so some guy started porting kismet (THE wireless sniffer/detector) to the
Nokia 770, see ApplicationCatalogWip entry.
It works in general but reports a bunch of ghost networks which makes it actually unusable,
I have just tried it (and was excited) but as soon as the ghost networks scroll by doh...
Anyway this looks promising, also I don't have to do it. Yea!
Planet maemo: category "feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186"
so I finally got over to watching videos on my 770 and I noticed that there is almost
no CPU usage while playing a video, so I guess the Nokia guys did a good job and heavily use
the DSP :) The only annoying thing is the video format and resolution restrictions but I guess
that comes with the low CPU usage.
Anyway I wrote a small script using a slightly modified version of peapod (a small command line based podcast receiver written in python) to download and convert the 20Uhr (8pm) Tagesschau for the 770. So now I can watch the Tagesschau by pointing my browser to my local webserver which holds the converted file, nice! Streaming would be awesome but I don't have the time to set this up. Also my room mate had the very interesting idea to just make a cgi/php/whatever to convert videos on-the-fly by just handing a URL over to the script running on a webserver.
Anyway I wrote a small script using a slightly modified version of peapod (a small command line based podcast receiver written in python) to download and convert the 20Uhr (8pm) Tagesschau for the 770. So now I can watch the Tagesschau by pointing my browser to my local webserver which holds the converted file, nice! Streaming would be awesome but I don't have the time to set this up. Also my room mate had the very interesting idea to just make a cgi/php/whatever to convert videos on-the-fly by just handing a URL over to the script running on a webserver.
just read it on the developer list and tried it right away, and yes it works. So
since firmware 51-13 (should be the latest) we have working monitor mode.
Since you need the Linux wireless tools to set monitor mode (iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor) and the 770 comes without them I complied and packed them. Download them here.
Since you need the Linux wireless tools to set monitor mode (iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor) and the 770 comes without them I complied and packed them. Download them here.
so I just uploaded a packaged version for the 770 of NMAP. Its a really cool thing to have on the 770. Especially since I now (Dec. 2005) own a cool Bluetooth keyboard (Stowaway Think Outside) which I got as a birthday present from my girl friend. It, together with
an xterm console, really makes your 770 more usable. I started installing all the necessary shell utilities
and now its just a cooler device. Also the keyboard applet is far from perfect right now. I have problems
getting enter/return working sometimes. Also the power save mode kicks in too often.
...is my latest Bluetooth tool. It's a soft-HID device as I call it. This is a
Bluetooth HID Keyboard software implementation. It turns your Linux box, PDA or
tablet into a Bluetooth HID Keyboard. This is the same thing some of the newer
cellphones have, now we have it for Linux!
This is the very first release, so expect it to be buggy. For example it doesn't support MacOSX by now (because I don't have a Mac) since MacOSX requires a other sub protocol (blablabla).
Check the xkbdbthid site and my Nokia770 page for downloads and instructions.
This is actually just my first HID tool, some more stuff is coming up but I just don't have any time now so I first release this cool thing for you.
Feedback is more then welcome as always!
This is the very first release, so expect it to be buggy. For example it doesn't support MacOSX by now (because I don't have a Mac) since MacOSX requires a other sub protocol (blablabla).
Check the xkbdbthid site and my Nokia770 page for downloads and instructions.
This is actually just my first HID tool, some more stuff is coming up but I just don't have any time now so I first release this cool thing for you.
Feedback is more then welcome as always!
Happy New Year, here is IpHome 0.2! Actually this was just a test tool
but so many people downloaded it and I got some emails with feature
request - so I decided to put in more features. Now you can cycle through
all interfaces which are up and have a IP address assigned. Just tap the
plugin display panel to switch to the next interface.
Download it from my 770 section.
Download it from my 770 section.
IpHome is a small and simple hildon homepage plugin that shows the current IP and
TX/RX bytes and errors. Its meant to be a first try homepage plugin, also I am an
information fetishist so I like to know whats going on on the network :-] I also
want to keep an eye on the network because of the wireless speed issues.
For those who don't know what hildon is, its the GUI system used by the Nokia 770.
Download is in my Nokia770 section, have fun.
while playing around in my home network I noticed that wireless is kind
of slow, I only have 1.5Mbit DSL so I didn't noticed it before. But now
I tried to download stuff from my laptop via FTP and boy this sucks. I
did a few tests with different security settings, since I use WPA and
WPA is done in software, I though this could be the problem. Here are
the results:
setup
I didn't try WPA-EPA (radius). Also I noticed that the download destination also impacts the speed. When writing to memory I couldn't get more then 160KB/s, so all test downloads were done to MMC.
setup
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WRT54GS - with wrt-dd #22 prefinal4
computer running Debian with proftpd (xinetd)
N770 with Opera as ftp client
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WPA-PSK TKIP+AES
ftp ~80KB/s (cpu maxed out)
WPA-PSK TKIP
ftp ~150KB/s (cpu maxed out)
WPA-PSK AES
can't connect
WEP 104bit
ftp ~400KB/s (peek ~560KB/s)
WEP 40bit
same as for 104bit
NONE
same as for WEP
I didn't try WPA-EPA (radius). Also I noticed that the download destination also impacts the speed. When writing to memory I couldn't get more then 160KB/s, so all test downloads were done to MMC.
after all the bashing against some of the 770 bugs I again have something nice to
say about it. I finally installed FBReader
and a bunch of e, pdfs and html-books. Now I use it as a handy reference manual,
search ability is so great (let's quick check which RFC xyz was specified in). It's not perfect
yet (perfect does not exist...).
To enjoy your 770 even more you need to be really nice and: don't open multiple websites at the same time (most of the sites just have too much junk and make opera eat your memory), be patient if things seem to hang it will recover faster if you don't try to switch apps, open the menu or change back to normal screen. Disabling flash in opera is also a good idea (I don't like it anyway - sometimes only for games).
Also by now I prefer the 770 over my h6315 for listening to podcasts. The 770 doesn't completely freeze when playing mp3s. It now happened multiple times that it suddenly stopped playing, every time I thought damn it it crashed again. But it didn't I only drained the battery to the ground - I guess thats a good sign :-)
To enjoy your 770 even more you need to be really nice and: don't open multiple websites at the same time (most of the sites just have too much junk and make opera eat your memory), be patient if things seem to hang it will recover faster if you don't try to switch apps, open the menu or change back to normal screen. Disabling flash in opera is also a good idea (I don't like it anyway - sometimes only for games).
Also by now I prefer the 770 over my h6315 for listening to podcasts. The 770 doesn't completely freeze when playing mp3s. It now happened multiple times that it suddenly stopped playing, every time I thought damn it it crashed again. But it didn't I only drained the battery to the ground - I guess thats a good sign :-)
ebook reading really seems to be the killer application for tablets and/or big-screen
PDAs (if there is a difference between them besides the lack of PIM tools). InternetTabletTalk
[1, 2] amongst many seem to think this way. Also yesterday at a friends
birthday party (90% IT workers aka GEEKs) we had a short discussion about PDAs, portable media players and friends. Many of us came to the conclusion that we want a viewing devices. This means
mainly: PDFs, HTML and insert popular ebook format here. Everybody complained about their
favorite device either the screen is to small or unreadable outside, the device is too slow when
rendering content, storage is to limited or DRM sucks to badly. Also what about watching
movies on the same device? Na - we don't want that, that just makes the device to multi purpose
and that never works out well.
As a comment to Russell's review, I really think Internet access is the killer application for the Nokia 770. All the other features are just add-ons. Of course you need the special viewers (web browser, rss reader, audio streaming client and all the different format readers).
Finally what I would like to know is, if people carry around their 770 during the day (when you are not at home/office)? Are you carrying it around with your cellphone or do you keep it at home close to your couch and fast wifi access? I personal only take it to places where I know wifi is available for me.
As a comment to Russell's review, I really think Internet access is the killer application for the Nokia 770. All the other features are just add-ons. Of course you need the special viewers (web browser, rss reader, audio streaming client and all the different format readers).
Finally what I would like to know is, if people carry around their 770 during the day (when you are not at home/office)? Are you carrying it around with your cellphone or do you keep it at home close to your couch and fast wifi access? I personal only take it to places where I know wifi is available for me.