What's wrong with the guide here?
http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi..._to_a_computer

:O It says that becomeroot can brick the device. :-(, thats scary stuff for a newb.

When i flash the kernel will I lose any data? Should I backup stuff?

Mmk I can't get paste the part where your supposed to copy the files to the root or w/e.

The name of my n800 is "Noyz's n800" and I put the files inside that directory, not inside any folders. What would be the command string to cp from that directory?

i keep using "home/user/MyDocs/sdhc-kernel-3.2007.10.bin" and it says no such file/directory. >_< so frustrating.

Hooray, I think I just did it. Thank-you fanoush!!! HELP VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!! Thank-you others who made attempts at explaining to us noobs. That guide REALLY helped.

Will this new OS/kernal be of any help in enabling a USB slave drive (I understand I'd have to provide my on USB power)?

I would REALLY love to be able to attach an external 2.5" drive, and be able to transfer photos from my camera to it via the tablet when on my travels ( amongst other things).

Meanwhile, being able to use 16 gigs of sdram sounds very impressive indeed!

(why...my old Commodore 64....)

> Meanwhile, being able to use 16 gigs of sdram sounds very impressive indeed!
Flash is not SDRAM. RAM loses data when power is lost, flash does not.RAM is very fast in read, write and rewrite.Flash is a slower in read, and slow\tricky in (re)write and number of rewrites is actually limited(but you're rarely have chances to encounter problems since guaranteed cycles is 100 000 to 10 000 000 for modern flash ICs, but RAM has "infinite" amount of rewrites).RAM is usually capable of executing code directly from it.Flash ... well, only certain kinds only, programs from SD\MMC have to be reloaded to RAM before execution begins.So, with 16G flash you're like having 16Gb fast HDD rather than like having 16G SDRAM.

@xandor: As far as I know the SDHC kernel doesn't include the patches for USB host support, that's a different project. It should be possible to bring the two sets of patches into one single combined kernel though. Someone has to do the actual work however.

That guide worked like a charm...thanks fanoush! I don't know if you did the wiki entry, but I know the flasher util is yours, so I'll give you full credit. If this wiki entry could be stickied somewhere, it should, because that is by far the easiest method I have come across. Plus, it's nice to be able to do the entire process from the N800.

I went down that list and did each item, and now my two Patriot 8GB (Class4) cards are working perfectly after a reboot. The control panel "Memory" applet reports each card as having 7.62 GB free right out of the box.

I just hope Nokia can add in native SDHC support in any future firmware updates, because it's obvious there is quite a demand for it, especially with the falling prices of SDHC cards...

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Well, yes, but it is slightly more dangerous in the sense that if you flash wrong or incomplete kernel, you have device which doesn't boot and then you need to learn many relatively advanced things (i.e getting linux flasher working over usb) to get it working again. If you learn how to use nokia linux flasher before doing this, you just try again without any sweat. So basically with my flasher you can shoot yourself in the foot quite easily and then be surprised. But if everything goes ok (like kernel download being not corrupted or battery not going empty in the middle of flashing) it works just fine. In fact I need to implement at least kernel size checking to prevent incomplete kernels from flashing. It is in my TODO list for some time. I should do it or sooner or later someone may be very surprised.