Mac OS X
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Welcome to the OpenMoko page devoted to MacOS X users!
Here you can find notes of using Neo1973 (and maybe other OM devices) with Mac.
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Flashing to your device
To operate the Phase 1 devices, you need to flash a root file system first.
NOTE: you need an Intel Mac to run dfu-util since it is currently broken on big-endian machines (PowerPC).
Here is a detailled instruction:
- download AJZaurusUSB-0.5.2 (or later) from http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=AJZaurusUSB
- install
- reboot your Mac so that the driver becomes active (you do not yet need to configure the network interface)
- download OpenMoko Flasher from http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=OpenMoko%20Flasher
- (V1.0 only: create a new Folder at "~/Library/Caches/OpenMoko Flasher")
- press the Refresh button (which loads the list of packages on the server)
- select and load the rootfs (takes some minutes for approx. 40 MByte)
- open the Console application and show the console.log
- Now, on your OpenMoko, hold the AUX button while pressing the Power button for 5 seconds
- the BOOT menu should appear
- connect the USB cable
- Flash
- the BOOT menu screen on the OM should show an indication that it has been switched to DFU mode
- if it fails (console.log should show the reasons), unplug the OpenMoko shortly and replug
- if it successfully flashed, you should be able to boot the OpenMoko and continue configuring AJZaurusUSB
The dfu-utils tool is included in the OpenMoko Flasher application; you can access it as OpenMoko Flasher.app/Contents/MacOS/dfu-util ; alternatively, you can compile dfu-util manually as described at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:SNMoore
Connecting to your device
USB
You can telnet, SSH, SMB or do whatever you want if you install software that enables you to set up TCP/IP network over your USB connection.
MacOS X does not provide such a driver for RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget. But you can use an open source (GPL) universal driver http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=AJZaurusUSB which is developed for handheld devices like iPAQ, Sharp Zaurus, and Motorola A760. Download it and install according to manual found inside of the package.
After reboot, you should have a new Ethernet interface in your System Preferences/Network. Set up the network manually for that interface by using these addresses:
IP-V4: manual IP-Addr: 192.168.0.200 Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Router: 192.168.0.202
This might conflict with some WLAN routers which also use the 192.168.0.0 network.
You should be able to connect to your Neo! Try using ping 192.168.0.202 and the roundtrip time should be between 1 and 2 ms.
(NOTE: it appears that after each reboot of the OpenMoko you get a new interface on the Mac (this is under investigation - AJZaurusUSB appears to deliver a random MAC address to the IONetworking stack). -- solved partially in AJZaurusUSB 0.5.3)
NOTE: the software is sometimes a bit flaky, and a reboot of the Mac seems to bring it back. It is especially critical about hot unplugging the OM and sleep modes of MacBooks. This may even result in a Kernel Panic.
Telnet, ssh, SMB
To Be Done.
ssh
After making the USB connection work, start ssh:
ssh -l root 192.168.0.202
If you don't have installed the key, it will ask for a "yes" on the first connection and for a password on each other. This is "root" unless you change it.
MacBook-hns:~ hns$ ssh -l root 192.168.0.202 root@192.168.0.202's password: root@fic-gta01:~$ hostname fic-gta01 root@fic-gta01:~$
NOTE: the ssh daemon (dropbear 0.49) on the OpenMoko appears to have a bug when sending the exit status back to the client. From time to time you receive an exit status of 255.
Bluetooth
To Be Done. See also: Bluetooth_Support#PPP_Networking.
WiFi
To Be Done.
Synchronizing
This is not done yet. Possible solutions are SyncML or ZMacSync http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=ZMacSync
ZMacSync does not yet synchronize but allows more easy access to the OpenMoko through Terminal/ssh.
Sharing connection
Mac as a server
Here is described how to enable your Mac to serve as a internet router for your OpenMoko device.
Bluetooth
This could help:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Support#Networking
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051220221237711
USB
If you install AJZaurusUSB driver you should be able to set up your Mac as a router (not tested).
Neo1973 as a server
To Be Done.
Developing software
Using virtualization software
You can use Parallels or VMWare to install your favourite Linux distribution and then develop just as on Linux.
There are some drawback since AFAIK dfu-util may not work correctly in such environments.
Natively
There are some efforts to get through process of compiling OE and OpenMoko under mac: OpenMoko_under_QEMU_on_MacOSX