Getting Started with your Neo 1973
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Some first steps guide for those who have just received their first Neo1973 hardware | Some first steps guide for those who have just received their first Neo1973 hardware | ||
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| + | == Hardware == | ||
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| + | === Powering up the phone === | ||
Just hitting the power button (depending on your [[u-boot]] version you have to press for >= 5 seconds) should get the phone first into the bootloader, then boot the kernel, and get into X/GPE. | Just hitting the power button (depending on your [[u-boot]] version you have to press for >= 5 seconds) should get the phone first into the bootloader, then boot the kernel, and get into X/GPE. | ||
| − | + | Once you have pressed the power button sufficiently long, the vibrator makes a short pulse and the screen backlight turns on. You can now releaes the power button and watch the phone booting. | |
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| + | === Powering down the phone === | ||
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| + | ==== While in bootloader mode, or if the phone has crashed ==== | ||
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| + | If you press the power button for 9 seconds, the phone will switch off. You can notice this by the backlight going dark. | ||
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| + | ==== While running a full linux system with userspace ==== | ||
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| + | In this mode, a power-button press of 5 seconds will be sufficient. After this, the init process will take care of safely shutting down the phone, which might take up to 20 extra seconds. The X server should get killed, you should drop back to a (garbled) console, and it should finally switch off - much like a regular Linux PC. | ||
== Getting shell access on the phone == | == Getting shell access on the phone == | ||
Revision as of 04:21, 28 February 2007
Some first steps guide for those who have just received their first Neo1973 hardware
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Hardware
Powering up the phone
Just hitting the power button (depending on your u-boot version you have to press for >= 5 seconds) should get the phone first into the bootloader, then boot the kernel, and get into X/GPE.
Once you have pressed the power button sufficiently long, the vibrator makes a short pulse and the screen backlight turns on. You can now releaes the power button and watch the phone booting.
Powering down the phone
While in bootloader mode, or if the phone has crashed
If you press the power button for 9 seconds, the phone will switch off. You can notice this by the backlight going dark.
While running a full linux system with userspace
In this mode, a power-button press of 5 seconds will be sufficient. After this, the init process will take care of safely shutting down the phone, which might take up to 20 extra seconds. The X server should get killed, you should drop back to a (garbled) console, and it should finally switch off - much like a regular Linux PC.
Getting shell access on the phone
By using the terminal emulator and on-screen keyboard
"Click" (using a stylus) the top-left arrow icon to get a drop-down menu with "Media", "Settings", "Utilities" and "Desktop". Choose "Utilities->Panel->Input Manager", and a keyboard icon will appear on the top bar. You can get an on-screen keyboard at any time by choosing it.
From the desktop, choose "Active tasks->rxvt" to get a root shell.
By using Ethernet emulation over a USB cable
The standard Neo1973 Linux kernel has support for the "cdc_ether USB gadget", i.e. a standard implementation of how to emulate an Ethernet device over USB.
As soon as the kernel is up and running, and you have the phone connected via USB, you should get a usb0 device on your host.
The Phone will have the IPv4 address 192.168.0.202/24. You can run `ifconfig` in the terminal on the phone to verify this (this is optional, just check it if it doesn't work given the instructions below)
If you plug a USB cable into a laptop running Linux, you'll likely see the "cdc_ether" kernel module being loaded and a usb0 network interface appear.
On the host PC, you should then configure your interface to 192.168.0.200 by using
# ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0
Then you should be able to
# ping 192.168.0.202
and last, but not least
# ssh root@192.168.0.202
Once you press 'enter' (empty password), you should now have a root login.
By using the debug board/serial/JTAG
Please see Debug Board#Usage_Instructions
