Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received (SOLVED)
Hi all, After more than a month, I finally got the desired toy. :-) Cheers -- Héctor Orón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, David Given wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Given wrote: [...] It arrived yesterday. I've done a decent write-up and some benchmarks: http://www.cowlark.com/2009-04-15-sheevaplug Short summary: larger than you'd think, the preloaded Ubuntu is broken, satisfyingly fast. Awesome write-up David. Helps a lot. I called mine greenmachine :-) Having never used Ubuntu/Debian for more than an hour in gui mode only, I have to say that I did not realize how broken the install was. Mine is up and serving it's first web site, so I am happy for the moment. It is also acting as a dns slave zone and is accepting mail. Seems to be faster than the toshiba laptop it is destined to replace in the future. Forum posts list 2 watts as the typical power consumption, so I think low power is also going to be a real selling point. I could not get the kernel to see the usb wireless adapter, but maybe it will see a wired usb e-net adapter. That can act as eth1 for the other side of the firewall. I also thought making the second interface on chip switchable to support powerline ethernet might expand it's usefulness. I will merge info from your article with what I have found on openplug.org and look into a better install. I think I need a dev-dev box. Would be too sad to shut the first one down to experiment. -steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Pirk wrote: [...] Having never used Ubuntu/Debian for more than an hour in gui mode only, I have to say that I did not realize how broken the install was. Mine is up and serving it's first web site, so I am happy for the moment. It is also acting as a dns slave zone and is accepting mail. Seems to be faster than the toshiba laptop it is destined to replace in the future. Hmm --- that's interesting; maybe it's just me! Did you not need the mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial to make apt-get work, then? Forum posts list 2 watts as the typical power consumption, so I think low power is also going to be a real selling point. One thing I completely forgot to mention is that it's utterly *silent*. I've dealt with no-moving-parts devices before but they usually have at least blinkenlights to let you know they're doing something. The SheevaPlug has nothing, and seeing it do a kernel compile or major benchmark (I tried running some of Phoronix' tests, but they didn't work very well for some reason) on a device with absolutely no feedback is quite unnerving. In a good way! My next step is to put a Debian userland on a USB drive, boot from it, and see if I can replace the on-board filesystem. u-boot looks ideal for playing with. - -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─ http://www.cowlark.com ─ │ │ All power corrupts, but we need electricity. --- Diana Wynne Jones, │ _Archer's Goon_ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ51mJf9E0noFvlzgRAlJwAJ0Uv1w3RORQ1zLiWM6RFfquEFewRACeLBu2 XSooSDiQ9aNtckbocvBbUJ4= =X/8f -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, David Given wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Pirk wrote: [...] Having never used Ubuntu/Debian for more than an hour in gui mode only, I have to say that I did not realize how broken the install was. Mine is up and serving it's first web site, so I am happy for the moment. It is also acting as a dns slave zone and is accepting mail. Seems to be faster than the toshiba laptop it is destined to replace in the future. Hmm --- that's interesting; maybe it's just me! Did you not need the mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial to make apt-get work, then? I put this comamnd into the end of rc.local so it gets created at boot time :-) Next fstab tweak will be to mount /var/cache/apt on a real disk instead of tmpfs. Looks like tmpfs gets deleted like /tmp used to on old Solaris systems. A hold over from the old unix systems that did not have a lot of disk space maybe? My next step is to put a Debian userland on a USB drive, boot from it, and see if I can replace the on-board filesystem. u-boot looks ideal for playing with. The openplug.org forums have lots of posts from people rebuilding uImage and testing booting from usb or sd mem. I have found quite a few gems there: http://openplug.org/plugforum/index.php?board=2.0 -steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
Steve Pirk wrote: I put this comamnd into the end of rc.local so it gets created at boot time :-) Next fstab tweak will be to mount /var/cache/apt on a real disk instead of tmpfs. Looks like tmpfs gets deleted like /tmp used to on old Solaris systems. A hold over from the old unix systems that did not have a lot of disk space maybe? Tmpfs, as the name suggests, is a temporary file system. It is being created on boot and removed on shutdown/reboot. E.g. /dev is mounted as tmpfs, you can also mount /var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs (RAMRUN and RAMLOCK in /etc/default/rcS) on a standard Debian installation. Cheers, -- Raf http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Given wrote: [...] Fedex say it's been shipped. Things are looking hopeful... It arrived yesterday. I've done a decent write-up and some benchmarks: http://www.cowlark.com/2009-04-15-sheevaplug Short summary: larger than you'd think, the preloaded Ubuntu is broken, satisfyingly fast. - -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─ http://www.cowlark.com ─ │ │ All power corrupts, but we need electricity. --- Diana Wynne Jones, │ _Archer's Goon_ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ5r0hf9E0noFvlzgRAsMqAJ9M2W91Yh2wMoYP8PsggA0h0LiJOACgjQ+D /mvIrmPazBIOA2oTiKYFJos= =POAr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Given wrote: [...] It's not *quite* blank verse, but it does at least look like I'm going to get something soon. I'll report back if I get the tracking number. Fedex say it's been shipped. Things are looking hopeful... - -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─ http://www.cowlark.com ─ │ │ All power corrupts, but we need electricity. --- Diana Wynne Jones, │ _Archer's Goon_ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ3rYnf9E0noFvlzgRAjyKAJ4gqhc3wQk/dVFQFyEDHT3oF2optQCg2GXo W2OvY1cfdMeVi5dpHUR98yI= =fzl1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
Yes I have seen this notice, but the orders I and others have placed are well beyond a four week delivery timeframe. My suggestion, based upon experience, is to go to the Marvell web site and sign up for their Extranet access. Once you are signed up, send a e-mail message to sales with your order details, and request a e-mail response. 2009/4/8 Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com Well, I ordered mine on the 30th of March and I'm still waiting for any word on when delivery will be. The only clue is given at http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-technologies-products.aspx It would be nice if any list member that receives a plug could announce this on the list. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 17:39, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Encouraged to help on the sheevaplug debian integration, I ordered a while ago (3/10/2009) from GlobalScale Technologies such device, but it never arrived to my place. I am not sure if you have had similar troubles. I have mailed them a couple or three times with no answer. Kind Regards, Hector Oron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes I have seen this notice, but the orders I and others have placed are well beyond a four week delivery timeframe. I made my order on March 3, and emailed them earlier today about delivery times (my US receiving address is going away soon). I got back this: Due to the drastic demand of Marvell parts, Our manufacture was waiting for the Marvell parts to arrive. However we did start the shipments of all the units, All order are been processed by First-In-First-Out basis. Your order has been processed by the Fulfillment center, You should receive tracking number via email within 24 hours. Thank you for your support and enduring. It's not *quite* blank verse, but it does at least look like I'm going to get something soon. I'll report back if I get the tracking number. (It sounds rather as if they've been inundated with orders...) - -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ─ http://www.cowlark.com ─ │ │ All power corrupts, but we need electricity. --- Diana Wynne Jones, │ _Archer's Goon_ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ3WrRf9E0noFvlzgRApvtAKDNnVkYpBWQ8vG/cPuBGZL/0SNraQCbBVk9 4L0i9XABsHGUoJKvO716aas= =HbfN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received
Well, I ordered mine on the 30th of March and I'm still waiting for any word on when delivery will be. The only clue is given at http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-technologies-products.aspx It would be nice if any list member that receives a plug could announce this on the list. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 17:39, Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Encouraged to help on the sheevaplug debian integration, I ordered a while ago (3/10/2009) from GlobalScale Technologies such device, but it never arrived to my place. I am not sure if you have had similar troubles. I have mailed them a couple or three times with no answer. Kind Regards, Hector Oron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
