Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Vaughan
On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Ad hoc works for me. So how do you use it? Can you set up a mini-ISP in a cafe and let people tether to your GPRS connection easily enough? I'd really like to do this myself with my Freerunner - an impromptu WLAN router - so if

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jay Vaughan j...@synth.net writes: So how do you use it? om wifi power 1 sleep 4 # wait for wlan interface to appear sudo ifconfig wlan down sudo iwconfig wlan mode ad-hoc sudo iwconfig wlan channel 5 sudo iwconfig wlan essid openmoko sudo ifconfig wlan up sudo ip addr add 10.4.2.1/24 dev wlan

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-08 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 08 March 2010, Jay Vaughan wrote: one question: I'd like to set it up as a mini- ISP, allowing Wireless/Bluetooth connections to share the Internet over the Freerunner - is this possible yet, or is it still pretty much a difficult thing to set up? I've been quite spoiled with my

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk writes: might have a change of heart, but it seems unlikely. I think I've seen reports of Ad Hoc mode working, but i've never tried it.Bluetooth networking works. Ad hoc works for me. ___ Openmoko community

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-07 Thread Brolin Empey
Jay Vaughan wrote: I'd really like to catch up with you guys that are getting some value out of these devices and what you're doing with them .. so how about telling us old- timers just waking up what the current 'nicest OS' for the Freerunner is? I vote for QtMoko! :) -- Sometimes I forget

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-07 Thread Alishams Hassam
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 16:20 -0800, Brolin Empey wrote: Jay Vaughan wrote: I'd really like to catch up with you guys that are getting some value out of these devices and what you're doing with them .. so how about telling us old- timers just waking up what the current 'nicest OS' for the

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-07 Thread Radek Polak
On Monday 08 March 2010 03:53:28 Alishams Hassam wrote: Overall Qtmoko has my vote too. Doesn't crash and all of debian. V18 has never missed an sms and is the fastest yet, but X applications are unusable. Btw the cause is already known and will be fixed for next release. For now you can

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-07 Thread Jay Vaughan
Overall Qtmoko has my vote too. Doesn't crash and all of debian. V18 has never missed an sms and is the fastest yet, but X applications are unusable. Btw the cause is already known and will be fixed for next release. For now you can just delete /dev/input/mice before you start X (e.g.

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-07 Thread Jay Vaughan
On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Alishams Hassam wrote: Overall Qtmoko has my vote too. Downloading it now .. ;) Whatever you decide to try, it's going to be easier to have a bootmenu. On your GTA01 i hope you have a debug board or someway to modify the bootloader if you throw on QI. Some

Re: What to do with FreeRunner / Neo 1973?

2010-03-07 Thread Jay Vaughan
On Mar 8, 2010, at 1:20 AM, Brolin Empey wrote: I vote for QtMoko! :) Checking it out now! Thanks for the tip! ; -- Jay Vaughan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org