New to OpenMoko

Nick Guenther kousue at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 10:14:10 CET 2008


On 1/17/08, Barry Steele <barry at hpfm.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I've flashed the rootfs and a new kernel.
>
> So then I got all excited and inserted my SIM into it and powered up.
>
> Turns out I should have read some more.  My current phone (Nokia N80 -
> can I run openmoko on that?), is a 3G phone and it seems that the neo
> doesn't like it.
>
> I then stole one of my teams SIM and it fired up fine.  I get a GSM
> signal but cant make phone calls.
>
> I am still finding my way around the phone.
>
> I noticed that the icons disappeared from the home page, anyway I'm off
> to investigate the machine.

Sometimes they crash.
Use Qtopia.

> One thing though
>
> cu -l /dev/ttyACM0
>
> Only gives errors at present
> cu: open (/dev/ttyACM0): Permission denied
> cu: /dev/ttyACM0: Line in use
>

cu is finicky. Do `chown uucp.uucp /dev/ttyACM0`

> My Linux systems skills obviously need honing.
>
> Anyway, I'll head off and study now.
>
> Stay well,
> Barry
>
> Michael Shiloh wrote:
> > Welcome to OpenMoko, Barry!
> >
> > All you need to do is flash a new kernel and file system. Get the
> > latest from
> >
> > http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/neo1973/deploy/glibc/images/neo1973/
> >
> > Good luck and let us know how it goes,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > Barry Steele wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I just took delivery of a neo1973 (I'm in Australia btw, Sydney).
> >> I have inserted the microSD and SIM cards and booted the machine up.
> >>
> >> I get the boot logo and then Linux tries to start but I get the
> >> following:
> >>
> >> "Kernel Panic- not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option
> >> to kernel"
> >>
> >> While I have a fair bit of Linux experience, I have no idea how to
> >> connect to the machine or edit files or whatever.
> >>
> >> I am looking on the Openmoko site, but I would really appreciate any
> >> advice.
> >>
> >> I am very excited by this.
> >>
> >> Stay well,
> >> Barry
> >>
> >
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>
> --
>
> Barry Steele
> hpfm solutions
> http://www.hpfm.com.au
> (o) +612 8206 1822
> (f) +612 9929 3653
>
> Stay Happy, Stay Well, get involved...
>
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