Planet Maemo: category "feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186" Blog entries from Maemo community http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:04:37 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.6(BH) en planet@maemo.org iPhone 3G vs N810 http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/09/12#iphone3gvsn810 I only have to carry one device and have connectivity in most places factor just kicks ass.

Some points where the N810 still is slightly ahead: web browsing (big screen, flash), the hardware keyboard (nothing beats this on a shell), and of course the open source platform.

I'm sure that I will continue using my N810 for specific tasks once in awhile.


Befreiphone3 Add to favourites13 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:33:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-48400c7481c811dd95e95f2f71cf9d5f9d5f OLSRd 0.5.5 for Maemo http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/07/28#olsr055maemo OLSRd.

The package is in my Chinook repository, this is here.

Direct download is here

btw. this is due to some bugging by Gramels :-) Do you have free Internet again?1 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:08:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-86d8d2565d0e11ddbd3a8d7bd7f0e507e507 N810 on Vacation http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/04/10#n810_on_vacation free WiFi at all most every place we visited so I could use my N810 for Twitter (don't ask it is a private stream) to tell some stories directly from the vacation. One of the best things ever, we only needed one battery charger for three devices (we only had Nokia devices with us).

I already take the N810 every place I go while at home but now I'll take it on vacation too :-)4 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:03:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-d718efc806f911dd93723d5cb9a7a76fa76f My N810 Review http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/02/18#myn810review
Good:
  • The Keyboard, I really love it. I noticed that I use it a lot (for everything possible).

  • Hardware buttons. Screen maximize/minimize moved to the left. New screen-lock button. This is really improves usability, excellent!

  • Look-and-feel, pretty awesome.

  • Speakers, they make NOISE!!1


Bad:
  • GPS fix time, almost unusable.

  • Mini SD slot. Is there really not enough space to put in a normal-sized SD/MMC slot?

  • Micro-USB, WTF?

  • The keyboard layout, missing symbols (pipe and tab). See solution below.


In order to make the device hacker compatible one needs to modify the keyboard layout and at least add a PIPE and a TAB key. This can be easily done by editing the X11 keyboard layout. Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility had some small discussion in his blog. For now I made TAB to be Fn-Space and PIPE to be Shift-Minus. This way I don't loose either Euro nor Sterling/Pound.

Some must haves:

Configuration:
    update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove (this thing sucks!)

    gconftool -s -t string /system/osso/connectivity/IAP/DEFAULT/type DUMMY (you need this to play with the network)

Software:
    Statusbar Load-Applet (CPU and MEM usage)
    IpHome Home Applet (show IP address)
    Important command line utils: SSH, mtr, bluez-utils, nmap, socat, wireless-tools, dsniff, ...


New stuff I've been thinking about: Location Home-applet, shows current position (maybe with street name lookup). Temperature Home-applet (see internal-temp app). New hardware-keyboard-based version of xkbd-bthid, also I need to support Windows and MacOSX (this will take some time).

Any comments or ideas for applications?3 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:52:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-9725db2addb811dcb5fa755f3cb5c7ffc7ff My N810 Review http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/02/17#myn810review
Good:
  • The Keyboard, I really love it. I noticed that I use it a lot (for everything possible).

  • Hardware buttons. Screen maximize/minimize moved to the left. New screen-lock button. This is really improves usability, excellent!

  • Look-and-feel, pretty awesome.

  • Speakers, they make NOISE!!1


Bad:
  • GPS fix time, almost unusable.

  • Mini SD slot. Is there really not enough space to put in a normal-sized SD/MMC slot?

  • Micro-USB, WTF?

  • The keyboard layout, missing symbols (pipe and tab). See solution below.


In order to make the device hacker compatible one needs to modify the keyboard layout and at least add a PIPE and a TAB key. This can be easily done by editing the X11 keyboard layout. Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility had some small discussion in his blog. For now I made TAB to be Fn-Space and PIPE to be Shift-Minus. This way I don't loose either Euro nor Sterling/Pound.

Some must haves:

Configuration:
    update-rc.d -f metalayer-crawler0 remove (this thing sucks!)

    gconftool -s -t string /system/osso/connectivity/IAP/DEFAULT/type DUMMY (you need this to play with the network)

Software:
    Statusbar Load-Applet (CPU and MEM usage)
    IpHome Home Applet (show IP address)
    Important command line utils: SSH, mtr, bluez-utils, nmap, socat, wireless-tools, dsniff, ...


New stuff I've been thinking about: Location Home-applet, shows current position (maybe with street name lookup). Temperature Home-applet (see internal-temp app). New hardware-keyboard-based version of xkbd-bthid, also I need to support Windows and MacOSX (this will take some time).

Any comments or ideas for applications?0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:52:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e44e3ceafd8ddc4e3c11e4a805c9cb6dd974797479 N810 got it! http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/02/13#N810gotit
More in the coming days.

Many thanks to my sponsor :-)0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:39:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e44e3ce8b3a9764e3c11e4a805c9cb6dd974797479 IpHome 0.5 for Maemo 4.x (Chinook) http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/01/25#iphome05maemo4 said before I'm now releasing my IpHome home/desktop plugin for Maemo 4.x (for the N8x0 devices) even I don't have a N810 yet.

In this release it now supports virtual interfaces in the style of wlan0:1 which was requested by some people.

Please report back any errors.

Left to do for Chinook is support for a transparent background - to get rid of the white ugly window.

Install IpHome2 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:24:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-46e77516cad411dc9357c7d366e9090c090c IpHome 0.5 for Maemo 4.x (Chinook) http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/01/24#iphome05maemo4 said before I'm now releasing my IpHome home/desktop plugin for Maemo 4.x (for the N8x0 devices) even I don't have a N810 yet.

In this release it now supports virtual interfaces in the style of wlan0:1 which was requested by some people.

Please report back any errors.

Left to do for Chinook is support for a transparent background - to get rid of the white ugly window.

Install IpHome0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:24:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e44e3ce6818a1a4e3c11e4a805c9cb6dd974797479 Stats for the MUlliNER.ORG Maemo Repository http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/01/08#repositorystats
Some interesting observations so far
    Most people already download Maemo 4.x (Chinook) packages
    last 12 days of December => 1.7 GB packages


I wouldn't have guessed that so many people already run Chinook in December (maybe only the super hard core early adapters use my stuff).

See the for yourself: MUlliNER.ORG Maemo Repository Stats

Btw: Many people ask me about ipHome applet (shows IP address on home screen). I'm going to release it as soon as I have my N810. I know this is not nice :-P0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:29:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-4e71de76bde511dc955d01a42f17eec6eec6 Playing with the N810 at 24C3 http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/01/01#810at24c3 24C3. The interesting part was that I saw quite a lot of people with a N810 in their hands - the ones I talked to had it imported from the U.S.

Since the N810 is mostly like the N800 (software wise) I only checkout the hardware. First impression was very good. The case looks very nice. I think it is a very clean design no bumps or strange edges. (Pictures don't tell you anything when it comes to hardware like this.) For me the most important thing to try was the keyboard since it is the novel part of the N-series. So I was very pleased to find it working just fine - much better then I expected (also I only had a couple of minutes). Sliding the keyboard up and down also seems to work nicely.

All in all it was a nice experience and I'm looking forward to get my own.3 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:49:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-854383bcb89711dcada42d0ce8fc156a156a Update of my Chinook (Maemo 4) Repository http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/12/16#chinook_repository_update
I'm about to rewrite IpHome (the IP address homepage applet) so it isn't in the repository yet. Also I managed to just rebuild it for Chinook but for some reason it makes the windows manager crash so I'm not putting it in the repository.

If you need more command line utilities for your OS2008 device feel free to leave a comment in my blog.

Add MUlliNER.ORG Chinook Repository0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:15:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-fe5a9208ac1d11dcb2343fd63ddfa21ea21e The N810 Internet Tablet is out! http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/10/17#then810isout specs. from Engadget). The device is a little smaller then the N800 (which I think is nice). The software is called OS2008 (who would have guessed?). They finally kicked out Opera and use a Gecko-based browser (see my older blog entry).


Another interesting thing for N800 owners is the fact the Nokia announced a OS2008 version for the N800. This means people who don't like to buy a new device will be able to get all the new eye candy for free. This basically is possible because the N800 and N810 hardware is very similar.

I'm really looking forward to the N810. For me as a Linux (shell) hacker a hardware keyboard will be extremely interesting. The N810 is supposed to by sold starting mid November.

Links 0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:41:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-579a403491bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5 Xkbd-bthid 0.2 for Maemo 3.2 (fix for the Nokia N800) http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/10/13#xkbdbthid_v02 xkbd-bthid (my Bluetooth HID-Keyboard software) that works on the Nokia N800 (Maemo 3.2). I've finally found the time to fix it, also the number of users writing me emails to report that it doesn't work grew quite large in the last weeks.

xkbd-bthid still only supports the BOOT protocol which basically means no Windows and no MacOS X support. Linux is supported if you add -B to the hidd command line. Ubuntu users can do this in /etc/default/bluetooth.

Support for the REPORT protocol will defently come to xkbd-bthid.

Also please read the the package information before installing. Since you have to perform one small step manually before xkbd-bthid works. This is setting setuid to the wrapper executable. This is because dpkg on Maemo still doesn't do setuid.

Download/Install it using my Bora repository0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:12:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-1e44e3cdd6dcb464e3c11e4a805c9cb6dd974797479 RX-44 in my Weblog? http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/10/12#rx44inmyweblog interesting keywords one of them is arm. So today I checked the output of this script and I found the new Nokia tablet. The thing to look for is RX-44 since this is the new device code (see full analysis of ljprx 44).

So is this the new Nokia tablet?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070926 Firefox/3.0a1 Tablet browser 0.1.22 RX-34+RX-44_OSSO1.1_0.2007.39-13

Also this seems to be some kind of transition firmware since it says RX-34 and R-X44. Also the OSSO part is newly added part of the User-Agent string. I have 3 different User-Agent strings containing OSSO.

Of course this could also be the new Maemo 4.0 build running on a N800.

Update:

Just right now I found this: RX-44_2008SE

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-GB; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20071003 Firefox/3.0a1 Tablet browser 0.1.23 RX-34+RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.40-8 0 Add to favourites2 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:10:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-576c99ae91bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5 Aircrack-ng 0.9.1 for the N800 http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/07/30#aircrackng091n800 Aircrack-ng (0.9.1) for the N800. Many people were asking about it and I also wanted to play with some of the newer features. Some of the cooler features of aircrack-ng don't work on the N800: airreplay-ng requires a driver that is able to send raw frames as far as I know the N800's wifi driver doesn't support this (also airreplay-ng doesn't seem to compile out of the box); airtun-ng also didn't compile so I didn't include it in the package.

A few days ago I build a package for iodine (a IP-DNS tunnel). This little thing is really fun (best IP-DNS tunnel software I have seen so far).0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:29:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-575865ce91bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5 Aircrack-ptw for the 770/N800 http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/04/07#aircrackptwformaemo Aircrack-ptw for my N800 for Erik as a benchmark anyway I now made a Maemo 770/N800 package for it.

Just add the right repository from my Maemo page and install it.

If you also want Aircrack-ng for your 770/N800 you can get it here: Aircrack-ng_0.5-1mad_armel.deb0 Add to favourites0 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:06:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-5743966c91bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5 The first N800 update http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/03/25#n800firstupdate N800 update which was released on the 23rd. I tested to see if flash is faster but I can't see/feel it, the browser seems to be faster.

Two problems I really wanted to be fixed got fixed: the DUMMY IAP and the Metalayer-crawler problem (I had this fixed myself, but it is nice that it now just works).

I wonder if USB host mode is supported in this release. I need to find some time to check it out.0 Add to favourites1 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:40:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-572ea9b491bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5 Using the N800 Video Phone http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/02/11#n800videophone 0 Add to favourites1 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:21:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-5717c9ba91bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5 IpHome 0.3 http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/02/04#iphome03
Yesterday I also added One Click Installation support for my bora/Mameo3.0 and my mistral/Maemo2.x repositories.0 Add to favourites1 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:05:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-56f736fa91bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5 A few Words about the N800 http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2007/01/28#afewwordsaboutthen800 here. A few words...

Things I like: The overall look of the device, the faster CPU (ARMv6 320Mhz), more memory (128MB), more storage (250MB) and 2 SD card slots, bluetooth 2.0 EDR, the kick stand and last but not least the new pen/stylus.

Things I don't like: the missing display cover (this was really cool on the 770), the kick stand covers the USB port (which makes it hard to attach external USB hardware), the quality of camera seems to be pretty low (but who really cares?).

The software seems to be in something like a very late beta state (e.g. windows don't redraw nicely), but I guess the next update will fix a lot.

All in all I like the new device and I will give my best to come up with a nice hack specifically for the new hardware.0 Add to favourites1 Bury]]> Collin Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net> feed:404e7adbdc563144e6c6ecd7acfdb186 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-56df560c91bb11dca836bb543c6ac6d5c6d5