[plug] Nokia 5510

Michael Holland myk at westnet.com.au
Wed Jun 2 08:40:06 WST 2004


On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Kev wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've come into ownership of a Nokia 5510, which amongst other trinkets
> has a built in MP3 player which also acts as a 64M USB memory stick.  My

Sadly, it does NOT play mp3s. You need to jump through some DRM hoops. But
there is a linux tool to do that. (The windows software is reportedly
horrid.)

See http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=91998

> son uses his to transport schoolwork to and from school.  In Windows XP
> you simply plug it in and it comes up as a 64M drive.  In Mdk 10 it
> hotmounts OK but when I view its properties it says that it's 0 Kbytes,

There seems to be a problem with the 2.6 kernel. You will need to boot an
older kernel, or find a patch.

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.3/1529.html

cheers, Mike.



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