I got my phone, and I'm a happy guy! I learned one thing that might save someone else some time. I initially tried to do the dfu-util downloads of the kernel and rootfs from linux running via VMWare on a Windoze host. Although dfu-util definately could talk to the neo, it could not successfully download the images. Once I switched to a native linux box (running exactly the same OS version) I had no problems.
Something that worries me is that at the end of the "Getting Started with your Neo1973" page in the wiki, it suggests backing up the original flash contents, because "... there are parts in the root filesystem that can't be distributed over internet so they are only found in the shipped ROM (see the GPS driver)." Now these first neos have been shipped with no rootfs at all (see wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SH1). So we *have* to overwrite the rootfs before the device will boot. What does that mean vis a vis the parts of the filesystem which can't be distributed over the internet? How do we get those parts? Ken Young Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 60 Garden Street, MS 78 Phoney Dolson has a secret name. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA (617) 495-7330 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community