I kind of suspect that the Maemo folks are not so happy about this leakage.
I for one start feeling sorry for downloading the firmware (I used a different method than looking for a MAC address) ahead of time.
I don't know what legal issues there may be inside Nokia, but if they delayed the update for the N800 to December there MUST be a reason (either "logical" or "commercial").
And we all went against this. This is a statement for a fact.

I don't feel sorry for Nokia by itself, I feel sorry for the Maemo team and I hope this leakage doesn't hurt the relationship they are building with the open source community (us) and, more important, I hope it doesn't hurt the "view" that a huge commercial company like Nokia has about the open source (and that brought us this mostly open-sourced device).

But, indeed, they should be already prepared for this things to happen, but I still feel some kind of "sorryness" and I can't stop it.

And yes, I am still running the OS2008 on my N800.

Waiting for a reaction from the Maemo team, I haven't seen anything yet.

Agreed, but this is the first time for me to see "a little of what NIT users are capable of" quite cool indeed.

and yeah feel sorry about the MAC-part.

I for one, i can wait until this "hack" is accepted as "not hurting" maemo/nokia ...

Though can not guarantee for my fingers to stay put ... and google
a valid MAC

i heard that skype wont install in it.
also there are some dependencies problems with python.
The map program rocks.
gizmo works.

One issue with using the wayfinder map program on the N800 is that there isn't enough storage to download any maps over about 100MB in size as it uses the internal memory. And I can't see anyway to tell it to use any other storage. Unless knows a way to clone OS2008 to an SD card I suppose?

I downloaded 250MB of maps. The map application automatically installed all files to one of my sdhc cards. Perhaps you have not enough free space on your SD card?

Same here....

Heh, my problem is that it "installed" itsself onto my 128MB card in the internal slot, my external slot is a 8GB SDHC.

I removed the 128MB and moved the 8GB into place and now It seems to be downloading the UK maps fine.

Thanks for the help

Wow, I am gobsmacked by all of this. And just when I thought the forum was becoming boring.

I am all set to go now, I have the flasher and the .bin just need to investigate live Linux cd's - I use Vista (spit).

Unlikely. Many software and device vendors have even actively created similar leakages in the past. For example, Nokia themselves are effectively spreading cell phone firmware from a UK only site, in spite of a official support-center-only policy in other regions. After all, having the software taken rather than giving it away has all the advantages of a public test, without requiring the support effort.

In any case, they could and would have used better methods if they would have had to protect their firmware - requiring a device ID will probably be done to prevent clueless users from sueing for damages after they toast their device with unsuitable firmware, and to gather statistical data on the number of actively maintained devices.

Sevo