- quickly knowing what IP address has been assigned to your computer makes life a bit easier, especially when using ssh, ftp, etc.

- it bothers me that the graphical network connection tools (under either os2007 or os2008 - correct me if i'm wrong) do not display the assigned IP address

(edit: the info *is* available; see following post)

- i found myself having to open a terminal then use /sbin/ifconfig to get this information - not an insurmountable problem, but still slightly annoying...

- one utility that does report the assigned IP is WifiInfo, which also provides an adjustable polling interval and signal strength meter...

- however, i just need the IP address, so here's a tiny script (don't forget to rename to IPTalk.sh) that speaks your N8x0's assigned IP address using ifconfig, grep, cut, and awk (all in the OEM root filesystem), and the flite artificial speech package, which you'll need to download and install...

- i also created a short desktop menu item, named IPTalk.desktop, which like all others, is stored under /usr/share/applications/hildon:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=IPTalk
Exec=/home/user/apps/IPTalk.sh
Icon=qgn_list_gene_default_app

- note that the script is stored under /home/user/apps as IPTalk.sh

hope this helps someone...

happy hacking!