Still no clean solution to flash Openmoko from Mac OS X

Unfortunately I still was not able to get dfu-util working properly under Mac OS X. But at least I can work around the problem. Here a small resume of the workaround:

Boot the Openmoko into U-Boot (AUX+POWER) Plug in the Openmoko via USB Execute the dfu-util command you want. To flash the rootfs execute: [...]

Progress with VMware and Openmoko

Even if I could not yet solve the problem to my full satisfaction. I at least found a workaround to get the dfu-util working inside VMware Fusion. Now I'm able to flash it from inside VMware and from Mac OS X.

The workaround consits of using dfu-util form Mac OS X to get the [...]

Openmoko Development Environment VMware fusion

I'm currently using Mac OS X on my MacBook Pro to do most of my day to day work. There are some people out there using Mac OS for Openmoko development. But there are lot more resources for Linux. Furthermore I'm more familiar with development on Linux than I am on Mac OS.

So [...]

Openmoko Freerunner

Today I finally received my Openmoko it's nice device. By default it came with Om 2007.2 preinstalled, but it didn't work for me and I don't like GTK that much. So I switched to Qtopia as my main Operating system as it provides almost all functions to use it as phone. Om 2008.8 seems [...]