[maemo-developers] Failing to connect with flasher

[From: brainstorm]

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On 4/10/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:46:41AM -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> > Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:35:21PM -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> > >> I am trying to connect to my N800 with flasher.  It freezes with
> > >>
> > >> Suitable USB device not found, waiting
> > > ...
> > >> I am on Kubuntu 6.10 using flasher 0.8.7.  Does anyone have a suggestion?
> >
> > I am using the program described as
> >
> > flasher-3.0  40236  flasher utility (Linux on Intel x86) for the Nokia N800
> > and 770
> >
> > at
> >
> > http://maemo.org/downloads/d3.php
> >
> > I checked the md5sum.  I downloaded the program again to be sure that this
> > is what I was using.  The program does run, but flasher --query-root-device
> > produces the above message.
>
> That's normal.  You run the flasher as root, then power off your N800,
> plug the USB cable, then power on the N800.  It will start talking to
> the flasher during its boot process.
>
> You can also hold down the Home key on the N800 while it's booting, to
> make sure it waits for the flasher.
>
> > But how, then, is anyone else using flash-3.0 with an N800?
>
> I am.  On Ubuntu 6.10.
>
> Marius Gedminas
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