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Forum: Nokia 770 2007-06-09, 01:40
Replies: 27
Views: 8,173
Posted By Neil McAllister
Re: just brought a 770, fine of 2hours then wifi goes blind

I doubt it's any consolation, but mine did the exact same thing. For a long time my WiFi worked more-or-less fine, except that it would freak out when there were a lot of networks in the area and...
Forum: Troubleshooting 2007-01-23, 01:33
Replies: 1
Views: 2,696
Posted By Neil McAllister
Question Can't read 1GB RS-MMC ... on my PC??

Hey, I just noticed something bothersome over the weekend : For some reason, the built-in SD/MMC card reader on my Fujitsu laptop can't read the 1GB RS-MMC card that's in my Nokia 770. It reads fine...
Forum: General 2007-01-16, 22:02
Replies: 3
Views: 1,958
Posted By Neil McAllister
Re: Blackberry to Linux Will NOT Work

I can pair my BlackBerry 8100 with my 770 via Bluetooth and supposedly the 8100 exports a desktop connectivity service. Some MacBook Pro users have managed to use it as a wireless modem over...
Forum: Troubleshooting 2007-01-09, 22:27
Replies: 1
Views: 1,522
Posted By Neil McAllister
Re: FBReader question

Make an HTML file. Do a non-breaking space ( &nbsp; ) followed by a break (<br>). This should skip a blank line.
Forum: Troubleshooting 2007-01-09, 22:24
Replies: 20
Views: 4,986
Posted By Neil McAllister
Re: Connect to WLAN from command line

I have heard that the DHCP client on the 770 is called 'udhcpc', but I haven't had any real luck with it. I was hoping the command line would give me a second crack at DHCP when my 770 fails with the...
Forum: Troubleshooting 2006-10-25, 21:33
Replies: 100
Views: 29,157
Posted By Neil McAllister
Has there been any progress at all on the "link...

Has there been any progress at all on the "link local" IP address issue? My 770 seems to be unable to get an address from DHCP anytime I'm in an area where lots of wireless networks are visible. If...
Forum: General 2006-08-29, 00:26
Replies: 63
Views: 12,401
Posted By Neil McAllister
It looks nice, but I don't think it's for me....

It looks nice, but I don't think it's for me. Definitely a "stay-at-home" stand vs. the one it comes with, which can be taken down and transported in a carry-on bag quite easily (folds flat, no metal...
Forum: General 2006-08-14, 21:48
Replies: 5
Views: 1,931
Posted By Neil McAllister
Loaner 770s for press at LinuxWorld

I thought this was sort of interesting ... at the press registration booth at LinuxWorld Expo here in San Francisco, there's a big stack of flyers giving the tech specs of the Nokia 770, sitting...
Forum: Troubleshooting 2006-07-13, 23:06
Replies: 5
Views: 3,430
Posted By Neil McAllister
For what it's worth, I can confirm that my 770...

For what it's worth, I can confirm that my 770 was successfully able to connect to my home router using either WPA or WPA2, with either regular PSK or AES compression. No hiccups whatever the...
Forum: Community 2006-07-07, 22:00
Replies: 3
Views: 2,482
Posted By Neil McAllister
One way to recover "wasted" screen real estate...

One way to recover "wasted" screen real estate would be to not maximize your browser window.
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2006-07-07, 21:58
Replies: 13
Views: 3,622
Posted By Neil McAllister
I've noticed two problems with WiFi on the 2006...

I've noticed two problems with WiFi on the 2006 OS:

1.) The connection problems I had at work are back. With the initial 2005 OS I couldn't connect to my office WLAN except with a link-local IP...
Forum: Upgrading 2006-07-07, 00:37
Replies: 7
Views: 3,192
Posted By Neil McAllister
Well, let's be fair. It gives you Web browsing,...

Well, let's be fair. It gives you Web browsing, at any rate.
Forum: General 2006-07-05, 20:41
Replies: 14
Views: 3,724
Posted By Neil McAllister
Sorry if I'm missing something, because I'm...

Sorry if I'm missing something, because I'm pretty much exclusively Windows/Linux these days, but last I heard there was a Mac OS X flasher for the 770....
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2006-06-27, 23:28
Replies: 8
Views: 2,566
Posted By Neil McAllister
Milhouse, my understanding was that gunzip won't...

Milhouse, my understanding was that gunzip won't work on a ZIP archive that contains multiple files.

Ceklund, I didn't read at first that the 770 is your only computer. Unfortunately it wasn't...
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2006-06-27, 22:55
Replies: 8
Views: 2,566
Posted By Neil McAllister
There isn't "no way" to use ZIP or RAR archives...

There isn't "no way" to use ZIP or RAR archives on the 770. I've said as much several times on these forums and I'll say it again.

If you want a command-line version of unrar, download this...
Forum: OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale 2006-06-27, 01:13
Replies: 0
Views: 1,490
Posted By Neil McAllister
WiFi problems back in Maemo 2.0

With the early firmwares for the 770 I had a problem with the wireless routers at my office, where it would associate with the network properly but would not pick up an IP address from the DHCP...
Forum: Applications 2006-06-20, 02:20
Replies: 48
Views: 20,555
Posted By Neil McAllister
I wouldn't fret about RAR. You don't need the...

I wouldn't fret about RAR. You don't need the full RAR package, you only need unrar. There are ARM binaries of the command line unrar utility available for various Linux distributions. I have one...
Forum: General 2006-05-24, 22:30
Replies: 64
Views: 11,741
Posted By Neil McAllister
I have some cracks on mine also, but so far they...

I have some cracks on mine also, but so far they don't seem to affect anything other than cosmetically.
Forum: General 2006-05-19, 20:58
Replies: 18
Views: 5,053
Posted By Neil McAllister
Nothing for CBR/CBZ so far. (These are basically...

Nothing for CBR/CBZ so far. (These are basically compressed RAR or ZIP files that contain a series of images, usually used for saving scans of comic books and graphic novels.) I've thought about...
Forum: Development 2006-05-10, 04:40
Replies: 12
Views: 6,660
Posted By Neil McAllister
Visual Basic

In theory it should be possible to write some kind of application using Visual Basic.Net, provided you're writing managed code, because Mono, the open source .Net clone for Linux, runs on the 770....
Forum: Upgrading 2006-05-09, 18:51
Replies: 11
Views: 5,523
Posted By Neil McAllister
I too have noticed weirdness with changing themes...

I too have noticed weirdness with changing themes and the latest firmware. I'm not doing anything special -- just trying out the built-in themes and wallpapers. They seem to take a long time to load...
Forum: Upgrading 2006-05-09, 18:48
Replies: 20
Views: 5,950
Posted By Neil McAllister
Mine's been in R&D mode the whole time and I've...

Mine's been in R&D mode the whole time and I've never questioned it, even after flashing the latest firmware. The cosmetic "issues" on bootup are nothing to people who have been using Linux for a...
Forum: Upgrading 2006-05-09, 18:45
Replies: 2
Views: 2,603
Posted By Neil McAllister
I'm not sure I understand all this fuss about...

I'm not sure I understand all this fuss about swap. The latest firmware image seems to have solved the memory issues I was having with Opera. Rather than building in some kind of nonstandard hack,...
Forum: General 2006-04-27, 22:33
Replies: 13
Views: 4,331
Posted By Neil McAllister
Probably, but you may find a Windows utility that...

Probably, but you may find a Windows utility that can pop open that file. In fact, I think WinRar can do it. You need to be sure there's a binary executable inside that file, though. Without a Unix...
Forum: Upgrading 2006-04-25, 20:10
Replies: 173
Views: 72,915
Posted By Neil McAllister
OK, apologies if everybody understands this but...

OK, apologies if everybody understands this but me, but this is a long thread and the answer to me seems unclear.

Why, exactly, would we want to do this?

Personally, extending the internal...
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