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Milhouse	2007-06-16 , 16:49
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Originally Posted by torx

erm, what's the difference between doing this busybox thing and simply doing a "apt-get install ping"? It worked on my N800..

I didn't know about "apt-get install ping"

That does sound a lot easier I have to admit, though the busybox approach does also give you telnet, traceroute and some other command line utilities. Does the apt-get approach install only ping or does it install anything else which might be useful?

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