Need help flashing my freerunner for the first time

Shawn "Trash" Thompson mokowatch at projektenterprises.com
Sat Feb 21 05:09:46 CET 2009


Adam Jimerson wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Shawn Trash Thompson 
> <mokowatch at projektenterprises.com 
> <mailto:mokowatch at projektenterprises.com>> wrote:
>
>     Adam Jimerson wrote:
>     > I just got my freerunner today and when I have been trying to
>     flash it
>     > with OM 2008.12 now that it is charged (comparing my Home and the
>     > images on the wiki I don't even think it came with 2007 installed),
>     > according to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Flashing I should not set
>     > up a usb0 connection but dfu-util doesn't seem to be working
>     with it.
>     > The "dfu-util -l" only sees it half the time and when I try to
>     backup
>     > the Kernel with "dfu-util -a kernel -R -U good-kernel.img" the
>     > freerunner just times out.  The host that I am using is openSUSE
>     11.1.
>     >
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>     Adam,
>      Are you using the super-user account?
>     -Shawn
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> Yes I am using the super-user account
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hopefully someone else will have more info then, other than not using 
root priv or equivalent I'm out of ideas, all I've seen issues with is 
having multiple DFU capable devices but that doesn't sound like the 
problem either.




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