Re: General GPS Question

2008-10-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 30/10/2008 19:44, Matthias Camenzind wrote: I thought right now near same like you. I thought about the speed of satellites, But also right now i had another idea. With the signal form two satellites, and a known high over sea it should be possible to locate you on north or south of

Re: General GPS Question

2008-10-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 30/10/2008 19:09, Matthias Camenzind wrote: The satellites are moving around. So on a different time the position is different. First the satellites are not moving fast enough, and they are moving in the same direction of course, so you cannot really do triangulation (the three

Re: Very interested onlooker

2008-09-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 26/09/2008 14:49, Minh Ha Duong wrote: I have not read anything about Abiword on FreeRunner. Why anyone would use a smartphone for wordprocessing is beyond the understanding of mere a mortal like me. You need a real keyboard to do any serious typing. The idea is to be able to visualize such

Re: 2008.9 GPS

2008-09-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 23/09/2008 02:21, Sarton O'Brien wrote: The accuracy of the GPS seems to be ok. Tangogps reports the speed of my car almost to the kilometer :) ... which I didn't expect. FYI, the accuracy of GPS velocity should be around 5 cm per second for the ublox GPS receiver, that is around 0.2 km

Re: Fast dfu-util for Mac?

2008-09-16 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
if it is already running at full speed. The usb driver experts should speak up in order to clarify that issue IMHO. Abdel. PS: Please don't top post -Shawn Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Shawn prjktdtnt Thompson wrote: Linus, 15 minutes is average for flashing my FR with anything I've tried so far

Re: QtGps for Trolltechs Qtopia

2008-09-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Radek BartoĊˆ wrote: Dne Saturday 13 of September 2008 22:47:38 Abdelrazak Younes napsal(a): I was thinking of kml support too so that your track and way points can be loaded in Google Earth. KML files are pretty easy to generate. But I don't think this kind of format conversion have a place

Re: QtGps for Trolltechs Qtopia

2008-09-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jim Morris wrote: Dareus wrote: I had to configure the deamon and it worked well in the end. I was thinking if you could add the option to write a gpx track using gpxlogger or cgpxlogger. That would be very useful in various use cases (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GPS_applications). I was

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-03 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Andrew Chu wrote: Hi Abdel, Actually, the patch is what is compiled into the 0.1+svn beta version of dfu-util for Win32 on projects.openmoko.org. I'm assuming that that is the version that everyone here is using? Yes for me at least. I also am using WinXP SP2 as Benedikt Schindler on

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nishit Dave wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Andrew Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the feedback that the dfu-util for Win32 is that much slower on Vista. I wasn't aware of that. The changes I made to the dfu-util source code were minimal

Re: Qtopia WIFI WPA

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I managed to find to find settings for WPA PSK TKIP, I put there my ssid and password. But still no luck... I am confused about the relationship between scanned WiFi network were my network appears and the place where I configured the network properties

Re: Qtopia WIFI WPA

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I managed to find to find settings for WPA PSK TKIP, I put there my ssid and password. But still no luck... I am confused about the relationship between scanned WiFi network were my network appears and the place where I configured the network

Re: Qtopia WIFI WPA

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: I managed to find to find settings for WPA PSK TKIP, I put there my ssid and password. But still no luck... I am confused about the relationship between scanned WiFi network were my network appears and the place where

Re: Qtopia WIFI WPA

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Christ van Willegen wrote: Hi, On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Abdelrazak Younes[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone has an idea of what could be wrong or how I can analyse that? Try the suggested iwconfig eth0 power off. I did that. And I tried to connect again; still no luck :-/ Christ

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Benedikt Schindler wrote: Laptop / winXP SP2 i just need 10 minutes and i think this is normal for 60MB via usb 1.0 Usb 1.1 can offer up to 1.5 MB/s so ideally 60MB should be transferred in 40 seconds. This is of course not counting the memory writing on the flash memory which could be

Re: qtopia update

2008-09-02 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Lorn Potter wrote: I have updated qtopia at qtopia.net Fixes include sms messages not retrieved after resume. Qtopia getting confused between two calls. Make default call volume down and mic up (only in flash update). Added echo fix. Hello Lorn, Could you give us a status about Wifi on

Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello, I wanted to share my experience with FR and Windows Vista. I received my FR last Saturday. So far, so good, except that the device doesn't do much and the UI is quite buggy. After a day or so reading the Wiki, I finally managed to get my Vista system to recognize the FR both as an RNIS

Freeze: Any other way than unplug the battery?

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello, I am having a lot of freezes and the only solution so far has been to unplug the battery. Is there any other way I should be aware of? Abdel. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Freeze: Any other way than unplug the battery?

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
arne anka wrote: I am having a lot of freezes and the only solution so far has been to unplug the battery. Is there any other way I should be aware of? you could try (if you didn't already) to hold pwr until the device reboots. I tried that. Thanks anyway :-) Abdel.

Re: Freeze: Any other way than unplug the battery?

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a lot of freezes and the only solution so far has been to unplug the battery. Is there any other way I should be aware of? you could try (if you didn't already) to hold pwr until the device reboots. That has never worked for me. I am afraid to harm the

Re: Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Nishit Dave wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wanted to share my experience with FR and Windows Vista. Well, that was just a first time user experience :-) Abdel. You haven't even tried

Re: Qtopia WIFI WPA

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Lorn Potter wrote: Matthew Lane wrote: However, I'm trying to connect to my university's WPA EAP TKIP network, and there doesn't seem to be a TKIP option (only TLS/TTLS/PEAP). Also, when I view security certificates, the next screen simple shows Empty Text and I'm not able to select any

Re: Qtopia WIFI WPA

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Lorn Potter wrote: Matthew Lane wrote: However, I'm trying to connect to my university's WPA EAP TKIP network, and there doesn't seem to be a TKIP option (only TLS/TTLS/PEAP). Also, when I view security certificates, the next screen simple shows Empty Text and I'm

Re: Qtopia WIFI WPA

2008-09-01 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Vinc Duran wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hello, I must be blind but I can't find a GUI way to setup the Wifi with Latest QTopia-4.3.2. Am I really blind or there is none? Abdel. Hi

Re: saving and restoring GPS data for U-blox chip quicker startup

2008-08-31 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Fabian Henze wrote: On Saturday 30 August 2008 at 10:59:29, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: A better solution would be to just configure the Ublox to send the ephemerises and almanacs as soon as they are received. A simple daemon would watch for these messages and store them appropriately when

Re: GPS logger / field data collection

2008-08-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Brian Wilson wrote: IMO, just use the raw Ublox binary format. It's rather simple to decode. I have already implemented a binary decoder for the Ublox binary format based on Ublox open documentation of the protocol. My plan is to release this code under the GPL at some point. The only GPS

Re: GPS logger / field data collection

2008-08-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Hello Brian, Brian Wilson wrote: Jim wrote: I was kind of surprised that gpsd didn't give me a simple way to just get the current location, I had to capture 5 sentences to do that simple thing I tried to used gpsd with my GPS base station my recollection was that it was totally useless

Re: GPS logger / field data collection

2008-08-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Am Sonntag 24 August 2008 14:34:13 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: Here is my roadmap more or less: 1) port my Ublox decoder to linux and openmoko. I plan to use CMake as the build system. 2) add some logger functionality to the program above so that some Ublox logs

Re: GPS logger / field data collection

2008-08-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jim Morris wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: IMO, just use the raw Ublox binary format. It's rather simple to decode. I have already implemented a binary decoder for the Ublox binary format based on Ublox open documentation of the protocol. My plan is to release this code under the GPL at some

Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)

2008-08-13 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Marcus Bauer wrote: gpsd works well and gypsy is not network capable. Simply using your Neo's GPS from your Laptop does not work. And especially for an application like tangoGPS it is inherently broken: every nav-application wants to have the raw NMEA and not some preprocessed stuff and the