Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-04-27 Thread VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO
In case anyone is still interested, a US based reseller of the 10in Lemote Yeeloong has popped up in Boston, MA. I just placed my order and hope to have it this weekend. It looks like Freedom Included does group buys direct from Lemote then resells them preloaded with gnewsense (a fsf

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-04-26 Thread James Turner
In case anyone is still interested, a US based reseller of the 10in Lemote Yeeloong has popped up in Boston, MA. I just placed my order and hope to have it this weekend. It looks like Freedom Included does group buys direct from Lemote then resells them preloaded with gnewsense (a fsf approved

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-24 Thread Miod Vallat
Sorry to hijack that thread while it is getting old... It seems that it is easier for people in northern America (but maybe USA only) to get Gdium Liberty netbooks, rather than Lemote Yeeloong netbooks. The OpenBSD/loongson port runs on the Gdium about as badly as on the Yeeloong - which

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Miod Vallat m...@online.fr wrote: You do not want to tinker with the firmware. The stock PMON2000 does not support these machines, so you'll need to start with the pmon code provided by Lemote, and saying that it is in a dire need of cleaning is an

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Miod Vallat m...@online.fr wrote: AKA it supports execute/no execute permissions, like probably every mips chip made in the last 20 years. No, execute (or lack of) permission is quite an alien concept to mips chips. Thanks for the correction. So it may still

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-05 Thread Pete Vickers
presumably this is no worse than any other firmware, just that since it's open source you can actually see it ? is it just me or does the Fuloong (http://www.lemote.com/english/fuloong.html) look like a perfect car-puter, since it has 12V power requirements, S-video audio output, and IR receiver

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 07:16:27 +0100 Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:48:29PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:45:13 -0700 (MST) Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: Really, I meant, Where would Carmen San Diego find a Lemote Yeeloong

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:22:37 -0800 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: Miod did the big bulk of work, he had to do some of his magic to get this working facing very nasty processor bugs. Matthieu had X working in a breeze and I did assorted things here and there, fixing a gcc

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:22:37AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 07:16:27 +0100 Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:48:29PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:45:13 -0700 (MST) Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote:

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Lars Nooden
J.C. Roberts wrote: I'm curious if the processor bugs were with the Loongson 2E or 2F ? For notes, I've already started the process of trying to contact Lemote to see about *ahem* availability of their products, but I won't make any promises my wallet can't keep (Sorry Kurt). Can you post

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:22:37AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: One thing you might want to note is the pricing at Tekmote is about double the suggested prices. where did you find suggested prices? In what currency? -Otto

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: There are two models. I have the 10 model. It really has a 10 screen, but indeed it runs at 800MHz. Also, while a little video hole is there, the camera hardware seems to be absent or not connected. The 8.9 version does have

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:03:55 +0100 Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:22:37AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: One thing you might want to note is the pricing at Tekmote is about double the suggested prices. where did you find suggested prices? In what currency?

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:15:50 +0100 Igor Sobrado igor.sobr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: There are two models. I have the 10 model. It really has a 10 screen, but indeed it runs at 800MHz. Also, while a little video hole is there,

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:15:50AM +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: There are two models. I have the 10 model. It really has a 10 screen, but indeed it runs at 800MHz. Also, while a little video hole is there, the camera

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:16:27AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: [...] If you want to move things forward, please get jasper@ a machine. We need ports! -Otto Thanks to two generous donors I will be able to buy a Yeeloong now. Cheers, Jasper -- Intelligence should guide our actions,

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Per Fogelström
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:15:50 +0100, Igor Sobrado igor.sobr...@gmail.com wrote: However, I would like to ask a question about its firmware. May these laptops run a generic PMON2000 firmware or do they need a customized one? It would be nice being able to track the latest releases of the

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Sevan / Venture37
If you're still at a loss for a supplier, Wim has had these listed for a while now http://lemote.kd85.com/ https://kd85.com/lemote.html Sevan

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Miod Vallat
However, I would like to ask a question about its firmware. May these laptops run a generic PMON2000 firmware or do they need a customized one? It would be nice being able to track the latest releases of the firmware developed by Opsycon instead of trusting the one provided by Lemote will

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Aaron Mason
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Miod Vallat m...@online.fr wrote: However, I would like to ask a question about its firmware. May these laptops run a generic PMON2000 firmware or do they need a customized one? It would be nice being able to track the latest releases of the firmware developed

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: Oh god - my eyes are bleeding after reading those excerpts. That's sad, especially since (according to Wikipedia) the Loongsoon has on-chip circuitry to help resist buffer overflow attacks - seems a wee bit

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Aaron Mason
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: Oh god - my eyes are bleeding after reading those excerpts. That's sad, especially since (according to Wikipedia) the Loongsoon has on-chip

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Miod Vallat
Oh god - my eyes are bleeding after reading those excerpts. That's sad, especially since (according to Wikipedia) the Loongsoon has on-chip circuitry to help resist buffer overflow attacks - seems a wee bit counter-productive. AKA it supports execute/no execute permissions, like

is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-03 Thread Diana Eichert
Really, I meant, Where would Carmen San Diego find a Lemote Yeeloong in the US? diana

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:45:13 -0700 (MST) Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: Really, I meant, Where would Carmen San Diego find a Lemote Yeeloong in the US? diana I was wondering when Loongson based systems would start showing up, but the following was a wonderful surprise:

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:48:29PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:45:13 -0700 (MST) Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: Really, I meant, Where would Carmen San Diego find a Lemote Yeeloong in the US? diana I was wondering when Loongson based systems would