Re: Governor problem with generic 6.1 arm64 kernel on Raspberry

2024-03-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 11:14:10AM +0100, Alex wrote: > Hi there, > > I am running a Raspberry Pi 4 with an oldstable release for a few years > now. In fact, it is Devuan Chimaera, corresponding to Debian 11 > Bookworm without systemd. As the kernel images comes straight from > Debian, I am

Re: AR9271 Raspberry Pi 2B

2024-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 11:08:17AM +0300, John Wick wrote: > > Dear Developers, > > An AR9271 Wi-Fi USB dongle doesn't work neither with firmware-ath9k-htc nor > firmware-atheros on Raspberry Pi 2B: > > > Dec 30 17:56:42 rpi2-20230102 kernel: [ 51.636643] usb 1-1.4: new > > high-speed USB

Re: need a gparted clone that works as root

2023-09-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 11:03:32AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Wayland don't let it run and I need a partitioner. > ?? > Tnx > Cheers, Gene Heskett. Hi Gene, This is more a question for debian-user than debian-arm in the absence of more context. On a system running Debian 12.1 and GNOME -

Re: Releasing linux/6.1.52-1 bookworm-security update without armel build, Image size problems

2023-09-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 11:42:45AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 11:13:56AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > > If we're now reaching the final limit and if it was foreseeable that we > > would reach that limit, then yes it would have made sense to drop armel > > *before*

Re: Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

2023-08-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 04:08:02PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/15/23 14:57, peter green wrote: > > On 15/08/2023 17:44, gene heskett wrote: > > > used dd to write the arm64-bookworm-12.1 netinstall image to a 64G > > > SDXC ONN. brand card, makes no attempt to boot plugged into a > > >

Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?

2023-03-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:59:08AM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:33:26AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > If you can get a Raspberry Pi 4 - it woill work as a small desktop, > > more or less silently. To fit extra disks you'll n

Re: Is an ARM computer a good choice? Which one?

2023-03-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:45:13AM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 11:17:50AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-03-21 at 00:34 +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > > >> Would an ARM-based machine be a good freedom-respecting computer to > >> run Debian on? I read

Re: Support for Orange Pi 4 LTS

2023-02-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 09:06:10AM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > Hi, > > Is Orange Pi 4 LTS (arm64) supported in Debian. > > Christian > Hi Christian, This may well depend on the board support package: I didn't note it on the current list of supported systems but I note that OrangePi

Re: Struggling with VLC video on second screen

2023-02-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 06:05:30PM +0100, Adrien Torris wrote: > Hi, > > I'm struggling with Raspbian 11 (Bullseye) and VLC. > Hi Adrien, Sorry, we can't help with Raspberry PiOS - you need to chat to them in their support forums, I think. > I need to play a video on the second screen. I

Re: armbian for arm64's is 99% debian testing for arm64's.

2022-12-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 03:59:42PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Hi Gene, Armbian != Debian. What they may choose to do - who knows. They might even cause a Wicked Witch of the West to appear and threaten Toto whenever there's a problem. If you want support on the Banana Pi m5, you'll need to

Re: rock64's dead w/update, have latest bannana pi's coming

2022-10-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 01:55:16PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My 3d printer farm is out of business, all the rock64's died, as in no hdmi > video anymore, and the rock64's weren't > that great due to extreme interference between the video and usb activity. I > can still log

Re: Building (Debian) kernel optimized for RPi Zero (W) and 1

2022-10-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 09:12:06AM +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > W dniu 25.10.2022 o 00:03, Punit Agrawal pisze: > > > IIUC, for the kernel, either compiler should be fine. The > > documentation[0] for compiling the RPi Zero kernel seems to bear this > > out - it even uses the

Re: Any suggestions for a Debian(based/like) OS for the Orange Pi zero2

2022-10-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 07:17:44PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > He Debian Arm folks, > > Out of curiosity, I recently bought a couple of Orange Pi zero2 kits because > I wanted to see what could be done with such a really inexpensive board. > > Now I'm looking for an OS. The Orange Pi web site

Clarification [WAS Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads]

2022-08-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
particularly that section 2 - Assume good faith is very relevant in this situation. > On 18.08.22 18:58, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 05:21:19PM +0200, LinAdmin wrote: > >> I do know that you do not like my comment that 32bit on Pi4 > >>

Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups for multiword loads

2022-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 05:21:19PM +0200, LinAdmin wrote: > I do know that you do not like my comment that 32bit on Pi4 > is much more efficient than 64 Bit ... > Linadmin > > Good afternoon, LinAdmin It does appear to me that this comment is not directly relevant to this message and might not

Debian abandoning armhf, Raspberry Pi OS - was Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups formultiword loads

2022-07-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:39:34AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/15/22 04:04, LinAdmin wrote: > > Pi 4 has much more throughput in 32-bit modes but the so > > called experts of Debian decided to abandon it :-( > > > > > > On 14.07.22 03:52, Wookey wrote: > > > On 2022-07-01 15:53 +0200, Ard

Re: Using a serial port

2022-06-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 11:30:53AM -0500, Steve Fatula wrote: > So, it sounds like the answer is no basically. Yes, I can compile debian and > such but not what I have in mind, simply wanted to enable the UART for > serial use. I'm not sure why the overlays are not included in Debian. I'll > have

Re: where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

2022-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 06:17:16PM +0100, LinAdmin wrote: > When on 16 Mar 2021 I gave the solution in > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981586 > > I was told from the omnipotent gurus of Debian that nobody needs 32 Bit and > the bug was closed. > > After that, everybody

Re: Debian is supported on many arm platforms

2021-09-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 06:24:22PM +0200, LinAdmin wrote: > On 10.09.21 21:40, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > On 2021-09-10, LinAdmin wrote: > >> The unnamed decision makers of Debian some unknown time ago > >> decided that Pi and *Pine* stuff won't be supported by Debian. > > This is the second

Re: Debian is supported on many arm platforms

2021-09-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:40:49PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-09-10, LinAdmin wrote: > > The unnamed decision makers of Debian some unknown time ago > > decided that Pi and *Pine* stuff won't be supported by Debian. > > This is the second time you've stated this, without really

Re: Replacement for raspPi

2021-09-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 09:32:52PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:35:35 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 08:32:14PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > G'day > > > > > > >

Re: Replacement for raspPi

2021-09-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 08:32:14PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > G'day > > I've been following the recent thread Subject: Re: Debian on Pine64 > H64B? > > I'm looking for suggestions for a new SBC, please. Ideally something > more than 2M RAM. I see that a few a happy with Pine laptops.

Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?

2021-09-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:30:52PM +, oregano+deb...@disroot.org wrote: > At $45 with 3GB RAM, optional eMMC (35 for 64 GB), WiFi, etc., it seems interesting, but why is there almost zero coverage on Debian sites? > Maybe we haven't got the hardware: maybe we haven't seen it to test? [See

Re: Debian on Raspberry Pi and Pine* and probably ARM support in general (was Re: Debian on Pine64 H64B?)

2021-09-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 08:31:11AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-09-04, LinAdmin wrote: > > The unnamed decision makers of Debian some unknown time ago > > decided that Pi and Pine stuff won't be supported by Debian. > > I personally have added support in Debian for: > > Raspberry

Re: Rpi compute module 4

2021-08-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 02:04:50PM +, Lucas Marshall wrote: > Hi, > > I’m using the Rpi compute module 4 with io board and am trying to work with > raspi bullseye arm64 however the usb connector is by default disabled. > Raspbian provide a solution in the form of an overlay >

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2021.06.14 11:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > As far as I can tell (please let me know if this has changed), the only > > way to get UEFI boot on Raspberry Pi is to load an EDK2 from > > a special partition on a bootable drive (µSD or

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:55:39PM +, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:34 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Some of them are hugely true: at the time when the first RPi was released, > > it > > was released as ARM v6 with hardware floating

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:04:35PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > On 2021-06-12 11:57 +0100, Pete Batard wrote: > > > As a matter of fact, starting with RPi3, the Raspberry Pi has been an > > official EDK2/UEFI platform for more than 2 years now. > > > ... Debian could do itself a > > favour by

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 09:00:34AM +0200, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > On Sat, 2021-06-12 at 06:17 +, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 7:25 AM Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > > > > Many criticisms of the RPi that were true 5 years ago no longer > > > hold. > > > > Some of them are still

Re: Feedback from the community -> ARM

2021-06-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 04:43:44PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > next week there is a (virtual) meeting at ARM who invited some people > involved in Linux on ARM CPUs. One of the topics there is to tell them > Debian's needs and pain points. > > My current list (based on own

Re: RPi customization utility [Re: More progress to report [Re: Debian Bullseye on Raspberry Pi 4 4GB?]]

2021-02-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, at 10:10 PM, Alan Corey wrote: > > There are scripts for those, keyboard and language too. Also WiFi country, > > I forget what else. Locales is in there. > > > > Take a look at a recent raspi-config. I

Re: heatsink -- was [Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced]

2019-06-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On 28/06/2019 20:50, Rick Thomas wrote: > So when I buy one of these in a couple of months, do I need to buy the > heatsink too? Will the heatsink fit into the standard case? If not, is > there a case that will fit? > > And, finally, is there a version of Debian that will run on one of these?

Re: Thank you Michael Stapelberg

2018-05-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 01:32:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2018 00:23:38 Alan Corey wrote: > > > Loaded your 64 bit Pi image a couple days ago, love it. > > > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63=213672 > > Humm, any chance of this working on a rock64?

Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?

2017-09-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:31:24AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 27 September 2017 17:57:59 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > And again, all the best. > Thank you Andy. But something has changed here on this wheezy box, and > the xfce4 default terminal, terminal-

Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?

2017-09-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 03:42:51PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 26 September 2017 04:23:39 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:09:02PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Same hardware and base system here.You might need to add a login >

Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?

2017-09-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:09:02PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Same hardware and base system here.You might need to add a login manager > - I'll check :) > Stock rocks64 stretch image Just sudo su - as below. Use tasksel to install LXDE - it "just works"

Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?

2017-09-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:47:59PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; Rock64, minimal stretch install. > > I'd like to auto-start xfce4 on a rock64. Its installed now but startx > can't be found. > Same hardware and base system here.You might need to add a login manager - I'll check :)

Re: missed keystrokes problem, back with a vengeance.

2017-01-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 05:59:17PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2017 13:56:53 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 January 2017 11:58:57 Paul Wise wrote: > > > > USB protocol: use wireshark to see if the

Re: screen snapshot utility needed on an r-pi 3b running jessie

2017-01-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 02:13:17AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings folks, new to the list, with 2 problems. > > 1. Need a snapshot utility like this x86 wheezy install has. What it its > name if it exists. Using LXDE if that's important. > > 2. Whats the magic recipe to enable AIGLX

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Raspi 3 suitable for arm64?

2016-03-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:34:23AM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Cc'ed correct debian-arm address... > > On 2016-03-06, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Sonntag, 6. März 2016, Axel Beckert wrote: > >> I now wonder if a bunch of Raspberry Pi 3 -- since they have 64-bit > >> CPUs (IIRC an Allwinner

Re: Cubietruck install - no wlan? [SOLVED]

2015-05-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 01:49:55PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Clean install of Jessie - no wlan appears to be detected even after installing firmware-brcm80211 and adding the text file. Typo in text file name - pay attention to the wget command All the best to all the list - user

Cubietruck install - no wlan?

2015-05-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Clean install of Jessie - no wlan appears to be detected even after installing firmware-brcm80211 and adding the text file. Install of Debian using Debian SD card image and a USB stick with hd-media and debian-arm CD1. Wireless _used_ to work :( now not detected - no wireless extensions

Cubietech Cubieboard3 / Cubietruck support under Debian Jessie?

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Before I go crazy: There are at least three issues with full support: 1. Mainline kernel versus Allwinner/Sun-xi kernel. Debian support on mainline kernel does not support all Cubietruck features. 2. Mainline U-boot vs uboot-sunxi. This is now pretty much sorted. 3. Some Sunxi hardware not

Re: Cubietech Cubieboard3 / Cubietruck support under Debian Jessie?

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:42:04PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 17:51 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Before I go crazy: There are at least three issues with full support: 1. Mainline kernel versus Allwinner/Sun-xi kernel. Debian support on mainline kernel

Re: Beaglebone Black - best way to install Jessie?

2014-08-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 05:20:10PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On 2014-08-20, Robert Nelson wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: I've a Beaglebone Black running Debian 7.6 with some wheezy-backports packages. This is installed

Beaglebone Black - best way to install Jessie?

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Sorry for cross post to two lists but this seems to cross both. I've a Beaglebone Black running Debian 7.6 with some wheezy-backports packages. This is installed on both the internal eMMC flash and also 7.6 installed on the SD card. What's the best way to get a fresh Jessie onto this. I can

Re: what is the default firewall on a fresh install of Debian7 arm on a pogop0lugE02

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:45:49PM +0100, Richard Bown wrote: I installed ufw to see if it would overide the system defaults. I'll unsubscribe this list as everything I ask is deemed off topic. I get the impression this list is only for developers and users of the latest ARM and Cortex

Re: Sheevaplug has Debian 5.0.3 pre-installed

2012-05-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 12:37:53AM -0700, jl.050...@gmail.com wrote: All the instructions that I find for Debian on Sheevaplug assume that the plug, as purchased, has Ubuntu on it. The one that I just bought from Globalscale comes with Debian 5.0.3 (Lenny) pre-installed. Is the

Re: Bricked Sheevaplug [SOLVED - lead is sensitive to which machine it is plugged into]

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 08:00:36PM +, David Given wrote: On 09/02/12 19:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] Thanks for all - and thank you for the tip about openocd. It turns out that the lead I'm using - which is better quality than the lead supplied - doesn't work very reliably

Bricked Sheevaplug

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Upated to lastest DENX U-boot and went to install Debian as per Martin's excellent instructions. Aborted the install part way through. Now can't get back into the plug via U-boot : screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 isn't working. Have one green light - serial plug, reset are facing you as the plug

Re: Bricked Sheevaplug

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk Env: jeudi 9 février 2012 14:45 À: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Objet: Bricked Sheevaplug Upated to lastest DENX U-boot and went to install Debian as per Martin's excellent instructions. Aborted the install part way through. Now can't get back

Re: Bricked Sheevaplug [SOLVED - lead is sensitive to which machine it is plugged into]

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
to use config file later. For now I'm still far from my computer... Regards, Gérald - Message d'origine - De: Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk Env: jeudi 9 février 2012 18:39 À: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Objet: Re: Bricked Sheevaplug On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 05

Re: Debian Installer on Sheevaplug failing

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:22:54AM -0800, Mark Johnson wrote: HI, I am following Martin Michlmayr's excellent instructions for installing Squeeze on the Sheevaplug. I am using TFTP and trying to install on to an SD card. I have tried 4 times using two different 4GB SD cards. Every

Re: Thecus N2100 Yes box

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 05:48:45PM +, Derek Dongray wrote: I use mt-daapd on an NSLU2 running Debian to act as a shared library to iTunes and also use MediaTomb to serve media to other uPnP clients, but I haven't found anything on the iPod Touch which will act as a uPnP client. The

Thecus N2100 Yes box

2009-12-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I've just bought one of these second hand from a work colleague. It's all very well for what it does - but if I wanted to get it streaming wireless media for my daughter's new iPod Touch :) then I'd have to find some out of production wireless card to fit the mini-PCI. Easy RAID building - OK.

Bricked Sheevaplug

2009-08-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
In my hurry to get Debian on to my Sheevaplug, I stupidly said yes to changing the envs config when attempting to upgrade U-boot to cope with SD cards (as per the bottom of the page at www.cyrius.com). I've reflashed U-boot using the Sheevaplug alpha 6 installer - I have a working U-boot but

Re: Test images for Debian lenny rc2 available

2009-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Just to let you know that test images of the second release candidate (rc2) of the installer for Debian 5.0 (lenny) are now available. You can download the images from

Re: Security buildd for armel

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:16:09PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: I don't know which kind of machine is planned for armel. toffee is an N2100, just the same as hedges AFAIK. Anybody come across a Dual HDD NAS rebadged from SVP. I'm assuming it runs ARM internally? AndyC - who has just

Differences in Debian arm versions for NSLU - homework for LUG talk

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I appreciate this is cheeky :) I've to prepare a talk for my local LUG for Tuesday next. I've got a couple of NSLU2's here - I've installed OpenSlug and Debian armel a few times on Slugs before. I've read the nslu2-linux.org website a few times and looked briefly at the Debonaras pages. Can

Re: NSLU2 D-I RC2, installation oddities, apt-get update error

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:47:05AM -0400, Rob Lockhart wrote: I have a serial console, and did the install through that. I also did the installer image install via Redboot/TFTP. After booting, I go through the menu options, etc. and partitioning. I notice that the first hard drive shown

Martin Michlmayr - you rock :)

2006-11-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Martin, I've just flashed a Slug with the new 2.6.18-2-ixp400 with the new free Ethernet drivers. The upgrade process from a Slug running sid and kernel image 2.6.17-2 worked perfectly just as it should (once I'd removed the nslu2.conf file which was the contents within /etc/mkinitramfs) The

Re: Martin Michlmayr - you rock :)

2006-11-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:48:59AM +1030, Rod Whitby wrote: The NSLU2-Linux project (who did all of the generation and pushing upstream of the NSLU2 kernel patches behind the scenes, upon which Martin, Joey co. did the excellent integration into d-i and the Debian kernel) is currently working

Re: debian-installer rc1 for NSLU2 available

2006-11-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I got two queries from Martin - one via the list and one to me direct. Copied to list for info. On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-04 23:41]: - If you want to install Debian on a fresh NSLU2, please follow

Re: debian-installer rc1 for NSLU2 available

2006-11-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 06:06:04PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Information: - Installation instructions for the Linksys NSLU2 can be found at: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html Plans for the future: - 2.6.18-4 will feature the new GPL Ethernet driver written by

Re: question for ARM porters: incomplete arm v3 support in etch?

2006-10-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:17:50AM +, Wookey wrote: On 2006-10-30 10:00 +, Phil Blundell wrote: The decision for dropping support for an older subarch is for the porters to make; though dropping the subarch which still provides a number of the autobuilders is probably not a

Re: NSLU2 and pbuilder

2006-08-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:19:15PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Geeks and Nerds, Hello French military defence contractors/ISP's/mothers of children :) today morning I have gotten my NSLU2 per post and... ...want to as, if there is a HOWTO or other documentation which explain

Re: debian-installer support for RiscPC - volunteers wanted

2006-05-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:02:02PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: In February I asked which platforms debian-installer on ARM should support [1]. A number of people were interested in RiscPC support. - Various hardware (SCSI/IDE extension cards) need to be tested. Anyone interested?

NSLU-2 NAS - how ??

2006-03-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Like an idiot, I had a working Debian kernel on my Slug which I then over-wrote. I can re-flash with the Linksys flash, which works fine. I can re-flash with the Openslug-2.7beta binary, which works fine. Attempts to use the Masterfile from www.nslu2-linux.org fail - linux-ipx4xx-csr fails

Re: New kernel on NSLU-2 - little endian - how??

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:28:07AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Because you haven't booted that kernel. At the moment, the 2.6.15-1-nslu2 Debian kernel is not automatically written to flash. I've also not tried DebianSlug so I've no idea if they already have a script to do that or how

New kernel on NSLU-2 - little endian - how??

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Have one NSLU2 running OpenDebian: kernel is 2.6.15 compiled and flashed using the instructions from the nslu2-linux home pages. Now want to run CUPS: have apt-get updated to 2.6.15*nslu2 kernel image - attempts to put in modules from that tree fail. Anybody here running nslu2? Andy -- To

Re: New kernel on NSLU-2 - little endian - how??

2006-02-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:43:35PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-17 16:37]: Have one NSLU2 running OpenDebian: kernel is 2.6.15 compiled and flashed using the instructions from the nslu2-linux home pages. So that's their kernel, right

Problems with ARM RISC machine with new install

2000-08-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Machine is an ARM machine (A5000??) with StrongARM, IDE and SCSI disks. Using potato-pre3 disks. Downloaded rescue.bin and wrote it to each of two floppies. Booting appears to work _but_ then no writeable memory at this address or some such message appears. Attempting to help a friend, who may