Flashing GSM firmware

[Steve " 'dillo" Okay]

On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:01 , Paul Fertser wrote:

> "Steve \" 'dillo\" Okay" <armadilo at roadknightlabs.com> writes:
>> Okay, I am pretty stuck here.
>> I've tried the procedure on the  Wiki here:
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GSM/Flashing
>> and here:
>> http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1565196|a1566012
>>
>> to no effect.
>>
>> I run the fluid command and it just sits there at:
>> Bootloader: (reset target)
>>
>> In the other terminal window, I'm repeatedly doing
>> echo 0 >/sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/power_on
>> echo 1 >/sys/bus/platform/devices/neo1973-pm-gsm.0/power_on
>>
>> to no effect.
>
> I estimate the probability of this not working for the first time as
> 0.1. So, after the second try it will most certainly work. Are you
> sure nothing is accessing your modem at that time? Use lsof to
> check. Also, it's possible that your kernel version has power_on sysfs
> node in another place, make sure the node actually exists there.

I'm using the fso-console image recommended in the GSM Flashing wiki  
page.
downloaded from here:
http://people.openmoko.org/mickey/images/openmoko-fso-console-image- 
glibc-ipk--20081028-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2.summary
http://people.openmoko.org/mickey/images/uImage-2.6.24+r10+gitr75999 
+54524f4531c8b262431b794fea610d81bb351c86-r10-om-gta02.bin

The /sys/bus/platform entry is a symbolic link to /sys/devices/ 
platform and contains:
root at om-gta02:/sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0# pwd
/sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0
root at om-gta02:/sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0# ls -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Feb 24 11:05 download
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Feb 24 11:05 driver - 
 > ../../../bus/platform/drivers/neo1973-pm-gsm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Feb 24 11:05 flowcontrolled
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Feb 24 11:05 modalias
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Feb 24 11:05 power
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Feb 24 11:05 power_on
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Feb 24 11:05 reset
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Feb 24 11:05 subsystem - 
 > ../../../bus/platform
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         4096 Feb 24 11:04 uevent
root at om-gta02:/sys/devices/platform/neo1973-pm-gsm.0#

So it looks like the power_on node is there. The default value at  
boot of the power_on node is 0.

  I'll try writing to it directly rather than going through the link,  
although I don't know why that would make any difference.
lsof reveals nothing interesting.
I ran the gsm0710muxd start script and it shows that the gsm daemon  
isn't running:
root at om-gta02:/# /etc/init.d/gsm0710muxd stop
no process in pidfile '/var/run/gsm0710muxd.pid' found; none killed
root at om-gta02:/#

What you're saying makes sense, i.e. that something is using the GSM  
modem, but it does look it's shut off.

Thanks for your help,
----Steve