Good point Ed! We need to do that change to the HOWTO, as it clearly is missing that step. Thank you very much.:) Br, Erkko Anttila >-----Original Message----- >From: ext Ed Okerson [mailto:ed at okerson.com] >Sent: 01 November, 2005 14:20 >To: Anttila Erkko (Nokia-M/Helsinki) >Cc: linuxhippy at gmail.com; maemo-users at maemo.org >Subject: RE: [maemo-users] [Flasher] No suitable device found > >Those directions seem to be just short of complete. It should be: > >-Be root on your PC >-Turn off the Nokia 770 >-Connect the USB cable > >./flasher -F Nokia_770_0.2005.42-9.bin -f -R > >When you see "Suitable USB device not found, waiting" TURN ON THE 770. >Flashing will begin as soon as the device is turned on. > >Even the howto on the web page does not say you must turn on >the device after running flasher. Very important last step. >If you don't, then flasher will sit in the waiting state forever. > >Ed > >> >> Did you try to follow the HOWTO on flashing? >> >> >http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_use_flasher_rootfs.htm >> l >> >> For the software image you just have to change the parameter used to >> -F like you allready did. It should work on Fedora Core 4. >> >> The steps you have to take before Flashing should be -Be >root on your >> PC -Turn off the Nokia 770 -Connect the USB cable >> >> After these you can start the flasher from the commandline. >Hope this >> helps. >> >> Br, >> Erkko Anttila >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org >>>[mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Clemens >>>Eisserer >>>Sent: 01 November, 2005 13:45 >>>To: maemo-users at maemo.org >>>Subject: [maemo-users] [Flasher] No suitable device found >>> >>>Hello, >>> >>>first of all sorry if this is a double-post, I posted it already but >>>the attachement was too big and with my gmail setting I cannot check >>>wether the mail really received the list. >>> >>>since I am a bit unhappy about the bugs in my Nokia770 I was really >>>happy when I heard that Nokia really delivers updates to their >>>customers. >>>When I remember back to my Motorola phone (now I own a Nokia too but >>>its stable and works 100% fine) it was really horrible, >russian tools >>>with russian software from untrusted cracker sites. However >it worked >>>too after a day or two ;-) >>> >>>Always when I start the flasher tool as user root I get the >following >>>output, regardless wether the device is turned off, on or even >>>plugged/unplugged. >>>I am using Fedora Core 4 updated to some 2.6.13 kernel (fedora >>>compilation). >>> >>>[root at ce gpe]# ./flasher -F Nokia_770_0.2005.42-9.bin -f -R Found >>>image 2nd (length 8576) Found image secondary (length >>>79360) Found image xloader (length 13824) Found image initfs (length >>>1576704) Found image kernel (length 1480704) Found image rootfs >>>(length 57540608) Suitable USB device not found, waiting >>> >>>It would be really great if anybody could help me since I don't know >>>any further. >>>I attached the strace-log of the flasher utility, maybe this >can help >>>identifying whats going wrong. It seems the device tries to >open some >>>files in /proc/bus/usb/XYZ but is not successful. >>>Should I really turn off the divice? Should I unload the usb-storage >>>modules? >>>Anything else I should take care of? >>> >>>lg Clemens >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-users mailing list >> maemo-users at maemo.org >> https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >> > > >
