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Re: 128GB Micro SD HC Card under $7 - 8 years ago

habibie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- <128GB Micro SD HC Card with > FREE Adapter Class 10 Universal TF Flash Memory > Card $6.99 + Free S/H. Is this for real? You need to look at: a) buyer transactions list before considering is it real or not. Since all transactions are labelled by the seller as Private, buyers likely can't leave feedback

by sambul14 - Off-Topic

Re: C.H.I.P $9 (actually $16) computer - 8 years ago

I settled for now on this little devil Orange PI PC. With latest Linux images from their forum members covering all the bases and heading towards mainline, it looks like an ideal contender for my task. :)

by sambul14 - Allwinner A10

Re: Dockstar - change heat sink - 8 years ago

I found a good report on DockStar Cooling project. Its translated by Google Translate. Basically, a combo of cooling tape & cooling paste & heatsink & thermal insulation tape is used to prevent DockStar overheating under full load and at idle, and its cable burning. Add to it rubber fits suggested by bodhi, and you'll get life long performance from this small devil. :)

by sambul14 - Off-Topic

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

Thanks. I can see Uboot output this way in Netconsole in Windows, but not kernel output. Any way to see both in Windows? I could see both outputs before with Jeff's Uboot in one ASUC terminal in Windows, if ncip and ncipk were assigned the same IP. I wonder if changing env commands can alter moonman's Uboot version logic? There's no plausible explanation why Uboot and kernel out

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

After replacing bodhi's Uboot version with moonman's Arch Uboot 2015.10, I'm having a problem with Netconsole. If its up on a PC, Serial Console doesn't show up the wait prompt at boot and Uboot initial output, and neither Netconsole. Its also impossible to interrupt the process and send commands neither in Serial, no in Netconsole. I used ASUC and Netcat in Windows, and Netca

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: C.H.I.P $9 (actually $16) computer - 8 years ago

You would have a hard time motivating the bird to co-operate with the drone or do selfies. But you can try.. I like the profit part though. :)|(:

by sambul14 - Allwinner A10

Re: C.H.I.P $9 (actually $16) computer - 8 years ago

Chroma keying is not that easy in practice with simplistic software as it looks in TV Studio done in hardware. As to bird chasing with a drone, it can produce unexpected results, since the bird will try to fly away from the drone, and they are very efficient at maneuvering in the air. I guess your drone may not survive the chase. :) Besides, birds can sharply drop speed and park on trees that

by sambul14 - Allwinner A10

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

Apparently, Arch Uboot is now updated via repo. root@alarm etc# pacman -S uboot-dockstar warning: uboot-dockstar-2015.10-1 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) uboot-dockstar-2015.10-1 Total Installed Size: 0.63 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB :: Proceed with installation? y (1/1) checking keys in keyring

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: C.H.I.P $9 (actually $16) computer - 8 years ago

@JoeyPogoPlugE02 Thanks. I can see Elph-115 having USB2.0 port to hook to a board and no Mic, but what Linux program you can control it with over Lan, including watching footage through a web UI? What brand and model SD card allows to write MP4s in real time? Still using a digital camera is a bit heavy weight compare to IP cams, but they seems to have very efficient video encoding chips. Wh

by sambul14 - Allwinner A10

Re: C.H.I.P $9 (actually $16) computer - 8 years ago

Can someone suggest what would be the best price-to-performance mini board for 2-3 usb and IP webcams capture on a wired & wireless LAN, periodically received video encoding to avi or mp4, and recording to an attached sata or usb drive or thumb? The webcams would likely start send footage simultaneously based on motion when birds will arrive to the nest. Would USB 2.0 or 3.0 port capabilit

by sambul14 - Allwinner A10

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

@bodhi Thanks for your prompt and accurate replies that tend to be "constructive". :) Anyway, user Alarm is not registered in my Linux VM, so it shouldn't capture "/" no matter whether the tarball was unpacked by root or another user under sudo su. Not sure if this Ubuntu distro even allows to login as root. Here's what I had before installing Arch Uboot:

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

@bodhi > A very common mistake: not being root while extracting the rootfs. Xmm... I extracted the rootfs as root (sudo su) in a Linux VM on a Windows PC, since a user wouldn't have write access to the disk selected. Its faster and makes more sense than downloading and extracting the tarball on a hardware challenged DockStar. Anyway my username in the VM is different from Alarm. I d

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

Assuming you have a DockStar box, you could install Arch distro yourself, and then we'd both assume you did something wrong because it won't let you in via SSH. :)I(: I was a bit busy with other things for a couple of years and needed some refresh, but I catch up fast.

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: serial console with putty - 8 years ago

Is there a config file in Linux to set a sending serial console window size? I can set the receiving Serial Console window size in Putty settings in Windows, but not the sending frame size by an ARM device. But similar serial config must exist on the device, since it always sends serial frame of some default size. So if Putty window is manually resized, it still shows previous size frames receive

by sambul14 - Debian

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

@bodhi You were right. The default dir "/" ownership was changed to Alarm in the distro. No way to decipher the failure cause from systemd logs. I finally fixed it as root with commands: chown root / chmod 755 / > I think this question is best to ask at Arch site. Lets hope questions are constructively answered there, and reported issues fixed. My assumption was, any di

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

I reflashed Uboot to corresponding ArchLinux ARM site version, updated install with pacman -Syu, but the same network problem persists.

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

It looks like ArchLinux 4.3 introduced using initramfs-kirkwood.img at boot instead of initrd. It caused similar network access issues for other users. I'm getting: # dmesg [29.579634] MV-CESA:Could not register sha1 driver [29.590677] MV-CESA:Could not register hmac-sha1 driver May be this causes the network problems? I wonder whether initramfs-kirkwood.img should be referred to

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Arch rootfs has > no uInitrd, so the label rootfs can not be used. > > With either 3.6 or 4.3 Arch rootfs. Boot, > interrupt serial console and: > > > setenv dtb_file > setenv set_bootargs 'setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda1 rootdelay=10 $mtdparts $custom_params&

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

Now I'm in :), but no network. The adapter is recognized. May be Uboot env should enable DHCP or systemd services somehow? I added IP and Mac addresses in Uboot env, no joy. Btw, Mac is impossible to change in Linux after your default Uboot envs are flashed, had to do it in serial console. Failed to start Login Service. See 'systemctl status systemd-logind.service' for detai

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

@bodhi Sorry I was thinking my post was deleted. Meaning that my DockStar which is already toasty due to rubber insulator to protect USB cable instead of a normal CPU heatsink now becomes real toast ready to go. :) Btw, do you know any examples of placing a normal cooper heatsink on that CPU? Any drawbacks? >Interrupt serial console and... There's no DTB folder in Boot neither i

by sambul14 - uBoot

Booting Arch Linux ARM with 2015.10-tld-1 U-Boot for Kirkwood - 8 years ago

@bodhi I decided to update to the latest ArchLinux ARM on the DockStart, and try your latest Uboot and default env files with it. But...after flashing 2015.10 Uboot and the envs, neither Arch 3.6, no Arch 4.3, and neither original Pogo OS preserved on Flash are able to boot. Had to open the box and run serial. Here's what transpired: a) with original Pogo on Flash: U-Boot 2015.10-

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Backup and Restore NAND mtds - Pogoplug V4 original MTD partitions - 8 years ago

bodhi wrote: >Don't do this if you have any bad block in these MTD partitions In my DockStar dmesg shows: Bad eraseblock 461 at 0x0000039a0000 Bad eraseblock 2553 at 0x000013f20000 Bad eraseblock 3186 at 0x000018e40000 Bad eraseblock 3322 at 0x000019f40000 Bad eraseblock 3905 at 0x00001e820000 Currently: dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 00100000 00020000 "

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: 2015.10 U-Boot Kirkwood - GoFlexNet, GoFlexHome, PogoE02, Dockstar, iConnect, NetgearStora, PogoV4/Mobile, Sheevaplug, NSA325, NSA320, NSA310S, NSA320S, NSA310 - 8 years ago

bodhi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >I like Debian, but not because these tasks are better in Debian. All 3 OS can be tuned to take minimal RAM, or writing >with lowest load. I don't want to go offtop, but can you point to a thread describing how to decrease a small device CPU load at encoding a video source stream to AVI, and writing the AVI to

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: 2015.10 U-Boot Kirkwood - GoFlexNet, GoFlexHome, PogoE02, Dockstar, iConnect, NetgearStora, PogoV4/Mobile, Sheevaplug, NSA325, NSA320, NSA310S, NSA320S, NSA310 - 8 years ago

Thanks. Why fw_saveenv is not required to commit changes? What .dtb file is for, is it needed for DockStar, and where to get one? Do you personally prefer any particular OS running on a small device and why? Which one has the lowest RAM footprint, allows writing to disk with lowest CPU load? Can you suggest any DockStar mods aiming to add eSata or Sata port without using USB-to-Sata adap

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: 2015.10 U-Boot Kirkwood - GoFlexNet, GoFlexHome, PogoE02, Dockstar, iConnect, NetgearStora, PogoV4/Mobile, Sheevaplug, NSA325, NSA320, NSA310S, NSA320S, NSA310 - 8 years ago

Hi guys, I'm trying to re-use my old DockStar for a new project. Hence a few questions: 1. Can the latest U-Boot 2015.10 start ArchLinux ARM with older 3.x kernel, or I do need to upgrade both U-boot and OS to the latest? 2. If yes to OS upgrade, are there any advantages of running Debian, or ArchLinux, or OpenWRT on DockStar? What OS is preferable and why, in particular for webcam vi

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Use netconsole to troubleshoot uBoot without a serial cable - 10 years ago

I mean make it scripted in env plus a single interaction with Netconsole to select a number corresponding to the OS chosen by a user at boot time. Also, is it possible to continue boot after interrupting in Netconsole without entering Reset (i.e. without reboot) and how?

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Use netconsole to troubleshoot uBoot without a serial cable - 10 years ago

Is there a way to automatically stop the boot process and show Marvell>> prompt in Netconsole without pressing any keys? How to proceed the boot process after it was stopped after a certain parameter was selected out of several options available without doing Uboot Reset? I'm just trying to figure out if its possible to setup Multiboot via Netconsole as discussed below by adding

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: Use netconsole to troubleshoot uBoot without a serial cable - 10 years ago

Is there an equivalent of saveenv command in ArchLinux ARM after booting Dockstar, i.e. fw_saveenv? Or any env variable set with fw_setenv is immediately saved? What commands to use in ArchLinux ARM on Dockstar to check, if changed Uboot variables allow now to use Netconsole?

by sambul14 - uBoot

Re: GoFlex Net: no SATA after reflashing to stock - 12 years ago

I had a similar issue, so post the solution here to help others. Apparently, if you Restore old uBoot on mtd0 according to Jeff's procedure or the above linked procedure via Netconsole or Serial, original Dockstar Uboot is flashed to NAND, which doesn't support SATA, only USB. To fix that, I reflashed again Jeff's Uboot to GFN, which script also installed useful programs like flash

by sambul14 - Debian

Re: UART Booting HowTo for Selected Kirkwood Devices - 12 years ago

davygravy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >all machines with version 1.21 do support it, but none of the version 1.11 Is it possible to update Dockstar and other Plugs like Pogo to BootROM 1.21 and how?

by sambul14 - uBoot