Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking of decomissioning this mailing list in favour of a sub forum on LinuxQuestions.org

2013-11-21 Thread David Madden
On 11/21/13, 7:35 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: I am personally not a fan of web forums I don't like 'em either -- the main problem is, there are so many of them, and each one a security disaster waiting to happen. (Yes, I use different usernames and passwords everywhere, but that's a hassle for me

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread David Madden
On 4/17/2013 07:12, Gregg Levine wrote: I still want to, ah, target my Dock Star but the difficult part is to workout how to attach that serial console and without damaging things. It's a plain ol' TTL UART on a slightly-small pin block just to the left of the front edge of the PCB (left of the

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-11 Thread David Madden
On 7/10/2012 20:46, Gregg Levine wrote: what space requirements should I take into consideration? I spent a fair amount of time trying to put together a tiny system that would fit into the Flash on a Dockstar, but ended up with a more conventional installation (system on USB disk). More

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-10 Thread David Madden
On 7/10/2012 13:09, Stuart Winter wrote: so anything that is of low spec doesn't interest me at all - especially when there are better machines out there. The Dockstar is such a cute form factor, though. Especially when you put one of the 2.5 drives in it. But you're right, only 128MB is

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-25 Thread David Madden
On 2/25/2012 00:19, John O'Donnell wrote: Lemme know if you run into any issues, I'll fix em right up. I havent run on a 3.2 kernel yet. Just 3.1 Something wrong with the uap_drv.h part of the patch (on OS_INT_RESTORE). I applied it by hand, and ...much compiling occurs... Uh oh: CC [M]

[ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-24 Thread David Madden
Thanks for the replies info. (For some reason, it doesn't look like I'm getting digests, so I just saw them in the web archives.) I've had luck building a 3.2.6 kernel with vanilla sources and a bit of .config file tweaking. My current config is at:

[ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-20 Thread David Madden
Hi, I've been working on customizing a GuruPlug to do some specific tasks on my home network. I've tried installing Slackware Debian (both successful) but I haven't been able to build a functional kernel or get wireless running. So, I wonder: * How much of a hassle is it to get from a

[ARMedslack] Tagfile for Minimal Install (provided!)

2012-02-13 Thread David Madden
Following up...I made a set of tagfiles by changing all recommended and optional packages to skip, then adding in whatever I needed to be able to load packages using slackpkg. The basic install is about 200M on my GuruPlug, which will easily fit in the Flash (as soon as I figure out all the

[ARMedslack] Tagfile for Minimal Install (provided!)

2012-02-12 Thread David Madden
Following up...I made a set of tagfiles by changing all recommended and optional packages to skip, then adding in whatever I needed to be able to load packages using slackpkg. The basic install is about 200M on my GuruPlug, which will easily fit in the Flash (as soon as I figure out all the