new website hopes to be the facebook of embedded linux

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Shiloh
they claim there is no one central place that embedded linux developers go to discuss, ask, answer topics of interest, and so have created this. it's sponsored by monte vista, so take it as you will: http://meld.mvista.com/ i joined because i'm curious to see what it will become. michael

Re: Freerunner freely runs Gentoo

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Shiloh
Sven Rebhan wrote: > Hello everybody, > > We the gen...@openmoko team are pleased to announce that we reached > our first milestone for running Gentoo on the Freerunner. > So to all Gentoo lovers: Stop-by and get the experience the Gentoo > feeling on your phone! > Yay! My all-time favorite di

Re: Microcontroller via USB

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Shiloh
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Sven Klomp writes: >>> I don't know if there are libusb wrappers for python. However, if your >>> device acts as a serial port you can just open /dev/ttyACM0 in python >>> and talk to it without having to know anything about USB. > >> Yes, but the implementation on t

Re: Calypso dance (GSM)

2008-10-19 Thread Michael Shiloh
1: Great news! 2: I have a bag of SIM cards that one of our community members kindly donated to us, in order to help debug one problem. The cards came from junked phones and can not be used to connect to a network, but clearly exhibit the problem that some of them can be recognized, and some ca

Re: Openmoko Bug #2030: Cannot connect to WEP network

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Werner Almesberger wrote: > Michael Shiloh wrote: >> Werner Almesberger wrote: >>> - the key must be in hex. iwconfig will not do anything useful if >>> the key is given as a string. >> A handy ascii string to hex converter is here: > > To clarify, this i

Re: Openmoko Bug #2030: Cannot connect to WEP network

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Shiloh
Werner Almesberger wrote: . > > The canonical way of running iwconfig for WEP would be something like > this: > > # iwconfig eth0 key A4BEB3B8EC essid xyz > > Two things are important here: > > - the key must be in hex. iwconfig will not do anything useful if > the key is given as a string.

Re: Bugtraffic and where do move it

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Shiloh
Holger Freyther wrote: > Hey, > > is anyone else thinking that we should move the bug traffic somewhere else? > openmoko-devel is currently the default owner and maybe we should change it > to something else? > > comments, ideas I like seeing the bug traffic here. It's not so much traffic,

Re: Projects hosted at projects.openmoko.org

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > as such - projects.om.org is desired to go as its gforge base is a bit > abandoned, and the solutions bandied about have been "use google code or > sourceforge etc."... so as the solution is to use someone elses infra. i know > i'll use my own :) Hmm. B

Re: Alpha 2 Release of Accelerometer-based Gestures, and Screen Orientation

2008-08-14 Thread Michael Shiloh
Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: > I'm proud to announce that the new release of accelerometer-based > gestures, and screen orientation is now available for download. > What you've seen in the video from > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2S2rQUETwc is now available. > > This release includes: > An app

Re: [om2008.8] Testing packages for Qtopia

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Shiloh
Lorn Potter wrote: > Michael Shiloh wrote: >> >> Holger Freyther wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> I think that the No PIN Dialog (#1765, #1798), GSM Antenna/No Network >>> (#1766), missing SMS notification (#1792) and the various duplicates >>

Re: [om2008.8] Testing packages for Qtopia

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Shiloh
Holger Freyther wrote: > Hey, > > I think that the No PIN Dialog (#1765, #1798), GSM Antenna/No Network > (#1766), > missing SMS notification (#1792) and the various duplicates and variations > (no phonebook..) are related to a funny issue in the QAtChat and TI Calypso > handling. > > As t

Re: No DFU capable USB device found

2008-07-21 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Juan, Can you confirm that you are booted into U-Boot? No DFU devices will be visible if you boot normally. Thanks, Michael Juan Otero wrote: > Hi, i'm trying to flash my openmoko device, i followed steps on the > wiki, and still dfu-util does not detect openmoko device as DFU. > > is not