Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Ron Minnich
yes, the driver thing is why we ran it as hosted inferno on the original. I still wish there is a way beyond it. On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM Dave MacFarlane via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > Quoth adventures in9 : > > The wifi was some realtek chip that ran over SDIO, so it would be > > s

[9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread ron minnich
I'm getting more and more bothered by the mountain of things going on in my phones that I can never understand. So I got curious and found this: https://www.instructables.com/Build-Your-Own-Smartphone/ and now I can't get a cellphone that runs plan 9 out of my head. Am I out of my head? ---

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Don Bailey
I've been wanting to do this for a while and tbh RISC-V makes it more cost effective / secure. D On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM ron minnich wrote: > I'm getting more and more bothered by the mountain of things going on in > my phones that I can never understand. > > So I got curious and found

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Andrew Back
On 20/01/2025 17:09, ron minnich wrote: I'm getting more and more bothered by the mountain of things going on in my phones that I can never understand. So I got curious and found this: https://www.instructables.com/Build-Your-Own-Smartphone/ www.instructables.com/Build-Your-Own-Smartphone/> a

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread noam
Quoth ron minnich : > Am I out of my head? I don't think so. It's not a bad idea. Not trivial, but shouldn't be terribly unreasonable. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T16bc2f805737b521-M7bb9eca48f554dae89f08d7b Delivery

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread sirjofri
Hi, 20.01.2025 19:07:27 ron minnich : > I'm getting more and more bothered by the mountain of things going on in my > phones that I can never understand.  > > So I got curious and found this: > https://www.instructables.com/Build-Your-Own-Smartphone/ > > and now I can't get a cellphone that runs

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2025-01-20 Thread tlaronde
The "free" account on github at least doesn't allow, when one has made a PR that had been merged, to sync the branch: the commits get in the way. I found this solution (browsing) and it seems to work: - Once a PR has been merged (and I have done nothing more on my branch), I invoke locally (unix

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Dave MacFarlane via 9fans
Quoth sirjofri : > Hi, > > 20.01.2025 19:07:27 ron minnich : > > > I'm getting more and more bothered by the mountain of things going on in my > > phones that I can never understand.  > > > > So I got curious and found this: > > https://www.instructables.com/Build-Your-Own-Smartphone/ > > > > an

Fwd: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Willow Liquorice
For anyone interested, you can find the 3GPP specs and reports on IMS through their (somewhat cursed) web portal: https://portal.3gpp.org/#/55936-specifications I'd poked around in them myself, as I thought I had a USB GSM modem knocking around here that I could try hacking on with 9front (I d

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Wes Kussmaul
On 1/20/25 12:09, ron minnich wrote: and now I can't get a cellphone that runs plan 9 out of my head. As long as you have that right idea, here's another one: Use a hardware platform built on RISC-V: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor Am I out of my head? No more th

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Michael Grunditz
mån 20 jan. 2025 kl. 19:42 skrev sirjofri : > Hi, > > 20.01.2025 19:07:27 ron minnich : > > > I'm getting more and more bothered by the mountain of things going on in > my phones that I can never understand. > > > > So I got curious and found this: > > https://www.instructables.com/Build-Your-Own-

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Andrew Back
On 20/01/2025 20:03, Willow Liquorice wrote: For anyone interested, you can find the 3GPP specs and reports on IMS through their (somewhat cursed) web portal: https://portal.3gpp.org/ #/55936-specifications I remember reading about the Osmocom project going through a lot of pain downloading s

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Kurt H Maier via 9fans
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 06:34:11PM +, Andrew Back wrote: > On 20/01/2025 17:09, ron minnich wrote: > > I'm getting more and more bothered by the mountain of things going on in > > my phones that I can never understand. > > > > So I got curious and found this: > > https://www.instructables.com/

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread Dave MacFarlane via 9fans
Quoth adventures in9 : > The wifi was some realtek chip that ran over SDIO, so it would be > something like the raspberry pi wifi driver. > Realtek RTL8723CS: https://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pine64/RTL8723BS.pdf > And iirc, the quectel eg25 cell radio had a usb interface. > It has a USB

Re: [9fans] hellaphone take 2

2025-01-20 Thread adventures in9
The PinePhones are the best bang for the buck when it comes to an open source smartphone. To add to what Dave says is done on the original A64 PinePhone; There is drivers and a file interface through #P for gate/reset and the clock. I only have the A64-LTS board, and I was originally working with