My place to share some bits and bytes

Today Harald Welte launched the OpenEZX Project wiki. I think this is a good point at the beginning for search, find and share information. I added some small info about crosscompile.
You can find info about a precompiled busybox at: http://wiki.openezx.org/index.php/Software::AP::OpenEZX#busybox

This night we get a deeper look into the A780. We, that means me and two friends of mine: Daniel Willmann and Jan Luebbe.
Here are the things, we have working yet:

• Shrunk the vfat partitions on transflash disk.
• Add ext3 partition on disk.
• Setup toolchain for crosscompile. http://marcus.bluetroll.se/e680/
• Crosscompile busybox.
• Crosscompile some matching kernel modules like jbd.o ext3.o and nfsd.o

But there are more good news on this front. Harald Welte launched the http://www.open-ezx.org/ website. See you on the maillinglist.

I am still hacking on the A780. :)
Today i testing some precompiled linux-utils from http://pashkovsky.com/e680/. Compiled for E680, but also work on the A780. There is still a libncurses problem, but the most utils worked. :)
Another programm i tested was opie. The guys from Motorolafans.com wrote a proxy to start opie as an task in the original firmware. Some guidlines for setup you can find at http://rcsc.sisrs.com/mfc/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1148&highlight=opie. You have to register before you can read the forum. Yes, i also think that this is stupid.
I'm still searching for a possibility to sync my phone with my linux laptop. The software only offers exchange or synML. It is time to read something about syncML.

Today i've been working to get a shell on my phone. I have now two possibilities to really work with this gadget. Thanks to liloader and some AT command tweaks you can set the phone in an usblan modus. You only need the usbnet linux kernel module, and you can get a telnet shell over USB. The second possibility is qonsole. A java based concole programm on the phone. But the font of qonsole is too small and you must use a virtual keyboard. A good introduction is this german only site: http://www.linux-portal.com/phonewiki/index.php/Telnet_Zugriff

Today my new mobilphone arrived at home. The A780 from Motorola. A linux based smart phone with integrated GPS. It's a nice toy. :) I hope i have some time hacking the next weeks.

Today i released the beta version of the datenfreihafen.org website. Take a look at http://www.datenfreihafen.org/. The whole thing based on a templete from http://fullahead.org/. Thank you for this.

In the evening i find some time to think about my website. The problem is, my design skills are pretty low. :(

Therefore i will use a template for this things. At the moment i'am testing this template. Thanks to the guy from Fullahead.org.

You can find a _very_ pre preview here.

Five minutes ago i upgraded my mobilphone contract and ordered a Motorola A780. I think it is the first linux based mobilphone in european market.
This phone is a very nice toy. Here are some hardware facts:

- 400 MHz CPU (I think its something like arm)
- 64 MB Ram
- 48 MB Rom
- Transflash Reader. There are TF cards up to 512 MB. :)
- Build in GPS
- Touchscreen

Some information about an crosscompile toolchain and other usefull things, you can find in the weblog from Harald Welte.
Let's see, when the toy will arrive.

I'am not quit sure, if i start blogging.
But when i start, then i will use nanoblogger. I like static html pages insteed of this php stuff.