Procedure for adding 2GB rs-mmc support to IT2006 using Linux
 

This is the procedure I used to update the IT2006 in the Nokia 770 to support 2Gb Kingston RS-MMC memory cards.

This procedure assumes you have already updated the Nokia 770 to IT2006. Insert the 2GB card into the memory slot at this point.

Note: You need to use a PC with USB ports running Linux.

a) obtain "flasher-2.0" from http://www.maemo.org/downloads/d3.php and download this onto the PC which has USB ports, running Linux (I used RHEL3, aka RedHat).


b) obtain "zImage-su-18-200627" from www.freenux.org/~mm/zImage-su-18-200627 and download to this to the same PC running Linux, into the same directory as the flasher-2.0


c) Turn off your Nokia 770 and do not have power supply attached to Nokia 770. Attach the Nokia 770 via USB to the PC. Do not power on the Nokia 770 yet.


c) In the Linux PC using a Terminal Window, in the directory where you have put the above two files, execute the command
"./flasher-2.0 -f -k zImage-su-18-200627"

the PC will respond with

"flasher v0.8.1 (May 30 2006)
Suitable USB device not found, waiting"


d) Now insert the power supply to the Nokia 770 , which will switch on the Nokia 770 and display the USB symbol in top right corner. This step takes only 2 minutes.

The PC will automatically respond with something similar to-

USB device found found at bus 001, device address 002
Found device SU-18, hardware revision 1802
NOLO version 0.9.11
Version of 'sw-release': SU-18_2006SE_1.2006.26-8_PR_MRO
Sending kernel image (1236 kB)...
100% (1236 of 1236 kB, avg. 579kB/s)
Flashing kernel... done.


e) disconnect Nokia 770 from the USB cable, remove power, allow Nokia 770 to be re booted, (it seems to do it twice)...


f) using the Control Panel and then Memory display, you should see that the memory card has 1.94GB



Dugby in Australia

Via OSX?
 

Do you think this would work from OSX?

https://maemo.org/maemowiki/HOWTO_Fl...ight=%28osx%29
Note: I'm not a mac user.

I have tried running this several times from the command line as root in OSX but keep getting a permission denied error.

I've tried both Flasher and Flasher 2.0 for macosx

When I try to use the GUI version it can't open the file unless I append .bin, but then I get an error of Invalid FIASCO file header.

anyone run into this?

The GUI flasher is only for flashing entire root FSes; trying to flash an individual kernel isn't supported.

You probably mean entire FIASCO images since rootfs is only part of the image (same as kernel or initfs). Or the flasher really supports only rootfs and not kernel?

True, I was being sloppy in my language to try and be clear. Obviously I failed ;-)

I ran into the same problem with the command line flasher utility. You have to grant execution permission to the user (you) for this program.

From the terminal enter:
chmod +ux flasher-2.0.macosx

from the directory where you placed the flasher program.

Then go through the steps.

That worked for me.

chmod it was!!

Awesome! That's everyone!

So now the question of how to get more than 64MB of virtual memory rocking... think I read that somewhere else on these forums.

Re: Procedure for adding 2GB rs-mmc support to IT2006 using Linux
 

WORKS! Let me share my experience with 2gb support problem in Nokia 770. I tried different things; flashing kernels from linux machines and from the unit itself etc with no luck. and i knew that the card is good, because I could format it using my PC which has built-in media reader and could copy files to it. Then I started thinking that it's gotta be the way the card sits in the unit, so I pushed my 2gb kingston card to the memory slot, but not all the way so that it does NOT click in place (which normally you would do), then closed the cap. It is important to close the cap otherwise unit wont even try to read the memory. And I got the "Memory card available" message and I confirmed the card size (1.89GB). My buddy had the same problem and I explained him what to do over the phone, it is working for him too now. You dont need to install/flash anything to make 2GB cards work on your unit which runs OS 2006 versioned 3.2006.49-2. Unless you want it to run faster. And by the way, I got it from buy.com. I hope this works for other people out there still trying to make this work.
cheers,
jay