My N800 arrived in the mail a week ago and it's one of those few (for my budget) big ticket items that I've had not even the distant hint of buyers remorse with. I've carried a Palm Tungsten T5 with me for years and this is the first device I've found that could be considered a true upgrade based on technical attributes and provided functions. Bravo to Nokia for releasing a hardware platform while allowing the software side to be open and developed through the greater FOSS community. Enough of my gushing though.

I've a brand spanking new N800 already being stuffed with a selection of toys and tools to replicate my T5 PDA functions and anything else of use I can get my apt-get on. Outside of the normal libbluetooth1 (unresolved) issues and some very temporary issues with avahi-deamon I've had no real problems so far other than one; home location Toronto, Ontario.

It blew me away to go into the settings that first night and see Collingwood, Ontario as one of the three or so selectable Canadian cities without Toronto being included. I grew up in a small town right beside Collingwood and it's not a very big town itself yet it's in the list of canadian cities. This is like including Tipaweego, Utah (population 24 people if such a place exists) without including Washington, DC.

It would be a real issue if all the software that makes use of the home location didn't now think I lived elsewhere. The Clock shows my home location in Europe as does Maemo Mapper. Omweather can't be used to get local weather because the location is not available. Any location aware app is basically borked for the 2.5 million potential Nokia customers and us geeks that have already fallen in love with the N800 and greater community supported Maemo distribution.

Is there a way to properly add locations to the list of available cities in the control settings? It's Debian under the makeup so I'll also go looking for a way to hack in my location but I'd much rather add it through more official options. Heck, if I can add it in and figure out how to distribute the resulting location list I'll happily give back to the community that offers so much. If this has already been discussed and resolved; please point me in the right direction. I've been searching with google in general and these forums specifically without finding a solution.

I'm a long time user of Mandriva Linux (since it was Mandrake and Red Hat removed the mp3 codecs from their default install) and collect OS the way other people collect baseball cards so I'm comfortable with technical details if someone can offer a solution. It's simply an issue I've not yet had to resolve with other Linux distros but I'm ready for the challenge.

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As a side tangent: The Fix for installing Avahi-Deamon from the maemo repositories took me a week in front of google to find so the more places it can be posted for other's, the better.

Installing Avahi Deamon on Nokia N800:
1. Open the xterminal or connect to your N800 through OpenSSH
2. Become root; sudo gainroot
3. Create a shadow password file as root; pwconv
4. Try installing Avahi-Deamon again through the graphic package manager
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=8722

It's the cleanest solution I've read, took less than a minute to do and worked the first time. There's been no conflict between Avahi and any other packages and I have no little broken package icons in my installed app list.
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