n800 bigger, better, faster
Having recently sorted out a wifi connection at home and bought a couple 2GB SD cards, my n800 has suddenly come to life. But what has really made it sparkle is booting from the internal MMC card. Plenty more space and also almost double the speed. For anyone who hasn't done this to their n800 yet I can very much recommend it.
The procedure is easy and painless and is detailed on this page: HowTo EASILY Boot From MMC card. The only thing that didn't work in the instructions was this command
# insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/ext2.koI guess it was a typo, at least /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/ was completely empty. I used the module in /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.18-omap1/ instead, and everything is fine
# insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.18-omap1/ext2.ko
Incidentally, I'm using a D-Link DAP-1160 Wireless G Access Point connected to the uplink of my wired router for the wifi network. It uses GPL licensed code and comes with a printed GPL license, which is nice to see.
