[help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

Well, I already researched in maemo.org, but no managed to solve the problem.

I’m having a complicated problem of connection even before of firmware update.
I can to access voip, skype, email, browser, some repositories...
But never to have access services as the official repositories Nokia, Ovi, MaStory (wordpress) and Webtext (SMS voip).
My firmware is 2.2009.51-1.002, updated via NSU (USB cable), because the N900 could not connect via wifi or GPRS (time out).

Others informations:
I am in Brazil and my GSM carrier is the Brasil Telecom GSM.
GPRS access only if there is no wifi access.
The wifi is in my home with the following configuration: WLAN, WPA, IP and DNS automatic.
(I tried with OpenDNS and Google but without success)
My modem / router / wifi is a TP-Link TD-W8960N and appears to be working correctly.
The modem setup wifi is configured with password (tested without password too).

After the firmware update, all apps were deleted. Currently I have the following softwares installed. (MaStory, PyGTKEditor, Pidgin, pySafe, WebTexter, Cellular Modem Control buttons, Conversations Inbox desktop widget, Link-local XMPP protocol plugin for Conversations and Contacts, MSN protocol plugin for Contacts and Conversations, Pidgin protocols for Conversations and Contacts, recaller, Simple Brightess Applet, Twitter plugin for Contacts and Conversations, rootsh)
After I just installed the apps listed above, one by one.

Suggestions on how to fix it? Thank you!

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

I'm with the American firmware 2.2009.51-1.002


Maybe if it substituted for the European firmware could solve the problem?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

The firmware version shouldn't make any difference. The Nokia & Ovi repositories are both on HTTPS whereas the maemo.org one is HTTP, so this could point to an issue there. Can you access other HTTPS sites via the browser?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

Yes, I access the site https: / / pagseguro.uol.com.br / normally with default browser of the N900 via wifi.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

can you access this page on the device:
http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/

that's the actual location of the extras repository, the app manager accesses this URL when fetching updates or packages. if it doesn't work, maybe the resulting error will give you a better idea on what's wrong.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

Access via browser or application manager?

is http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/
or https://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/

thanks

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

via browser (how would you do that in the app manager? :) )

it's http, without s.

you can just click on the link using your desktop browser, you should see a directory listing with 3 entries: "parent dir", "free", "non-free".

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

yes, via browser opened correctly.

http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/


what does that mean?:confused::confused:

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

okay, so you don't have network problems.

i see you have rootsh already installed, so you can do this:

after that, you should have 2 new files in your MyDocs - folder, called "updatelog.txt" and "sources.list".
please attach them to your next post, these will help us to isolate your problem even further.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

yes, the files have been generated. Activated the catalogs of nokia and am trying to re-access via WiFi and to generate the "error report" (time out)

edit. results:

well, do not know if it was, but ...

sources.list = blank

and updatelog.txt =
Ign https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ Release.gpg
Ign https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ Translation-pt_PT

thanks

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

sorry, old habit - this isn't the file i was looking for :)
please post the content of "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list" instead.

could you please attach the whole file? you can do that using the button "manage attachments" when creating a post.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

ok, the files are attached.

(hildon-application-manager.list renamed to hildon-application-manager.txt)

Something else I can do?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

that's strange, the "updatelog.txt" should contain a lot more lines - did you have all the catalogues disabled when you issued the "apt-get update ..." command?

and your sources list is very short, too.

"deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/002 ./"
this line is for the "Nokia System Software Updates".
"deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ovi/ ./"
this line is for the ovi repository.

but the line for "Nokia Applications" and for maemo.org Extras is missing, so they'll never get updated. did you disable those catalogues before copying the hildon-application-manager.list ?



and as an example of what i'm trying to get to:

this is my hildon-application-manager.list, with Nokia Apps, Nokia SSU and maemo.org Extras enabled:
you don't need to edit this file, i just want to make sure you have the repositories enabled (which apparently isn't the case).

and this i get when running "apt-get update":
as you can see, a few "Ign" lines don't matter, but usually, when there's an error ("Err" instead of "Hit"), there's an explanation as to what might be wrong.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

yes, several catalogues were turned off, except for the official repository of nokia.

I will reactivate all, restart the n900 and try to connect to generate new report.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

you only had the "Nokia System Software Updates" and the Ovi repository enabled, but there's a third "official" Nokia repository, called "Nokia Applications" on my device, i believe MaStory is in there.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

yes, one of the repositories of nokia was disabled at the time.

good, the file hildon-application-manager generated just that:

deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/apps/ ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/002 ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ovi/ ./
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free non-free

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

problems:

sudo gainroot << ok

apt-get update 2>&1 > /home/user/MyDocs/updatelog.txt << in infinity process:confused::confused:

cp /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list /home/user/MyDocs

-x-x-x-
between the difficulty in the English language and lack of knowledge on Linux / Maemo, do not know what worse :mad::mad:

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

hm i just copy/pasted that exact bit into an xterm and it works :)

anyways, the "2>&1" part is only to make sure we don't miss any error messages. if you leave it out, it should work just as well and you see the error msgs in your xterm. but the generated file will be less useful, since we are interested in them.


edit:
your hildon-appmanager.list looks better now, but why do you have "extras" in there 2 times?
check that you don't have the same "web address" in two catalogues, maybe you wanted -testing and forgot to edit?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

good, it seems that I finally got to this report.

Are attached.

Thank you for your patience :)

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

no problem :)

it looks like you have dns trouble, probably not only on the N900 but on your network. but there is a hopefully easy workaround: you make static entries for downloads.maemo.nokia.com
to do that, you just need to enter the IP + hostname into the file /etc/hosts
by using the append-pipe >> we make sure not to overwrite /etc/hosts but to append new lines to it, one host per line.

these IPs are what i get when i resolve downloads.maemo.nokia.com
i have no idea of akamai's network, so i can not guarantee they will work from brazil. also, these are probably temporary and will change.

if you enter "nslookup downloads.maemo.nokia.com" into a command prompt on your computer, do you get a response? if so, use those IPs. if not, there is something wrong with either your internet service provider or akamai (the host).

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

good, if is not a hardware problem, since I am more relaxed.

sorry, I did not understand where to enter codes:
echo "195.113.232.88 downloads.maemo.nokia.com">> / etc / hosts
echo "195.113.232.91 downloads.maemo.nokia.com">> / etc / hosts

to do in xterm? (I did in root, but nothing happened)

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

watch out for spaces!
/etc/hosts is the path to a file and must not contain spaces! always be very, very careful in a root shell!

to check whether you have successfully entered it, you can view the file contents by
it should look like this:

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

Well, it was different. See the image.
http://dc180.4shared.com/img/2082836...098982&sizeM=7

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

hehe ok i see you tried a few times :)
you have to edit this file so it looks like the one i showed you, with only 3 lines.

edit:
btw, the reason your file isn't correct, is that you had too many " in your command. there should be only 2 of them, but you broke the string by adding a third.
as i said, you have to be very careful and exact.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

oops. it´s true. :eek:

ok, writed the command, opened in notepad and I replace the lines with:
subcoren900: ~ # cat / etc / hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost subcoren900
195.113.232.88 downloads.maemo.nokia.com
195.113.232.91 downloads.maemo.nokia.com
subcoren900: ~ #

saving the file. typed there again in xterm: cat / etc / hosts

and ... appeared the same response the previous image :confused:

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

no, just these 3 lines
the other two lines are from the xterm, they look similar on your device. and "subcoren900" just happens to be my hostname :)


and yes, it seems the easy way of editing in place with osso_notes doesn't work. i tried before i posted it and it worked, but apparently only for the first time. sorry for that.

usually, one uses "vim" to edit system files in place - there are a few other methods, but all of them are a bit too much to describe here, so i'll once again use echo. it's just the least complicated way :)

echo just outputs everything between the " ", we use > in the first command to overwrite the target file, and >> in the other two to append to the newly created file instead of overwriting it again.

if you input exactly these 3 commands as root, you should have a correct /etc/hosts file with 3 lines.

edit:
just to be sure - you know you can copy & paste from the browser into the x terminal, right?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

Not friend, as I am accessing the forum via the PC desktop, and I am following their guidelines and typing in the N900.

One question, there is only 1 space between the ">" on both sides, right?.

edit:
ok, I accessed the N900's browser, I copied and pasted the code and ran the command again
cat / etc / hosts

But there's something wrong, because the answer does not change.:confused:

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

yes.
and the two >> have to be next to each other (without space inbetween) for command 2 and 3.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

/etc/hosts is the path to the file you are editing, there is no space in there. the command is

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

the result is always this:

http://dc204.4shared.com/img/2083483...27.png?sizeM=3

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

show me the screenshot when you input the very first of the three commandlines.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

there is no space between "/" and etc/hosts
that is, is this: /etc/hosts
http://dc193.4shared.com/img/2083648...28.png?sizeM=3

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

these are commandlines, they have to be entered in xterm. sorry that i did not make that clear enough.

the notes program has trouble saving to the folder /etc, and these echo commands are supposed to create the file /etc/hosts.

so, close notepad and enter the three echo commands into an xterm, afterwards "cat /etc/hosts" should show a correct content.

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

he he he, sorry, I'm left zero in linux rsrs

but now I did the copy paste each line and it worked correctly

http://dc191.4shared.com/img/2083908...64947513713591

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

alright, great!

now, do "apt-get update" or the application manager still give errors?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

apt-get update 2> & 1> / home / user / MyDocs / updatelog.txt running :rolleyes:

edit: ok attached files

update.log
hildon-aplication-manager.list
sugestions? :confused::confused:

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

maybe then error in the configuration of my modem or the wifi connection of the N900?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

Did you get exactly the same errors when set to use the Google DNS servers?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

changing the web address of the repositories to their IP apparently doesn't work either:

http error 400 is not good.
you can try a few of the other IPs, but it could also be that "downloads.maemo.nokia.com" is just not accessible from brazil - the N900 isn't sold there officially, if i remember correctly?

could you please execute "nslookup downloads.maemo.nokia.com" in a command prompt on your desktop computer?

Re: [help] Complicated problem of connection with N900
 

yes, I tried with the Google DNS and OpenDNS too.
but what is the correct way? some guide?