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To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] CellPhone Hacking
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:50:32
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In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] CellPhone Hacking by Ned Ludd
1 Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > So I've had a fun past few weeks.
3 >
4 > I've had a HTC Wizard (arm926ej-s) phone for a while now that runs
5 > Windows Mobile 5. It's a nice little piece of hardware but it's WM5
6 > based so... A user joins the #gentoo-embedded channel asking for
7 > some help a few weeks ago saying he is trying to get linux running
8 > on the Wizard. I kinda laugh to myself. The user comes back a day
9 > or two later and is still working on it. We talk for a little while
10 > and he suggests I join #linwizard. Everything went downhill from
11 > there. Before I knew it I was completely redoing the entire
12 > userland and hacking up touchscreen ebuilds, keywording for ~arm
13 > left and right and making current gpe overlay ebuilds that
14 > cross compile. Anyway it's been going good and we just have a
15 > little more hardware to figure out before we can completely replace
16 > the WM5 image. I now have 423 pkgs cross compiled for
17 > armv5te-softfloat-linux-gnueabi.
18
19 Hello Ned,
20
21 Do you know which cellular carriers offer service, with this phone,
22 here in the US? My current provider is Alltel.
23
24
25 James
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] CellPhone Hacking Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>