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Previous, partly now outdated information on how to install Debian manually has been moved to Manual Debian.
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
For testing programs running on the Openmoko's display but invoked remotely, you need to specify the display. E.g.
# DISPLAY=:0 tangogps
For debugging, you may want to have some programs run on the Openmoko but display on your remote display. To do that, install:
# apt-get install xauth
And connect using:
$ ssh -X root@192.168.0.202
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:
ifup eth0
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.
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The default time zone is UTC. Reconfigure it by running
# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Set the clock manual using, e.g.
# date -s 00:33
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Tangogps is a very nice GPS mapping application. The latest version is available in Debian.
Unfortunately it depends on gpsd which conflicts with frameworkd in fso-frameworkd.
# apt-get install gpsd tangogps
Edit /etc/frameworkd.conf
. In the section [ogpsd]<code>, edit to read:
# path = /dev/ttySAC1 path = /dev/null
Reboot to enable this configuration.
# dpkg-reconfigure gpsd
Start tangogps like this:
# echo 1 >/sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron
Turns the GPS on.
# DISPLAY=:0 tangogps
Issues:
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