Re: more trouble with repositories
On 7/30/07, Paul Klapperich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #maemo:name repository.maemo.org > deb http://repository.maemo.org/ mistral free non-free > > This repository is broken, from what I can tell. One receives 404 > errors when attempting to download *.deb packages by browsing the > repository manually. > > Change this to gregale and you should be fine. > > --Paul Brilliant, thanks a million Paul, that sorted it. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
more trouble with repositories
Hey, I am trying to install openssh onto a freshly imaged 770 with the latest firmware, 'gregale'. I used http://mg.pov.lt/770/openssh.install, after enabling red-pill mode, but it complains with "Unable to download Package not found" I am having trouble installing a number of other applications. My repository list is below. Is there some problem with the repository ? Thanks, Gavin ~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list #maemo:essential deb http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/certified/ mistral user deb http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/non-certified/ mistral user #maemo:name repository.maemo.org deb http://repository.maemo.org/ mistral free non-free #maemo:name Canola deb http://openbossa.indt.org.br/canola/repository-beta2/770 mistral user #maemo:name FBReader repository deb http://www.fbreader.org/maemo mistral user #maemo:name gregale-extras deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ mistral free non-free #maemo:name maemo-hackers deb http://maemo-hackers.org/apt mistral main deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ gregale free non-free ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Newbie cannot install osso-xterm
> I'll second that. There's currently a bunch (perhaps 50%) of supposedly > n800 software at maemo that doesn't install on a fresh N800 because some > assumed files on the N800 are missing. Most of these seem to be from the > same core files, however I was unable to locate much info about these > missing files at the maemo site -- I gather folks are supposed to be born > with this knowledge? I have encountered these problems with a fresh install of OS2006 on the 770. After enabling red-pill mode (ridiculous procedure) I attempted to install (all listed on the maemo downloads site) : openssh from the .install file. "Package not found" evince: Nothing happens in the Application Manager when the .install file on maemo.org applications is downloaded. The .install link defaults to the n800. So I google for evince and download it from the developer site using the correct install file. It appears to download, and then I am told "Package not found" canola: "Unable to install. Installation file corrupted" Success. Osso-xterm advanced and fbreader install. Mplayer, installs but then Application manager crashes. Python 2.4 runtime: "Download failed" Python 2.5 runtime: "Download failed" and application manager crashes. At this point I am giving up and going to bed. It is really quite frustrating. I have some familiarity with the device, I can only imagine the annoyance of someone who has just bought one. Gavin ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Security in Maemo
On 2/23/07, Srikanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I'm newbie to Maemo. Would like to know if Maemo is using SELinux for enhancing security? Maemo does not use SELinux. Maemo, as I understand it, is targeted at single user devices where the fine grained control that SELinux offers is not needed. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Manaos
Hello, I was wondering what the situation was with this browser. I hadn't heard of it before, just chanced across it when I was googling for Nokia 770 and Tiddlywiki. There seemed to have been a lot of development on it, http://tonikitoo.blogspot.com/2006/01/just-little-taste-of-manaos-update.html but nothing public from around April 06. Has this been abandoned, or is it still being worked on ? It certainly looked like an excellent piece of software as an alternative to Opera. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Bad Freedom Input keyboard or poor kbdd driver on N800?
On 10/02/07, centipede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: functions less than stellar on N800. I almost has to punch down the keys and hold them for a short while. The keys seem to soften up a bit, when used. But still a lot of keypresses are missed. I've watched the output of kbdd in the shell, and it seems like the driver skips more keys the faster I type. How fast can you type with that keyboard? I'm almost as fast with the on-screen keyboard... Just my experience with the driver on the 770. It's far more stable than it used to be, for whatever reason. The keyboard itself is not the best quality, some keys do require quite a bit of force to be registered. There is some lag, akin to a ssh session over a modem perhaps and on the rare occasion the keys do repeat. Having said all that however, I can type reasonably quickly with it, certainly much faster than the on screen keyboard. I have yet to test it for extended sessions. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Nokia Internet Tablet as Pennnetration Testing Device
On 08/02/07, Jonathan Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: agree this would make a cool utility with our tablets... pretty sure aircrack exists already As mentioned, kismet is there and already working. Aircrack appeared to have had the same bug that was fixed in kismet. Does it still have that bug, or has the fix propogated ? gpsd is a useful tool in conjunction with kismet. For a useful pen test tool, Nessus would be a rather interesting tool to port. Could be too heavy though & the latest versions are closed source now. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Reader Mini
I'd still like to be able to read articles when offline, but the seamless way Reader Mini works with Google reader may just have me convinced. Now, the only thing that may be better would be a terminal-based, SLRN-style RSS reader that caches the articles for later reading. I'm not sure one of those exists, though ;) K That would be nice, and probably quite doable, using slrn as the client. Unfortunately given that most websites don't publish the full article in the RSS feed, it might not work out too well. This is the annoying thing I find with RSS, having to click on links and browse to the website to read the full article. I wouldn't even mind if they included advertisements in the RSS feed ! Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Re: Charge from a USB port.
>Chris Caldwell wrote: >>Has anyone found an adaptor to charge the 770 from the USB port? I Just got one in the post this morning off ebay. Briefly tested it and works fine. http://tinyurl.com/3bsy8t Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] N800 as e-book reader
Would anyone have any thoughts about how to improve PDF handling? I would prefer to avoid DjVu, if at all possible. If there was a way to optimize PDF Reader, I think we have a wonderful e-book platform here. Have you tested Evince ? Although, I don't know if it's available for the n800 come to think of it. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] [maemo-announce] New OS 2006 firmware released
On 1/30/07, Karl Bellve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Personally, I wish Nokia would have went with thunderbird and firefox that could be improved by the outside community. Instead, they went with buggy pieces of proprietary code that Nokia can't seem to fix on its own. My other big complaint is that the entire device has to be reflashed in order to run the new version of the OS. Why can't they update different pieces, like the browser, or the kernel? Since the browser and flash player hasn't been updated, I don't think I will update my Nokia 770. I agree wholeheartedly with these points ! I would extend them further to ask why the 770 OS cannot be as open as a standard debian distribution. That is, comprised of a standard kernel that gets the device up and running, with proprietary drivers available as binary .debs. All the various applications distributed and installable as seperate .debs. This way unwanted applications can be removed, for example, the ridiculous email client etc. Kernels should be upgradable with a simple apt-get, the package management mess should be cleaned up and fixed. The advantage of opensource is in its flexibility and customisation. Nokia have negated this by imposing a very rigid structure around the 770. That's fine in itself, but don't pitch the device as opensource and be surprised when people get annoyed with the lack of control they have over it. Luckily for me, the one application I use very regularly, the opensource FBreader, is highly stable. Otherwise I'd get very annoyed with the device. Gavin ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Firewalls was [Re: Battery Benchmarking?]
On 1/13/07, Scott G Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the 770 dev environment and see what I can do about this. If anyone else here is working on firewall-related stuff for the 770 (or n800) let me know so we can coordinate our efforts. Scott I don't think that a firewall for the 770 is particularly needed. The only services I can think that may be run at the moment on the average 770 user would be the Canola webserver and I believe that this can be limited to the loopback interface ? More advanced users probably run a ssh server as well. SSH can be secured by using keys instead of passwords. The very nature of the device also limits the time period an effective dictionary attack could be mounted for. Regarding client software ports, and attack against TCP sessions that _are already active_, I can't imagine that a firewall would make the slightest bit of difference should a person hijack a connection that is already present using a MitM attack with TCP spoofing. The connection itself is already valid, thus the firewall will have no reason to detect anything out of the ordinary. On a machine that runs no services, the only thing a firewall is useful for is monitoring the outgoing connection attempts from various applications. Should connection attempts be made from applications not authorised, these can be detected and stopped. This is not a configuration I have often come across on linux machines, because the problem of such trojans and viruses tend to be more windows based. I would argue that enabling a firewall would have more negative affects in terms of battery usage than realistic security enhancements. However, I also wouldn't imagine there is much work to be done to port iptables, or the current equivalent, given that it is in the linux kernel by default ? Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] Unison and large transfers
method of transferring files to and from the 770. However, when I move a large volume of data (for example a 300MB audio book from librivox.org, or a recompressed movie from archive.org) I find that it often fails or behaves erratically. Transfer speeds fluctuate wildly, the device gui often becomes unresponsive, and occasional reboots occur. Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior? Thanks, Mike I have experienced something similar when I ran wget on the device to download a film from a local web server to the mmc. It would get around 30mb or so, then the device started to act as you say, CPU usage goes up and the download stalls. I ended up having to use the USB to copy the file over, which was rather painful given the usb 1.1 speed. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] power management
On 11/8/06, Lionel Besson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, You can find the parameters timeout_wlan, timeout_dun_cs and timeout_dun_ps in /system/osso/connectivity via gconftool. These parameters are accessible via the Connection manager > Tools > Connectivity settings > Idle times and seems to be related with your problem (but i haven't tried them enough to assure you that it's gonna work) Ok, Thanks for those replies, I'll play around with them and see what I can achieve Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] power management
Hey, I've been playing with kismet in combination with a bluetooth GPS and GPSD. Unfortunately I'm finding that kismet stops working a minute or two after the device blanks the screen. I assume that the device is disabling either the bluetooth connection, or the wifi. Perhaps because kismet is accessing the wifi chip directly and not via the maemo api, it is being forced into sleep mode ? Is there any way of disabling the power management, of a more fine grained control of it ? Cheers, Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
[maemo-users] Proxies
Hi, Just wondering if there is a way of setting the proxy for the RSS reader or Google Talk client ? Setting a HTTP proxy via the Connection Manager just works for the Opera browser, not the RSS reader. There also appears to be no option for a SOCKS proxy, perhaps tsocks could be utilised for GoogleTalk. For a device designed to be portable and used in different network environments, I would have though that more effort would have gone into an efficient proxying system. Gav ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
