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Episode: 228
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Title: HPR0228: nokia
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0228/hpr0228.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 14:23:25
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Hi, welcome to HackerPoliceGradio, this is Clot2, and I'm going to be talking about setting
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up your Nokia Internet Tablets, and that's a trademarked term, by the way, setting it up
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how to be for connectivity and to be the robust device that everyone keeps saying that
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it is, and I know you're thinking, wow, Nokia in 8, you know, asterisk 0 tutorial, that's
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really behind the times, Clot2, why don't you do something, you know, like the G1 phone
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or something.
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Well, number one, I don't have a G1 phone, or number two, because I feel that it's important
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to let everyone know about the full power and capabilities of the Nokia Internet tablet,
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in a very practical way rather than just raving about it in a sort of abstract way, like
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a lot of people tend to.
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So if you're either a new owner of the 810, or you've got an 800 that you got used, or
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you just have that you haven't really used to the full potential, or whatever, or you
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have a 770 that you haven't used to the full potential, this will hopefully help you
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use it a little bit more robustly, as well as kind of urge you to make sure that you're
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all set up to go in advance, that is to kind of set up the device, you know, before you
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take it out, you know, to cafes and to your job and stuff like that, because what happened
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to me that inspired this episode was that I had some really basic things that I needed
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to get done, and I knew that I could do it with my Nokia, so I had that, so I was feeling
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pretty good, and then I realized, you know, in the moment that I really hadn't set up
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all the features that I needed to have set up on my Nokia in order to really take advantage
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of it, so I ended up having to sit there, you know, in front of the Internet, looking
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up, okay, how do I set this up on the Nokia, because I don't see it in the repo and blah,
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blah, blah.
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You know, so you're sitting there setting the thing up when what you should be doing is,
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you know, uploading stuff to someone's FTP server, et cetera, et cetera, so, you know,
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do this early, do it now, so that when you're out and about, you have everything ready
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to go.
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Okay, so the first thing that you're going to want to do on the Nokia is enable the extra
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repositories.
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They, you know, this is a very user-centric consumer Linux, which I love, but, you know,
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which, they really kind of, you know, they don't make it quite as robust as one would
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expect, I think, at least for me, it's, you know, sitting in front of the Nokia is not
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like sitting in front of just a raw, you know, Debian install, where you've got everything
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installed that you would ever need for, you know, development and for connectivity.
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The Nokia is for the user.
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They're assuming that the user isn't going to need things like SSH, FTP, Bash, et cetera.
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So you'll go to the application manager and you will want to go to the main menu of
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the application manager, go down to Tools and go down to Application Catalog, and that
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is their term, you know, for what repository you're looking at.
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And if you open that up, there should be a fairly good list of Nokia repositories, including
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a couple of extra repositories that are not enabled by default, so you'll want to click
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on those, you'll want to enable them, and then you'll want to say, okay, and it will update,
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and suddenly you'll have a lot more available applications to install than you had in the
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first place.
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Now, the next step that I do is I go for the, the real extras.
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There's a master list of a lot of different repositories online at grownmayer.com slash
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it, that is g-r-o-n-m-a-y-e-r.com slash it, and that's just a big list.
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There's a lot of repositories for Nokia Internet tablets.
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What's cool about this site is that you can even browse it on your Nokia, and there's
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a button there that will install it, you know, or enable it in your application catalog
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right there from the page.
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Alternatively, you can browse on another computer and, you know, paste a type in the text and
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stuff like that.
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But I just prefer to do it on the Nokia.
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You've got little check mark buttons that you can, you know, you can add this repository,
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and then you can install them all at once in a big batch.
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Make sure that you're getting repositories that are good for your version of the OS.
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The current OS, OS 2008 is called Diablo, so make sure that you're getting repositories
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that have Diablo components in them, and those are growing in number.
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You can look at, like, a list of what's in the repository before you install it if you
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want to, but most of these are pretty good little repositories to have.
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So once you've got all that stuff enabled, you're going to want to set up just really
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simple things, like I say, that they don't include in the default OS on Nokia, not on
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the Internet tablet.
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So one of those things is the first thing that I installed is Bash, and this is a drop
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in replacement for the little, what do they call it, busy box terminal or the .sh, you
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know, whatever that little terminal that they include by default in the N800, N810, 770
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is this just replaces that with a full-fledged, full-fledged Bash shell.
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It's a really nice feature to have.
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A lot more robust, certainly, than the default.
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Now you'll also want to install the FTP application, which is just a port of, I guess, the original
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FTP, you know, the FTP program, so I think the full name is like in FTP or in FTP, I don't
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know, but you want to install that for sure because, you know, having that kind of connectivity
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is really important.
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You'll also want to get the MAMO-PC-connectivity metapackage.
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That includes all the good stuff, like SSH, actually that's the only thing I can think
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of right now, but it has more than that for sure.
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But most importantly, yeah, throughout the open SSH module in there, that you'll want
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to install.
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And then there are just a lot of other, you know, cool little applications that you're
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going to eventually find.
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One of my favorites is Wi-Fi Info, I think is what it's called, and that just shows you
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what network you're on, what the MAC address of the router is, what your IP address is,
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stuff like that.
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So that's kind of a handy little simple GUI application that you can install.
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And you'll also probably want to go ahead and unlock the whole, you know, getting into
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root thing.
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By default, there's not really the ability to get to root on the Nokia.
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So there's a package that you can install, I think it's called BeRoot or GetRoot or something
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like that.
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I forget, it's been a while since I've installed it now, but just do a search for root,
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and you will find the programs that will unlock that functionality for you.
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Now the lay of the land on the Nokia Internet tablet is that you are called simply user.
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And your home directory seems to be, if I recall correctly, on the internal card, at
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least in 800.
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I'm not so sure about the 810, so I don't have access to one, but you're just basically
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user at Nokia something.
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And you'll want to kind of explore and bash the file system and find out where all your
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memory cards are.
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At least on the 800, it's slash media, slash MNC1 and MNC2 for each memory card.
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And they have a lot of your data kind of squirreled away into this sort of almost, almost, it feels
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kind of like an isolated environment with all your user things.
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There's my docs and my apps and all these weird little folders in there that I can't really
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get into.
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But I typically just store all my data on my external memory card anyway.
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And so getting there is just a simple matter of, you know, slash media, slash MNC2 or MNC1, you
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know, slash file name.
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And see, yeah, and that's about it really.
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I mean, getting root will help you be able to make a lot of the changes that you'll want
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to make, you know, to passwords and things like that.
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The PC connectivity kit will give you SSH and then bash and FTP will give you, you know,
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a more, more typical, you know, sort of a lower level ability to just get information
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off of the Nokia and onto your own server or wherever you need to send it.
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And from there, I think you'll be good to go.
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With those repositories, you can look around and find all kinds of cool applications.
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And you should definitely have no problem getting in and out of your Nokia, no matter what
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application, what platform you're trying to maneuver your way around.
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So enjoy and thank you for listening to Hacker Public Radio.
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