[Community Tools] Re: Why you won't find me in the forum much

2007-07-26 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
if they are connected, then there isn't anything to be decidet. Well, there was already the hint that gmane or Google Groups can do exactly that *or even do it* (mirror the mailing list in a Web based forum-like view). But apparently it did not find enough acceptance (including myself).

Re: Why you won't find me in the forum much

2007-07-26 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
i imagine this mail2forum provides some sort of "[Subforum]"-tag before each e-mail. To answer to a thread, simply answer the last mail of that thread. To start a new topic, just write "[Subforum] New Topic Name" as Subject of the mail. At least i would implement it this way. And if it isn't

Re: Why you won't find me in the forum much

2007-07-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 26.07.2007 um 08:06 schrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: " ... So when an official forum is blessed by someone, please make sure it is a forum that has a *bidirectional* email gateway. Anything else is simply sub-standard for my usage patterns. ... " -- Rod Whitby -- MokoMakefile author Mail2For

Re: Appeals to Linux hardware hackers?

2007-07-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 25.07.2007 um 21:14 schrieb Giles Jones: Hi, I was thinking, there's a few people who are spending time hacking away at HTC devices to get Linux running on them. While it is commendable they would be better to help us with OpenMoko. Maybe we could appeal to them if we're not already o

Re: Product naming / wiki page naming / restructuring

2007-07-27 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 26.07.2007 um 17:53 schrieb Harald Welte: Hi! Since we're now working on the "phase 2 neo", i.e. what is now known officially as "Neo1973 GTA02", I'd like to address one issue: For many information in the public wiki, it is not clear whether it is 1) general information about the openmoko

Re: Product naming / wiki page naming / restructuring

2007-07-27 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
OpenMoko-0.5 or whatever scheme is already in place. -2007 and -2008 so far. We might have 200x.y at some point. Hm. I think using year-names is not a good choice for software versions (mainly talking about stable releases). It psychologically forces you to do one major release every year.

Re: GTA02 Board only option in October?

2007-07-29 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Harald wrote: So you probably wouldn't save more than USD 50 (maximum) that way. And for that, you have all the risk of some assembly problem? So, 450 - 50 USD = 400 USD for a kit... Am 29.07.2007 um 21:07 schrieb Kyle Bassett: I am curious, what do you estimate the cost (as a percentage

Re: MacOS X users get together!

2007-07-31 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I know there are some MacOS users here. Let's get together and write down some notes on using Neo1973 with your Macs. I started http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MacOS_X where you can already find some interesting information and references to other sites. I know that Linux guys (geeks ;) very often

Re: MacOS X users get together!

2007-08-01 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
2007 um 16:35 schrieb Giles Jones: On 31 Jul 2007, at 20:35, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: I know there are some MacOS users here. Let's get together and write down some notes on using Neo1973 with your Macs. I started http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MacOS_X where you can already fi

Re: Import Duty - I have refused my delivery.

2007-08-03 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 03.08.2007 um 08:20 schrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Actually, speaking as someone who imports electronic components and peripherals for prototype systems from the US all the time, I do know what to expect when I import. Importation of computer devices and peripherals to the EU is indeed

Re: [Mac OS X] Working dfu-util

2007-08-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Great! Am 07.08.2007 um 11:45 schrieb Simon Moore: I've managed to get dfu-util compiling and running natively (via MacPorts) on Mac OS X, albeit with one patch (bug #672) and one dirty little sed hack. Yes, I also had to patch two NULL pointer dereferences. Hopefully this will work for o

Re: [Mac OS X] Working dfu-util

2007-08-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.08.2007 um 11:45 schrieb Simon Moore: I've managed to get dfu-util compiling and running natively (via MacPorts) on Mac OS X, albeit with one patch (bug #672) and one dirty little sed hack. Hopefully this will work for others - let me know if you have success, or improvements to su

Re: [Mac OS X] Working dfu-util

2007-08-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.08.2007 um 13:50 schrieb Simon Moore: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: One more question - how did you manage that dfu-util is not blocked by the AppleUSBCDC driver which also tries to bind to the same USB interface? ___ OpenMoko community

Re: Flashing a new kernel under Mac OS X

2007-08-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 08.08.2007 um 13:01 schrieb Igor Foox: Hi, I've successfully used Nikolaus Schaller's AJZaurusUSB and OpenMoko Flasher applications to flash a new rootfs onto my new Neo. But I can't flash a new kernel into it. When I try flashing a kernel with OpenMoko Flasher it tries to write it i

Dropbear: exit status of remote shell not properly returned to client

2007-08-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Does anybody have the same experience? The symptom is that I sometimes get the correct exit status and sometimes a 255 - for the same repeated command. i.e.: $ ssh -l root 192.168.0.202 true ; echo $? 0 $ ssh -l root 192.168.0.202 true ; echo $? 255 Using ssh -vvv shows that the debug messag

Re: Dropbear: exit status of remote shell not properly returned to client

2007-08-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
7;s password: 255 MacBook-hns:~ hns$ ssh -l root 192.168.0.202 true ; echo $? [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: 255 MacBook-hns:~ hns$ ssh -l root 192.168.0.202 true ; echo $? [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: 255 MacBook-hns:~ hns$ Am 11.08.2007 um 09:05 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Does a

Re: No softfloat?

2007-08-16 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, is anybody out there who could share a working kernel binary for the GTA01b4 with hardfloat compiled in? Many thanks, Nikolaus Schaller Am 15.08.2007 um 17:22 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Am 14.08.2007 um 19:43 schrieb Brian Brunswick: On 14/08/07, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller

OpenMoko Flasher-1.2 (was: Flashing a new kernel under Mac OS X)

2007-08-16 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
There is a new version of OpenMoko Flasher: http://wiki.openmoko.org/ wiki/MacOS_X#Flashing_to_your_device New features: * supports multiple parallel downloads * added progress bar(s) * shows console output of dfu-util directly in a Text View * separately remembers which package has been flashe

Can't flash smaller root-fs through dfu-util?

2007-08-20 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
After unsuccessfully flashing different root-filesystems, I finally found this note: If you upload rootfs image that is smaller that previous one it won't work - you need to attach to bootloader, erase NAND and then upload your rootfs first: cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 GTA01Bv3 # nand erase rootfs T

Forum? (Was Re: Neo Sound and USB Questions)

2007-08-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hm, in other words: everybody should subscribe (listen) to all other lists to post questions in the correct sublist... This is IMHO a very strong argument for a Forum system where you have to register only once, but can change between topics easily - even if new ones come up. Just my 2 c

Re: Forum? (Was Re: Neo Sound and USB Questions)

2007-08-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.08.2007 um 12:46 schrieb Harald Welte: On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:19:57AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Harald, please calm down. I know from your blog how upset you are from setting up the new office location, networks and servers during Taifun time. in fact that was

Re: Forum? (Was Re: Neo Sound and USB Questions)

2007-08-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.08.2007 um 10:39 schrieb Harald Welte: Please don't bring up the forum debate again. We have heared all the arguments. We will not have a forum as long as I have any role in this project. All FOSS projects that I've ever been involved in 10+ years FOSS development use mailinglists, ver

Re: Can't flash smaller root-fs through dfu-util?

2007-08-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.08.2007 um 17:13 schrieb andy selby: If you upload rootfs image that is smaller that previous one it won't work - you need to attach to bootloader, erase NAND and then upload your rootfs first: cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 GTA01Bv3 # nand erase rootfs This *should* help but I am trying to underst

Re: Can't flash smaller root-fs through dfu-util?

2007-08-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 21.08.2007 um 19:23 schrieb John Seghers: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: After unsuccessfully flashing different root-filesystems, I finally found this note: If you upload rootfs image that is smaller that previous one it won't work - you need to attach to bootloader, erase NAND and

Re: OpenMoko Flasher

2007-08-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
OpenMoko Flasher 1.3 (for MacOS X) is now available: http:// www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=OpenMoko%20Flasher Am 21.08.2007 um 09:35 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Ah, I see. I will add a feature that one can change the list of repositories in the Preferences... In the meantime, you can

Re: Buying Openmoko GTA02 from Europe

2007-08-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I am quite sure that there will be others who are longer in the business (like http://www.handheld-linux.com to name one I know very well) to resell the GTA02 from within Europe. But we must be aware that reselling needs some more margin for handling all these duties, tax, repacking, shippin

Re: I broke my (non-NEO!) phone :-(

2007-09-05 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
As a Mac user/developer this might attract your interest: http://www.quantum-step.com/wiki.php?page=OpenMoko-Edition http://www.quantum-step.com/wiki.php?page=Presentations Am 05.09.2007 um 07:47 schrieb Christ van Willegen: On 9/4/07, Jimmy McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you think you

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-09 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Well, if you have a touchscreen, why restrict to 9 buttons? Basically, you end up in a handwriting recognition like xstroke: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/full_papers/ worth/worth_html/xstroke.html which also uses 9 fields. Maybe this article helps to improve your app

Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-18 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 09.09.2007 um 20:28 schrieb Dylan McCall: The Neo is indeed behind the iPhone in almost every tech spec except one: Openness. And: - replaceable standard battery - even compatible with Nokia batteries - integrated GPS (well, does not yet work) - much higher screen resolution (pixels per s

Source for OpenMoko Flasher (MacOS X) now available

2007-09-20 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Dear all Mac users with a Neo, I have now found time to add a GPL license and make a source package. You can find it at http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=OpenMoko%20Flasher I would be happy if you could submit patches so that OpenMoko Flasher can be improved further. Happy OpenMoko Flashing

Re: Help Request for our Webshop

2007-09-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 22.09.2007 um 19:11 schrieb Joshua Layne: Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: Dear Community, ... Preferable this webshop should not be written in PHP. Either Perl, Python or Ruby would be fine by us. Hi Sean, This may be a stupid comment (and feel free to ignore it if it is), but why build your

Re: Help Request for our Webshop

2007-09-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 23.09.2007 um 10:21 schrieb Krzysztof Kajkowski: 2007/9/23, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The "standard" Open Source Web Shop is OSCommerce (http:// www.oscommerce.com/). The only requirements it does not solve are * it is witten in PHP * it has its ow

Re: Help Request for our Webshop

2007-09-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
If you make use of a PHP framework then it is perfectly possible to use a clear MVC concept. Yes, it *is* possible, but that is not the point here to discuss possibilities. The topic is about which Webshop technology sould be used by OpenMoko. It appears that oscommerce doesn't use MVC in

Re: Help Request for our Webshop

2007-09-23 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
2007/9/23, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The "standard" Open Source Web Shop is OSCommerce (http:// www.oscommerce.com/). in fact we had developed a web shop even before the gta01 sales started and in the end put it into a deep, black hole. yes it was bas

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Just for the record, those are tablets, that weight more (i.e: they have more battery life thus power) that can take such overhead. N800 Why do you assume that X is overhead that needs more weight and battery capacity? X11 is also using the same framebuffer as others are using. It is just a

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 25.09.2007 um 17:20 schrieb Dani Anon: But hey I like how you conveniently left unanswered my comment about how the FBUI and DirectFB projects exist solely to remove the X server overhead. Can you explain to me and them why they are wrong and how they have wasted all those months of developm

Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973

2007-09-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I think there is a place for both Openmoko and Qtopia. Useful features and possibly even entire applications can be cloned/ported back and forth between the platforms. Artwork, sounds, etc can easily be shared. There is even place for more options to discuss. E.g. Objective-C + GNUstep + X

Re: AW: Apple's heavy hand an opportunity for Linux smartphones like OpenMoko

2007-10-01 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Friend, which type of drugs do you use to loose reality and fairness? People have different views on the world (even without drugs). And different goals for their life (e.g. Earn lots of $$$ vs. Freedom for Everything). Therefore, their conclusions what is correct and the "right" thing is d

Re: Vibrator

2007-10-02 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
SIEMENS had shown such a display speaker at CeBIT 2002. Here a German blog entry with some photos and descriptions: http://www.usp-forum.de/prototypen-classics-limited-editions/15744- display-speaker-phone.html Am 02.10.2007 um 08:52 schrieb Sven Klomp: I didn't thought about the subject.

GNUstep/Objective-C SDK for OpenMoko --- jffs2 on MacOS X?

2007-10-18 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Dear all Mac based developers and GTA01 owners, after Apple has announced an SDK for native applications on the iPhone (I assume it will allow to write .app bundles with Xcode), I think I should mention (again?) that we are already working on a Cocoa compatible Objective-C based SDK for th

Re: Exact release date of GTA01Bv4??

2007-10-22 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Community Hi, welcome! When is the exact release date of GTA01Bv4? The new Neo phone Do you mean the GTA02? There is no announcement yet. And just for my curiosity: how do you define "exact release" date? a) the first announcement that you can order b) the first device did leave the pro

Re: community@lists.openmoko.org

2007-10-25 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I must admit that I can't follow the "patience" idea. Some facts: * FIC is a commercial company and they want to sell devices to finaly make money * impatience generates market demand - patient people wait forever. This is no good business model. What happens if the impatient people buy an

Re: "state of the project" message sent upon subscription

2007-10-26 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Good idea. Traditionally, many newsgroups and mailing lists have monthly reminder/updates/FAQ postings automatically sent out to all subscribers... Am 26.10.2007 um 08:48 schrieb Evgeny Ginzburg: Michael Shiloh wrote: Jeff, That's a great idea. I'll look into implementing this. Thanks, M

Re: Homebrew Open Phone

2007-10-28 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 29.10.2007 um 00:41 schrieb Doug Sutherland: Open hardware means availability of schematics and gerbers, Are they available for the Neo? Really open hardware would be if you get all the files to produce your own silicon :-) not source code, and this is not open hardware. Driver code is s

Re: Homebrew Open Phone - resent (link corrected)

2007-10-28 Thread Dr . H . Nikolaus Schaller
Sorry, I did copy the wrong link. Here is the correct one for the LCD-PDA module. http://www.compulab.co.il/x270em/download/ Am 29.10.2007 um 00:41 schrieb Doug Sutherland: Open hardware means availability of schematics and gerbers, Are they available for the Neo? Really open hardware wou

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.11.2007 um 19:08 schrieb Gabriel Ambuehl: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:23:18 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Problem is I dont want to buy a lot of $750 US units if I could just develop on e.g. gphone or iphone which will be way cheaper. You need not buy many units yourself

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Didnt know they had Angstrom for it. That sure helps. But how do you get Angstrom onto the board? Do you need JTAG for that? Or can it boot from SD or USB the way it's shipped? According to http://www.compulab.co.il/x270em/download/x270-em-linux-doc.zip it appears tthat it can boot and f

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.11.2007 um 17:20 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone has an idea of another phone-pda that can at least allow to compile your own programs? I need phones for customers as service modules so they need to be able to run Linux and be open enough to accept compilers for Console program

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
That's a shame. Have a look at the upcoming GSM-enabled h/w from Unicon Systems: http://www.uniconsys.com/ Good pointer, and already available. But... - 32 MB SDRAM - 32 MB flash - Screen: - TFT LCD QVGA 3.5'' 16M color screen ___ Ope

Re: Gphone and 850, perspectives

2007-11-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 07.11.2007 um 17:42 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problem is I dont want to buy a lot of $750 US units if I could just develop on e.g. gphone or iphone which will be way cheaper. You need not buy many units yourself - there is an idea for a group purchase. So if you can convince (many) ot

Re: Compulab EM-X270 Wireless PDA Module

2007-12-05 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 05.12.2007 um 13:41 schrieb Gabriel Ambuehl: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 13:07:11 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: handling cost, credit card processing cost, etc. And finally some compensation for the time we spend doing this instead of other things. The largest single cost component is

Compulab EM-X270 Wireless PDA Module

2007-12-05 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, we all love choice and openness. Currently, there is only the GTA01 available for OpenMoko and the GTA02 still needs some time. This has raised the search for alternatives. Especially the Wireless PDA module EM-X270 from Compulabs was discussed positively - except for its missing

Re: A problem with usb networking

2007-12-05 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 05.12.2007 um 22:36 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm able to ping the phone and my laptop, too. But I can't connect to the internet: when I use ipkg update or the web browser, nothing... Looks like your laptop has no appropriate entry in its routing table to forward traffic from your Ne

Re: SMS is required

2007-12-06 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I did not know they charge you extra for SMS in the US, since SMS is the data transfers that happens between pressing the 'call' button and the connection to the other phone (actually SMS was a hack found out by Nokia people back in the '90's) It was part of the GSM standard right from the

Re: Any chance to have a dual-SIM slot on futures products?

2007-12-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
dual-SIM slot in their products. And both SIMs are active at the same time! It requires two GSM modems inside Neo. That closes this issue. Here is a description what dual SIM means and why: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_SIM -- hns ---

Re: What to use while waiting of v2?

2007-12-16 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 16.12.2007 um 21:54 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz: Dnia niedziela, 16 grudnia 2007, Ben napisał: I can't hold out any longer. I need a PDA that will work as reliably as possble, have a few options for easy automatic sync (with Mac or Linux) or at least automatic backup. I will be using it

Re: What to use while waiting of v2?

2007-12-16 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 16.12.2007 um 23:38 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz: Dnia niedziela, 16 grudnia 2007, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller napisał: Am 16.12.2007 um 21:54 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz: Any recent Windows Mobile PDA then. Fortunaltely, there is no need to do such a strange move for a Mac&Linux ad

Re: Compulab EM-X270 Wireless PDA Module

2007-12-19 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
05.12.2007 um 13:07 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: Hi all, we all love choice and openness. Currently, there is only the GTA01 available for OpenMoko and the GTA02 still needs some time. This has raised the search for alternatives. Especially the Wireless PDA module EM-X270 from Compulabs was

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-01-10 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I postponed buying the neo, because the things i would do with it will include networking (wifi) and i would really like to play with 'accelerometers'. But reading the presentation i was sure that hardware was, for that version "usable". A good example what I mean in my previous post. A GTA

Re: Power Management on Neo1973

2008-01-10 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
I certainly know that. But it says: - proper power management (i.e. no reasonable battery life yet) There is this tiny "yet". It suggests that it - the GTA01 - is going to have a reasonable battery life in the future. And that's not going to be the case. I think that this sentence was wri

WiFi chip squeezes 802.11n into MicroSD cards

2008-01-10 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Something interesting - could be good to see in GTA03: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8925554018.html ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: WiFi chip squeezes 802.11n into MicroSD cards

2008-01-10 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 10.01.2008 um 21:29 schrieb Michael Shiloh: Yeah, cool. Can you toss this up on the wiki in the appropriate section? If someone can help me to tell what "the appropriate section" is... Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Something interesting - could be good to see in G

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 10.01.2008 um 22:20 schrieb Michael Shiloh: We're still testing the hardware and gathering up little issues before determining whether we need to create another version of the board. We still expect to start shipping Neo FreeRunner sometime in the next few months. As always, we can't be

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