Hey! While we're on the subject,I have been searching for an answer for the following question: Is it possible to enable usb host mode on a 770 from a Mac? If so, can it be done with the Flasher GUI? From what I read there is a command line switch that needs to be entered prior to the flashing process. Thanks.

No, it's not possible from my GUI.

The command on Linux and Mac OS X is identical (modulo the different executable names). You could even use the executable command line flasher within the 770Flasher.app.

Flashing N800 and All I get is:
Nokia 770 Flasher for Mac OS X
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(c) Andrew Flegg 2005.
http://www.bleb.org/software/770/ Released under the Artistic Licence.

flasher v0.8.1 (Jun 8 2006)

Suitable USB device not found, waiting
To flash the bootloader, you have to supply the X-Loader image
SW version in image: RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.42-18_PR_MR0
Image 'kernel', size 1529856 bytes
Version 2.6.21.0-200743osso1
Image 'initfs', size 1945856 bytes
Version 0.95-61
Image 'rootfs', size 131334144 bytes
Version RX-34+RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.42-18_PR_MR0
Image '2nd', size 8192 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0701, 0702, 0703, 0704
Version 1.1.6-50
Image 'xloader', size 9088 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0701, 0702, 0703, 0704
Version 1.1.6-50
Image 'secondary', size 100352 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0701, 0702, 0703, 0704
Version 1.1.6-50
Image '2nd', size 8192 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0801, 0802, 0803, 0804
Version 1.1.6-50
Image 'xloader', size 9088 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0801, 0802, 0803, 0804
Version 1.1.6-50
Image 'secondary', size 100352 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0801, 0802, 0803, 0804
Version 1.1.6-50
Image '2nd', size 8192 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0601, 0602
Version 1.1.6-50
Image 'xloader', size 9088 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0601, 0602
Version 1.1.6-50
Image 'secondary', size 100352 bytes
Valid for RX-44: 0601, 0602
Version 1.1.6-50
USB device found found at bus 004, device address 003-0421-0105-02-00
Found device RX-34, hardware revision 1301
NOLO version 1.1.6
Version of 'sw-release': RX-34_2007SE_4.2007.26-8_PR_MR0

Not able to update my N800 with the same image as the one I used on the N810 ... getting the same stuff as @jupex with the 770Flasher - which has worked really well for me on quite a few firmware updates and tablets.

Firmware - RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.42-19_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin

You're trying to load OS2008 on an N800? I guess you know that there isn't an "official" release for N800 yet, only for N810. The problems you are seeing are likely because the firmware is for RX-44 hardware (N810) and the Flasher sees that you are trying to install it on RX-34 hardware (N800).

But if you want to go ahead anyway, then instead of using the 770Flasher, try flasher-2.0.macosx as described in post #2 here:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=11693

I flashed my 800 with the 810 image with osx just fine. Use the 2.0 flasher from the command line. Use the exact same commands as the linux how-to except for the name of the program.

As already noted in other discussions, Intel Macs poses some problems with the mac flasher.

Terminal, even in Rosetta mode in Leopard refuses to make execute it, being a PPC only binary. (probably because it interface directly with kernel level stuff, but i have to do some more investigation on the point ).

So, form the emulation side, I had just failures with Parallels (the last beta) , but luckily, VMWare worked fine and fast, with both Fedora and Ubuntu . A last (effective and FREE) resource is to boot the Mac with a bootable linux live cd, and Ubuntu worked fine in my case. (you need to burn a disk and reboot pressing the C key)

P.S. how to burn a disk image for free (no Roxio Tost needed)

1. After downloading the linux live disk image, Mac users can open Disk utility (present in the subdirectory Application/Utility)
2. drag the file over the left white and vertical column where you can see all the drives icons,
3. select the image's icon and click the burn icon present at the top of the windows.
4. Click burn on the next window
5. Insert a writable disk

Enjoy os2008

Intel Mac ... Trying to load the latest Parallels beta to see if that a) does not crash my MacBookPro and b) loads the software updater properly to flash the N800.

I have tried the 5540 build, (29 october) hand i had a lot of trouble uploading initfs.jffs2. The connections was failing due to a time out (and locking the VM for a long time, like 30 minutes)...

I hope the new beta (5570) will be capable to fix this, but this page tell nothing specifically about USB2 (maybe it is included in the generical Enhanced Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Support)

I can't get Parallels to load up ...