Tekmote ( http://www.tekmote.nl/ ) will ship to the US. They told me €38 for shipping to Washington, DC, FWIW. I haven't purchased from them, tho - I'm waiting on the Fuloong mini.
C,B Chris Thomas wrote: > On a related note, does anyone know where I can buy a Lemote YeeLoong > in the United States? > > -Chris > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Rtp Arnaud Patard > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Laurent GUERBY <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Hi, >> >> [...] >> >> >>> Thanks for your answer. >>> >>> You mean that changing sources.list and then "apt-get update; apt-get >>> dist-upgrade" is likely to work (ie not breaking completely the >>> machine)? >>> >> Loongson 2f is mips3 compatible so any mipsel distribution will work on >> this processor [warning: the loongson is little endian only]. The only >> parts missing may be all the stuff related to the hardware like kernel >> and Xorg driver. Take care also about packages version. For instance, >> newer Xorg need some patch in the kernel to work (see [1]). >> >> imho you'll get into troubles only if you start mixing >> distributions (for instance plain debian with the version from >> lemote). If you really fear about breaking stuff, what about using a >> debian chroot and then do the switch when you're confident enough ? >> >> >>>> For your information, the GNewSenseToMIPS projetct is gathering >>>> information on >>>> the platfors using the godson CPU from Lemote Tech. >>>> You may find useful information here: >>>> >>>> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS >>>> >>>> Feel free to correc/complete the information provided! >>>> >>> Yes I had this one in my bookmarks but it doesn't mention >>> (yet) the slowness of the www.lemote.com repository from >>> Europe. When I have enough information I'll update the wiki :). >>> >>> In particular has anyone tried the debian-mipsel >>> netinst on this particular harware? >>> >>> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r6/mipsel/iso-cd/debian-40r6-mipsel-netinst.iso >>> >> if you take lemote's kernel, netboot initrd, put them on a tftp, you can >> try to boot them with pmon. If it doesn't work, put kernel/initrd in >> /boot and boot them from pmon. >> Booting directly from a cd in a usb cdrom drive may work but it depends >> on your pmon version. iirc, there has been in the past bugs preventing >> this to work. I hope they're fixed now :) >> Of course, this assume that all needed support for usb/harddrive/network/... >> is built-in in lemote's kernel and that you're using it. Default debian >> kernel won't work afaik >> >> >> Arnaud >> >> [1] http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2008-12/msg00056.html >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> >> >> > > >
