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Installation

There are official instructions on how to install Debian on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner, and the announcement.

Previous, partly now outdated information on how to install Debian manually has been moved to Manual Debian.

ssh

As with the standard OpenMoko distribution, you can ssh into the device over USB using

$ ssh root@192.168.0.202

The password is blank. You should change it right away

# passwd

wifi

You can set up the wireless connection to your home router. Assuming your wireless router uses WPA security and DHCP:

# apt-get install wireless-tools wpasupplicant dhcp3-client

Edit /etc/network/interfaces to include a section like this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
       wpa-driver wext
       wpa-ssid "MyWirelessName"
       wpa-psk "MyWirelessPassword"

Where, of course, you're using the name of your wireless network and it's password instead of MyWirelessName and MyWirelessPassword.

You can test by running

# ifup eth0

You can determine your IP address by running

# ifconfig eth0

Issues:

• only works if in presence of wireless network on boot, or when manually running ifup eth0
• does not reestablish connection when leaving wireless area and then returning
• does not support multiple wireless networks or open hotspots that you may travel between

Suspend

To make suspend available you have to install apmd:

apt-get install apmd

After that you can suspend your phone with:

apm -s

and make it wake up again with pressing the power button.

Wuth 06:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC): I found that apmd was already installed by using the official debian installation procedure, but that the kernel didn't support apm. I haven't yet resolved this issue.

Time

The default time zone is UTC. Reconfigure it by running

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Set the clock manual using, e.g.

# date -s 00:33

Issues:

• That's probably not sufficient to keep the clock accurate. It might be worth configuring some form of NTP.

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