Flashing Om2008.8 rootfs under Windows is *LONG*

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Hello,

I wanted to share my experience with FR and Windows Vista.

I received my FR last Saturday. So far, so good, except that the device 
doesn't do much and the UI is quite buggy. After a day or so reading the 
Wiki, I finally managed to get my Vista system to recognize the FR both 
as an RNIS device and as a uboot device. I'd like to state that there is 
an awful lot of information in the Wiki but it is very hard to follow. 
It is quite difficult to understand which distribution needs what. I 
finally settled on 0m2008.8 because that's what I read first.

If possible, I'd suggest to create a slimmed down web site for the 
newcomers with step by step advices. openmoko.org should be that web 
site, it shouldn't redirect automatically to the wiki as one may think 
that this is not the official web page.

Going back to my upgrade, FYI, flashing rootfs lasted 2 hours! Is that 
normal? Or is it just because dfu_utils is slow under windows? Anyway, 
here is what I did:

abdel at PAVILION /c/devel/OpenMoko
$ dfu-util.exe -l
dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc.
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=1, cfg=0, intf=2, alt=0, name="USB 
Device Firmware Upgrade"


abdel at PAVILION /c/devel/OpenMoko
$ dfu-util.exe -a kernel -R -D ./Om2008.8-gta02-20080826.uImage.bin
dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc.
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

Opening USB Device 0x0000:0x0000...
Setting Configuration 1...
Claiming USB DFU Runtime Interface...
Determining device status: state = appIDLE, status = 0
Device really in Runtime Mode, send DFU detach request...
Resetting USB...
Opening USB Device...
Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=2, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=3, name="kernel"
Setting Configuration 1...
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting ...
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
Transfer Size = 0x1000
bytes_per_hash=37877
Starting download: [##################################################] 
finished!
state(2) = dfuIDLE, status(0) = No error condition is present
Done!
Resetting USB to switch back to runtime mode

abdel at PAVILION /c/devel/OpenMoko
$ dfu-util.exe -a rootfs -R -D ./Om2008.8-gta02-20080830.rootfs.jffs2
dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc.
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

Opening USB Device 0x0000:0x0000...
Setting Configuration 1...
Claiming USB DFU Runtime Interface...
Determining device status: state = appIDLE, status = 0
Device really in Runtime Mode, send DFU detach request...
Resetting USB...
Opening USB Device...
Found Runtime: [0x1d50:0x5119] devnum=2, cfg=0, intf=0, alt=6, name="rootfs"
Setting Configuration 1...
Claiming USB DFU Interface...
Setting Alternate Setting ...
Determining device status: state = dfuIDLE, status = 0
dfuIDLE, continuing
Transfer Size = 0x1000
bytes_per_hash=1431306
Starting download: [##################################################] 
finished!
state(2) = dfuIDLE, status(0) = No error condition is present
Done!
Resetting USB to switch back to runtime mode

OK, time to reboot. 3 minutes later, it's rebooted! :-)

I click settings, click Wifi, select my network and now I am lost on how 
to use this keyboard, no backspace, no number. I guess I have to go back 
to reading the wiki :-/

Maybe I should switch to qpe? Do I have to reflash the kernel for that?

Well, that was just a first time user experience :-)

Abdel.