What is the latest solution to setup n800 as a usb host device?

2007-10-10 Thread Łeandro Sales
My situation/requirements is: 1 - I have a usb-eth wifi devide; 2 - I have the latest linux-omap kernel that I compiled for my n800; 3 - Due to proprietary issues, nokia does not release the linux driver for the built-in n800 wifi interface; 4 - Then I want to use my usb-eth to enable wifi connecti

Re: [Fwd: Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices]

2007-10-10 Thread Brad Midgley
hey Even when they do have the profile, MS DUN performance is too pathetic to get excited about. I've never seen over 128Kbps using 3 different ppc devices. This was on a network that should be hitting the bt1.2 ceiling of 600+kbps. Strangely, their desktop DUN *client* is slow too, even when use

Re: N800 Advertised by Brightpoint in Wireless Week

2007-10-10 Thread Jonathan Greene
Interesting ... been seeing E-Series ads in Business Week as well. I like how the N95 says it is optimized for North America but runs on 2100UMTS, not 1900 which ATT supports and handles HSDPA On 10/10/07, Acadia Secure Networks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > > fyi. The October 1, 2007 iss

N800 Advertised by Brightpoint in Wireless Week

2007-10-10 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
All, fyi. The October 1, 2007 issue of Wireless Week has a full page advertisement by Brightpoint that includes the Nseries from Nokia and highlights the N95 and the N800. What is interesting here is that Brightpoint, for those who are not aware, is at the core of the corporate "middleware" of

[Fwd: Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices]

2007-10-10 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
All, fyi. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC *Serving the SmartDigital^TM home, entrepreneurial enterprise, and emerging network service provider markets* Original Message Subject:Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices Date: Wed, 1

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Ivan N. Zlatev
On 10/11/07, Mike Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe DUN was removed from WM5 phones and will be reintroduced with > WM6it might've been carriers which asked for it disabled. > > They would prefer you be on an explicit tethering plan. Bluetooth PAN is > now default instead of DUN. > >

RE: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
Thanks, guys! I'll try this out along with your suggestions for success!! Nick. -Original Message- From: Gary Baribault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:21 PM To: Dr. Nicholas Shaw Cc: 'Brad Midgley'; maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: BBC reviews N800 with

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Mike Klein
I believe DUN was removed from WM5 phones and will be reintroduced with WM6it might've been carriers which asked for it disabled. They would prefer you be on an explicit tethering plan. Bluetooth PAN is now default instead of DUN. mike Steve Yelvington wrote: > I was surprised that the re

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Gary Baribault
The other thing, is that I couldn't get it to work until I downloaded the presets by using the "tower' icon in the botom right of the applet, after that it worked great! Gary Baribault Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: > Thanks, Brad. I'll give that a try! > > Nick. > > > -Original Message- >

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Bart
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:25:32 -0600 "Brad Midgley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas > > > Regarding music, I have never gotten the FM radio to work > > fyi the headphones have to be in to act as an antenna even if you're > using the speakers. Make sure you plug them all the way in,

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Bart
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:03:36 -0600 David Rudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P.S. To anyone who doesn't happen to live near nice ski resorts... > nyah-nyah-nyah :P > :P :P :P :) -- Peter The Plumber sm on the Road State Licensed Plumber State Certified Backflow Device Tester Factory Trained B

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Steve Yelvington
I was surprised that the reviewer had troubles getting online through Bluetooth and a mobile phone, as that's one of the coolest and easiest things about the N800. By contrast, getting either Windows or OS X to connect via GPRS can be hellishly difficult. __

RE: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
Thanks, Brad. I'll give that a try! Nick. -Original Message- From: Brad Midgley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:26 PM To: Dr. Nicholas Shaw Cc: John Rudd; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices Nicholas

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Brad Midgley
Nicholas > Regarding music, I have never gotten the FM radio to work fyi the headphones have to be in to act as an antenna even if you're using the speakers. since I'd rather have fewer wires I've been enjoying the itech bluetooth headset with an fm radio of its own. This will be great once the

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
David, it looks like this is an alternative to the IPass service which itself started out in the days of dial-up service aggregation and which allowed, for example, international travelers (aka road warriors) to connect to different dial-up IP networks that were part of the IPass "federation"

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread Acadia Secure Networks
David, well.yes. The service IS listed as Beta so one can expect failures of various sorts. I guess I need to get a second N800 to use as a test system. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * *Serving the SmartDigital^TM home, entrepreneurial enterpri

RE: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Dr. Nicholas Shaw
John, I agree with your comments regarding PDA software as well as the difficulty of menus. I found the menus on the N800 to be extremely simple. I have a PSP (original) and it is nowhere near as functional as the N800 and certainly more challenging to move around (I mostly use it for games). I

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread David Rudder
Well, that's actually pretty useful! I've decided that I can't afford the big vacations, but I still need to get away, so I've started taking "working vacations" in a ski resort near my home. The WiFi there is rock solid and free, but the session timeout is 20 minutes. So, it means going thr

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Bart
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:12:10 +0200 "Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > have anybody tried this app?: > http://www.devicescape.com/pub/download.do > I started to until I realized that I had to complete a sign up application on their site and then e

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread John Rudd
I don't think stupidity is a better answer here than malice :-} It's an application that handles my passwords. Stupidity can be as bad, or sometimes even worse, than malice, in that arena. And, by viral, I was comparing it to computer viruses which continually re-add themselves to a registr

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread John Rudd
Some wifi hotspots will let you connect but not let you go anywhere until you login to a web page on their proxy (basically, they redirect all traffic to a local web server until you login, then they let you surf more freely). Devicescape basically stores info about these sites, and does whate

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread David Rudder
You know what they say. "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity". I'm a software developer and I've made exactly these kinds of mistakes more than once. DeviceScape doesn't strike me as the sort of company that would intentionally disobey your settings. It seems to m

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread David Rudder
I'm not sure of the purpose of this. Doesn't the N800 already store your favorite wifi hotspots? I use MAC address filtering instead of WEP keys, so it's possible that DeviceScape does a better job of storing keys? Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: > Hello, > > have anybody tried this ap

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread John Rudd
I downloaded it, and installed it. Didn't find it immediately useful to my situation, so I turned it off, thinking that I'd try it again later when I was able to get them specific information for the wifi login page at work, so that they could support it. And it turned itself back on when I n

Re: N800 gpsbabel supporting the WBT-201

2007-10-10 Thread Brad Midgley
Guys I made a patch for maemo-mapper to give it menu options to load or erase the wintec log. Much easier than the command line, especially on a hiking trip :) https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1193&group_id=29&atid=188 If you want to try it and you don't have scratchbox

Re: Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread Kemal Hadimli
Yes. On 10/10/07, Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > have anybody tried this app?: > http://www.devicescape.com/pub/download.do > > Thanks and best regards, -- Kemal ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.o

Someone has tried Devicescape?

2007-10-10 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
Hello, have anybody tried this app?: http://www.devicescape.com/pub/download.do Thanks and best regards, -- J. Manrique López de la Fuente http://www.jsmanrique.es ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/list

Re: BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread John Rudd
Alan Williamson wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7033352.stm > > "The N800 has support from a wealth of third parties and looks to be > more of a hobbyist device." I think that's true. In some regards, the N800 is still a hobbyist device. Certain things I think you'd find as "k

Re: Improvements in the browser (was Re: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-10 Thread James Knott
Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > Il 10-10-2007 6:04, "Quim Gil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > >> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 07:46 -0700, ext John Rudd wrote: >> >>> On problem with your theory. >>> >>> I never performed steps 5b nor 6, yet I have never seen the "Advanced" menu. >>> >> In

BBC reviews N800 with 3 other devices

2007-10-10 Thread Alan Williamson
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7033352.stm "The N800 has support from a wealth of third parties and looks to be more of a hobbyist device." ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users

Re: Improvements in the browser

2007-10-10 Thread Thomas Leavitt
Question. Since this is open source, why can't the community decide it likes the "Advanced" features, and add them itself, even if Nokia doesn't think it is a good idea? Thomas Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > Ehehe pretty cool, but now let's go out of the Off-Topic and let's switch > back in topic.

Re: Improvements in the browser

2007-10-10 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
Ehehe pretty cool, but now let's go out of the Off-Topic and let's switch back in topic. The mistery about the "Advanced" option menu seems that has been clarified, right ? Thus we can close the case. :) -- Anidel. Il 10-10-2007 11:48, "Thomas Leavitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > I'm a s

Re: Improvements in the browser

2007-10-10 Thread Thomas Leavitt
I'm a systems admin. I work with these things for a living (why I insist on screwing around with them on my off time, I'm not sure)... much of what I do is what I call "voodoo system administration"... I try this, I try that, I faintly recall that doing this cured a vaguely similar problem seve

Re: Improvements in the browser

2007-10-10 Thread Marius Vollmer
"ext Aniello Del Sorbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well you know.. They (CS teachers) teach us that computers are > deterministic automata. In theory... In practice.. They (the > computers) proved us many times they are not. ;-) No, it's just us humans who get confused and then attribute our

Re: usb host mode (usb battery)

2007-10-10 Thread Frantisek Dufka
William wrote: > I want to use USB host mode on my 770 and am looking for a portable 5V > power source. > Right now I'm not sure if I want to build one my self with a 9V battery > and regulator or buy something. > > Any experience with the "Swiss Gear Portable Battery Charger for iPod"? > http:/

Re: Improvements in the browser (was Re: 4.2007.38-2 available)

2007-10-10 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
Il 10-10-2007 6:04, "Quim Gil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 07:46 -0700, ext John Rudd wrote: >> On problem with your theory. >> >> I never performed steps 5b nor 6, yet I have never seen the "Advanced" menu. > > In theory (and we are talking now about computer theo