Re: Case for ARM-based system and single 3.5 hard disk?

2013-03-14 Thread John Winters
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:23:27 +, David Pottage da...@electric-spoon.com wrote: I use a qnap ts-110. It works well and is reliable, but performance is low as it is only 600 MHz and 256 gb of RAM. Who was it who said that 256 GB of RAM should be enough for anybody? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Sending a simple mail from debian slug

2012-12-16 Thread John Winters
On 16/12/12 11:02, tw.cast...@arcor.de wrote: Hi everyone and thanks for your support, I'll try to answer all questions so far. I don't know sendEmail, but I would expect Arcor to require some authentification. Yes, I thought that is what exim is for. Exim is more for doing your actual

Re: Sending a simple mail from debian slug

2012-12-15 Thread John Winters
On 15/12/12 15:38, Rainer H. Rauschenberg wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012, Tobias Wagner wrote: So I followed the hint from John Winters and did dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. It would be really helpful if you could tell exactly how you configured exim. After finishing I got an errormessage

Re: Sending a simple mail from debian slug

2012-12-14 Thread John Winters
On 14/12/12 13:13, Tobias Wagner wrote: Hello, I am trying to send a simple email to my address with no success. I logged in via ssh and typed: echo This is a test. | mail -s Test subject t...@gmx.de It didn't give an error message, but no email was received. I have searched the net but

Re: IPv6 on sheeva-plug with new squeeze kernel

2012-05-15 Thread John Winters
On 15/05/12 12:56, Arnaud Patard (Rtp) wrote: [snip] Please make sure that the new kernel has been flashed and that you've rebooted after that. Seconded. I find I need to do an explicit flash-kernel on both my SheevaPlugs after any kind of upgrade involving the kernel. Despite the name, it

Re: Disable loading ipv6 on wheezy NSLU2

2012-05-15 Thread John Winters
On 15/05/12 18:46, Alan Snelgrove wrote: [snip] I have read that adding ipv6.disable=1 to the kernel line in the bootloader configuration fixes the problem. But I don't know how to do that on a NSLU2 or anywhere else. Can someone please point me in the right direction. Have you tried

Re: Debian on SS400-E

2011-03-25 Thread John Winters
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:30:57 + (UTC), chris wilkinson kins...@verizon.net wrote: JF Straeten jfstraeten at scarlet.be writes: I agree totaly with Hans. By removing the original firmware, you'll also remove some of the limitations. Or maybe I misunderstood Hans, you did overwrite the

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread John Winters
On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one problem report about the RAID uuid changing. My basic upgrade to Squeeze was satisfactorily dull. It took a while but had no issues at all. One problem did rear its head

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread John Winters
On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I upgraded a NSLU2 to squeeze yesterday without any problems but the system was a base system of lenny without any additional software installed. It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one problem report about the

Re: LEDs on a Sheevaplug

2011-02-08 Thread John Winters
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:04:22 +0100, Issany Reza issa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I don't know too what they mean on mine (sheeva plug USB running on debian etch). Sorry? Is this international AOL day and nobody told me? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: FASTEST plug computer

2011-01-26 Thread John Winters
On 26/01/11 16:19, Samuele Bianchi wrote: Hi! I'm using an e-sata sheevaplug ( NewIt version ) since 1 year and i'm very proud of my plug computer with Debian 6. Today i have seen this plug from ionics web site: http://www.ionicsplug.com/nimbus2000.html Is it avaiable an installer for this plug

Re: Sheevaplug installs fine, kernel hangs on first boot

2011-01-21 Thread John Winters
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:50:42 +0100, Ralph Aichinger ra...@pangea.at wrote: Hello! I followed Michael's instructions here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html for installing on the sheevaplug, using squeeze. [snip] ## Booting image at 0080 ... Image

Re: Bricked N2100

2010-11-25 Thread John Winters
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:27:51 +, John Ashby n2...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Following a bad edit to /etc/network/interfaces, my Thecus N2100 has zero network connectivity. The way I've solved this in the past is to take the HDD out of my N2100 and edit the file on another machine. A little

Re: NSLU2 to Sheevaplug?

2010-08-30 Thread John Winters
On 30/08/10 05:27, Brian Platt wrote: I'm currently working on a Linksys NSLU2 (running debian) which I was aiming to put into my car. The problem is some software is a complete nightmare to get running if at all. When I try to install the same software on a white box machine everything is

Re: emacs-snapshot for arm

2010-08-20 Thread John Winters
On 20/08/10 10:51, Martin Guy wrote: [snip] I mailed you off-list to share awareness of this issue. I must say, a public rebuttal to a private message, changing nothing and just making excuses is disappointing. I don't want you to take the stuff down - it's a great public service you are doing

Re: Seeking machines for nightly builds of ITK

2010-08-18 Thread John Winters
On 16/08/10 05:11, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:40:15PM -0400, Hector Oron wrote: Hello, 2010/8/3, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca: The insighttoolkit package is a large and active code base. They use a system of nightly build/test on a variety of machines [1] to

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-16 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I suggest you tar up your data, change the partition layout, untar it and change /etc/fstab. Thank you - I will do that today and report back on how I get on. Then boot with an explicit root= parameter (for your new root partition) Can you expand on that step

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-16 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I suggest you tar up your data, change the partition layout, untar it and change /etc/fstab. Thank you - I will do that today and report back on how I get on. Happy to report that it all worked beautifully, and the upgrade to 2.6.32-2 now

[Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-15 Thread John Winters
on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:46:41 + From: John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org I reported earlier problems when I first upgraded the kernel on my Sheevaplug (running from an 8G SDHC card). After the new

Re: [Fwd: Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted]

2010-04-15 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk [2010-04-15 17:42]: Exactly the same problem again - the new kernel won't boot with the boot loader complaining about Bad Magic Number. This time however the renaming trick didn't work. I've gone backwards and forwards a few times

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-02-01 Thread John Winters
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:53:55 +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [snip] so, sorry to be asking everyone again, but is the extra $6.40 ok, is a better 1024x600 9in LCD screen ok, same CPU, same memory, and is general vagueness of chinese factories and poor enlish an acceptable risk you'd like to

Re: anyone interested in grouping together to get better pricing than $130 on ARM 7in Netbooks?

2010-01-30 Thread John Winters
Brian Platt wrote: I like the sound this and would be interested in getting one, AOL would it be available in the UK? The mention of VAT made me assume that the original proposal was not aimed at left-ponders. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: I need fast ARM Hardware for native compile

2010-01-13 Thread John Winters
Benjamin Andreas wrote: Hello list, I have a Sheevaplug My Plug have Debian in the internal NAND Flash My Problem is 512 MB Flash is very small because i need a lot of Dev tools I try it in a Cross Compile environment on my x86 PC but I'm to stupid for this solution Why not attach an

Re: I need fast ARM Hardware for native compile

2010-01-13 Thread John Winters
Benjamin Andreas wrote: 2010/1/13 John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk mailto:j...@sinodun.org.uk Benjamin Andreas wrote: [snip] I have a Sheevaplug My Plug have Debian in the internal NAND Flash My Problem is 512 MB Flash is very small because i need a lot of Dev tools [snip

Re: SS4000E Cable Wiring

2009-12-26 Thread John Winters
mxc wrote: Hi all, I am using this tutorial http://www.tomjudge.com/index.php/SS4000-E/Serial_Cable for the pin mappings for my serial cable. This differs from the following http://pinouts.ru/SerialPorts/Serial9_pinout.shtml Anyone know which one is correct? I've looked at the two pages

Re: SS4000E Cable Wiring

2009-12-26 Thread John Winters
m...@jumpingbean.co.za wrote: j...@sinodun.org.uk wrote: mxc wrote: Hi all, I am using this tutorial http://www.tomjudge.com/index.php/SS4000-E/Serial_Cable for the pin mappings for my serial cable. This differs from the following http://pinouts.ru/SerialPorts/Serial9_pinout.shtml

Upgrading kernel on Sheevaplug requires SD card to be removed and re-inserted

2009-11-15 Thread John Winters
I reported earlier problems when I first upgraded the kernel on my Sheevaplug (running from an 8G SDHC card). After the new kernel had been installed (and flash-kernel run manually) the plug wouldn't boot. That time I moved the card to a different machine, renamed back to the old kernel and

New kernel not fully installed on Sheevaplug

2009-10-11 Thread John Winters
Hello again (sorry Martin), My Sheevaplug announced a couple of days ago that new kernel packages were ready, so I left it until the weekend in case there were further problems. I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade and the packages were downloaded and installed, but they don't seem to have been

Re: Thecus recovery

2009-09-23 Thread John Winters
Markus Ulbricht wrote: [snip] So any hint to get my debian running again is very much appreciated. The way I've solved the same problem in the past is to take the HDD out of the Thecus and install it temporarily in another machine. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sheevaplug running Debian won't boot after initial apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-19 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk [2009-09-12 15:33]: I've successfully installed Debian Lenny onto an SD card in my new SheevaPlug and it booted fine. I then followed Martin's instructions for fine detail adjustments (renaming the host, adding ntp, apt-get dist

Re: Sheevaplug running Debian won't boot after initial apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-19 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: I tried your bad boot files on my SheevaPlug and interestingly enough it boots just fine. Can you very the md5sums to ensure we're talking about the same images: e2f5e411e4132c71edd07ebd8578fd56 /boot/uImage 5d6135afd29db6ae00981d50a2d5c846 /boot/uInitrd Checked

Reverting my SheevaPlug to the default Ubuntu

2009-09-16 Thread John Winters
I didn't get any response to my problem with an apt-get dist-upgrade having stopped my Sheevaplug from booting Debian, so I think I'll need to start again from scratch and go back to the default Ubuntu. Will a simple resetenv set everything back so the plug boots Ubuntu, or do I need to undo each

Re: Reverting my SheevaPlug to the default Ubuntu

2009-09-16 Thread John Winters
Michael Shuler wrote: On 09/16/2009 08:07 AM, John Winters wrote: Will a simple resetenv set everything back so the plug boots Ubuntu, or do I need to undo each of the Debian-booting environment changes individually? I have not tried resetenv, but if it helps at all, I copied off all the u

Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug

2009-09-13 Thread John Winters
David Given wrote: Yes, that's quite normal. (Although finding it on /dev/ttyUSB0 isn't --- USB0 is usually the JTAG port and USB1 is the serial console.) I've done a bit of research and explained this. Recent Linux kernels apparently recognise JTAG ports explicitly and don't assign them a

Sheevaplug running Debian won't boot after initial apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-12 Thread John Winters
I've successfully installed Debian Lenny onto an SD card in my new SheevaPlug and it booted fine. I then followed Martin's instructions for fine detail adjustments (renaming the host, adding ntp, apt-get dist-upgrade etc.) before attempting to re-boot. I did one extra thing, which was to

Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug

2009-09-12 Thread John Winters
David Given wrote: John Winters wrote: I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system pre-installed? Yes, that's quite normal

Getting started with a new SheevaPlug

2009-09-11 Thread John Winters
I've just received a SheevaPlug freshly delivered and obviously I didn't read any of the instructions before powering it up. I'm slightly puzzled. I connect the USB lead to another box, fire up a connection over ttyUSB0 and am immediately presented with a login which says: Ubuntu jaunty

Re: suboptimal disk speed on N2100

2009-08-02 Thread John Winters
martin f krafft wrote: Hey folks, I just dived into the ARM world with a new N2100, which I installed with lenny and Martin Michlmayr's DMA-enhanced kernels, version 2.6.26-17lenny1dma1. Now I am synchronising all my data onto the device, and I am somewhat shocked by the horrific

Re: Repository help.

2009-03-12 Thread John Winters
Victor Padro wrote: [snip] Is there any documentation you guys can point me to? How can I set a local repo just for ARM/AMD64 and i386? /usr/bin/debmirror /mirror/debian \ --host=ftp.uk.debian.org \ --method=http \ --root=debian \

Re: Trying to migrate slug from memory stick to external HDD

2009-02-21 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: [snip] I know I'm going to kick myself when someone points out what I've forgotten to do, but... I still don't know what I hadn't done, but I found a (sort of) way around it. Instead of partitioning the new disc and then copying files I simply did: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev

Re: Trying to migrate slug from memory stick to external HDD

2009-02-21 Thread John Winters
Michael Glockenstein wrote: [snip] What is in your fstab? If the second way works it sounds like adressing the root via uuid and when you create a new filesystem the uuid differs, while after the dd it is the same. slug:~# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file

Trying to migrate slug from memory stick to external HDD

2009-02-20 Thread John Winters
I've got a slug which currently runs Debian Lenny quite happily from a memory stick. The stick is partitioned as follows: /dev/sda1 Swap space /dev/sda2 / and that's it. I want to move the system to using an external HDD - one which I've used before with the same slug. I attached

Re: NSLU2 Debian Lenny RC1: unable to connect to hostname.local

2009-02-05 Thread John Winters
heffa niceday wrote: Hi! I have Debian Lenny RC1 installed on a couple of NSLU2 boxes (one DHCP, one static IP). The problem is I can't ping or connect to them using their hostname. After editing /etc/hostname the prompt on the NSLU2 changes, but it's not possible to ping or connect using

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-12 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-09 07:47]: If I simply start the installation process I might end up with an NSLU2 using a network address which I don't know. Is there any way of reading the current flash settings (specifically the network settings) without

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-09 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: debian-installer rc1 is going to be announced officially next week. However, the images for ARM are already available. I'm now looking for people who are interested in testing these installer images. If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine

Re: Supporting platforms with no EEPROM?

2008-09-12 Thread John Winters
Bill Gatliff wrote: [snip] The MAC Address will be reset to 00:00:00:00:00:00, which is invalid and requires you to set the proper MAC address manually before continuing to enable this network device. [snip] To date, the only way I've seen around this is to just hack out the code in the

Slight hiccup for etch users with the new linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf

2008-08-15 Thread John Winters
I put the new etch-and-a-half kernel on my N2100 today to cure its slight NFS problems. All seemed well at first until I realised that it was no longer functioning as a router. After a bit of research I discovered the problem. There's an outstanding bug in procps in etch (fixed in lenny) which

ARM kernels affected by vmsplice bug?

2008-02-12 Thread John Winters
I notice that the announcement of new kernels to fix the vmsplice bug made no mention of an ARM one. Is this because the bug doesn't affect ARM, or is ARM just following on behind? TIA, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Munin

2008-01-11 Thread John Winters
Hi, does anyone here successfully run munin or mtrg on a N2100? I first tried on my NSLU-2 and then on the Thecus, but for both of them it seems that the CPU power is not enought for rrdtools. Infact, I found that munin-graph would take hours and hours. Yesterday I had to kill it after

Re: Munin

2008-01-11 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: I tried it about 4 weeks ago and the install process was broken. The partitioner crashed every time it tried to start up so there was no way of completing the installation. Was this on a Thecus N2100? Yes. I've used the installer from the URL you quoted

Re: Munin

2008-01-11 Thread John Winters
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Salvatore Iovene wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:17:54PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:32:42PM +0200, Salvatore Iovene wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:04:38AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: the quintessence is

Re: fan control on thecus n2100

2008-01-10 Thread John Winters
Colin Tuckley wrote: [snip] I've had a play with the script and found: a) In the example /etc/init.d/temper stopping the daemon only does: echo 255 /sys/devices/platform/IOP3xx-I2C.0/i2c-0/0-002e/pwm2 which doesn't return the fan to full speed! You need to do echo 255

Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2 -- SOLVED

2007-12-31 Thread John Winters
Dave Potts wrote: [snip] It was a problem with my D-link router and NOT with the slug or debian installer. Problem is described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/81057 My quick fix was to go into a shell and hard-code my ISP's DNS server IPs into /etc/resolve.conf before doing

Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2

2007-12-30 Thread John Winters
On 29/12/2007, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Potts wrote: The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0

Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2

2007-12-29 Thread John Winters
Dave Potts wrote: Hi, Following up on my previous posting, I've got the /var/log/syslog off the slug from my failed install. I've put it on google docs at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhg5vq6x_73dbsv3ggs The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err

Re: Thecus 2100, extremly slow r8169

2007-12-28 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-03 11:52]: Im running kernel 2.6.18-5-iop32x and the needwork speed is something around 1MBit/s I get around 1.7 MB/s (that's MB/s, not MBit/s) copying a large file with scp from one machine to my N2100 on my local

Re: Thecus 2100, extremly slow r8169

2007-12-28 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-28 11:54]: Well, you suggested trying 2.6.23. AFAICS, the latest kernel in the Debian tree is 2.6.22 so presumably in order to try 2.6.23 you'd need to compile it. 2.6.23 is unstable. Ah, well I won't try

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: I didnt mean to suggest that i wouldnt use the box. As i mentioned before im pretty new to linux coming from a windows backgroung so hope to pick up some skill using this as my home server because vmware is a pain. I just need to get it installed so i can start playing,

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: [suggestions on disc usage] Apologies for following up to my own post, but thinking more about the question it struck me that it's a bit silly to layer LVM on top of RAID0. Apart from maintaining symmetry it doesn't seem to have a lot of point because LVM alone provides

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-24 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: - Original Message - From: John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Haswell wrote: [snip] can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: Ok im going to get on and do this this weekend, probably the hardest part will be fitting all my data on other drives temporarily! If i remember correctly boot is written to the flash at the end of the installation, The kernel and initrd are written to flash at the end

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-23 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: - Original Message - From: John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Haswell wrote: [snip] can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: [snip] Thank you for your very complete replies. I believe what I need to do now is: 1) Unpack the Thecus firmware (done that) 2) Interrupt redboot with telnet 3) Suck a couple of files over with tftp 4) Boot into the Thecus firmware 5) Do an upgrade again, but this time

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-14 Thread John Winters
John Winters wrote: Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-13 16:43]: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin disc OK, but then partman exits part way through starting up. It gets as far as 58% in its startup progress bar

Re: Installing debian on N2100

2007-12-14 Thread John Winters
Andrew Haswell wrote: Sorry i wasnt clear, the n2100 has 2 disk and i want to use LVM / RAID to provide an area of RAID1 storage across both disks and and area of raid0 storage such that 2x 500GB disks could yeald say 200GB R1 and 600GB R0 therefore not loosing 50% :-). Using LVM to divide the

Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the Thecus. Reading the lists it appears that the Debian installer is currently broken

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
Colin Tuckley wrote: John Winters wrote: I've just sourced an Evesham re-badged Thecus 2100 and would like to upgrade it to a full Debian installation. I've previously done the same with an NSLU2, but am interested in the potential extra speed of the Thecus. I did this recently using the new

Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

2007-12-13 Thread John Winters
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-13 16:43]: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/n2100.bin disc OK, but then partman exits part way through starting up. It gets as far as 58% in its startup progress bar and just exits. [snip