Re: ext3/ext2 kernel bug with umlauts?

2008-09-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Michael Glockenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-30 14:32]: > Because I got no answer from Theodore too, I ask me now what happens > when lenny is released as stable, do we have to live with this problem > until the next stable debian version? Or does the armel platform does > not follow the har

Re: NSLU2 network interface missing after reboot

2008-09-30 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Jonas On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 18:34, Jonas Häggqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gordon Farquharson wrote: > >> For some reason, the ixp4xx_eth module isn't being loaded. I'm not >> sure why 2.6.25-7 isn't loading the module on your system, but I don't >> think that it is worth investigating

Re: NSLU2 network interface missing after reboot

2008-09-30 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Jonas On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 16:17, Jonas Häggqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a reboot of my NSLU2, the network interface fails to appear. By > looking at /var/log/dmesg*, I notice the following two lines in older > logs, which are not there in the latest: > > [ 34.57] eth0: MII

NSLU2 network interface missing after reboot

2008-09-30 Thread Jonas Häggqvist
After a reboot of my NSLU2, the network interface fails to appear. By looking at /var/log/dmesg*, I notice the following two lines in older logs, which are not there in the latest: [ 34.57] eth0: MII PHY 1 on NPE-B [ 61.53] NPE-B: firmware functionality 0x0, revision 0x2:1 I expect th

Debian, QNAP TS-209 II and what if's and trying to understand

2008-09-30 Thread Karl Southern
Hi guys, I'm afraid that I've got some potentially nooby questions and I apologise if they've been asked before, but I've been unable to find the answers myself and I'm somewhat new to running linux on embedded systems, and I feel that I've reached my current level of mad skillz... Would I b

Booting a (possibly unsupported) development board

2008-09-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I've got a small number of KAMIO-2701 development boards manufactured by IEI, these are based on a PXA270. I'm hoping to be able to reserve at least one to help out a couple of deserving open-source compiler projects. Unfortunately, these boards arrived with Windows CE. The manufacturer doesn'

Re: ARMEL on low power mmu-less platforms?

2008-09-30 Thread John Griessen
Riku Voipio wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:04:18AM -0500, John Griessen wrote: and one silicon chip from luminary has precision time protocol another great reason. You are expecting to fit debian in 256KB of flash? because that's what the luminary cortex-m3 chips have... also the 64K of

Re: ARMEL on low power mmu-less platforms?

2008-09-30 Thread John Griessen
Catalin Marinas wrote: I did the Cortex-M3 Linux port and from my experience you need about 4MB of RAM to be able to run a few commands (I used busybox as a filesystem). With 2MB, you can't even start more than about 4 simple commands (like "ls") in parallel So, if low power is one of my goals,

Re: ARMEL on low power mmu-less platforms?

2008-09-30 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:04:18AM -0500, John Griessen wrote: > I am just wondering if any kind of debian subset even can be put on a > machine without MMU? I'm not just interested in these for cost alone, > but for low power networking in remote places -- sensor networks, > so the cortex-m3 A

Re: ARMEL on low power mmu-less platforms?

2008-09-30 Thread Catalin Marinas
John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am just wondering if any kind of debian subset even can be put on a > machine without MMU? Not that easy, you would need to change the C library to uClibc since AFAIK glibc doesn't support noMMU systems. > Since linux-arm has a cortex-m3 linux port (us

Re: ext3/ext2 kernel bug with umlauts?

2008-09-30 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:32:13PM +0200, Michael Glockenstein wrote: > Martin Michlmayr schrieb am Freitag, 26. September 2008 14:08: > > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-10 09:06]: > > > I unpacked this on an armel system and can confirm that the filesystem > > > is totally messed

ARMEL on low power mmu-less platforms?

2008-09-30 Thread John Griessen
Awhile back I see in the archives: From: Riku Voipio : Now to expand our userbase, the easiest way would be to replace the versatile kernel with something else qemu supports. We want kernels that: 1) That the hardware is actually suitable for Debian - Enough storage space an

Re: debian on thecus n4100

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Gatliff
Marc Pignat wrote: > Hi all! > > Is there any plan to support this machine? > > Or even if it isn't supported, where can I find a howto for testing debian on > it? Check back in the archives a few weeks, you'll see some traffic from me and others regarding how I got my n4100 working. Short answ

debian on thecus n4100

2008-09-30 Thread Marc Pignat
Hi all! Is there any plan to support this machine? Or even if it isn't supported, where can I find a howto for testing debian on it? Thanks in advance Best regards Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3/ext2 kernel bug with umlauts?

2008-09-30 Thread Michael Glockenstein
Martin Michlmayr schrieb am Freitag, 26. September 2008 14:08: > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-10 09:06]: > > I unpacked this on an armel system and can confirm that the filesystem > > is totally messed up. Mounting it as ext2 works. > > Hi Ted, > > I realize you've probably be

Xserver in framebuffer /dev/fb0

2008-09-30 Thread Sivakumar . R . J
somehow overcome framebuffer problem by adding few lines in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file ... Section "Device" Identifier "Framebuffer" Driver "fbdev" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0" EndSection and in the monitor secion i have included Mode "800x600" D