Re: [ARMedslack] Trying armedslack-current

2010-10-08 Thread Claudio Cavalera
Hi guys, I admit I haven't read the whole discussion, but wouldn't it better to sponsor Seagate Dockstar a little bit more inside slackware for arm? What are the advantages of GuruPlug vs Dockstar? Ciao, Claudio PS: googling dockstar site:armedslack.org - no results

Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on a dockstar :-)

2010-09-15 Thread Stuart Winter
Recently I'm being in touch with the Seagate Dockstar which is a promising device based on Kirkwood Soc: http://xkyle.com/2010/07/19/the-seagate-dockstar-a-very-cool-linux-device/ This looks like an interesting device. You'll probably need to build a new kernel to begin with patched

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-09 Thread Christophe Lyon
I already have the right serial cable with the right connector. But I'm too lazy to open the dockstar. :-) Too bad! I misread your initial post and thought you actually succeeded in booting Slackware :-( ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack

[ARMedslack] Armedslack on a dockstar :-)

2010-09-13 Thread Claudio Cavalera
Hello, I'm new to this list! I've been using slackware on x86 since 7.1 and I tend to install it on every machine I touch. Recently I'm being in touch with the Seagate Dockstar which is a promising device based on Kirkwood Soc: http://xkyle.com/2010/07/19/the-seagate-dockstar-a-very-cool-linux

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Davide
-kirkwood-dockstar-u-boot.bin Which means using the seagate uboot to load openwrt-kirkwood-dockstar-u-boot typing help when in the second uboot environment shows usb boot capabilites with useless help on it. I don't have the dockstar with me right nor to cut and paste a chunk of the terminal output

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Monday 14 March 2011 11:29:54 schrieb Stuart Winter: 5) Are the slackware kirkwood kernel and initrd good for the dockstar or do they need to be recompiled/remade ? I hav experience on zaurus and know that kernels for c860 and c1000 are incompatible although the hardware difference

Re: [ARMedslack] dockstar SOC unused features pin praceout

2011-03-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 15 March 2011 09:19:13 schrieb Davide: After some research I foud a listing of the trace out of some unused features of the dockstar's SOC. It's in German but Google translate makes it readable :-) http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/Dockstar#PIN-Forschung As I'm German I have

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-19 Thread Tyler T
what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? 1.2GHz ARMv5TE (Kirkwood), 128MB DDR RAM, 256MB flash. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Tuesday 19 April 2011 14:14:17 schrieb Davide: Well yeah I've an update on this: I did nothing but change the usb port from closest to RJ45 to the one nets to the closest to RJ45. This time it boots. I'll investigate further on this ... AFAIK the dockstar has native USB ports

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-09 Thread Claudio Cavalera
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 21:02, Christophe Lyon christophe.l...@gmail.com wrote: I already have the right serial cable with the right connector. But I'm too lazy to open the dockstar. :-) Too bad! I misread your initial post and thought you actually succeeded in booting Slackware

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-11 Thread Stuart Winter
Maybe the netconsole feature would be more useful as a builtin instead of as a module in this specific case (i.e. don't get ARMedSlack booting on Dockstar and don't use a serial console), since the kernel may run into troubles before the load of the module. This means you also need

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-08 Thread Christophe Lyon
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Rich richard.lapoi...@gmail.com wrote: I then checked /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file and noticed that it wasn't configured. I edited to use dhcp USE_DHCP[0]=yes rebooted and was able to ssh into the dockstar Rich Lapointe Thanks! I confirm it also works

[ARMedslack] Seagate Freeagent Dockstar price

2011-01-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I've bought my Dockstar some months ago here in Germany for 20 € + 5 € shipping cost. Now I've noticed that the price has raised here to 80 € + shipping. So my question is: What the cheapest price nowadays all over the world? Of course I have to check shipping cost to Germany

[ARMedslack] dockstar SOC unused features pin praceout

2011-03-15 Thread Davide
After some research I foud a listing of the trace out of some unused features of the dockstar's SOC. It's in German but Google translate makes it readable :-) http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/Dockstar#PIN-Forschung Pity that my software RAID1 vision on the 2 sata ports went into fumes

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-10 Thread Stuart Winter
Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? I guess Stuart would say: it's not a case of porting - it's just adding support. Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs on that device. Much to my

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi laprjns, what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? Am Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:04:57 -0400 schrieb Richard Lapointe lapr...@comcast.net: I have a Dockstar coming directly from Seagate ($39 USD) and would like to run ARMedslack on it. Is there a single site that provides

Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on a dockstar :-)

2010-09-13 Thread Niels Horn
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Claudio Cavalera claudio.caval...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm new to this list! I've been using slackware on x86 since 7.1 and I tend to install it on every machine I touch. Recently I'm being in touch with the Seagate Dockstar which is a promising device

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
time? IIRC I had to comment out the fdisk sectionin a rc script because the Dockstar does not have an RTC and after reboot the system time is set to 1970 again which causes another fsck run (fsck is forced if umount time is later than mount time). This ends up in an endless loop. I

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-27 Thread Christophe Lyon
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:35 AM, John O'Donnell unixjohn1...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26/2011 08:25 PM, Rich wrote: The dockstar led is controlled by uboot and armedSlack's kernel doesn't know how to control it. I'd be willing to bet it is controlled by  standard kernel settings.  I control

[ARMedslack] Improving USB audio sound quality on the Dockstar

2011-05-05 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I'm using a high quality USB audio device (Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702) with my Dockstar. I've configured mpd to use the hardware interface without dmix because dmix seems to be broken on the ARM platform. But there is one problem left: sometimes clicks and pops can be heard. They appear

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Tyler T
?f=8t=212. I have a DockStar myself; armedslack runs great on it (from a USB flash drive). I do have to chainload a better u-Boot though, detailed here: http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/. You'll also want a TTL serial console cable (http://ahsoftware.de/dockstar/). I wonder if USB DisplayLink

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-09 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
likely be fixed or worked around. Within 90 % a serial cable to RS232 connector won't work with the Dockstar. You need a TTL to RS232 level converter. Search for it on ebay and you'll find some cheap TTL to USB interfaces from China. ___ ARMedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-11 Thread Cédric VINCENT
on Dockstar and don't use a serial console), since the kernel may run into troubles before the load of the module. Christophe, I should be able to provide you a kernel with the netconsole as a builtin on Monday if you wish. Will you give it a try with ARMedSlack mini-rootfs and investigate what's going

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Claudio Cavalera
, the netconsole only shows Starting kernel and I am not able to ssh into the dockstar anymore :-( At configuration time, I have asked for DHCP, so I think it's OK. Isn't he talking about the reboot at the end of installation? Thanks, Claudio

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Rich
you did need to open another terminal screen, change to root an ssh into the dockstar from there. If you set it up using dhcp then you'll have to check your router or something to see what ip it assigned to the dockstar. At the same time, the dockstar usb key stop blinking. The dockstar

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread John O'Donnell
On 01/26/2011 08:25 PM, Rich wrote: The dockstar led is controlled by uboot and armedSlack's kernel doesn't know how to control it. I'd be willing to bet it is controlled by standard kernel settings. I control my guruplug's LEDs in /sys/class/leds Take a peek -- === Never ask a geek why

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-10 Thread Stuart Winter
Hello! Okay, what about them bothers you? I always think about using the machines as either 'desktops' or build machines, so anything that is of low spec doesn't interest me at all - especially when there are better machines out there. The dockstar has no RTC and only 128MB RAM. IMO if you

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

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Lapointe
I have a Dockstar coming directly from Seagate ($39 USD) and would like to run ARMedslack on it. Is there a single site that provides instructions on how I would go about this? Since I am using Salix on my desktops, I want to replace my N2SLU running SlugOS with the Dockstar running

Re: [ARMedslack] Trying armedslack-current

2010-10-08 Thread Stuart Winter
Hi Claudio I admit I haven't read the whole discussion, but wouldn't it better to sponsor Seagate Dockstar a little bit more inside slackware for arm? What are the advantages of GuruPlug vs Dockstar? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79954 Dockstar is essentially a Sheevaplug

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-11 Thread Christophe Lyon
2010/12/11 Cédric VINCENT cedric.vinc...@gmail.com: Christophe, I should be able to provide you a kernel with the netconsole as a builtin on Monday if you wish.  Will you give it a try with ARMedSlack mini-rootfs and investigate what's going on? Yes, it could be useful, thanks!

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Stuart Winter
You should put a dockstar on a wishlist so that we can buy it to you and then you could test and mantain armedslack on it! :-) Hah. I'd not put a Dockstar on it, that's for sure :-) On a serious note: I'm very cautious about expanding the range of official (meaning it works out of the box

[ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-10 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Before I start doing something with this device and probably ruin it I have a question. Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? - Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again.

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

[ARMedslack] fw_env,conf offsets for Pogoplugs and Dockstars

2013-09-22 Thread Richard Lapointe
Hi, Would it be possible to add the following offsets in the stock /etc/fw_env.conf file? # Dockstar and Pogoplug offsets: /dev/mtd00xc0x20x2 I have several Kirkwood based Dockstars and Pogoplugs running Slackwarearm and I always have to update

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Christophe Lyon
because there is no real time clock in the dockstar and hence all the files have dates of 1969.  What's happen is when the system is booting it tries to check the root file system and gets an unexpected inconsistency and requires users input to do a manual fsck on the file system.  If you had

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-10 Thread Stuart Winter
because the installer's initrd is quite a different beast and if it's not making it as far as running the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules-arm script, then you're buggered. Actually - what driver does the dockstar use for its ethernet? I assume it's mv643xx_eth -- if not, then that's your problem ;-) I can't

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Friday 14 January 2011 11:20:51 schrieb Stuart Winter: I wonder how it booted the second time? IIRC I had to comment out the fdisk sectionin a rc script because the Dockstar does not have an RTC and after reboot the system time is set to 1970 again which causes another fsck run (fsck

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-21 Thread Davide
But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages; In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember using a mkboot

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-10 Thread Rich
On 07/10/2012 03:50 PM, Stuart Winter wrote: Is this device completely supported by the ARM Slackware port? I guess Stuart would say: it's not a case of porting - it's just adding support. Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-24 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
I've ordered one of these Dockstars now. I cannot get any cheaper thing here (25 € incl. shipping). Let's see what I can do with it. Am Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:39:19 -0600 schrieb Tyler T tyle...@gmail.com: what CPU/RAM/flash does the Seagate Dockstar have? 1.2GHz ARMv5TE (Kirkwood), 128MB DDR

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-09 Thread Stuart Winter
kernel command line in order to have DHCP and network and therefore avoid serial cable. Not wokring for me though. :-( Please let us know if you succeed. Did you check your DHCP logs? does the device request an IP? /me suggests getting a serial cable :) At least then we can figure out where

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-09 Thread Stuart Winter
I have a serial cable but I can't bear debian works without it. :-) Hang on a minute. So you've got a serial cable... use it, figure out where the boot process stops (if at all). Then once we know what the problem is, it can most likely be fixed or worked around. Then, once it's fixed, you

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Stuart Winter
He's not managed to get the OS installed. Stuart what do you mean? Cristophe wrote: Thanks for this procedure. I have tried it but... The installer started, and the installation seemed to be OK, but when I reboot, the [..] Isn't he talking about the reboot at the end of installation?

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-27 Thread Claudio Cavalera
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:01, Rich richard.lapoi...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/26/2011 03:39 AM, Claudio Cavalera wrote: Is it possible to host the jeff uboot on armedslack.org without breaking any license? Why would you need to do this?.  Just get it off of Jeff site Maybe it's better to be

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Monday 14 March 2011 10:05:34 schrieb Davide: That's not coorect: the dockstar has 128 Mb ram and 256 or 512 Mb flash depending on model. You are right. Mine has a 256 MB flash. There is a data partition with 219 MB that is empty and could be used for root. But still this is very small

Re: [ARMedslack] Improving USB audio sound quality on the Dockstar

2011-05-05 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Am Thursday 05 May 2011 10:32:52 schrieb Thorsten Mühlfelder: Hi, I'm using a high quality USB audio device (Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702) with my Dockstar. I've configured mpd to use the hardware interface without dmix because dmix seems to be broken on the ARM platform. But there is one

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-10 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:16 PM, David Madden d...@mersenne.com wrote: 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

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Davide
Hum well the reboot after it worked failed again on all dockstar usb ports. No the only thing I recall different from when it worked is that I rebooted from Linux running on usb flashdrive with the lace usb HDU plugged in and modules loaded. The only explanation I've for that is that the lace

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-14 Thread Davide
of what needs to be done to boot from usb ? 5) Are the slackware kirkwood kernel and initrd good for the dockstar or do they need to be recompiled/remade ? I hav experience on zaurus and know that kernels for c860 and c1000 are incompatible although the hardware difference is minimal. I like

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread richard . lapointe
Dockstar using a serial cable but was able to get the last two up and running just using ssh. Regards Rich Lapointe Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it Sender: armedslack-bounces@lists.armedslack.orgDate: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:40:32 To: Slackware

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread Davide
I'ts been a while since I last fiddled with the seagate dockstar ... I puklled it back out wanting to involve it on media streaming via DLNA. I fiddled with a slackwarearm 14 miniroot image on a versatile emulated machine untill I thaught I had all the bits and pieces needed to boot from

Re: [ARMedslack] A few questions on kirkwood initrd

2010-07-28 Thread Tyler T
| cpio -div Ah, that worked, thank you! Unfortunately, the Dockstar won't finish booting the resulting image and without a serial console it's hard to say why... I may have to invest in a TTL-serial adapter and crack the case so I can see what's going on. Thanks again for putting me on the right

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Stuart Winter
is there a good guide how to set up distcc to build to help building arm packages on my x86_64 and i486 hosts? Yep. Go back to the FTP site and download the script dbuild - I just put it there. PS: Could the 128 MB RAM on my Dockstar be a problem, even if I use distcc? Depends what you're

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-10 Thread Claudio Cavalera
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 13:09, Christophe Lyon christophe.l...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I've booted it but it did not get an IP Address. Serial cable is for whimps. :-) Which parameters do you use at bootm= ? As I said, I used Jeff Doozan's script to update my uboot, which also sets to boot

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-11 Thread Cédric VINCENT
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: This means you also need to compile the network driver into the kernel. Thanks for the advice. In the kernel I only want to include drivers that really cannot be modules, so I'll keep the NIC drivers as modules. I

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-23 Thread Rich
OK, I've got a way of getting the installer started on my Dockstar without the use of a serial line. This method requires Jeff Doozan's uboot, first because it has uboot environments that allow to boot off a usb drive and second it installs fw_setenv and fw_print command line routines

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Claudio Cavalera
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:56, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: He's not managed to get the OS installed. Stuart what do you mean? Cristophe wrote: Thanks for this procedure. I have tried it but... The installer started, and the installation seemed to be OK, but when I

Re: [ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-19 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
from Doozan's uboot. I also use his Rescue System. What rescue system did you use? It seems my original pogoplug system (that one the dockstar is deliverd with) does not boot anymore. So some other fallback system would be nice. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org

[ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-20 Thread Davide
? The bigges NAND partition on the Dockstar is about 220 MB and could be used by a rescue/fallback root partition if no USB drive is connected. UBIFS would be a good choice for it. I've never used ubifs ... my current setup uses jffs2 on the 229 Mb data mtd partition. jffs2 did a little

Re: [ARMedslack] A cheap Pogoplug on sale for 10 €

2012-12-15 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
-E02 with Marvell chipset (kirkwood). This actually is the same hardware like my Seagate Dockstar (or other Sheevaplugs), so I'd sell mine for 16 € + plus shipping from Germany. -- Thorsten Mühlfelder Salix OS: www.salixos.org ___ ARMedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-29 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
OK, I've received my Seagate Freeagent Dockstar. I've flashed a new U-Boot loader to it. A description can be found here: http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?title=PlugApps:Pogoplug_Setboot http://plugapps.com/os/pogoplug/uboot/ The board boots fine when the kirkwood kernel is used, that comes

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-10 Thread Christophe Lyon
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Claudio Cavalera claudio.caval...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 21:02, Christophe Lyon christophe.l...@gmail.com wrote: I already have the right serial cable with the right connector. But I'm too lazy to open the dockstar. :-) Too bad! I misread

[ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-04-21 Thread Davide
If you considet that you can get a dockstar for 50 Euro in Italy or possibbly less it you look world wide ... this little wimpy nas had better cost no more then 25 Euro or I'd just buy a dockstar instead. I know that it's infuriating that the prices went up from 36 euro to 52 euro but for what

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-10 Thread Gregg Levine
I wouldn't. The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs on that device. Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless devices ;-) See- http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=dockstarl=armedslack%40lists.armedslack.org Well you would

[ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread Davide
I'ts been a while since I last fiddled with the seagate dockstar ... I puklled it back out wanting to involve it on media streaming via DLNA. I fiddled with a slackwarearm 14 miniroot image on a versatile emulated machine untill I thaught I had all the bits and pieces needed to boot from

Re: [ARMedslack] tigervnc for slackware arm

2013-05-19 Thread Davide
tested.  http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90881870/tightvnc-1.3.10-arm-1rl.txz It was built on a d\Dockstar running slackwarearm 14.0 I have close to five hundred arm (armv5tel) packages that were built natively on a Dockstar / Pogoplug  using Salix slkbuild packaging system (http

Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-05-06 Thread Davide
Mühlfelder thenk...@gmx.de Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Venerdì 6 maggio 2011, 01:29 Am Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:20:44 + (GMT) schrieb Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk: The problem could be anywhere

Re: [ARMedslack] Setting up distcc for cross compiling

2010-08-31 Thread Christophe Lyon
of stock at the moment. Furthermore the Dockstar was so pretty cheap (20 €), that I just wanted to give it a try. And it looks fine in my living room with the 2.5 disk attached ;-) hdparm gives me a speed of 26 MB/s which is quite OK for an USB drive. Too bad shipping costs are so high between

Re: [ARMedslack] A few questions on kirkwood initrd

2010-11-07 Thread Stuart Winter
[..] Though I am using a serial cable, it's theoretically possible to do this without the serial cable by using the fw_envset commands to alter the mtd3 u-Boot from within the DockStar' stock Linux install in NAND. Though the armedslack installer initrd startup scripts look like they should

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-10 Thread Christophe Lyon
As I said, I used Jeff Doozan's script to update my uboot, which also sets to boot parameters. I have also used that script to update/patch my uboot but just for that. I then activated the netconsole and used uboot interactively with a couple of nc sessions. You should be able to do this if

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-21 Thread Stuart Winter
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Rich wrote: My testing indicates that it not getting an ip assign during initialization because the rc.inet1.conf file isn't configured I'm a wimp, so I've been using serial cable to observe what is happening. Since you have a serial cable, can you also try booting the

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Stuart Winter
Forget what I said - do what Richard said :-) Now I expect full official support by armed slack and the patched uboot available too! :-) I expect to win the lottery too, but it ain't happened yet. What does official support mean? All that I can see is that the INSTALL_KIRKWOOD doc needs a

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Rich
On 01/26/2011 06:11 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: Can you actually upgradepkg the kernel packages and reboot into the new kernel without modifying any u-boot config? Yes, as long as you changed the symbolic links to point to the new kernel and initrd. If you give me all the u-boot stuff, I can

Re: [ARMedslack] mfloat-abi

2011-02-04 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
here (soft, softfp, hard)? BTW: A test with Ogg Vorbis decoding using mpd on my Dockstar gave me these results: - using libvorbis (floating point): ~20% CPU usage - using tremor (vorbis ported to integer only): ~2% CPU usage As soft/softfpe is some kind of porting floating point operations

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Davide
JTAG you are stuck, too. Not really: you can use uboot to write to load via tftp and write to nand: That's how I recovered from my dockstar invalid kernel CRC. For anyone intrested insructions are quite clear on this on openwrt serial console install. IIRC on mikrocontroller.net the layout

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-18 Thread Stuart Winter
dockstar is a slightly different version which is better catered for in the 2.6.38 kernel. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack

[ARMedslack] usb wifi dongle that supports master mode

2011-03-18 Thread Davide
On now that I've the basics going I'm now moving to the wireless part. My armedslack dockstar wants to become access point but none of the usb wifi dongles I have seem to work currently in master mode. Today I brought a new one d-link g122 that should have been rt73 ... but the one I got

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello and questions about getting Slackware on the Raspberry Pi

2012-06-20 Thread Tyler T
But tbh I'm not sure whether I want to support this device officially (in-tree) because the RPi doesn't support initrds which means potentially a big change to how I build the kernels and modules packages; In my experiments with ARMedSlack on a Seagate DockStar, I remember using a mkboot

Re: [ARMedslack] Kernel 2.10 and raspberry pi

2013-07-20 Thread Davide
a definitive answer. Perhaps I am misunderstanding how the process works. Please enlighten me. Welcome to linux ARM kernel developement :-). There are patches that have never made it to main kernel on almost all the ARM hardware I've worked on (not sure if the dockstar stuff made it all to main

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2011-03-16 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
things. Otherwise without JTAG you are stuck, too. Not really: you can use uboot to write to load via tftp and write to nand: That's how I recovered from my dockstar invalid kernel CRC. For anyone intrested insructions are quite clear on this on openwrt serial console install. Yes, forgot about

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-04-22 Thread Stuart Winter
a different reply method please. On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Davide wrote: If you considet that you can get a dockstar for 50 Euro in Italy or possibbly less it you look world wide ... this little wimpy nas had better cost no more then 25 Euro or I'd just buy a dockstar instead. I know that it's

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-04-30 Thread Davide
I wanted to get all I can out of my dockstar if it works well I might even do that on my zauruses (C 760/860/1000). The zauri should all be ARMv5 as husky boxer are PXA255 and Akita is PXA270. While the dockstar I'm not sure but I think it's ARMv5 too. It would be the first time I look

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM 14.1,rc1 released

2013-10-20 Thread Richard Lapointe
Stuart, First thanks for all the work you put into Slackwarearm, it's really appreciated here. Just want to let you know that I successfully updated a couple of my Dockstar with 14.1 RC1. Update is really the wrong word as these were essentially fresh installs using the installer

Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-05-06 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
. This is mandatory for a warranty request. --- Ven 6/5/11, Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@gmx.de ha scritto: Da: Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@gmx.de Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted A: armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Data: Venerdì 6 maggio 2011, 01:29 Am

Re: [ARMedslack] Hello

2010-08-18 Thread Tyler T
I have a Dockstar coming directly from Seagate ($39 USD) and would like to run ARMedslack on it.  Is there a single site that provides instructions on how I would go about this? http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/ has the basic procedure. Rather than run the script, I just ran the important

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-04-22 Thread Stuart Winter
considet that you can get a dockstar for 50 Euro in Italy or possibbly less it you look world wide ... this little wimpy nas had better cost no more then 25 Euro or I'd just buy a dockstar instead. I know that it's infuriating that the prices went up from 36 euro to 52 euro but for what you

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

2011-05-01 Thread Stuart Winter
wanted to get all I can out of my dockstar if it works well I might even do that on my zauruses (C 760/860/1000). The zauri should all be ARMv5 as husky boxer are PXA255 and Akita is PXA270. While the dockstar I'm not sure but I think it's ARMv5 too. It would be the first time I look

Re: [ARMedslack] File system on my Freeagent Dockstar got corrupted

2011-05-05 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
is faulty. After running for some month now a similiar error occured: Dockstar was still running, the DSL connection was up and it did route to the internet. But all daemons apparently have crashed: no ssh login anymore, no dhcpd service and http server crashed, too. When I plug the disk to my PC

Re: [ARMedslack] Seagate Dockstar device questions

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Lapointe
adding support. Not to answer *that* question I wouldn't. The dockstar is supported in the way that a kernel is supplied that runs on that device. Much to my disgust, someone on this list used one of those pointless devices ;-) See- http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=dockstarl=armedslack

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-17 Thread Gregg Levine
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Davide louigi...@yahoo.it wrote: I'ts been a while since I last fiddled with the seagate dockstar ... I puklled it back out wanting to involve it on media streaming via DLNA. I fiddled with a slackwarearm 14 miniroot image on a versatile emulated machine

Re: [ARMedslack] A few questions on kirkwood initrd

2010-07-28 Thread Tyler T
Unfortunately, the Dockstar won't finish booting the resulting image It could be because the installer image is too large to fit in RAM, or into the addresses into which you're loading it. I think you're right. We're getting into stuff I don't know much about, but: # mkimage -l

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2010-12-15 Thread Christophe Lyon
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Claudio Cavalera claudio.caval...@gmail.com wrote: I have it when I run lsmod in the debian mv643xx_eth For the record, I have also noticed that under Debian the kernel version is a bit older: r...@debian:~# uname -a Linux debian 2.6.32-5-kirkwood #1 Fri Nov 26

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-15 Thread Stuart Winter
I got the chance to run a quick test last night so I loaded the installer and kernel onto a usb thumb drive ext2 partition, renamed them to uImage and uInitrd and booted with the existing doozan uboot and boot lines. As seen in the pastebin boot log, it booted normally until it stuck waiting

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-20 Thread Claudio Cavalera
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:40, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I got the chance to run a quick test last night so I loaded the installer and kernel onto a usb thumb drive ext2 partition, renamed them to uImage and uInitrd and booted with the existing doozan uboot and boot lines.  

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedSlack on Seagate Dockstar

2011-01-26 Thread Rich
On 01/26/2011 08:59 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: *Maybe* we could have a page on armedslack web site like this one: http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/ You mean like this? http://www.armedslack.org/maint_kirkwooduboot and hosting an adjusted script like this

[ARMedslack] jeff Doozan's uboot

2011-04-20 Thread Davide
rescue system did you use? It seems my original pogoplug system (that one the dockstar is deliverd with) does not boot anymore. So some other fallback system would be nice. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http

[ARMedslack] Trouble with udev on busybox based system

2011-05-09 Thread Davide
of manual module loading. Having a look at armedslack's rc.modules I see that basically it's empty as far as dockstar is concerned so all the modules do get auto loaded correctly. No as far as kernel is concerned I'm using the exact same setup on the busybox environment that is on the armedslack

[ARMedslack] Initrd fails to mount rootfs

2012-11-30 Thread Thorsten Mühlfelder
Hi, I've reactivated my Seagate Dockstar, that was lying around in my cupboard for some month. I did the following: 1. reinstalled Doozans U-Boot to have a clean system to start 2. prepared an USB stick with sda1=boot, sda2=swap, sda3=rootfs 3. untared the Slackware ARM minirootfs to the correct

Re: [ARMedslack] slackwarearm on seagate dosckstar

2013-04-19 Thread Davide
Ok ... just wish to thank you all for the help. I now have slackware arm 14 up and running on my dockstar and have moved my attention to compiling mediatomb on it. David Da: Davide louigi...@yahoo.it A: Slackware ARM port armedslack@lists.armedslack.org

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