Okay, if you are new to this, I will try to point you in the right direction. For example, for the temperature of your n900 to be displayed, you will need to have power kernel installed (have a look here http://wiki.maemo.org/Kernel_Power and for more information tap "power search" in the top right of the page and type power kernel. There are various versions of the kernel, the latest being 48, but you may want to try a previous version which will have been tested and more stable. To show the ssid of the network you are connected to, you also need something else. You need to enable the "tools repository". More information can be found here http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...5#Installation So, depending on whether or not you decide to add power kernel and tools repository, will determine whether some of these commands work or not. Command to show device uname -n Command to show various cpu information cat /proc/version Command to show cpu echo ARM Cortex-A8 CPU Running @ `awk '{print $1/1000" MHz"} ' /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq` (If you don't want "ARM Cortex-A8 CPU Running @" showing, just remove from the command and put what you want) Command to show temperature awk '{ print $1/10 " °C"}' </sys/class/power_supply/bq27200-0/temp Command to show ssid ESSID=`echo "iwconfig wlan0"|root|grep ESSID|sed "s/.*ESSID:\"//;s/\".*//"`;if [ "$ESSID" == "" ];then echo "na";else echo $ESSID;fi Hope this helps.