PC Connectivity

Maemo PC Connectivity provides tools to simplify setting up of communication between the Tablet and the PC at two parts:

- Connection setup: To configure a TCP/IP connection based on different mechanisms (USB, Bluetooth, WLAN) and different operating systems (Linux, Mac OS and Windows)

- Communication tools: remote shell (SSH, SBRSH), secure remote copy (SCP), mounting file systems (SSHFS, NFS, SMB)


Installation to the Tablet

To install the maemo-pc-connectivity meta package on the Tablet you need to enable the maemo SDK Extras repository for the Tablet and install the package with "apt-get":

  • Add these linest to /etc/apt/sources.list file in the Tablet:
            deb http://repository.maemo.org/ diablo/tools free
            deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel diablo free non-free

  • Install the maemo-pc-connectivity package:
    # apt-get update
    # apt-get install maemo-pc-connectivity

Installation to the host PC

These installation instructions support only Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. Some new documentation will be available if you need to use a different Linux distribution (or even a different operating system than Linux).

Note that host PC connectivity components need to be installed to the host PC and not to the scratchbox rootstraps.

    • Add the repository line at the /etc/apt/sources.list
                        deb http://pc-connectivity.garage.maemo.org/repository intrepid main 
    • If you use ubuntu Hardy or Gutsy, replace the "intrepid" with your distro's name.
    • Update the apt cache
                        # sudo apt-get update
    • Install host-pc-connectivity package
                        # sudo apt-get install host-pc-connectivity
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