Re: Finding a recent U-Boot (Was: Om2009 testing release 4)

2009-05-31 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/6/1 Rask Ingemann Lambertsen : >   Unfortunately, the U-Boot download link points to an ancient (>8 months > old) version of U-Boot. The latest U-Boot is here: > > http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/experimental/NeoFreerunner/ ah, good you found it. i didn't realise that link was broken >>

Re: The myth of non-functioning SIMs

2009-05-31 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:48 PM, David Fokkema wrote: > Then, it turned out that my brand new provider, Vodafone, had a large > service interruption which lasted from the evening I received my SIM to > some twenty-four hours later... Some coincidence. That's quite of a story there :) > PS: my f

The myth of non-functioning SIMs

2009-05-31 Thread David Fokkema
Hi list, Wanting to start experimenting in earnest with my FR and Om2009 in particular and already having missed some sms messages and calls, I decided on getting a separate SIM card. I already had a prepaid, non-data SIM from the olden days, so I decided on getting a subscription (I mean: non pre

Re: Finding a recent U-Boot (Was: Om2009 testing release 4)

2009-05-31 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 18:18, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: >   Other than being able to flash a new boot loader. :-) With Qi you're still able to flash a new bootloader (unless you have gta01 without debug board :P) ___ support mailing list support

Finding a recent U-Boot (Was: Om2009 testing release 4)

2009-05-31 Thread Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 07:55:31PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: > i think the critical thing is that you are using a *recent* version of > whichever bootloader, be it uboot or qi > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing Unfortunately, the U-Boot download link points to an ancient (

Re: [all] building ipk packages

2009-05-31 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Robin Paulson wrote: > can anyone tell me, if the structure of ipk packages, is the same as > the structure of deb packages? yes > they look very similar. is it the same > compression method? AFAIK .deb is .tar.gz and .ipk is only tar but not sure. r -- | r

Re: SD card mounting issues (om2009)

2009-05-31 Thread Paul
Thank you, that seems to do the trick. Does anyone else think this is a bug, since the file system should never try to mount the superblock? On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Joachim Ott wrote: > 2009/5/31 Paul : > > Hey All > > > > I have a sd card with 1 particition (4gb). I booted up and it

Re: [all] building ipk packages

2009-05-31 Thread Joachim Ott
2009/5/31 Robin Paulson : > can anyone tell me, if the structure of ipk packages, is the same as > the structure of deb packages? they look very similar. is it the same > compression method? The ipk-file is a simple ar-archive (man ar). You usually find this in an ipk: control.tar.gz - package in

Re: SD card mounting issues (om2009)

2009-05-31 Thread Joachim Ott
2009/5/31 Paul : > Hey All > > I have a sd card with 1 particition (4gb). I booted up and it seems that > OM2009 mounts /dev/mmcblk0 to /media/mmcblk0 even though it's not in fstab. > > I want to mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 to /media/card cause I have my GPS maps and > my root home directory (/media/card

[all] building ipk packages

2009-05-31 Thread Robin Paulson
can anyone tell me, if the structure of ipk packages, is the same as the structure of deb packages? they look very similar. is it the same compression method? cheers ___ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/

SD card mounting issues (om2009)

2009-05-31 Thread Paul
Hey All I have a sd card with 1 particition (4gb). I booted up and it seems that OM2009 mounts /dev/mmcblk0 to /media/mmcblk0 even though it's not in fstab. I want to mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 to /media/card cause I have my GPS maps and my root home directory (/media/card/bind-home) there. But becau