Mobile/Cell Phones, What you got?

[Ian Smith]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote:
 > El día Sunday, November 29, 2009 a las 02:53:38PM +1100, Ian Smith escribió:
 > 
 > > Unless you're trying to get FreeBSD running on your phone, or using 
 > > FreeBSD on your laptop to communicate with your phone, please refer to 
 > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
 > 
 > I'm using a Linux based cellphone, the OpenMoko Freerunner:
 > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
 > it would be nice to change to OS from Linux to FreeBSD in this;

Be sure to let us know when you've got that done? :)

 > but even with Linux it works very well together with my FreeBSD laptop:
 > - you can SSH to the cellphone
 > - you can connect with vncviewer to the cellphone and have its screen on
 >   your laptop
 > - you can use the cellphone as a GPS router to Internet
 > - you can use the GPSD in the cellphone and having the maps with
 >   tangoGPS in your laptop
 > - ...
 > 
 > all this (and more) is described here:
 > 
 > http://www.unixarea.de/openmoko.txt
 > 
 > and I gave a talk a year ago in the Havana (Cuba) local Linux User
 > Group about how they work together (it's in Spanish but maybe from the
 > pictures you will get an idea):
 > 
 > http://www.unixarea.de/OpenMokoLiaHab/

Very interesting Matthias.  I find Spanish easier to 'sort-of' follow 
than German, smaller words perhaps .. lots of it made sense anyway.

Browsed through that while dd'ing the 8.0-R memstick image from my T23 
Thinkpad (25 minutes at USB 1.0 :), wondering whether there were recipes 
for a 7.2-R bootable USB image somewhere when I found your usbBoot.txt 
there, using a more traditional slice arrangement I gather.  Will study 
this for the generic techniques.

(No 3G phones here, no coverage - the price of living in Nirvana - but 
by the time I graduate to the old folks' home I'll probably need one :)

I'll save my adventures trying to install 8.0-R for another topic ..

Thanks, Ian