Qtopia-interest Archive, January 2007
Troubleshooting a gph / greenphone connection
Message 1 in thread
I have a greenphone (SDK 4.17) and a laptop with kubuntu Edgy installed.
Following the instructions I was able to successfully flash the phone with
the firmware from the CD.
However, I have never been able to connect to the greenphone from within
VMWARE player. gph -net always fails. Further, I often get duplex problems
in vmplayer with repeated key presses.
Are there any trouble shooting guides for connecting to the phone from
within the VMWARE player?
Isn't there a way for me to just skip the VMWARE player and get the SDK
installed onto my Kubuntu laptop?
Thanks,
Sean
Message 2 in thread
Sean Kelley wrote:
> I have a greenphone (SDK 4.17) and a laptop with kubuntu Edgy
> installed. Following the instructions I was able to successfully
> flash the phone with the firmware from the CD.
>
> However, I have never been able to connect to the greenphone from
> within VMWARE player. gph -net always fails. Further, I often get
> duplex problems in vmplayer with repeated key presses.
>
> Are there any trouble shooting guides for connecting to the phone from
> within the VMWARE player?
>
> Isn't there a way for me to just skip the VMWARE player and get the
> SDK installed onto my Kubuntu laptop?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
I've got edgy at home, and found it's really sketchy with vmware in
general. Note, this is not official, and not supported, but will work:
http://blogs.qtdeveloper.net/archives/2006/12/07/greenphone-without-vmware/
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Message 3 in thread
Sean Kelley wrote:
> I have a greenphone (SDK 4.17) and a laptop with kubuntu Edgy
> installed. Following the instructions I was able to successfully flash
> the phone with the firmware from the CD.
>
> However, I have never been able to connect to the greenphone from within
> VMWARE player. gph -net always fails. Further, I often get duplex
> problems in vmplayer with repeated key presses.
>
> Are there any trouble shooting guides for connecting to the phone from
> within the VMWARE player?
>
> Isn't there a way for me to just skip the VMWARE player and get the SDK
> installed onto my Kubuntu laptop?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean
I have found that I sometimes have to run
sudo dhclient
in the sdk to 'restart' networking, and then sometimes I have to reboot
the Greenphone to get vmware to see the GP usb device.
I have seen the 'duplex' keypress problem when vmware is still trying to
restore memory from a suspended machine. If I wait a minute of so until
it gets fully restored, it clears itself.
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