Discussions that dont fit anywhere else https://forum.doozan.com/list.php?8 Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:42:27 -0600 Phorum 5.2.23 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139956,139956#msg-139956 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139956,139956#msg-139956 Marvell Armada XP MV78230 Dual core 1.33GHz armhf
DDR3 1 GB
1 x eSATA / 1 x USB 2.0 / 2 x 1GbE / 2 x USB 3.0

Even without power adapter https://www.ebay.com/itm/157110899367 seems a decent price.

I've seen thread installing Debian on DS214 with similar specs, hope DS214+ will not be too different.]]> eno789 Off-Topic Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:12:09 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139705,139705#msg-139705 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139705,139705#msg-139705
https://lwn.net/Articles/1019217/

"To put it bluntly: starting around the beginning of March, we have observed a distinct drop in both new subscriptions and renewals. That timing roughly corresponds with the US administration's increasing attacks on the global system of trade and the economic downturn that has been its result. As it stands, this subscription drop does not pose an existential threat to LWN — or to the salaries of its writers — but it is a matter of concern."

"Beyond the immediate situation, there are a number of potential problems to be concerned about. For example, inflation did not stop after our price increase in 2022, with the result that subscription dollars buy significantly less then they once did. We are not considering a price increase at this time but, if the situation worsens, we may have to go there.

For better or worse, LWN is a US-based company, but a large portion of our subscription sales come from outside the country. If the backlash against US companies grows, we are unlikely to escape its effects entirely. Further attacks on global trade could make it more difficult for us to accept payments from outside the country, even when the buyer is willing. In a truly terrible world, there may be attempts to reduce US participation in (and support for) free software; the probability of that seems low, but not zero.

Those are all future worries, though. For now, we will focus on getting through the current economic storms. The good news is that LWN has been here since 1998, which is long enough to have been through more than one difficult cycle. We are still here, thanks entirely to the steady support from you, our readers. Our subscribers, especially, have our gratitude; if you have not yet subscribed to LWN, please consider doing so now."


"Meanwhile our primary focus will remain being worthy of the support you all have given us since the beginning. It is the least we can do for all of you who have made our existence possible for the last 27 years."

https://lwn.net/Articles/1019677/

"On a separate note, for many years I've handed out LWN.net subscriptions as prizes during our closing game at Embedded Linux Conference.
I'll plan to give out a few more than usual this year to help out."]]> bodhi Off-Topic Fri, 02 May 2025 01:56:56 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139643,139643#msg-139643 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139643,139643#msg-139643 bodhi Off-Topic Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:34:58 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139627,139627#msg-139627 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,139627,139627#msg-139627
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/synology-confirms-need-for-synology-branded-drives-in-newer-plus-series-nas/

Perhaps we will see more used Synology NAS on eBay :)]]> bodhi Off-Topic Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:57:35 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137963,137963#msg-137963 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137963,137963#msg-137963
Tri-Band WiFi -
Plug-n-Play Setup -
Covers up to 2700 sq. ft. -
Speed up tp 4.2 Gbps -
Handles 40+ Devices

ARM Cortex-A53 (Quad Core), 2GB memory, 1GB flash, 4 Gigabit ports total, 1 usb 3.0 port


Architecture ARM64
Vendor Qualcomm
Bootloader U-boot
System-On-Chip IPQ8174
CPU/Speed 1400 MHz
Flash-Chip NAND
Flash size 1024 MiB - FMND4G08S3J
RAM 2048 MiB - 2x M15T2G16128A
Wireless QCN5024
Ethernet QCA8075
Switch
USB 1x 3.0

dd-wrt support

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=337110&highlight=mx4300

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1305325&sid=55642ecd36502936127d724f8b880246

Openwrt support

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16070

Woot! has it for $19.99, use $5 off $10 or more coupon "GEARUP4FALL", final price is $14.99. Amazon Prime members get free shipping as well.]]> daviddyer Off-Topic Thu, 12 Sep 2024 02:12:44 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137943,137943#msg-137943 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137943,137943#msg-137943
Been a while since my last post. I've got a Zyxel NAS326 still running the Zyxel embedded OS (busybox). I'm not looking to convert it to Debian at this time but I have been working on setting up environmental and performance monitoring. Right now I'm hung up on temperature. The Zyxel web interface is reporting a CPU temperature of 39-41 degrees Celsius. The only sensor I can find is at /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp and it's consistently reporting a value of 79000 to 82000, which to my understanding should be interpreted as 79.000 to 82.000 degrees Celsius.

Can anyone with experience help me understand this value? I'm trying to figure out if 1) the web interface is wrong, 2) I should be dividing the value returned by /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp by 2000 instead of 1000, or 3) the only sensor I seem to have access to just isn't the CPU temperature -- though I can't understand why any other temperature in the device would be double what the web interface reports for the CPU.

The device has 2 SSDs installed. Pretty light load, ~10-20% generally.

Thanks for any help.]]> mantequilla Off-Topic Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:51:19 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137753,137753#msg-137753 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137753,137753#msg-137753
I've been researching the PogoPlug ethernet+usb+arm device, and it's really cool that they're something like $20 a pop nowadays. What would you suspect the cost per unit to have been when they first did their production run? I saw a price sticker on one indicating they retailed at $100 originally so maybe there isn't some Kirkland magic going on that puts the board + case at below the cost of most SoC dev boards.

If you were going to go to market with an arm-based product of your own, what would your starting point be that allowed you to develop from day one, but also be easy to go into production with?]]> ds351 Off-Topic Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:53:57 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137217,137217#msg-137217 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,137217,137217#msg-137217 to place the full uboot + rootfs and omv os something in it
so it doesn't need to be bootet from usb ?

-th3l0lb0y]]> Th3l0lb0y Off-Topic Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:14:09 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,136657,136657#msg-136657 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,136657,136657#msg-136657
I’m looking for a way to install a light cloud/sharing service on my NAS to publish data.
Installation of Nextcloud according to standard instruction goes wrong due to fail to start mariadb server and fail to install a proper version of MySQL which can work on arm architecture.
I find a little old installation toturial of Owncloud 10 . Did someone have a success on NSA325 v2?
Or mayby other solution. ?]]> alazarski Off-Topic Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:46:19 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,136630,136630#msg-136630 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,136630,136630#msg-136630 Tushar Off-Topic Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:01:47 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135329,135329#msg-135329 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135329,135329#msg-135329 On pogoplug v4
My pastebin of output
https://pastebin.com/ru0WACtk

I dont know what to do next.

Thanks for your time.]]> user45 Off-Topic Sun, 04 Jun 2023 22:46:04 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135292,135292#msg-135292 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135292,135292#msg-135292
Thanks bluzfanmr1 for pointing out the typos in the release threads!

bluzfanmr1 or Chris, please try sending PM to me (test if it's really broken).]]> bodhi Off-Topic Mon, 28 Aug 2023 17:59:10 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135195,135195#msg-135195 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135195,135195#msg-135195 metric Off-Topic Fri, 26 May 2023 15:26:47 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135014,135014#msg-135014 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,135014,135014#msg-135014 5V with a 3amp draw - similar specs to the OrangePi. but however with no gpio pins... although you could use a usb daughterboard to provide this.... have a look at the

Dell Wyse 3040 - just picked me a couple of for £20 (sterling) and i see them for a similar price over the other side of the pond.

With the price and lead times on a lot of dev boards - its a good option if you want something low powered to run your kit or just to play with...]]> Gravelrash Off-Topic Sun, 04 Jun 2023 10:43:58 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134775,134775#msg-134775 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134775,134775#msg-134775 .
.
Does anyone have a howto or a guide on how to do this? id be interested in tinkering around with it. i dont see an armeabi root file system advertised on the alpinelinux site.... or maybe its me being in-observant.

Thanks all :-)]]> Gravelrash Off-Topic Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:50:23 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134731,134731#msg-134731 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134731,134731#msg-134731 Rockchip-based doodad that loves the Libre version of Raspbian best out of the all-in-one Linux distros. I'm not through checking out Armbian but Reaper ran great on Raspbian, all things considered that's a good thing.

One more USB 3.0 port without being hubbed (yet) would greatly help my uses for this, but if there's a highspeed place to tap in I haven't seen it.

Even more IO overall is still a good thing even if additional IO is slower.]]> JoeyPogoPlugE02 Off-Topic Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:25:30 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134474,134474#msg-134474 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134474,134474#msg-134474
i used to use the N----- and it went a bit too much of its own content, i still have D---+ which is great but a tad limited in scope.

any suggestions?]]> Gravelrash Off-Topic Mon, 03 Apr 2023 01:33:56 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134255,134255#msg-134255 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134255,134255#msg-134255
Who do you turn to when you need a new motherboard, CPU, SSD, etc?]]> dougdeep Off-Topic Sat, 18 Mar 2023 23:42:57 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134089,134089#msg-134089 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134089,134089#msg-134089
Delivered today: a Libre Computer Board Renegade (ROC-RK3328-CC).
This could be perfect for an extra light desktop.

As a lot of you know, I am not advanced in Linux and don't want to waste experienced people's time (I'm paying it backwards LOL), but any fun lovers out there, maybe this is fun. I suppose Stellarium is already going to break my machine LOL

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078RT6H8X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?

If I had any Xacto knives handy I'd cut holes in the cardboard box it came in and use it!]]> JoeyPogoPlugE02 Off-Topic Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:53:16 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134065,134065#msg-134065 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134065,134065#msg-134065 daviddyer Off-Topic Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:56:16 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134000,134000#msg-134000 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,134000,134000#msg-134000
Atom N3000 @1GHz. (corrected typo, was ...N1000 )
DDR3 SODimm (will report if one is included ...)
WLAN USB Stick (internally WLAN not equipped)
No SSD Included (Sata 2,5" Socket available)
VGA
HDMI
Gigabit LAN
4xUSB
Mic and Headphone Jack...
19 V 2,1A wall wart
EDIT:
Is a Konica Minolta branded version called "Service Box Evolution"
No SODimm equipped
2,5" SATA pigtail cable, fastening screws and mounting frame
M.2 2230 SSD slot

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_celeron_n3000-vs-raspberry_pi_4_b_broadcom_bcm2711]]> Martin aus Dortmund Off-Topic Mon, 15 May 2023 01:58:04 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133964,133964#msg-133964 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133964,133964#msg-133964
And along comes Wifi6, AX and all that. I'm not up to spec yet but with its power saving abilities it's headed our way. Also you and I are the kind of people who probably run many items electronic without full benefit of shielding, and WiFi 6 looks to connect better through all the clutter. WPA3 needs negotiation too.

Of the choices out there, the dirt cheapest seems to be the HNK TARZAN AX1800, commonly sold for $11 open box including shipping lately; it would seem something needs to be hacked. The low price makes me suspicious but then again the TP-Link AX1800 is reviewed as best budget router by some.

I can't verify a claim made that D-Link firmware is underneath Tarzan's hood (funny).
Any thoughts? Thank you :-)]]> JoeyPogoPlugE02 Off-Topic Wed, 22 Feb 2023 16:38:08 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133947,133947#msg-133947 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133947,133947#msg-133947
The performance of the 2009 Netgear Stora as a NAS is a bit poor compared with today's standard, but it is a good candidate for remote backup where the link bandwidth often is the tightest bottleneck. It may also be a good platform for your personal U-Boot, Linux, data acquisition, surveillance or web hosting project.

Vendor information here. Further details here and here.

Regards,
Trond Melen
Oslo, Norway]]> tme Off-Topic Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:31:46 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133678,133678#msg-133678 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133678,133678#msg-133678
My Netgear Stora is disconnected since a couple of years, and while I bought the material to perform the flash and I have a basic knowledge, I am not sure I will ever find the time to mess with this. I am wondering if I there would be a way that I would sending the board or the fash chip to anybody from you to receive it flashed.

Regards]]> cotarelo Off-Topic Sat, 14 Jan 2023 13:00:29 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133579,133579#msg-133579 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133579,133579#msg-133579
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=studio.com.techriz.andronix]]> JoeyPogoPlugE02 Off-Topic Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:57:28 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133080,133080#msg-133080 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133080,133080#msg-133080 Gateway 11.6" Ultra Slim Notebook ($79) and this Gateway 14.1" Ultra Slim Notebook ($99.00). They both are using a 1.1 GHz dual core intel chipset with 4GB RAM. It's not fast, but they both sure consume a lot less power. Perhaps anyone out here can take advantage of these offers. Any taker before they are out of stock?

Perhaps, I can see myself getting a 14" one to use as a PDF reader.]]> habibie Off-Topic Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:42:41 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133052,133052#msg-133052 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,133052,133052#msg-133052 Velvet OS project on GitHub that provides Debian and Ubuntu images and a build mechanism for not only older Chromebooks but a variety of other ARM devices. I'm happily running Debian Bullseye with kernel 5.18.1 and will be building my on 6.0 version shortly.

Just thought others might be interested as it gives new life to Chromebooks obsoleted by Google.

Ray]]> rayknight Off-Topic Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:12:10 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,132955,132955#msg-132955 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,132955,132955#msg-132955
https://www.myabandonware.com/

pretty cool. Well they are interlinked with Gog and Steam. They seem legit, but all three have different prices. I probably have the Editor's version even though I don't think you could ever make your own faces for the monsters like they promised (and is so I prolly don't have the time).

Steam has one for $15 (abandonware has one for $2.50 but it's 2.5GB and and not 5.5 GB like mine, so if that matters then -edit- I've played 250 hours over time.

Other than that if there's a Windows version of Stargate that'd be a trip]]> JoeyPogoPlugE02 Off-Topic Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:36:21 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,132701,132701#msg-132701 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,132701,132701#msg-132701
Government tensions aside, we (I) wouldn't expect Apple to stop Chinese manufacturing although anything's possible in the current mess. Even so I'm not an apple guy, though M1... oh M1... back on topic...

I'm thinking more like a final order at least for a while, a nicer many-core TV box, maybe something Armbian loves. I don't have the means to order form Ali Express but eBay/China has stuff.

My surviving Pogoplugs including two gift ones will be running again but I'd hate to miss out on 2-watt desktop worthy computers when we/I had the head's-up but didn't realize the goods are unavailable.

Calling cyber bloodhounds for anything interesting! Adorama also served us well in the past :-)]]> JoeyPogoPlugE02 Off-Topic Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:50:49 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,132562,132562#msg-132562 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?8,132562,132562#msg-132562 link which shows several microSD performances and thought some of you may be interested in it.]]> habibie Off-Topic Sun, 17 Jul 2022 05:38:42 -0500