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Re: Pimpin Dockstar Case and Mod - 13 years ago
Dang, I just threw out my last floppy discs! Neat idea.by davygravy - Debian
Re: Help installing Debian on Dockstar - 13 years ago
exenew: did you install samba yet? you'll need to do that. If you are not familiar with it, you can google it... there is a web interface called SWAT that one can used to set up/manage samba/cifs shares.by davygravy - Debian
Re: Help installing Debian on Dockstar - 13 years ago
It looks to me that you don't have complete internet connectivity on your pogoplug at that point. You can test it by first pinging yahoo.com, or jeff.doozan.com and if ping fails, then its pretty clear. What does your router on your network say? It should be showing (in its client list) if your Pogoplug is currently connected, and if it has assigned (and leased) it a DHCP ip address.by davygravy - Debian
Re: Debian Squeeze installer broken? - 13 years ago
I've installed Debian on a Dockstar and a Pogo now ... both work great. Thanks for the foundation, Jeff, shyd & all.by davygravy - Debian
Re: Slow speeds on the Dockstar - 13 years ago
kraqh3d Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... I've bench marked networked I/O > at over 11 MB/s for reading and over 9 MB/s for > writing (and that's with the --sync mount flag.) > There are some tuning parameters but I never > bothered as that's nearly maxing out the 100 mbps > ethernet connection and was good enough for mby davygravy - Debian
Re: seeking faster speeds on the Dockstar - 13 years ago
Has anyone here researched or posted transfer rates with respect to different USB2 chipsets in the USB2-SATA enclosures? I am getting a very nice flat, stable 11.7MB/sec w/ my new Dockstar-converted-to-TimeCapsule (we are mostly Macs at home - I'm running it via Netatalk, not Samba), but I'm thinking the usb2 enclosure for my 2TB disk must be a bottleneck. ???? (btw, samba seby davygravy - Debian
Re: Squeeze to Wheezy - 13 years ago
I'm finding it hard to believe, but it did actually seem to work w/o a single hiccup ... I just updated my sources.list from squeeze to wheezy, then ... apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade and away it went ... it even handed the uboot initrd commands for me. I did nothing except accepting two device-id-renames, and then reboot and root@debian:~# uname -a Linux debian 3.0.0-by davygravy - Debian
Re: rt73usb problem ? - 13 years ago
OK, after doing quite a bit of sifting and googling, I think I found it... The power management feature for the rt73usb seems like it indeed does have something to do w/ dropouts in connectivity, at least w/ the ready-made/supplied/default kernel that is used w/ the debootstrap script used at this site (2.6.32-5-kirkwood). When I turn it off, I have no problems whatsoever w/ dropouts - twoby davygravy - Debian
rt73usb problem ? - 13 years ago
I'm more or less (less on a bad day) using an ASUS WL-167G v2 USB adapter on my PogoWeather Station (running Squeeze) ... Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0b05:1723 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. WL-167G v2 802.11g Adapter I'm experiencing daily dropouts of connectivity. I've not gone for more that 36 hours w/o needing to reboot the Pogo. Right now I have a script set up to ping severby davygravy - Debian
Re: Kernel with Full Pogoplug support (arcNumber, leds & partitions) - 13 years ago
pazos, thanks for putting this up... is the conversion of the normal kernel to uboot kernel done automatically? (for the LinkStation ARM9 boxes I worked on before, I'm thinking we had to prepare it manually... ?)by davygravy - Debian
Re: Howto: Create Debian rootfs image for your GoFlex/Dockstar via debootstrap on a Ubuntu/Debian PC - 13 years ago
hehehe, this is sweet... when I started reading it (just the general idea) my first though, "hmmm, no way to do that w/o an emulator...", lo and behold, qemu. Thanks for writing this up. I may try it w/ ppc for some of my old PPC Linkstations. I rolled Lenny rootfs's for them when Lenny was "shiny new", but they are very long in the tooth now. Thanks for sharinby davygravy - Debian
Re: 1-Wire Weather-Station/Cam - 13 years ago
@ Terri & Pazos ... I've had to drop back a few steps and fix some stability issues ... wifi dropouts & /tmp filling up to quickly... need to tweak a few scripts in the next day or two, but will post those pictures of the pagoda, housing, etc, once I get it all physically settled. I am end up going from a USB flash drive to something more like a 2.5 in SATA attached by USB adby davygravy - Debian
Re: Pogoplug Pink ... UBOOT won't boot Debian from USB - 13 years ago
Hmmm... I'll tell you that I saw the same problem. My fix was to try formatting the USB flash drive first in Ubuntu, and then make sure that there is a viable filesystem (ext3) on it. I am thinking that in the directions that I followed here in the forum, there was no (explicit) mention of creating the filesystem - only the partitioning via fdisk was mentioned. So, I first used fdisk,by davygravy - Debian
Re: 1-Wire Weather-Station/Cam - 13 years ago
pazos, I got my 1-wire stuff from 3 sources, mainly 1. http://www.hobby-boards.com/catalog/main_page.php - this company provides PCB's ... and a few cables... I bought all the components through Mouser Electronics and Digikey . The boards that I bought are : 6channel hub, humidity sensor, barometer (not yet built). I also bought a cable that converts RJ11 to RJ25. 2. Maxim-IC.by davygravy - Debian
1-Wire Weather-Station/Cam - 13 years ago
Thanks to the community from this newcomer... I've toyed with things embedded for the last 10 years... but this was my first tinker w/ the Kirkwood platform. With what you all supplied, and some compiling of custom packages, I've got this up and running: davysweather.dyndns.org This works several orders of magnitude better than it did on a router-with-Optware.by davygravy - Debian
Re: Debian Squeeze installer broken? - 13 years ago
shyd's script worked for me as well, on a POGOEO2 pink unit. I doublechecked that it was indeed Kirkwood (not OXNAS) before proceding. The only quirk that I saw... I had to format the flashdrive to ext3 and use mkfs.ext3, and also use mkswap for the swap partition. Otherwise it was exactly as JeffDoozan's directions say... I now have motion, digitemp, rrdtool and lighttpd runniby davygravy - Debian
Re: uBoot & Pogoplug V1 (wallwart-ish) - 13 years ago
thnx @ kraqh3d, will check out the script...by davygravy - uBoot
Re: Debian on Pogoplug V1 (wallwart-ish) - 13 years ago
thank you, will give it a try...by davygravy - Debian
Debian on Pogoplug V1 (wallwart-ish) - 13 years ago
I'm interested in running Debian on my Pogoplug V1 (wallwart-ish). Is this the right tarball/image for my V1? Any special directions, tweak, or settings needed for it?by davygravy - Debian
uBoot & Pogoplug V1 (wallwart-ish) - 13 years ago
I have just purchased a PogoPlug V1 (wallwart-ish) - the model w/ a singleton USB port. Is there a uBoot posted here that will work correctly on it? If so, can you point me to docs that explicitly list: •installation •correct env var values in uBoot, both for booting Debian •__important__ if this newer uBoot will also launch the original initrd/initramfs/ramdiskiimage and kernel? Iby davygravy - uBoot
XFS supported in ARM? Stable? - 13 years ago
I hope this is not minutia ... but for a long time XFS was very unstable/unreliable on ARM. Is this no longer the case? If fixed, can anyone point me to the docs on it? I'd had no idea it was fixed.by davygravy - Rescue System
Re: Rescue system for use with USB sticks and TFTP - 13 years ago
Sweet - nice job! I will take delivery of my Pogoplug EO2 (Kirkwood) in just a few days, and I must say that I'm happy with what you all have done here...by davygravy - Rescue System