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There is a VNC Server available for the Nokia N800.

• Install x11vnc from http://mike.saunby.googlepages.com/x11vncfornokia7702
• Select Extras->x11vnc to run it
• Open VNC Viewer on your desktop and connect to <your-n800-hostname-or-ip-address>:0

Some key bindings that I have found:

• F3
• Selects the Applications icon in the task navigator
• F4
• Opens the menu for the current application
• F6
• Toggles full screen mode
• F7
• Same as the + button
• F8
• Same as the - button
• F9
• Selects the application switcher (the >> button in the left hand bottom corner)

The Freecom FSG-3 firmware user interface does not have the ability to set static IP addresses for hosts via DHCP. Luckily, the underlying dnsmasq program does this (and lots more) easily, and even though dnsmasq is in /usr/local/sbin for some reason on the FSG-3, it still reads the default configuration file at /etc/dnsmasq.conf (which Freecom does not use, so the file does not exist by default, and therefore does not get overwritten by the default firmware).

To set static IP addresses for your hosts, just add lines like the following to /etc/dnsmasq.conf:

dhcp-host=00:04:5a:0f:b2:44,nslu2,192.168.1.6,infinite

ez-ipupdate already supports the zoneedit service, so all that is required is to add it to the dyndns_show.html web page and ddns init script.

/var/www/admin/content_en/dyndns_show.html changes:

<select name=”ddns_service” style=”width:200px”>
<option value=zoneedit_com>zoneedit.com</option>
<option value=dyndns_org>dyndns.org</option>
<option value=dtdns_com>dtdns.com</option>
<option value=noip_com>no-ip.com</option>
</select>

/etc/init.d/ddns changes:

if [ “$DDNS” = “zoneedit_com” ]; then
/bin/ez-ipupdate -i $EXIF -S zoneedit -u $USER:$PASSWD -h “$HOST” -d -P 300
exit 0
fi

I’ll use this blog entry to record various Maemo-related links that I find.

http://box.mmapps.net/~keesj/

http://www.guardiani.us/index.php/N800_custom_packages

http://pierre.droids-corp.org/maemo/

http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/mine/emacs-for-maemo/

I’m going to use this blog entry to capture everything I do to my new Nokia N800 when setting it up. Hopefully this will serve as a resource to other N800 users, but will also serve as a record for my own use in case I need to reinstall everything at a future date.

• Download the latest firmware (latest at time of writing is OS 2008 edition v. 2.2007.51-3).
• Flash it using the Nokia Internet Tablet Software Update Wizard.
• Set up an internet connection.
• (Optional) Enable Red Pill Mode (New Application catalogue, Web address: matrix, Cancel).
• Add the Maemo Repositories to the Application Manager
• Maemo Base
• http://repository.maemo.org/
• free non-free
• Maemo Extras
• http://repository.maemo.org/extras/
• free non-free
• Update all packages
• Install openssh-server (so you can do the rest of this more comfortably from a remote ssh client window)
• Install some necessary applications that are not in the Maemo repositories:
• becomeroot (you only need this if you aren’t able to ssh in - use “sudo gainroot” in an xterm instead)
• Change the host name in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname
• Install a suitable authorized_keys file for password-less ssh login
• Reboot and log back in as root
• Reformat the internal SD card (/dev/mmcblk0, /media/mmc2):

# apt-get install e2fsprogs
# umount /media/mmc1
# umount /media/mmc2
# sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 :0,6000,0C
/dev/mmcblk0p2 :6000,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3 :,,
/dev/mmcblk0p4 :,,
# mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1
# mke2fs -j /dev/mmcblk0p2
# shutdown -r now

• Note that to mount the new ext3 filesystem, you need to:

# cd /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/
# insmod mbcache.ko jbd.ko ext3.ko

• Setup booting from the internal SD card

# cd
# curl -o initfs_flasher.tgz http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/initfs_flasher.tgz
# tar zxvf initfs_flasher.tgz
# cd initfs_flasher
# cp bootmenu.conf.n800.example bootmenu.conf
# vi bootmenu.conf
# ./initfs_flash

• Add the timezone for Adelaide and set it as my Home city.

• Modify the mmc mount script (/usr/sbin/osso-mmc-umount.sh) to ignore a mounted root directory
• grep “$MP ” /proc/mounts | grep -v ” / ” &amp;gt; /dev/null

The set of cities included in the Nokia N800 does not include any city in my home timezone (GMT+9:30, Australian Central Standard Time).

Luckily, I’ve worked out how to add one (the following is an example for my home city of Adelaide):

• Edit /usr/share/osso-clock/wdb-parsed.txt and add the following line:
• Adelaide|AU|Australia|Australia/Adelaide|1280|650|en_AU
• (The 1280 and 650 numbers are pixel coordinates on the osso-clock map of the world)

You should be able to use the same method to add any other city that already exists in /usr/share/zoneinfo.

If you add a new Internet radio channel to your media player library, and it gets some weird name that you don’t like, you can easily change it by editing /home/user/.mediaplayer-engine/radiochannels.m3u