Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-11 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Is it necessary for me to use the same mini-usb cable that came with the sheevaplug? It seems my host machines ( windows, linux, mac) all recognize the sheevaplug but when I try connecting to the serial port I get nothing... I think I am running into the same problem with the installer as

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-11 Thread Björn Wetterbom
I threw my cable away months ago after big problems with it disconnecting serial access. Now I just use any mini-USB cable lying around. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:18, Shiva Bhattacharjee shiva...@gmail.com wrote: Is it necessary for me to use the same mini-usb cable that came with the

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-11 Thread Lluís Batlle
2010/3/11 Shiva Bhattacharjee shiva...@gmail.com: Is it necessary for me to use the same mini-usb cable that came with the sheevaplug? It seems my host machines ( windows, linux, mac) all recognize the sheevaplug but when I try connecting to the serial port I get nothing... I think I am

Re: 2nd try: Thermaltake Muse NAS-RAID (N0001LN) - IOP architecture - HELP requested

2010-03-11 Thread Mello
Hi, after the (usual) long delay I've managed to fight my jet-lag with a good coffee and I've tested the image Arnaud provided me with :) The steps I've followed are: 1. halt the startup sequence at Redboot prompt with CTRL+C 2. *RedBoot fis load ramdisk.gz* 3. *RedBoot load -r -v -h

Re: Help needed to debug an armel build/unittest failure

2010-03-11 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/7/10, Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: So it looks like what we're actually seeing here is one bit of corruption. I still strongly suspect a compiler bug. Probably the compiler's emulation of 64-bit arithmetic is broken in some way. First, are you aware of 64-bit arithmetic

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-11 Thread Hector Oron
(Add debian-embedded@ as Neil was suggesting) Hello, 2010/3/10 Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com: What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from scratch/source like the pro's do. linux from scratch is a great reference. ie. Get all the debian source for the

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-11 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/10/10, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: ... where is all this documented? has anyone actually done this - documented and automated e.g. how the debian-armel port was created, when previously there was only the debian-arm one? There is a huge difference between

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-11 Thread Björn Wetterbom
Newer kernels don't use /dev/ttyUSB0 for JTAG. It is used for serial access and no /dev/ttyUSB1 will appear. Check out http://www.openplug.org/plugwiki/index.php/Setting_Up_OpenOCD_Under_Linux On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:29, Lluís Batlle virik...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/11 Shiva Bhattacharjee

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

2010-03-11 Thread Shiva Bhattacharjee
Just wanted to update for completeness. Got my plug working again using the Installer v1.0, while running from Ubuntu. Several people did mention that while running from windows they ran into issues as well. Apparently the FTDI drivers (at least on Windows 7) isn't exactly reliable from what I