I'm interested to see what kind of current draw you can get, any chance you could measure that also? Granted they've stated it's about 200mA from the N900, but I'm curious of the variance. All my equipment is at work so I can't hook it up.

Dear Mohammad, Dear joerg_rw

Multiboot is ok, but it still flash a kernel each time we boot.
This means that it can affect NAND blocks and create bad blocks.
U-boot does not flash, it loads.

Is there be a way to have all needed for booting with uboot ? uboot kernel image and boot script ?
Or
I saw that Matans released a uboot kernel image with musb and kernel power, so what is the mimimun needed to have host-mode with uboot-kernel-power ?

In the following package list :
kernel-hostmode-modules-extra 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-debug 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-modules-debug 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-modules 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-headers 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-flasher 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode 2.6.28-hostmode2
h-e-n (USB Hostmode GUI) 0.2-1

Can I download only :
kernel-hostmode-modules-extra 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-debug 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-modules-debug 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-modules2.6.28-hostmode2
h-e-n (USB Hostmode GUI) 0.2-1

without :
kernel-hostmode-headers 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode-flasher 2.6.28-hostmode2
kernel-hostmode 2.6.28-hostmode2

and dpkg -i * the downloaded packages, as my kernel already has the musb ?

Thanks.

can this be uninstall safely with out any probs

so can this work for pr 1.3 with omap kernel ?

Thanks to all involved for the great progress. This is obviously very close to working now. I have not had time to investigate, but I thought I would report a couple of observations. After building and installing a set of kernel packages from the kernel-hostmode source with some additional USB serial modules enabled, I was able to get three different RS232 adapters to work for a brief time with no external hub or power. With both my kernel, and the original kernel-hostmode kernel, I noticed the loss of power after a few seconds which obviously causes the kernel to report many problems when trying to use the device.

I also noticed that both my build of the kernel and the distributed hostmode kernel don't shut down cleanly, rebooting rather than powering down when attempting to power the phone off. I assume the kernel crashes on it's way down and the watchdog reboots it.

But this progress is very promising! I'm sure these issues will be quickly resolved.

Thanks!

--Brad

I tipped engadget on this, hopefully they will post it on their blog..

This is big news and diserves to be posted on big sites like engadget..

looks like the power loss after booston is caused by a trivial bug possibly caused by a last minute change in /usr/sbin/booston:
/usr/sbin/booston: line 9: syntax error: Unterminated quoted string.

uncommenting the logger line at the top and change bash to sh seems to fix it.

--Brad

I've tried to connect a USB stick via something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Type-Mini-5-Pi.../dp/B002S7PS8M
the led on the USB was lightened but while going into file manager there was nothing except mmc and microsd.

i do these steps several times but it doesnt recognize my flash memory .
another stupid question : what does mice do in maemo5 . where can i use it?

@cocayden
So you chose to not to read first post :P