RE: [maemo-users] [Flasher] No suitable device found

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@okerson.com]
>Sent: 01 November, 2005 14:20
>To: Anttila Erkko (Nokia-M/Helsinki)
>Cc: linuxhippy@gmail.com; maemo-users@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@maemo.org
>>>[mailto:maemo-users-bounces@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Clemens
>>>Eisserer
>>>Sent: 01 November, 2005 13:45
>>>To: maemo-users@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@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
>>>
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erkko.anttila@nokia.com schrieb:

>Good point Ed!
>
>We need to do that change to the HOWTO, as it clearly is missing that
>step. Thank you very much.:)
>
>
>
Ok, but it is also described there:
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowDoiBecomeRoot

Cheers,

Timo

> >We need to do that change to the HOWTO, as it clearly is missing that
> >step. Thank you very much.:)
That was definitily the problem, after switching it on everything
worked like expected.
Wow that is great!

> Ok, but it is also described there:
> http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowDoiBecomeRoot
Yeah, but its my opinion that there should not be any incomplete documentation.

thanks, lg Clemens