Maemo PC Connectivity 2nd Edition final released

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2009-12-23 07:08 UTC by Jarmo Tikka

The Maemo PC Connectivity 2nd Edition project has reached its final release

Maemo PC Connectivity 2nd Edition will offer professional features and future proof framework for Maemo device and host PC integration. Maemo PC Connectivity is one of the main products used by Maemo Diablo and Fremantle development environments.

Maemo PC Connectivity 2nd Edition Final release supports Maemo N900, N800, N810 and N810 Wimax Edition devices.

Notice especially that 2nd Edition Final release replaces previously released Maemo PC Connectivity 1st Edition Final release and all 2nd Edition prereleases. Support for all previous releases is discontinued and their deliverables and documentation will not be maintained anymore.

Release Information

Project: Maemo PC Connectivity 2nd Edition
Version: Final version 2.0
Baselines: Maemo N900, N800, N810 and N810 Wimax Edition devices
Date: 2009-12-23

Detailed release information is available from Final release documentation

General Information

High level documentation about Maemo PC Connectivity is available from maemo.org site Maemo PC Connectivity pages.

Maemo PC Connectivity supports following 32-bit x86 PC operating systems with specific installation packages

  • full support for Debian based Linuxes (like Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 and Karmic 9.10)
  • good support for Windows XP with SP3, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • beta level support for Fedora 11, Windows Vista with SP2 and Windows 7

Support for other than above listed PC operating systems has not been tested but should be possible if functionality provided by Host PC Connectivity is available for that operating system. For most Linuxes needed functionality is available by default but requires manual installation and configuration on PC.

Maemo PC Connectivity 2nd Edition includes the following components

  • Maemo PC Connectivity for Maemo devices (Diablo extras and Fremantle extras-devel repository versions)
  • Host PC Connectivity for Debian based Linuxes, Windows and Mac OS X host PCs (PC Connectivity Garage project versions)

Main Features

Detailed list of features supported can be found from maemo.org wiki Feature Plan page.

Here is (very) short list of main features

  • Full support for Maemo N900, N800, N810 and N810 Wimax Edition devices
  • Full support for Maemo Diablo 4.1.2 and Fremantle 5.0 SDKs
  • Full support for Debian based Linuxes like Ubuntu and Debian
  • Good support for Windows XP with SP3, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Beta support for Windows Vista with SP2 and Windows 7
  • VNC support for Maemo device with host PC native GUI client (TightVNC) and Eclipse VNC plugin
  • FTP support for Maemo device with host PC native GUI client (FileZilla)
  • RDesktop support for Maemo device to enable desktop share access using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to Windows PCs
  • RSync support for Maemo device to backup and syncronize files between host PC and Maemo device
  • Support for USB, BlueTooth and WLAN connectivity methods between Maemo device and host PC
  • Support for IP Forwarding to allow Maemo device and host PC to share same network connection
  • Support for SSH, RSE and SBRSH connection types between Maemo device and host PC
  • Easy configuration and usage of connectivity with ZeroConf (Avahi), DHCP and configuration tools
  • etc


Complete feature lists and installation instructions for all components can be found from Maemo Garage project pages.

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Possible feedback can be sent to eclipse-integration@maemo.org.

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Jarmo Tikka
Jarmo Tikka
Karma: 236

As a (very) short summary Maemo PC Connectivity provides USB, BlueTooth and WLAN connectivity framework with standard services (like SSH, NFS, SFTP, VNC, DHCP, ZeroConf, Rsync, ...) for Maemo device (N8x0/900). PC Connectivity is not direct replacement for PC Suite but you can do most of the stuff PC Suite does (and more :) with it and Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool. Maemo PC Connectivity still requires understanding and usage of command line tools so it is not yet end-user product but maybe in future...

2010-01-04 06:24 UTC
Philip Langdale
Philip Langdale
Karma: 259

It's useful for non-developers with N900s who want to use Bluetooth PAN or have the device share a PC's network connection. It's a small fraction of what the software actually does so you have to dig pretty deep into the documentation to realise it.

2010-01-01 18:22 UTC
Duncan Murray
Duncan Murray
Karma: 5

Excuse my ignorance, but is this software useful for non-developers. As a user of Ubuntu and with no desire to use Windows for PC Suite, can I use this software to perform maintenence on the phone - i.e. firmware updates, backups etc...?

2009-12-29 20:56 UTC
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