OK. Here goes. After much tinkering around (which is, after all, a reason we get these devices) I think I've figured out a few tricks to getting Canola to rock and roll and in the process learn a bunch of Linux tricks. This is all covered in other places, but maybe posting a synopsis here will help some folks out.

1. Install XTerm. Yes we all need it.

2. Go here : http://mfresh-n800.blogspot.com/2007...rove-your.html
and set up some aliases. My fav is setting up 'ls' to do 'ls -al' to show hidden files when listing the contents of a directory.

3. Take a deep breath. Install GConf-Editor : let's you tweak the Canola config without using the web interface.

4. Uninstall Canola using the Application Manager. Log in with Xterm and find the .canola folder. This holds the canola.db file which holds the admin username and password. Use rm -r to delete this .canola folder

So now you've got an internet tablet with no canola, but XTerm and GConf are installed.

5. Go to Applications Manager and enable these 3 repositories:

a. Nokia Catalogue
b. Nokia Catalogue (3rd party software)
c. Canola
which is address : http://openbossa.indt.org.br/canola/...ory-beta2/bora
Distribution : bora
Components : user

6. Refresh the applications list and install Canola.

7. Unplug your Nokia and power cycle it.

At this point Canola may work perfectly. It may find your media and playback w/o any hassles. You'll open the Canola Config app and assign a username and passsword, be able to tweak the media library, and all will be right as rain.

However in my case, an n800 fresh out of the box with the latest firmware, OS 2007 and MicroB browser installed, Canola could not find any media, and the red arrows on the Canola config browser window would not let me remove folders, the green arrows worked, but not the reds. I was getting Asahi login, XML errors and the pillars were a shakin'.

If this sounds familiar, read on....

8. Close the browser and canola. Open Configuration Editor (GConf-Editor). Click apps>Canola-conf, check out the collection-folders list there on the right hand side. This is a list of the places Canola is looking for media. Click and hold on collection-folders and select Edit Key from the popup menu. Making any change to the list of folder values re-enables the Browser Config red and green arrows to be able to manage your media library from within the MicroB browser engine. Whew!!
Now you can close out of everything and open Canola Config browser app and tweak your media library.

Now my Canola is working like a champ. I can tweak the media library, it's finding media when I scan for it and I'm feeling good.

Hope the above is useful to those who are experiencing similar problems. I can't fault any developer for these glitches. Like I said above, if I didn't want to fuss with
the device, I would have bought a Video iPod. I consider all this troubleshooting a value add and a geeky pleasure to pursue. Thanks to everyone for their posts and efforts to make this device what it is.

Best,
Tim