Jonny’s Blog

Right, exams are now over so I have more time to concentrate on other things.

I have a list of things I’d like to do over the summer. I won’t go into them as I don’t want to be tied to anything in particular, but it includes numerous Bongo enhancements, other SynCE stuff, finally some maemo developing, and also some Debian-specific stuff.

I’ll blog about any specific developments in the future though.

An interesting bug I found in my n800 is shown below:

The HTTP proxy settings have been entered, however they haven’t been enabled- note the “Use Proxy” checkbox is not checked; and proxy details are greyed-out.

However, this doesn’t quite work as expected. Upon connecting to a network, I get scenes like this:

Application manager cannot refresh Application lists.

Media cannot be streamed.

Feeds cannot be added to the Feed reader.

However, the web-browser will browse happily!

The way around this is to specify no proxy settings as follows:

This looks as if its a GConf problem- I’ll check it out when I’m back on a computer. I’m finding the Maemo subversion repository a bit of a labyrinth though!

Update: This bug has already been reported on the Maemo bugzilla.

The login screen of Bongo loads successfully and even looks nice on the reduced-size screen. However, upon trying to log-in:

My school’s wireless network has two areas:

• WPA-secured area, with a passkey that I know
• WEP EAP-MSCHAPv2 secured area, requiring a user name & password (which I have)

The WPA area is fine- I can connect. However, this bug in the Nokia N800 is obviously preventing me reach the second, of course, being the area I’m more likely to use the n800 in.. There are a few solutions: I think the famous wpa_supplicant would fix this problem. The other solution is to use Open1x, which of course looks as if it’d definitely fix this. So that’d be my immediate reaction for a normal Linux computer, however, this is an N800. I’m looking into it..

The other issue sounds a little ridiculous, but proxy user names and passwords are not allowed in the N800. To use the proxy server at school this requires a user name and password, and as there’s no-where to enter these, then this does not work. Looking at the osso-feed-reader (Liferea) source it seems to use the gconf values, but it has been reported that simply adding gconf values is not a fix.

These two things are the most annoying problems with it at the moment! There are some other annoying things but I’ll sum them up later. I’d better satisfy my developer discount somehow though..!

After managing to sort problems with ordering, and then delivering, I recceived my Nokia N800. It certainly is great. I’ll post more about it later.

I was one of the lucky ones that received a discount for the Nokia N800 thanks to the Maemo project. This was ordered yesterday and will be arriving in 2-3 days.