Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-30 Thread Davide
Does anybody know which ARM processor it has and if it can potentially run Slackware ARM in a proper and easy way? Olof Johansson has just posted a way to install an alternative Linux distro on the new Chromebook:

Re: [ARMedslack] Failed to Boot ARMSlackware [13.37] in Beagle Board -xm - Rev C

2012-10-30 Thread Stuart Winter
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, chekkizhar N wrote: ok. I will wait and meanwhile will do searching as Stuart told. I got this mail today [30/10/2012 in India ] only. But, the question and the reply was made on that day [ Sun, 21 Oct 2012 ] itself. So, what went wrong? Time zone config on the local

Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-30 Thread Stuart Winter
Does anybody know which ARM processor it has and if it can potentially run Slackware ARM in a proper and easy way? I'm going to wait a month or so to see how people get on with them and whether there is support for it in the kernel.org kernel, as I don't use other people's kernels. If there

[ARMedslack] Missing firmware for Ralink RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

2012-10-30 Thread Frank Donkers
Hi, The Trimslice is using a Ralink RT2870/RT3070 adapter via USB. When starting this interface in Slackwarearm 14.0, it is complaining about missing firmware. I copied the rt2* and rt3* firmware files from /lib/firmware on my laptop to the trimslice and that fixed the problem. Wireless

Re: [ARMedslack] Missing firmware for Ralink RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter

2012-10-30 Thread Stuart Winter
It's patch-o-rama this week! I copied the rt2* and rt3* firmware files from /lib/firmware on my laptop to the trimslice and that fixed the problem. Wireless interface is now up. I did wonder if anybody'd ever notice that I was bundling the firmware from the kernel source tree rather than the

Re: [ARMedslack] New Samsung Chromebook

2012-10-30 Thread Steve Pirk
Interesting that you mentioned Olaf Johansson. I saw his post and got very interested. If you want to learn about Chromium internals, I recommend a couple of mailing lists to join. The first is cros-discuss+subscr...@googlegroups.com. Olaf and many other chromium.org people are very active in