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Hi, welcome to Hacker Policure News, this is Clint too, and I'm going to be talking about
setting up your Nokia Internet tablet, and that's a trademark to turn by the way, setting
it up how to be for connectivity and to be the robust device that everyone keeps saying
that it is, and I know you're thinking, wow, Nokia N8, you know, asterisk zero, tutorial,
that's really behind the times, glad to, why don't you do something, you know, like,
the G1 phone or something. Well, number one, I don't have a G1 phone, or number two,
because I feel that it's important to let everyone know about the full power and capabilities
of the Nokia Internet tablet, but in a very practical way rather than just raving about it in a sort
of abstract way, like a lot of people tend to too. So, if you're either a new owner of, you know,
the 18, or you've got an 800 that you got used, or you just have that you haven't really used
the full potential, or whatever, or you have a 770 that you haven't used the full potential,
this will hopefully help you use a little bit more robustly, as well as kind of urge you
to make sure that you're all set up to go in advance. That is to kind of set up the device
before you take it out, you know, on your to cafes and to your job and stuff like that.
Because what happened to me that inspired this episode was that I had some really basic things
that I needed to get done, and I knew that I could do it with my Nokia, so I, you know, I had that,
so I was feeling pretty good, and then I realized, you know, in the moment that I really hadn't
set up all the features that I needed to have set up on my Nokia in order to really take advantage
of it. So I ended up having to sit there in front of the Internet, looking up, okay, how do I
set this up on the Nokia, because I don't see it in the repo and blah, blah, blah. You know,
so you're sitting there setting the thing up when what you should be doing is, you know,
uploading stuff to someone's FTP server, etc, etc. So, you know, do this early, do it now,
so that when you're out and about, you have everything ready to go. Okay, so the first thing
that you're going to want to do on the Nokia is enable the extra repositories. They, you know,
this is a very user-centric consumer Linux, which I love, but, you know, which, they've really,
kind of, you know, they don't make it quite as robust as, as one would expect, I think,
at least for me. You know, sitting in front of the Nokia is not like sitting in front of just a raw,
you know, Debian install, where you've got everything installed that you would ever need for,
you know, development and for connectivity. The Nokia is for the user. They're assuming that the
user is going to need things like FSH, FTP, Bash, etc. So, you'll go to the, to the application manager
and you will want to go to the main menu of application manager, go down to tools,
go down to application catalog, and that is their term, you know, for what repository you're
looking at. And if you open that up, there should be a fairly good list of Nokia repositories,
including a couple of extra repositories that are not enabled by default. So, you want to click on
those, you'll want to enable them, and then you'll want to say, okay, and it will update,
and suddenly you'll have a lot more available applications to install than you had in the first place.
Now, the next step that I do is I go for the, uh, the real extras. There's a master list of a lot
of different repositories online at, um, grondmayer.com slash IT, that is GRO in
a y-e-r.com slash IT. And that's just a big list of repositories for Nokia internet tablets.
What's cool about this site is that you can even browse it on your Nokia, and there's a button there
that will install it, you know, or enable it in your application catalog, um, right there from the page.
Um, alternatively, you can browse on another computer and, you know, paste it, type in the text,
and stuff like that. But I just prefer to do it on the Nokia. You've got little checkmark buttons
that you can, you know, you can add this repository, and then you can install them, uh, all at once
in a big batch. Make sure that you're getting repositories that are good for your version of the OS,
the current OS, uh, OS 2008 is called Diablo. So make sure that you're getting repositories
that have Diablo components in them, and those are growing in number. Um, and you can look at,
like, a list of what's in the repository before you install it if you want to. But, um, most of
these are pretty good little repositories to have. So once you've got all that stuff in, enabled,
you're going to want to set up just really simple things like I say that they don't, they don't
include in, in the default OS on on Nokia, not on the internet, uh, tablet. So one of those things,
we have the first thing that I installed, bash, and this is a drop-in replacement for the little,
what are they called busybox terminal or or the.sh, you know, whatever that little terminal
that they include by default in the in 800, uh, in 81070 is, uh, this just replaces that with a full
fled, the full fledged bash shell. It's a really nice feature to have. Um, a lot more, you know,
a lot more robust certainly than the default. Now, you'll also want to install the FTP application,
uh, which is just a port of, I guess, the original BSD, um, you know, the, uh, the BSD, FTP programs.
So I think that full name is like, in P, FTP or NS, FTP, I don't know, but you want to install that
for sure because, you know, having that kind of connectivity is really important. Uh, you'll also
want to get the memos, uh, dash PC, dash connectivity, meta package. That includes all the good stuff,
like SSH, um, actually that's the only thing I can think of right now, but it has more than that
for sure, but most importantly, yeah, throughout the open SSH module in there, um, that you'll want
to install. And then there are just a lot of other, you know, cool little applications that you're
going to eventually find, uh, one of my favorites is Wi-Fi and so. I think it's what it's called,
and then that just shows you what network you're on, what the, uh, MAC address of the router is,
um, what your IP address is, stuff like that. So that's, that's kind of a handy,
little simple GUI application that you can install. Um, and you'll also probably want to go ahead
and unlock the whole, you know, getting into root thing. Uh, by default, there's not really
ability to get to root on the Nokia. Uh, so there's a packet, there's a, um, there's a package that
you can install. Uh, I think it's called, um, B root or get root or something like that. I forget,
it's been a while since I've installed it now, but just do a search for, for root, and you will,
you will find the, the programs that will, that will unlock that functionality for you.
Now the, uh, the lay of the land on the Nokia internet tablet is that you are called simply user.
And, uh, your home directory seems to be, if I recall correctly on the first, uh, on the internal
card, at least on the 8800, I'm not so sure about the 810, because I don't have access to one, but
you're just basically user at, you know, Nokia, something. Um, and you'll want to kind of explore
in bash the file system and find out where all your memory cards are, at least on the 800
slash media slash in and see one and in and see two for each memory card. Uh, and they have a lot of
your data kind of squirled away into this sort of almost, almost, so it feels kind of like an isolated
environment with, with all your user things. There's my docs and my, my apps and all these weird
little folders in there that I can't really get into. But, um, I typically just store all my data
on my external memory card anyway, and so getting there is just a simple matter of, you know,
slash media slash in and see two, uh, or in and see one, uh, you know, slash file name.
And, um, see, yeah, and that's about it, really. I mean, um, getting root will help you be able
to make a lot of the changes that you'll want to make, you know, to passwords and things like that,
uh, the PC connectivity kit will give you SSH and then bash and FTP will give you, uh, you know,
a more, more typically, you know, sort of a lower level ability to just get information off of the
Nokia and onto, uh, your, your own server or wherever you need to send it. And, uh, from there,
I think you'll be good to go with those repositories that you can look around and find all kinds of cool
applications and, uh, you should have no problem getting in and out of your Nokia, uh, no matter what
application, what platform you're trying to maneuver your way around. So enjoy and thank you for this
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