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Forum: Nokia N810 2011-06-20, 20:24
Replies: 11
Views: 6,857
Posted By skatebiker
Re: Use N810 as Wifi router ?

I know that is rather easy.
But the other option (if I have only an iPad and N810 available e.g. during travel.

I know there is a builtin iptables , can I use this app as a router software ?
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-06-20, 13:30
Replies: 11
Views: 6,857
Posted By skatebiker
Use N810 as Wifi router ?

For transferring files between N810 and an iPad or Macbook, you need a router. Now my question is when a router is unavailable, (e.g. on travel) there is no way to connect devices without a router. ...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-05-20, 13:26
Replies: 0
Views: 2,718
Posted By skatebiker
How do I configure OpenVPN ?

I have OpenVPN installed on my N810, Macbook Pro and Linux box.

On all three it works when connected to Wifi.

When connected to a 3G phone over Bluetooth it works as well (the browser shows...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-18, 08:03
Replies: 1
Views: 2,564
Posted By skatebiker
How do I start a daemon automatically ?

After installing avahi-daemon I noticed that avahi-daemon is not started automatically.

How can I let the device start this daemon


/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start


automatically after boot...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-16, 20:22
Replies: 2
Views: 2,561
Posted By skatebiker
Re: Sharing N810 hostname in local network: how to ?

Thanks, the first part did work so my device is recognized as 'pocketpenguin.local' from the local network.
But the second part did not. Installing the package resulted in repo errors.
apt-get -f...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-11, 09:15
Replies: 2
Views: 2,561
Posted By skatebiker
Sharing N810 hostname in local network: how to ?

On my Linux 11.04 box and Macbook (and even iPad) the hostname is shared with the local network with the .local TLD (e.g. mymacbook.local). These devices are reachable from all other devices by this...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-10, 14:53
Replies: 2
Views: 3,662
Posted By skatebiker
Re: /var/lib/apt/lists grows very quickly

But 20MB in one day without installing any new apps is a bit excessive ...
I worked around by moving the folder contents to a folder on the freshly ext3 formatted mmc2 and symlinking to it. That...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-10, 07:49
Replies: 2
Views: 3,331
Posted By skatebiker
Re: connect n810 to multiple usb devices - usb hub?

I did it a year ago using the USB Host app.
Iconnected a powered USB hub in which a USB stick and a multi card reader with a CD card was plugged. It worked.
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-09, 19:50
Replies: 2
Views: 3,662
Posted By skatebiker
/var/lib/apt/lists grows very quickly

I found out when running df -h on my n810 that the internal flas memory grew from 160M to 222M by installing just a 1 M app.

Running

du | sort -n > /media/mmc1/x
[code]
(sorted by size) and...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-09, 08:04
Replies: 3
Views: 2,782
Posted By skatebiker
Re: N810: How do I make an ext3 partition ?

@Fragos:

I already resolved it. During reformat to ext3 I forgot to reboot the device before executing mkfs.ext3.
After a second attempt everyting worked fine and both Mac OS (+MacFUSE 2.1.9) and...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-08, 16:27
Replies: 0
Views: 1,953
Posted By skatebiker
Ext3 filesystem on internal mmc2 works fine !

Finally I got it !

I installed the ext3 FS on /media/mmc1 following the procedure to reformat the internal card but using mkfs.ext3 rather than mkdosfs.
This tool can be obtained by

apt-get...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-08, 10:24
Replies: 3
Views: 2,782
Posted By skatebiker
Re: N810: How do I make an ext3 partition ?

UPDATE:

I found e2fstools which I installed with apt-get.

Now I got my mmc2 to ext3.

The only problem is that it cannot be mounted on a Mac (10.6+MacFuse+ExtFS) or Linux (11.04) . The Linux...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-05-08, 08:45
Replies: 3
Views: 2,782
Posted By skatebiker
N810: How do I make an ext3 partition ?

On the N810 I am missing the mkfs or mkfs.ext3 command.
How can I reformat /media/mmc2 to ext3 ?
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-04-03, 07:44
Replies: 2
Views: 3,274
Posted By skatebiker
Fun! The iPad can easily connect with the N810 !

Last week I bought an iPad 2. I was testing the file managers iStorage and Goodreader. Both apps can connect to an SFTP server, so I tried my N810 and voila ! it works (I have sshd installed on the...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-04-02, 11:11
Replies: 4
Views: 2,987
Posted By skatebiker
Re: Problem flashing N810

And you should be root or type "sudo flasher-3.0 -f -b -k zImage" from the terminal after you connect the N810 to the USB while the topmost button left of the display (under the camera eye) is held...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-04-01, 07:50
Replies: 1
Views: 2,871
Posted By skatebiker
Reformat mmc2 as ext3 what should I do with mmc-mount ?

I want to reformat the internal mmc2 to ext3 to allow setting rights, etc.

But this file /usr/sbin/mmc-mount contains a hard reference to fat32.


#!/bin/sh
mount -t vfat -o...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-04-01, 07:24
Replies: 2
Views: 2,636
Posted By skatebiker
Re: My N810 has died?

I had the samne proble a year ago.
I reflashed the device and restored my backup (which also allowed to reinstall the applications when it is connected to internet) and everything worked fine.
Forum: Nokia N900 2011-03-30, 08:13
Replies: 15
Views: 9,212
Posted By skatebiker
Re: Opera Mobile 11 stucks

Try to remove (or rename) /home/user/.opera and reinstall.

I installed Opera 11 beta 7 as well via the Application Manager on my N810. No problems, but only a few differneces.
The html5test.com...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-03-17, 08:48
Replies: 3
Views: 3,561
Posted By skatebiker
Re: Proof: spontaneous reboots is a software problem

Thanks for your reply.
My N810 reboots usually when it is &not* connected to the charger. I just added some small wrapped pieces of aluminum foil in the battery contacts to improve contact, thus to...
Forum: Nokia N810 2011-03-16, 08:38
Replies: 3
Views: 3,561
Posted By skatebiker
Proof: spontaneous reboots is a software problem

After several tries on my N810 to fight the spontaneous reboots and tips of forum members that it is a battery problem, I finally found out this:

- The Turbo Diable kernel...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-03-13, 10:43
Replies: 10
Views: 22,525
Posted By skatebiker
mplayer does not play back 360p (youtube-dl-x, mytube)

Using mytube I replaced youtube-dl-x by the new python script which works on both the N810 and the Ubuntu on my laptop.
It downloads but the videos are 360p and mplayer on the N810 does not play...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-03-10, 21:58
Replies: 613
Views: 248,076
Posted By skatebiker
Re: ANNOUNCE: Diablo-Turbo first beta available

With wifi on and no progs running (browserd is disabled) it also reboots, on average once a day.
I affixed the battery with a piece of cardboard at the bottom of the battery (advice of @maacruz,...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-03-10, 19:11
Replies: 613
Views: 248,076
Posted By skatebiker
Re: ANNOUNCE: Diablo-Turbo first beta available

How can I revert to the old kernel ?

Since I installed the new kernel, the device reboots when using the Tear browser, streamripper, etc.
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-03-09, 11:10
Replies: 613
Views: 248,076
Posted By skatebiker
Re: ANNOUNCE: Diablo-Turbo first beta available

The battery is an original Nokia one ordered via eBay.
The only possible hardware fauly might be the MMC1 card which is a 3rd party Micro SD card in a Mini adapter. Can that be qa problem ?
I did...
Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo 2011-03-09, 07:52
Replies: 613
Views: 248,076
Posted By skatebiker
Re: ANNOUNCE: Diablo-Turbo first beta available

Faulty hardware ?
Old batteries ?

The battery is renewed 6 months ago and how do you think I have 'faulty hardware' ?
It is the same unmodded N810 as I bought it in Sept 2008.

And I do not...
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