Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-05-16 Thread Kenneth Burgener
On 4/5/2010 1:35 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: Over the last few months several people have talked about embedded linux systems. If you want to play with a very affordable, extremely powerful, embedded linux system, check out these: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4-guruplugs.aspx I'm

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Torrie
Kenneth Burgener wrote: Hi, I ordered one of the GuruPlugs April 21st (almost a full month ago) and still have not received it. Did anyone else order one, and have you received yours yet? Mine hasn't shipped yet either. When the SheevaPlug was first announced and I ordered one, it was

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-10 Thread Kenneth Burgener
On 4/5/2010 4:56 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: I'm pretty sure these plugs come with a mini USB serial port console that works pretty well. Linux has a drive that sees it as a USB serial device. Also the development version have a jtag interface, although I don't know how that works (maybe

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Torrie
Kenneth Burgener wrote: I added the GuruPlug Pro (2x network interfaces) to my shopping cart, and when I went to check out it recommended I also get the GuruPlug JTAG Board (https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-28-guruplug-jtag.aspx). Is this board required to flash the GuruPlug

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-07 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/07/2010 11:26 AM, Dave Smith wrote: Very nice! I've been using the Router Station Pro at work for my embedded development, and have been very happy, but booting from non-flash media (like SD) would be *very* nice. With the RS Pro I am limited to booting from the on-board flash (using

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-07 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/07/2010 11:26 AM, Dave Smith wrote: Very nice! I've been using the Router Station Pro at work for my embedded development, and have been very happy, The router station pro doesn't come with wireless, right? You have to add a mini-PCI wireless card to get that, don't you? /* PLUG:

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-07 Thread Dave Smith
Michael Torrie wrote: The router station pro doesn't come with wireless, right? You have to add a mini-PCI wireless card to get that, don't you? That is correct. Bring your own Wi-Fi cards. It has 3 mini-PCI slots for that purpose (only one of which I will ever use, maybe). It has 16MB of

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-07 Thread Dave Smith
Dave Smith wrote: I only use about 30MB of RAM, even with my application running. By the way, it's a Qt/C++ app, and it only took a day to port the whole thing (10s of thousands of lines) to the OpenWrt/MIPS/uClibc platform. Go Qt! --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net

A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Torrie
Over the last few months several people have talked about embedded linux systems. If you want to play with a very affordable, extremely powerful, embedded linux system, check out these: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4-guruplugs.aspx I'm already using the older sheevaplugs for

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-05 Thread Kenneth Burgener
On 4/5/2010 1:35 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: Over the last few months several people have talked about embedded linux systems. If you want to play with a very affordable, extremely powerful, embedded linux system, check out these: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4-guruplugs.aspx I'm

Re: A new line of arm-based plug computers

2010-04-05 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/05/2010 04:17 PM, Kenneth Burgener wrote: Nice! At 5W I think I will replace my home firewall (tower) with the GuruPlug Server Plus version (two Ethernet ports). How would one go about installing Linux on one of these devices? I see that it does not have a VGA or serial interface.