@solca: Thanks for that detailed post, it was very useful. On my tablet, the debug kernel does not go past the white Nokia screen. Is there any block device specific code inside the embedded initramfs? I do not see any kernel or console output, my feeling is that there was a kernel panic that was buried behind the bootup logo.

initramfs is different from initrd in that initramfs doesn't use block devices, not even ramdisks (which are block devices), the / is embedded with the kernel as a ramfs same as /proc or /sys so it's more bulletproof and faster as it doesn't depend on block devices.

If you don't see the tux and kernel console output with the debugging kernel it means a very early hang or kernel panic as you suppose correctly.

The only way to debug that case will be with a serial console attached to your tablet. This clearly is a kernel problem, will try to generate you a new kernel later, hopefully support for N810WE was merged complete to the OMAP tree.

From what I read so far, the hardware of the WE is the same as that of the stock N810, plus Intel's Baxterpeak chipset for 802.16e support. The bootloader passes these arguments to the Nokia supplied kernel while booting up maemo:

Here are the two diffs I promised:
Kernel changes:
http://bundyo.org/maemo/nitdroid/lin..._20090205.diff
WiFi driver with changes:
http://bundyo.org/maemo/nitdroid/cx3....1-770.tar.bz2

Please bear in mind that I didn't test this with 2.6.28 final, last working version is 28-rc9 from the omap tree.

I think one change in kernel diff is from the Solca's patch but not so sure. Don't reverse if asked.

Have fun

You actually forward ported the wifi driver for 770 to a modern kernel?

Dunno, I'm not sure it runs... I only got it to compile by resolving the problems I encountered. It requires the nokia blob and I couldn't get it running in nitdroid since it was freezing often.

http://guug.org/nit/ is currently unreachable. I fear it is due to a recent Engadget post. Is there a mirror or any idea when guug.org will be back up? Thanks!

I was able to reach it just now.

finally found time to get nitdroid on my n800

it works great! amazed to see how fast the progress is!

if the soft keyboard crashes too much, you can install a soft keyboard substitute
http://netgents.googlecode.com/files/qad-keyboard.apk

basically type what you need to type and then click "ok" and it'll be on your clipboard and you paste it in the text box you need. heh.

http://code.google.com/p/netgents/wiki/QadKeyboardHowto

in case you don't understand me

is it me or has the nitdroid project just come to a hault.I am paitently waiting for a easy install soulotion hope there is one soon.The projecet homepage was last updated january wow 2 months nothing to talk about.Are we still gonna see updates and will we get a easy install soulotion thanks.