Thank you for your great work. You make the IT behave as they should.

Would someone provide some instruction or link me to information on how to flash a new kernel?

also would flashing the kernel reset my current setup (programs, bookmarks, etc)?

No, we're only flashing the kernel here, not the rootfs.

-k tells flasher-3.0 where the kernel image is (this is the zImage you downloaded from fanoush's website).
-f tells flasher-3.0 to flash.
-R tells flasher-3.0 to have the device reboot after flashing.

1. Turn your device off, plug it in with USB.
2. Run the flasher-3.0 command.
3. Turn on your device while holding down the Home key.
4. Let it flash, let it reboot, then remove the USB.

Now you need to get the blset script installed so you can change the brightness levels. Grab it from fanoush's site, stick it in /usr/local/bin (vi /usr/local/bin/blset and paste from the web browser or wget -O /usr/local/bin/blset http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/blset), chmod it 755, and test it (not sure if /usr/local/bin is in the search path by default, so you might just copy it over to /usr/bin).

blset [0-127] will change the backlight level of the current software level (the one selected in the statusbar applet). You can change the values of all levels, but as they reset on restart, there's not much point unless you set something up to change them for you on every reboot. Since I pretty much just use it for reading at brightness level 1 at night, I just use blset 1 while on the lowest statusbar applet level.

there is also kernel flasher you can use directly on the device
http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#kernelflasher

guide is here, just use different kernel
http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi..._to_a_computer

has anyone confirmed that fanoush's device-direct onboard flasher works with the latest 2008OS on N800 or N810?

Thanks,

dcarter

Works for me with N800 and 770. Since N800/OS2007 days this is no longer specific to any OS200x release. Only 770 needed kernel specific hack to unprotect kernel partition. With N800 kernel partition is writable as is, so no magic is needed and it should work on any system version. Not sure about N810 but in theory it should be same as N800.

Yes, the flasher works, but the kernel itself makes more SD cards incompatible. My external SD card slot stopped recognizing SD card with his kernel. I guess it's because of the high-speed MMC patch...

Have you tried the latest version?

see post #18, previous kernel source released by Nokia was buggy