<p>tried the new firmware for the gsm chipset and 2008.12 yesterday, and made my first phonecall with the freerunner!!</p><p>thanks for the advice</p><p>now i only have to try to fix the other problems</p><p><br></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/1/18 William Kenworthy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au">billk@iinet.net.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Oh and forgot, upgrade to the openmoko-10 firmware for the gsm chipset<br>
as it helps (not totally, but hey 5/10 is better than 1/10 reboots to<br>
PIN/register! :) with a number of issues, including PIN and registering<br>
with 2008.n distros, but not with gsm0710muxd unfortunately.<br>
<br>
BillK<br>
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On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 08:33 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote:<br>
> Try removing the SD card and see if that helps registering - see the<br>
> wiki for the qtopia indexing problem. Also, give it a few hours and<br>
> reboots for the distro to finish setting itself up, indexing etc before<br>
> deciding it wont play.<br>
><br>
> Also, some 8gb and above SD cards need a slower clock - search for sdclk<br>
> on the wiki<br>
><br>
> Try 2008.12 - I find that FSO and SHR which use the gsm0710muxd just<br>
> lock up the gsm chipset and dont work - ever :( Some SIM cards just<br>
> dont work at all ...<br>
><br>
> BillK<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 21:07 +0100, Tomas Nackaerts wrote:<br>
> > hi,<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > i have a freerunner for a few weeks now, but i was never able to<br>
> > connect to a gsm network. i tried all distributions, except<br>
> > qtextended, and all gave errors.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > currently i'm using fso, and when i boot the phone, it asks for a pin,<br>
> > and then it fails with the error "error while sending pin"<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > i was also unable to boot a distribution like debian or hackable from<br>
> > a 8gb sd-card, but i'm not sure it is related.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > i hope somebody can give me some hints to get these issues fixed.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > greatings,<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > tomas<br>
> ><br>
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--<br>
William Kenworthy <<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au">billk@iinet.net.au</a>><br>
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