Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Even as I type this, a new tarball is uploading to my server. Since the last time I've removed quite a lot of my ugly hacks in favor of some nicer hacks by the fine folks who are putting the Maemo/Hildon packages together for Debian. What's new with this release? The big news is that this release has a basic Maemo/Hildon desktop. What that means is that getting Applications from ITOS into Debian is easier than ever. To make leafpad run all I had to do was change the dependencies in the .deb to reflect the package names that Debian uses. Hit the Debian wiki here for more info and the download link: http://internettablettalk.com/wiki/i...e=Debian#HOWTO

-John

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Ok, I'm very sorry for my ignorance but I would like to ask:

All the parts from How I did it: to Wireless are not needed right if I use beta2 of your debian port?

Also will I be able to use the kismet & libpcap obtained from here http://eko.one.pl/maemo/index.php?pa...Fbinary-armel/ meant for maemo or will I have to use a special debian version or grab it from an debian repo or compile it myself (in that case, is any changes to the source required and is it compiled in scratchbox or on the N800 running debian itself)?

Thanks.

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

That is correct. The only thing you need to look at are the release notes. I've left "How I did it!" up there as a history lesson. :D

One of the reasons I wanted Debian on my N800 was the incredible wealth of software ready and available for it. Debian maintains a port to the ARM architecture (armel) that has ~90% of the packages available on the desktop. That includes kismet. :) So, as soon as you boot into Debian (and have some form of networking setup) just issue:
Sure. Tell me how it works for you. :)

-John

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Thank you very much for that. I only have a 1GB SD card (filled with data) at the moment so when I get another 1GB card I will want to try out the port. I will say how it works for me when I get a chance to try it out (hopefully very soon).

Thanks for the reply again. Also thanks for this release again :D, I wish kismet wasn't broken on OS2008.

BTW: Great work on this.

P.S I've uploaded (or rather got ftp2share to do it) the beta 2 file to some free webhosters. Unfortunately, I have no webspace of my own to upload there.

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Sure. I really don't mind answering questions about this stuff. The first post was just to set people's expectations properly about what this is and isn't. Maybe I scared away too many people though...

Kismet should work ok with a little bit of hacking in the latest OS2008. I forgot where I saw the thread but I think it's definitely possible to make it work.

BTW, thanks for the mirror. :)

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Great. :). I think this is a very good "preview".

I tried following the instructions I found about OS2008 but it still quits on me. Ah well, hopefully, it will work for me in debian.

No problem :).

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Hi folks,

FWIW, I debootstrapped a SID in my 770 following Johnx's howto (cheers chap!) and it worked. I have to add that the "bonus" section is a gem if you don't know what to do with that unusable debian on your card.

Cheers,

U

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Follow up post:

debootstrapping work no problem. A couple of issues though with tslib and equiv. For some reason equivs refused to cooperate to I had to repack the dependencies for Xomap. Other than that, nothing, everything is just peachy. Oh, Xomap doesn't get repacked with /etc/init.d/x-server (it doesn't even exist in the original OS - OS2006) but that's no bother.

Back to my debian :)

U

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

Hi, this is my first post here.
I'd like to know, what should i do to load xfce4(or another) instead of hildon/maemo desktop?

I've installed xfce4 but i dont know how to switch to it.

Thanks!

EDIT: Im using chroot on maemo to install everything(using maemo wifi connection) prior to restart and boot debian. After updating the system and installing xfce4 i cannot open the roxterm terminal in debian.

Re: Debian "Sneak Preview" Release for N800/N810!
 

@zuachs: You'll need to be able to log in from a desktop to issues the commands at this stage. Get usb networking or wireless working. After that you just need to restart the x server (stop & start it) to kill off hildon desktop, then export DISPLAY=:0 and run xfce4-session (or is it xfce-session?). I do wonder why roxterm doesn't work for you though...

-John