PDF files for the smaller screen, so that I could read in a more
legible pointsize, that would be great.

Thanks in advance for help and suggestions!

Regards,
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Re: 2007.2: openmoko-messages segfault

2008-09-19 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Risto H. Kurppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been using 2007.2 pretty much the whole time since I got the
> phone (tried, qtopia & debian but 2007.2 was most suitable for me).
> (openmoko-messages:1698): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate():
> attempt to allocate widget with width -11 and height -11
> Segmentation fault
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
>
> Anyone sharing the same experience? Any tips how to get over this?

Yes, though I didn't check the logs, I couldn't read SMS messages;
they flashed briefly on the screen and disappeared each time I clicked
the message in the list of messages. I expect the best workaround (one
which I've read being told to people before) is to upgrade to a more
recent distribution such as 2008.8... and bite into a whole new set of
issues :-)
Ah, well, the wiki says prominently that the software is NOT in a
usable (for end-users) state, so issues are to be expected, and
patience exercised...

Cheers.
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Re: (om2008.8-update)(gta02) qpe hogs 80% of cpu, kills battery

2008-09-17 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
Oh... heh... my next act is definitely to go look at this conf file
and edit it - perhaps I might finally get my media files found by
Qtopia! :-)

(Haven't had much time to play with the FR lately :-( )

Thanks
Ed.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:44 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I understand why QPE was checking my home directory files TWICE...
> because it matches 2 different sections in that config file! (HOME and
> MounPoint0). DUH!!!
>
> Citando [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
>> Citando Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> if you have lots of files on your /media/card -- then you are doomed to
>>> wait for qpe to finish scanning them on start
>>>
>>> or just edit Storage.conf which is I believe under
>>> /opt/Qtopia/etc/default
>>>
>>> and say that your /media/card has nothing interesting for qtopia ;-)
>>>
>>> PS more details could be found in earlier posts on the lists
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the hint!
>> The file is /opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech/Storage.conf
>>
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Re: (om2008.8-update)(gta02) qpe hogs 80% of cpu, kills battery

2008-09-17 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
Thanks - that is useful (although I agree I've seen it in earlier
posts, I wasn't running Qtopia then, so this is useful) :-)
Cheers
Ed.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if you have lots of files on your /media/card -- then you are doomed to
> wait for qpe to finish scanning them on start
>
> or just edit Storage.conf which is I believe under
> /opt/Qtopia/etc/default
>
> and say that your /media/card has nothing interesting for qtopia ;-)
>
> PS more details could be found in earlier posts on the lists
>
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Tom Yates wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Edgar D' Souza wrote:
>
>> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Tom Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> [pid  1724] stat64("/home/root/.config/Trolltech.conf", 
>> >> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=4470, ...}) = 0
>> >> [pid  1724] 
>> >> stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech/qtmail_account.conf", 
>> >> 0xbefaed98) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> >> [pid  1724] 
>> >> stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech/qtmail_account.conf", 0xa385f8) 
>> >> = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> >> [pid  1724] stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech.conf", 0xbefaed98) 
>> >> = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>> >> [pid  1724] stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech.conf", 0x4cd618) = 
>> >> -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
>> > Hope you won't mind a possibly silly question, but: is your Qtopia
>> > rootfs on SDcard or on NAND flash?
>
>> NAND flash, as is /home/root.  i have the SDcard mounted on /media/card,
>> and i only keep audio tracks and OSM tiles on it.
> --
>  .-.
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Re: [Om2008.8 - testing] - alsa: No soundcards found...

2008-09-17 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Benedikt Schindler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how could i check, if my system is realy booting the right kernel?

Does the info here help you?
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_find_out_what_image_versions_are_in_use_on_the_phone.3F

HTH
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Re: (om2008.8-update)(gta02) qpe hogs 80% of cpu, kills battery

2008-09-17 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Tom Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [pid  1724] stat64("/home/root/.config/Trolltech.conf", 
> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=4470, ...}) = 0
> [pid  1724] stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech/qtmail_account.conf", 
> 0xbefaed98) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> [pid  1724] stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech/qtmail_account.conf", 
> 0xa385f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> [pid  1724] stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech.conf", 0xbefaed98) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> [pid  1724] stat64("/opt/Qtopia/etc/default/Trolltech.conf", 0x4cd618) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Hope you won't mind a possibly silly question, but: is your Qtopia
rootfs on SDcard or on NAND flash?

Cheers
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Re: Free Runner won't turn on

2008-09-14 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Christian Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ARGH!
> moin the 2nd
>
> my freerunner is back to life .. strange thing ..
> i just connected to my powerbook (as external pwr-source instead of
> wall-charger) and inserted battery and it turned on ..

Heh... I discovered this by accident some time ago, running 2007.2
stock with upgrades... shut down the phone since not using it; an hour
later, I tried to power the phone on again, and discovered it
wouldn't, just like Michael describes (I got no click/AUX LED blink
like you describe). Pretty amazed at how the battery could possibly
discharge in one hour with the phone *shut down*, I plugged in the
wall charger, and it came on on its own... and when it booted, batt
charge was pretty much above 90% - so I still have no idea what that
was all about. Have only encountered it twice more; once when running
Qtopia, with a near-full batt, and once with Qtopia and the battery
was almost drained, so no wonder it wouldn't come on.

I observed this once with 2007.2, once with Qtopia. Michael said he's
using 2008.08... and you're using Debian... so very low odds of it
being rootfs-specific, right? Kernel-related, or some bug with power
handling in h/w? Dunno...

Cheers
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Re: Free Runner won't turn on

2008-09-13 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM, michael irons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was updating some packages in 2008 latest image when I thought my
> freerunner suspended. Probablem is is that it doesn't come back and won't
> reboot even by holing the power button.
>
> I can'teven get it to come up in the NAND/NOR flash boot menu.
>
> Any ideas? Battery dead? Tests to run?

Some people have had success in resetting the FR by removing the
battery, waiting for a few minutes, and plugging it back in and trying
to power it on again. If that doesn;t work, try plugging in the
charger and waiting to see if it begins to boot automatically; if not,
wait for 15 minutes or more and try to get the boot menu again; if you
do, try the Boot option and you may get it booted and charging again.

HTH
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Re: Revive Freerunner with USB power?

2008-09-11 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:40 AM, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wrong bug - why does the FR SOMETIMES discharge to flat in only a few
> hours?
>
> No excessive current draw when checked, no apps running away, no
> anything that would seem to do it.
>
> Only leaves the gsm chip (that doesnt register on the charge counter as
> its directly connected to the battery, correct?) - whats it doing?

Hmmm... good point - I've noticed that only once on my FR - after a
couple of days **shut down**, I powered it on to find that the battery
was nearly totally discharged; got me into a bit of a panic 'cos the
phone abruptly powered off and I hoped I wouldn't have to go
spare-battery-hunting.

You;re probably using the phone a lot more, so have encountered this
issue more often - I didn't really pay attention because it seemed
like a one-off to me.

Well, let me add +1 to your query, then :-)

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Re: Revive Freerunner with USB power?

2008-09-11 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:42 PM, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1 out of every 3 or so nights, I wake up (~6-8hrs) and find the FR
> dead. :(  Only GSM is running and its on dim&lock
>
> The battery is always fully charged when checked just before I retire.
>
> In some cases I have left it on charge, confirmed its charging and still
> wake to a dead phone.

Perhaps the thread at
http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td840534|a840534 would
prove informative to you? If your battery is fully charged/almost full
before you head for bed, then it is possible that it reaches a
fully-charged state and begins to discharge soon after... which means
that it has ?8? hours (dunno how long you sleep :) ) to discharge;
while I have read estimates of battery life being around 8 hours, it
may be less if you have WiFi, GPS, BT *and* GSM switched on... even if
you have a superb GSM signal in your bedroom, possibly WiFi and GPS
could have bad reception, causing even more power usage.

I'm no software guru at all, but the import of bug reports and mails
on this list seem to indicate (correct me if I'm wrong, please,
people!) that the logic of whether to switch the charging circuit on
is determined:
a) on boot
b) on detecting plug-in of a power source to the USB connector

A third case should probably be added - if battery voltage (or charge
percentage) drops below a specified number, check if the USB power
source is still connected; if so, flip it on again, and let the
battery charge.

This, of course, is assuming I have the problem description correct :-)

Cheers,
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Re: [qtopia&openmoko]kernel panic on the second boot from the sd

2008-09-08 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Thomas Bertani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I get this error on the second boot of qtopia (also openmoko) from the sd,
> why?
>
>
> debugfs dir creation failed -19
> unsupported configuration opcode: 3
> unsupported configuration opcode: 5
> kernel panic- not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
> (179,2)

a) The first three errors routinely appear during boot on my FR (IIRC,
whether 2007.2 or Qtopia is booting makes no difference)

b) Did the phone suspend and resume during the previous session? It
may have corrupted the SDcard filesystem... this is just a guess. See
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_Hardware_Issues#Suspend.2Fresume_corrupts_SD_card.27s_partition_table

HTH
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Re: qtopia - kernel panic

2008-09-08 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Bernhard Schauer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> as ext2 is a subset of ext3 it is also mountable as ext2 (but then without
> journalling). It is required that the Filesystem was clean unmounted before
> to do that.

Hi Bernhard,
Wow - but earlier posts (in this very thread, I think) implied that
this was not possible - to boot from an ext3 partition by treating it
as ext2...
Well, I did my sdcard partition as ext2, but I think I need to read up
about ext3/ext2 to understand what you have said. Thanks for the info!

Regards
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Re: qtopia - kernel panic

2008-09-08 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Bernhard Schauer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ali,
>
> sorry for that delay, but I was on vacation last week. If this issue was not
> solved, I'd suggest to enter the following on bootscreen:
>
> setenv bootargs console=ttySAC2,115200 rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2
> rootdelay=5 ${mtdparts} init=/sbin/init ro
> mmcinit
> fatload mmc 1 0x3200 ${sd_image_name}
> bootm 0x3200

AFAI remember, he said his rootfs was ext3 not ext2

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Re: Problems trying to connect via ssh on FSO milestone 2

2008-09-06 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> usb0  Link encap:Ethernet  direcciónHW 0E:8D:A0:04:CF:A4
>  inet addr:192.168.0.200  Difusión:192.168.0.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>  inet6 addr: fe80::c8d:a0ff:fe04:cfa4/64 Scope:Link
>  UP DIFUSIÓN CORRIENDO MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>  RX packets:0 errors:214612 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>  TX packets:1 errors:77 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>  colisiones:0 txqueuelen:1000
>  RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:90 (90.0 b)
>
>
> and this is my /etc/network/interfaces on Desktop:
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
>
> #Conexion al Freerunner
>
> iface usb0 inet static
>address 192.168.0.202
>netmask 255.255.255.0
>network 192.168.0.0
>post-up iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s
> 192.168.0.0/24
>post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>post-up iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
> /etc/network/interfaces (END)

Are you sure this worked previously? Looks to me like it shouldn't :-)
Is the part below "#Conexion al Freerunner" the interfaces file **on
the phone**? The IP address is certainly what the phone is supposed to
use by default. If you have set up this IP address on your desktop
("host") side of the USB networking connection, then no communications
will be possible if both ends of the connection have the same IP
address.
The post-up commands in this block should be run on your desktop host,
yes... but the IP address there is the wrong one, to the best of my
knowledge.
On the other hand, your ifconfig output shows a correct IP address of
192.168.0.200... so your post is quite confusing to me :-)

I would strongly recommend you check your configuration with the
instructions at
   http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Networking#Openmoko_Networking_Setup
At least you need to change that IP address in your desktop interfaces
file to 192.168.1.200...
Also pay attention to the Firewall Issues section in that page, since
I have made the same mistake in the past - I have had iptables rules
blocking packets from the phone...

Hope this helps
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Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:13 PM, -stacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed the same thing, I have a short shell script that will cause it
> to start charging again with unpluging the USB cable.
>
> =
> #!/bin/sh
>
> chgmode=/sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/chgmode
>
> cat $chgmode
> echo 0 > $chgmode
> cat $chgmode
> echo 1 > $chgmode
> cat $chgmode
> =
>
> When you run it, the output should look like
>
> # chgmode
> enabled
> play-only
> fast
> #

Thanks very much; this is going on my starred list, and when I next
get some free time (tomorrow, I hope) I'll search the wiki and add it
if I can't find it there.

Regards,
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Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Mike Montour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That might be normal - the charger in the PCF50633 shuts off the charge
> current once the battery is full, and turns it on again when the voltage
> falls below a threshold. It seems that it can discharge quite a bit
> before charging switches back on - in one test my battery got down to
> around 75% before it started to charge again.
>
> The GSM modem draws current directly from the battery so this will cause
> the battery to discharge when the charger is off, even when the rest of
> the phone is powered by USB.

Ah! Valuable information - thanks, Mike! :-)
Regards
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Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-05 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Dale Maggee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, this sounds like the correct explanation - it stops charging once
> it hits 100%.
>
> When I have it unplugged, it SEEMS to discharge faster, but this may be
> due to usage
[...] I'll do some more testing by unplugging it and putting
> it on the desk while i'm not using it, and report back ]
[...]
> It used to just stay at 100% when left plugged in, so I'm guessing that
> one of the updates (probably the kernel? possibly around the time we
> started using the 'aux' led to indicate charging) has changed this.

Hmmm... I suppose there's a good reason for that, not being as aware
of battery tech as I ought to be :-) AFAIK, Li-Ion batteries don't
suffer from the "memory effect", so I don't really see what harm would
be done by keeping a constant trickle charge going, sufficient to
offset power demands from the hardware.

Just for the list's info, though - if this is a software issue, would
you mind posting which kernel/rootfs versions you're using?

Thanks,
Ed.

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Re: Battery discharging while plugged in

2008-09-04 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Dale Maggee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently when I have my freerunner plugged into USB, it will charge to
> 100% and then start (slowly) discharging. If I unplug the USB cable and
> plug it back in, it charges back up to 100 percent, then starts
> discharging again.
>
> any Ideas?

ONLY an idea, no factual knowledge :) but:
Perhaps the charging circuitry is flipped off when the battery reaches
100% reported charge level, and then the phone is running off of
battery, causing the slow discharge you see? When you unplug and
replug, since the battery is below 100%, the charging circuit is
turned back on till battery level once again reaches 100%? Think this
is the explanation? Have you tried unplugging the phone when it hits
100% batt charge, and leaving it unplugged, and seeing if it maintains
the same rate of discharge?
Are you in a good signal coverage area, or does the phone have to
'shout' to talk with the tower (presuming your GSM is on)? When I'm in
low-signal areas, the battery discharges faster. Been that way for my
Nokia (past) and Motorola (present) phones too.
What about other chipsets - Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi? Are they powered
off, or are they on? Might be contributing to battery drain...

HTH
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Re: qtopia - kernel panic

2008-09-01 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>This is the output of printenv on u-boot prompt.
>
> =
> menu_1=Boot from microSD (FAT+ext2): setenv bootargs ${bootargs_base}
> rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5 ${mtdparts} init=/sbin/init
> ro; mmcinit; fatload mmc 1 0x3200 ${sd_image_name}; bootm 0x3200
[...]
> menu_9=Boot 200808 from microSD (FAT+ext3): setenv bootargs ${bootargs_base}
> rootfstype=ext3 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5 ${mtdparts}  ro; mmcinit;
> fatload mmc 1 0x3200 ${sd_image_name}; bootm 0x3200

Although a n00b at this myself, the only difference I can see between
menu_1 and menu_9 above is that menu_1 contains an "init=/sbin/init"
clause while menu_9 does not... however, when I tried Qtopia on SD
(FAT + ext2) I didn't muck around with any of this, and menu_1 worked
fine for me... is it possible that adding the "init=/sbin/init" clause
would help?

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Re: connecting a usb 3g modem

2008-09-01 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sometimes when I use it on normal laptop, I get bogus DNS in UK.

You mean like if you use
   host somedomain.com
on your Linux system, when using the modem as the DNS server, you get
complaints like "malformed response" etc.?
I have had this complaint with ADSL modems - both Huawei and DLink.
The solution is to set your Linux host's resolv.conf to directly query
your ISP's DNS servers, or OpenDNS servers, or to run a caching DNS on
your Linux host, possibly with ISP nameservers or OpenDNS servers set
as forwarders.
Surprisingly, that proprietary OS that most FOSS people hate to use...
works just fine with the DNS implementation on the ADSL modems... a
case of two brokens make one "fixed"? :-P

Cheers
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Re: zip missing

2008-08-29 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Edgar D' Souza
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Source: ftp://ctan.unik.no/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/src/zip232.tar.gz

Ahgghh! Cannot connect to the site... sorry. Hopefully Arne's reply
solves your problem :)
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Re: zip missing

2008-08-29 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM, sparky mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Can I get the source somewhere? 'zip source' isn't exactly a good search term 
> :)
>>
>> I can't find any package named zip (apart from official feeds, i am using 
>> feed from http://shr.bearstech.com/fso-unstable/ipk/armv4t/ )

Googling for
   ARM architecture zip unzip "src.tar.gz"
found me, among others,
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/vt4/cross/stable/Packages in
which is the following block:

Package: zip
Version: 2.32-1
Section: admin
Architecture: arm
Maintainer: Marcel Nijenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MD5Sum: d1023c628568353adf30f8f66bbff941
Size: 57925
Filename: zip_2.32-1_arm.ipk
Source: ftp://ctan.unik.no/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/src/zip232.tar.gz
Description: a compression and file packaging utility.

Does this source help you?

HTH
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Re: r(qtopia - kernel panic)

2008-08-26 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM, syed yaqoob ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I have downloaded qtopia  and  after preparing sdcard ,installed the
> kernel and file system in the respective partitions.But when i m trying
> to boot thorough sdcard in qtopia . During kernel execution kernel is
> panicking .I am getting the following error.
>
> " Warning : unable to  open an initial console"
> "  Kernel panic - not syncing : no init found .try passing init= option
> to kernel"

Have you tried with Shakthi Kannan's procedure:
http://www.mail-archive.com/support@lists.openmoko.org/msg01103.html
for which I was very grateful, since the procedure otherwise seemed a
bit intimidating.
Of course, step 6 assumes that the SD card has at some point gotten
out of the card reader on your host PC and back into the (booted and
USB networking-connected) phone... but you can also adapt the commands
to untar the image onto the microSD card while it is still in your
card reader on your host PC, and still get the same results (I did it
that way). Actually, you could probably just pipe the tar stdout
output from the /dev/mtdblock0 mountpoint to another tar process that
untarred it onto the ext2 partition on the microSD card in your card
reader, and it should still work. However, despite refinements, I
found that Shakthi's method worked very well for me.

A small glitch I found with Qtopia on the SD card, though, was that
practically all the filesystem-related functionality (music player,
etc etc) only seemed to look at the first, VFAT partition... even
though apparently running off the second, ext2 filesystem. SSHing into
the phone revealed that /etc/fstab did not have a mount line for the
second partition (??!) but despite adding that and rebooting the
phone, I was unable to get Qtopia to "see" my music on the second
partition. Still haven't figured that one out (though I don't get too
much time to play with the phone) :-(

HTH
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Re: HW problems ...

2008-08-22 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Zack Mollusc
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# libgsmd-tool -m shell
>> libgsm-tool - (C) 2006-2007 by Harald Welte and OpenMoko, Inc.
>> This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
>>
>> rv
>> # # Get revision
>> revision: "HW: GTA02BV5, GSM:
[]

> Mine powers up on the mains charger too! Mine says date code 20080717
> and arrived complete with the cap soldered on the sd card socket.
> I can relax about letting the battery going flat now :-)

20080618, revision: "HW: GTA02BV5, GSM:
gsm_ac_gp_fd_pu_em_cph_ds_vc_cal35_ri_36_amd8_ts0-Moko8"
Doesn't boot without the battery :-((
Requires battery in to even get the NOR boot menu; removed battery
after that and chose to Boot; it shows splash screens but powers off
abruptly just before starting X, apparently. Reinserting the battery
automatically powers it on and boots the phone :)

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Re: How do I get Python packages for (stock FreeRunner) 2007.2?

2008-08-17 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, that's the problem with mixing feeds. Apparantly both your feeds have
> python packages with varying versions. I'd rather remove one feed.

Oh-oh... after getting my DNS lookups going again, I already installed
the Python packages 

Ah, well - since I just finished changing /etc/profile to include
directories on SD card in PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, will reboot and
see how bad the situation is; if I have any problems, will uninstall
the packages, remove one of the feeds, and retry.

Thanks for the advice...

Regards
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Re: How do I get Python packages for (stock FreeRunner) 2007.2?

2008-08-17 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Edgar D' Souza
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I still cannot get Python binary packages:
> Collected errors:
>  * Failed to download
> http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/python-core_2.5.2-ml0_armv4t.ipk,

Hi,
Sorry, my bad - found DNS lookups were failing on the phone when I
launched Minimo. Investigated, and found that firewall settings on my
laptop were at fault.

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How do I get Python packages for (stock FreeRunner) 2007.2?

2008-08-17 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
Hi,
After a sizeable hiatus while my laptop was down and out for repair,
I'm back on the Net and playing with my FreeRunner again. I'm trying
to install Python and related packages, but cannot find the packages.
According to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Python, ScaredyCat's repos
provide binary packages (I don't have a build environment yet because
I'm still more than a little confused about OE and bitbake and all
those complications, so the source packages are not much use for me).
However, despite having a scaredycat.conf like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:# cat /etc/opkg/scaredycat.conf
src/gz scaredycat-all http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/all
src/gz scaredycat-armv4t http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t
src/gz scaredycat-neo1973
http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/neo1973
src/gz scaredycat-om-gta01
http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/om-gta01

I still cannot get Python binary packages:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# opkg install -d card python-core python-misc
python-lang
Installing python-core (2.5.2-ml0) to card...
Downloading 
http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/python-core_2.5.2-ml0_armv4t.ipk
Installing python-misc (2.5.2-ml7) to card...
Downloading 
http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/ipk/armv4t/python-misc_2.5.2-ml7_armv4t.ipk
Installing python-lang (2.5.2-ml0) to card...
Downloading 
http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/python-lang_2.5.2-ml0_armv4t.ipk
Collected errors:
 * Failed to download
http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/python-core_2.5.2-ml0_armv4t.ipk,
error 0
 * Failed to download python-core. Perhaps you need to run 'opkg update'?
 * Failed to download
http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/ipk/armv4t/python-misc_2.5.2-ml7_armv4t.ipk,
error 0
 * Failed to download python-misc. Perhaps you need to run 'opkg update'?
 * Failed to download
http://buildhost.automated.it/OM2007.2/packages/armv4t/python-lang_2.5.2-ml0_armv4t.ipk,
error 0
 * Failed to download python-lang. Perhaps you need to run 'opkg update'?

I've already run opkg update just before attempting to install the
python packages...

Could someone please tell me what is wrong here and what I can do to
get these packages?

Thanks,
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Re: Kernel with built-in usb drivers / building the kernel cheatsheet

2008-08-07 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:23 PM, arne anka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> standalone with the "moredrivers" config.
>>
>> ~ - git clone git://git.openmoko.org/git/kernel.git linux-2.6
>> ~ - git checkout origin/stable
>> ~ - edit ./build to point to your compiler path
>> ~ - cp defconfig-2.6.24 .config
>> ~ - ./build
>>
>> That gets you a uImage.bin you can DFU or copy into your SD Card
>> filesystem.
>
> can someone please put this onto the wiki/debian page?

Added at 
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian#.28Optional.29_Recompiling_Kernel_to_Add_Drivers
Please correct me if wrong location or other problem with this.

Thanks
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Is there a Xoo and Xephyr VMware image with prebuilt environment?

2008-08-06 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
Hi,
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Host-based_development_with_Xoo_and_Xephyrstates,
at the top:
"Note that there is a VMware image where this environment has been prebuilt
for you."

The page, however, doesn't link to any such image, thus my query: does
anyone here know of such an image, and if yes, could you please provide a
link to it?

Thanks in advance,
Ed.

PS I'm still a n00b with the whole phone+images+dev env etc matter, so am
posting this here instead of to a developer list; I don't qualify to be
called a dev yet :-) Please pardon if you think this is OT for this list.
Ed.
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Re: Upgrading u-boot needed ?

2008-08-06 Thread Edgar D&#x27; Souza
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mikael Berthe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> * Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-04 23:55 +0200]:
> >
> > FWIW, I learned (from the community list I believe) som time ago that
> > you can use 'grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0' from a shell on the
> > FreeRunner (and possibly the 1973 as well) to get the u-boot version.
> > Like this:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0
> > Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12
>
> That's NOR u-boot version, and you can get NAND's with mtdblock1:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock1
> Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 
> 1.3.2+gitr18+64eb10cab8055084ae25ea4e73b66dd03cc1a0cb
>
> ...which can be useful to check after an upgrade.

Thanks to both! Added this useful info to
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing_the_Neo_FreeRunner under the
heading Flashing the boot loader to the NAND.
Regards
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