[maemo-developers] usb networking with N810, Re: Nokia flasher parameters/boot sequence repair

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Tuomas Kulve wrote:
> "It also allows you to start ssh and telnet server in the device and
> login over usb before even root filesystem is mounted so you can fix
> system which is not booting properly."

By the way, can anyone confirm it is working with current N810 firmware 
for linux (CDC) or XP (RNDIS) connection? Yesterday tried this for the 
first time with N810 with two XP based computers and it doesn't work for 
me. Network connection shows up in Network Connections but it is marked 
as disabled and when trying to enable it, it fails and stays disabled. 
Nothing strange in kernel log on N810 side. With same computer plugging 
770 or OS2007-based N800 works fine with usb networking.

N810 doesn't work for me either with current bootmenu or when precisely 
folowing
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/4-x/setting_up_usb_networking.html
BTW, doing the insmod twice really works. Magic?

So anyone is using it with success with Linux or Windows? Thanks for any 
report.

I'm not using this feature much as booting from mmc is easier for 
recovery but yesterday I wanted to play with inserting framebuffer 
console modules early on boot and see if I can spawn shell on it. For 
N810 it finally makes sense having real (framebuffer) console with shell 
for recovery :-)

Frantisek