Thanks a lot for the news. Now i know for what i can use the Motorola C118 Phone for(its the main phone used in the project). It is laying around here since over one year(new and unused ^^). I just bought a serial cable. It must be the right one(and there is no way to get it cheaper if not building yourself one cable like that):
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.14664 http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-A-N/motorola_191_pinout.shtml THANKS again :) 2010/2/19 Karsten Nohl <[email protected]>: > Begin forwarded message: >> From: Harald Welte <[email protected]> > > Good news, everyone [tm]! > > I am hereby publicly announcing project OsmocomBB: A Free and Open > Source > software project to create a Free Software GSM baseband firmware. > > The baseband chipset is the part of a mobile phone that actuall > communicates > directly with the GSM network. It typically includes a DSP and a > microprocessor running some RTOS, drivers for the baseband chipset, > the GSM protocol stack and some kind of user interface. > > GSM has been deployed first 19 years ago. Despite billions of phones > deployed > world wide, all of them run a proprietary baseband firmware, > consisting of > proprietary drivers, RTOS and GSM protocol stack. > > OsmocomBB has set out to change this. We do not want our phones to be > a black box connected 24/7 to a public network. We want to decide what > kind of data our phone reveals about us or not. > > The authors behind the project have already spent the last 15 months > implementing an Open Source GSM network side protocol implementation > called > OpenBSC. In January 2010, they decided to go after the phone side > protocol > stack - which turned into OsmocomBB. > > => What is the project status? > > Right now we are at a state where we have full control over the baseband > hardware, including the DSP and ARM cores, the analog baseband chip, > the RF transceiver, keypad, LCD display and other components. > > We can scan the GSM band for cells, perform FCCH detection, run > automatic > gain control to synchronize to the cells carrier, detect the SCH to get > BSIC and GSM frame number, as well as dump the BCCH and CCCH of the > cell. > > => What does Osmocom mean? > > Open Source MObile COMmunications. It is meant as an umbrella name for > various FOSS projects related to communications, including OsmocomBB but > also including sister projects like OpenBSC. > > => Can I make phone calls yet? > > No. We are currently in Rx (receive) only mode, and have no Layer2 or > Layer3 > implementation yet. However, the difficult parts of driving the GMS > hardware > and implementing a minimal Layer1 are behind us, so we are confident > to proceed > to actual phone calls during the months to come. > > => Where can I get the source? > > The git repository is at git://git.osmocom.org/osmocom-bb.git > The mailing lists are at http://lists.osmocom.org/ > The project homepage including wiki is at http://bb.osmocom.org/ > > => What phones are supported? > > We are implementing OsmocomBB as hardware-independent as possible. At > the > moment, we only have drivers for the Ti Calypso Digital Baseband chip. > Our main target are the following Motorola-branded phones (made by > Compal): > C115/116/117/118/119/120/121/122/123/139/140/155 > > Adding support for other Calypso-based phones should be relatively easy, > but porting it to a different baseband chip is a lot of work, especially > without access to good documentation. > > => How can you help? > > We need developers who have experience in microcontroller development > working > on an ARM7TDMI core. You do not need to know anything about GSM in > order to > help us with tasks such as the UI, driving the battery charging > controller, > etc. If you want to join, get yourself a phone, serial cable, join the > developer mailing list and introduce yourself! > > Happy Hacking > Harald Welte > > _______________________________________________ > A51 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51 > _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
