Re: Fwd: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 22.10

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010/2/4 Karsten König : > *thumbs up for this* > This is so "geeky" it is really heartwarming to just read it :) > I didn't order one as I am low on cash but I hope this will pave a great > future for affordable mobile open devices. achh, that's _so_ the plan. i'm hoping to get the prices do

Re: Fwd: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 22.10

2010-02-04 Thread Karsten König
*thumbs up for this* This is so "geeky" it is really heartwarming to just read it I didn't order one as I am low on cash but I hope this will pave a great future for affordable mobile open devices. karsten Am Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2010 18:12:15 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: > hi folks

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Hector Oron wrote: >> so, this time we play a different game: use the fact that of the 20 >> people wanting machines _fifteen_ of them are software engineers who >> will happily help this factory to improve its value for the world >> market by getting debian packag

Fwd: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 22.10

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi folks this is from adam a few hours ago. it's very exciting, esp. for me to hear that it was china telecom that initially commissioned the design, because that means a 3G modem was part of the initial requirements! but bless 'em the smaller volumes right now they just haven't been able to get

Re: Re: Thecus N2100 installation fails

2010-02-04 Thread Kai K.
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:42:29PM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I bought an used N2100 at the bay, and tried to install Debian, > > following Martin Michlmayr's great instructions, but I fail. > > After uploading the Debian firmware it prompts for the reboot, but > > does not come

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, 2010/2/4 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : >> Let me explain our experience. A bunch of Debian Developers met at >> Taipei (.tw) and we got a netbook (MIPS based) under $100. After we >> got it, we had *no shell*, *no root*, *no loader access*, *no >> serial*,... >> >> We had to exploit a vulnera

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Ben" == Ben Dooks writes: Ben> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:20:55AM -0500, JLB wrote: >> Add my voice to the chorus looking for greater amounts of RAM. I am going >> to use this as a dev system for other ARM/Linux devices, and the more RAM >> the better. If the RAM is not socketed, I w

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Hector Oron wrote: > Hi ! > > 2010/2/4 Alejandro Mery : >> been "engineering samples"... what about the UART, serial port (even 2 >> pins help a lot) and jtag reachability? =) > > That's an important part. :-) > Let me explain our experience. A bunch of Debian Devel

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Alain Williams wrote: > The boxen that we are getting use DDR1 RAM -- DDR1 is now more expensive > than DDR2 -- to do with volume I suppose. basically, yes. ironically, the listed price of a Cortex A8 833mhz samsung S5PC100 ($14.50) plus even as little as 128mb

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Alejandro Mery wrote: >> i don't think they were >> expecting geeks to be interested, which is the whole damn point! i'm >> a bit annoyed by the general thinking that "ARM != PC quality" so this >> is kinda an important message to get across to factories: _yes_ peo

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Hector Oron
Hi ! 2010/2/4 Alejandro Mery : > been "engineering samples"... what about the UART, serial port (even 2 > pins help a lot) and jtag reachability? =) That's an important part. :-) Let me explain our experience. A bunch of Debian Developers met at Taipei (.tw) and we got a netbook (MIPS based) unde

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Alain Williams
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:11:20PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Ben Dooks wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:20:55AM -0500, JLB wrote: > >> Add my voice to the chorus looking for greater amounts of RAM. I am going > >> to use this as a dev system

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Alejandro Mery
> i don't think they were > expecting geeks to be interested, which is the whole damn point!  i'm > a bit annoyed by the general thinking that "ARM != PC quality" so this > is kinda an important message to get across to factories: _yes_ people > want standard laptops and netbooks, with loads of RAM

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Ben Dooks wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:20:55AM -0500, JLB wrote: >> Add my voice to the chorus looking for greater amounts of RAM. I am going >> to use this as a dev system for other ARM/Linux devices, and the more RAM >> the better. If the RAM is not sockete

Re: Thecus N2100 installation fails

2010-02-04 Thread Tobias Frost
> Hi All, > > I bought an used N2100 at the bay, and tried to install Debian, > following Martin Michlmayr's great instructions, but I fail. > After uploading the Debian firmware it prompts for the reboot, but > does not come up again. Also, the LEDs stop flashing after Redboot > tried to load the

Re: 2nd try: Thermaltake Muse NAS-RAID (N0001LN) - IOP architecture - HELP requested

2010-02-04 Thread Mello
Hi All, and sorry for my belated reply but a work-related trip has brought me away. 1. to Arnaud: I'll provide you (and the list) with those info ASAP. Let's hope we can get something started. Thank you! 2. to JFS: I had read Martin's pages, rather thoroughly, but still I'm wary of following those

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Ben Dooks
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:20:55AM -0500, JLB wrote: > Add my voice to the chorus looking for greater amounts of RAM. I am going > to use this as a dev system for other ARM/Linux devices, and the more RAM > the better. If the RAM is not socketed, I would happily pay extra for > 512MB, or 1024MB

Re: Schedule power on QNAP TS-110

2010-02-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marc Pignat [2010-02-04 13:26]: > This function depends on hardware... > > The RTC chip should have an alarm *pin* connected to the power supply > in order to wake up by the alarm. Yes, but the TS-11x/TS-21x hardware has this capability. The older TS-10x/TS-20x do not. -- Martin Michlmayr ht

Re: Schedule power on QNAP TS-110

2010-02-04 Thread Marc Pignat
Hi all! On Thursday 04 February 2010 11:10:53 Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Paul van der Vlis [2010-02-02 09:35]: ... > Every RTC driver needs to implement wakealarm and the one used on the > QNAP machines doesn't implement it. From a brief look at some other > drivers, it shouldn't be too hard th

Re: d-i on SheevaPlug issue

2010-02-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Marko Jung [2010-01-25 17:27]: > "http://[[user][:pa...@]host[:port]/";. > HTTP proxy information (blank for none): > Prompt: '?' for help> > > Checking the Debian archive mirror ..25%..50%..75%..100%..200% > Segmentation fauSegmentation fauSegmentation fauSegmentation fauSegmentation > fauS

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ok, just an update for people: adam's now in china and is staying there until saturday: communication will be sporadic skype from internet cafes and last resort phone calls. he's got enough money to put down the 50% deposit, which he shouuuld have done by now: this helps the factory to go out and

Re: 8.9" CT-PC89E ARM netbook .... UPDATE 04 FEB 2010 12:00

2010-02-04 Thread JLB
Add my voice to the chorus looking for greater amounts of RAM. I am going to use this as a dev system for other ARM/Linux devices, and the more RAM the better. If the RAM is not socketed, I would happily pay extra for 512MB, or 1024MB, or whatever. On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Luke Kenneth Casson Lei

Re: Schedule power on QNAP TS-110

2010-02-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Paul van der Vlis [2010-02-02 09:35]: > I found you can normally configure this with: > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm > > When I search on the filename and "arm" there are many hits. > I think it works with arm too... > > Or have you tested it? (I don't have an ARM at the moment) Every RTC d