On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:56:19 -0400, "Seth Rothenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so, how to upgrade if usb networking is unstable? > Now, a few days later, it won't stay up long enough to... > run neotool. From the time I bring up networking, > until I click over to another window, it now fails. > (I am on Ubuntu, 8.04) Does your network dropping happen with the FR running, or at boot menu? If while running, how are you starting it on the Hardy box? If manually, what command, and if via changed /etc/network/interfaces, can you paste your usb0 section? You don't use neotool (or dfu-util) to flash the Freerunner with USB networking. The Freerunner has to be at the NAND or NOR boot menu - it'll only stay there for 30 seconds unless you periodically press AUX, btw, until it's started flashing, so do this after selecting files to flash and just before clicking 'start' to begin flashing. If you're trying to bring up usb0 on the host machine at this point, there's nothing for it to talk to. So to flash, download a new image (like http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.8-update/ - you need 'gta02' versions of rootfs and uImage and rootfs may be .jffs2 or .jffs2.summary) and fire up Neotool. Tell it to flash, select the files, and it will tell you to prepare the Freerunner. At this point the FR should be off, and plugged into USB. Hold down 'aux', press and hold power now until the NOR boot menu appears, then release both. Click 'start' (or whatever the button is) in neotool and it will start flashing. rootfs will take quite some time. Once you've confirmed it finished correctly and boots the FR, consider also flashing the latest uboot bootloader - same procedure. > Do I need to just get an SD card reader to copy the new image on? - > will that help me? (will I need a bigger SD card? :-). no > I don't suppose the FR will allow me to use the SD from the host > without bringing up USB networking? no > related - I saw a page about buying or building a USB crossover cable, > so the FR could be a host. Could I then upgrade from a USB stick? AFAIK the FreeRunner currently has no way to flash itself from an image, regardless of where it's located. At best you'd only be able to flash bootsplash and uboot bootloader while the OS is running from the internal flash you'd be overwriting. Such a flash feature would need to be in the bootloader itself and (currently at least) is not. (uboot) Dfu-util is it, and neotool as GUI and extension for it. j _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
