Re: GNU/Linux Wrist Watch

2010-05-03 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I don't know if someone is producing such a wristwatch, but there was a research project by IBM: http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/linuxwatch/linuxwatch.html showing that it is (was) possible and how it could look like. BR, Nikolaus > Am 04.05.2010 um 03:24 schrieb Esben Stien:

GNU/Linux Wrist Watch

2010-05-03 Thread Esben Stien
Does something like this exist?. If not, please, someone start making it. I really want a thick wrist watch with a big display that follows the curvature of my arm. It can provide several status indicators, like new mail, new jabber messages, time, location, etc and notify you of whatever. There

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services & clients

2010-05-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Yeah, unfortunately we didn't hear much of any of these projects. With the progress in FSO2, I definitely want native support for at least one of these, i.e. both for uploading newly found cells and also as 1st or 2nd level geolocation provider. Onen, what's new? :) -- :M:

Can't synchonize with pisi

2010-05-03 Thread Lieven Van Poeck
Hello, I installed Dates today on my Freerunner with SHR unstable and wanted to synchronize Dates with my Google Calendar. I used the example conf (put it in /home/root/.pisi/conf )but Pisi doesn't start synchronizing. This is the output when I start pisigui in a terminal window: r...@om-gta02

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services & clients

2010-05-03 Thread sam tygier
On 03/05/10 12:28, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based >> positioning services.. >> How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? >> >> Are t

[shr-u] Re: GSM registration failed

2010-05-03 Thread Petr Vanek
On Mon, 03 May 2010 16:50:24 +0200 Xavier Cremaschi (XC) wrote: >Hi folks, >I made an upgrade from testing to unstable Saturday in the afternoon, >and I lost the ability to register on GSM network. > >A workaround seems to configure the loglevel in /etc/framework.conf >from INFO to DEBUG. It wor

Re: Unable to flash using nandwrite!

2010-05-03 Thread xChris
DJDAS wrote: > > . > I don't have my freerunner with me, so can't test now, but IIRC you > should use /dev/mtdblk6 (or something similar) to access NAND partitions. > ... > there is mtdblock6 but when I use it I get: Inappropriate ioctl for device. Could be limitation or hackable:1 ? Ch

Re: Unable to flash using nandwrite!

2010-05-03 Thread xChris
Hi, >What parameters are you passing to Linux? (cat /proc/cmdline to see) i use the cat /proc/mtd and nandwrite -p /dev/mtd6 to write the nand chris -- View this message in context: http://openmoko-public-mailinglists.1958.n2.nabble.com/Unable-to-flash-using-nandwrite-tp4997919p4998

Re: GSM registration failed

2010-05-03 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Xavier Cremaschi writes: > They get bigger and bigger... any idea to avoid an incoming catastrophe ? Rotate your logs with logrotate? I'm assuming you use debian that has it, not sure if SHR has it or not. ___ Openmoko community mailing list commun

GSM registration failed

2010-05-03 Thread Xavier Cremaschi
Hi folks, I made an upgrade from testing to unstable Saturday in the afternoon, and I lost the ability to register on GSM network. A workaround seems to configure the loglevel in /etc/framework.conf from INFO to DEBUG. It works well, but currently my frameworkd.log weighs 6.3M and fsodeviced.lo

Re: Unable to flash using nandwrite!

2010-05-03 Thread Dario
xChris wrote: > there is no rootfs and the mtd6 is called 'system' needless to say when > I attempt to flash the /mtd6 the command > fails as it says the Input file does not fit into device > > So, that means is impossible to flash the device using the nandwrite > command? I don't have my

Re: Unable to flash using nandwrite!

2010-05-03 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
xChris writes: > as I read on the wiki, the #cat /proc/mtd should show a 'rootfs' ... but > when I run this command on my h:1 What parameters are you passing to Linux? (cat /proc/cmdline to see) > So, that means is impossible to flash the device using the nandwrite > command? No. ___

Unable to flash using nandwrite!

2010-05-03 Thread xChris
Hi, I want to flash the latest SHR image on my Openmoko, as the windows version of dfu-util is very slow, i would like to use the nandwrite (I have a working h:1 , so I put the jffs2 file into the sd). as I read on the wiki, the #cat /proc/mtd should show a 'rootfs' ... but when I run this comm

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services & clients

2010-05-03 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > Hi there! > > does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based > positioning services.. > How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? > > Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base st

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Michele Brocco
On 5/3/10, Helge Hafting wrote: > Christoph Mair wrote: >> Dear community, >> >> we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a >> >> navigation board! >> >> What is it? >> The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure >> rotations as well as t

Status of GSM base station positioning services & clients

2010-05-03 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi there! does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based positioning services.. How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base stations, with on- or offline databases? It'd be great to be able to d

Stuck in setting up usb networking for the simulator in ubuntu.

2010-05-03 Thread saravanan T
Hello, I am stuck ssh into the phone to obtain the shell for the simulator. I have gone through the steps of setting up usb networking for ubuntu in openmokowiki.org. * * *My Steps* 1.Download the kernel (Mine:2.6.28.10). Make the kernel by setting the options in the configuration.(I enabled all t

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 3 May 2010 11:04, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Having navigation work inside tunnels >> would allow mapping them accurately for openstreetmap. And also have >> underground navigation - some tunnels have got >> intersections/roundabouts inside, with several possible exits. Would navit, ta

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
> > Having navigation work inside tunnels > would allow mapping them accurately for openstreetmap. And also have > underground navigation - some tunnels have got > intersections/roundabouts inside, with several possible exits. > > And then there are cities with too many tall buildings, and things

Re: little question about navigation board

2010-05-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Alfa21 wrote: > 2010-05...@23:31 Christoph Mair > >>> why to add two more gyroscope sensors (so now we have 4 of them in our FR >>> O_O) >> The Freerunner has two accelerometers, but no gyroscope. > > > I tough 2 accels + 1 compas could act as gyros... (not the greek similar of > the kebab) >

Re: Introducing the Freerunner Navigation Board

2010-05-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Christoph Mair wrote: > Dear community, > > we are proud to release a hardware extension for our beloved Freerunner: a > navigation board! > > What is it? > The Freerunner Navigation Board is a small PCB which is able to measure > rotations as well as the magnetic field in 3D respectively (i.e.