How beautiful nature can be

No need for words, except that the pictures were taken on 10 jan. 2009. at Hamme

How beautiful nature can be

Even more Eee, the Eee PC D200

Well ASUS doesn't seem to stop putting Atom processors in every device they can think of. The Eee PC D200 seems to be some kind of NAS, media server, small computer kind of thing.



Facts that might be right (no official release yet):

- Atom N270
- 2GB DDR-533
- 512MB flash-rom
- 3.5-inch touch-sensitive LCD
- 6-channel HD audio out
- DVI
- SlotIn-Multidrive
- 2x 3,5″ HDD-Slots
- 4x GbE lan
- 1x GbE Wan
- 802.11n access point
- 4x USB
- 275mm X 96 mm X 206 mm

source: www.einfach-eee.de

Even more Eee, the Eee PC D200

Eee keyboard, again something new in the Eee-line

ASUS introduced the world to the Eee Keyboard, a full-sized keyboard with built-in PC including WiFi (and Ethernet), wireless HDMI , speaker, mic, and 5-inch interactive display and touchscreen.






source: engadget and Gizmodo

Eee keyboard, again something new in the Eee-line

USB gadgets are best Christmas gifts

Yep, every year on Christmas Eve, we give each other lot's of gifts. Our family decided to make wish list, so you only get what you have put on your list. Very good idea.

This year(like every other year) I didn't really know what to put on my list. So I decided to go for USB gadgets. And yes here they are.

A cup heater (it has a build in usb-hub) to keep my coffee nicly warm and a windmill to cool it back down so I don't burn my tongue and a light so I can see what I'm drinking.



Best thing about USB gadgets, they work on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Unix, BSD, ... ;-)

USB gadgets are best Christmas gifts

Mounting a cellphone through bluetooth on the EeePC

Before you start following this blog entry, make sure bluetooth is working and your computer is all set for pairing your device. So this time I will explain how you can mount your cellphone, and browse your phone as if it were an internal disk. But before we start, You must know that browsing over bluetooth isn't the fastest way. Make sure your browser only shows lists and doesn't show icon's. This might speed things up. Or you could use a non graphical file browser like midnight commander or if you want a GUI without the icon's, you could try Krusader

Time to do some mounting. We do need several packages, so that we will be eable to mount a cellphone. We will be using the Obex file system, so you'll have to make sure your phone is capable of using obex. It's not that hard to find out, whether your phone can handle obex or not.

sdptool search --bdaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF 0x1002

Replace the macaddress by the one of your phone. You will see a lot of services. You'll have to find the channel number for "OBEX File transfer" service.

Now you'll have to check if you have fuse-utils, libopenobex1 and obexfs installed. On the EeePC with xandros, you'll have to download the obex files, because they are not in the repositories, and install them manually.

wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libo/libopenobex/libopenobex1_1.3-3_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/obexfs/obexfs_0.10-3+b2_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i libopenobex1_1.3-3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i obexfs_0.10-3+b2_i386.deb

Let's mount the phone for the first time. We will have to pair both the EeePC and the phone and therefore we need the passkey-agent. Replace the pin with the one you have put in the givepin script, the mac-addr. and the channelnumber (the x in -Bx). The phone will ask you a pin number.

mdkir /home/user/phone
./passkey-agent --default 1234 &
obexfs -b AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF -Bx /home/user/phone
ls /home/user/phone
fusermount -u /home/user/phone

Rember, bluetooth is slow, so give it time while browsing the device. The next time you mount, you won't need to run the passkey-agent again (pairing has been done). Trying to put this into /etc/fstab, doesn't work. There is some bug in the obexfs, so that unmounting as user keeps failing, but you could make a script that checks if the phone has been mounted or not and than does the opposite.

Mounting a cellphone through bluetooth on the EeePC

Huawai E270 HSPA USB modem on EeePC

When I ordered my new EeePc 901, I got price for the EeePC 901 GO, but recived the one without the GO. The pricee was OK, so I didn't want to send it back, but still the company I bought the EeePc from, wanted to correct there mistake. So they have send me an USB modem, of which I told them would work with linux. How very nice.





I had to put my sim into the modem, connected it to my Eeepc and voila. The modem was recognized and an application was fired up. I only had to change the APN to mworld.be and I was ready for some surfing.




Just for the record. I made the picture with my phone, transfered it with bluetooth to the EeePC and then went online using the modem to make this post, using my bleutooth mouse.

Huawai E270 HSPA USB modem on EeePC

Connecting bluetooth mouse, keyboard and other hid devices.

It isn't that hard to get a mouse, a keyboard an even some cellphones, working as an input devices through bluetooth. These are all HID devices and do work out of the box. As for your cellphone, you have to make sure it supports HID. You can check this easly, but make sure you use your phones mac-addr.

sdptool search --bdaddr AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF 0x1002

Before we can actually use HID, we have to make sure it has been turned on. So edit the file /etc/default/bluetooth and enable the hid daemon.

HIDD_ENABLED=1

Now you will have to restart bluetooth

/etc/init.d/bluetooth

Let's pair out device with our computer. This time we don't need the passkey, because hidd devices don't use pairing, or the key has been set to "0000". If you do encouter problems, use the passkey-agent. Change the mac-addr.

sudo hidd --connect AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

That's all folks and your device will even work on reboot. Just put it "on" and press a button to make the connection. If you need the passkey-agent, use the following commands. Don't forget to replace the PIN with the one you have put in givepin and again change the mac-addr.

./passkey-agent --default 1234 &
sudo hidd --connect AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

Connecting bluetooth mouse, keyboard and other hid devices.