OpenMoko / Freerunner and Ubuntu

Sebastian Bergmann » 04 July 2008 » in Computers and Gadgets » 9 Comments

First error

Today I received my OpenMoko / FreeRunner mobile phone Linux computer.

Here is how I set up the USB networking between the FreeRunner and my notebook (which runs on Ubuntu Linux):

  1. sudo aptitude install dnsmasq
  2. sudo iptables -F
  3. sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0
  4. sudo route add 192.168.0.202 usb0
  5. sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -s 192.168.0.202 -j ACCEPT
  6. sudo iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -s 192.168.0.200 -j ACCEPT
  7. sudo iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.0.0/24
  8. sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Now you can log into the FreeRunner via SSH using ssh root@192.168.0.202 and the FreeRunner has network access through the USB connection.

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9 Comments to "OpenMoko / Freerunner and Ubuntu"

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  1. Balu
    05/07/2008 at 13:10 Permalink
    Und telefonieren kann man damit dann auch? :)

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  2. Sebastian Bergmann
    05/07/2008 at 22:00 Permalink
    Ah, yes: making and receiving phone calls also works.

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  3. Arne
    13/07/2008 at 18:28 Permalink
    Command no 8 doesn't do it for me: 'permission denied'. The following command does it, since the entire command is executed as root:
    > sudo bash -c 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'

    Cheers,
    Arne

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  4. Andre
    21/07/2008 at 16:04 Permalink
    I thought the freerunner had wifi capability. Why do USB networking?

    Still pretty neat though!

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  5. David
    26/07/2008 at 14:48 Permalink
    Thank you!!!!

    I received my FreeRunner three days ago and till now I wasn't able to set up USB networking.
    Command 8 hasn't worked for me so I have used Arne's.

    Thank you Sebastian, and thank you Arne!

    David

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  6. Cold-Gin
    06/10/2008 at 02:08 Permalink
    Thank you for this helpful page. I can SSH, but I cannot login. I have tried blank, openmoko, and simply enter for the root password, but no dice... Anybody have this problem? Thanks

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  7. Ester
    16/02/2009 at 11:15 Permalink
    Nothing worked for me. I can ssh from Freerunner to Ubuntu laptop but not from the laptop to the Freerunner, I get "Connection Refused". Firewall is set up to accept port 22 and ssh service, and I have installed everything I need. Is there an internal built-in firewall into the Freerunner by any chance?

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  8. rmatthew
    20/05/2009 at 06:24 Permalink
    This worked the first time for me woo-hoo

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  9. Ranjit
    29/04/2010 at 18:09 Permalink
    Just had trouble with the ssh and this worked like a magic wand...

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