Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-02-07 Thread Philip Armstrong
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 02:53:19AM -0700, Gordon Farquharson wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 12:07 PM, Gordon Farquharson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first paragraph contained the good news. The bad news is that although Krzysztof's driver is works well, udev does no

Supported USB Wifi devices for NSLU2

2007-08-02 Thread Philip Armstrong
I'd like to put a USB wifi device into my NSLU2, but on past experience with wifi linux support, I'm concerned that even devices which work on i386 may well be broken on ARM. Does anyone have any recomendations for known working chipsets (or specific devices for that matter)? Bonus points for wor

Re: Softfloat on ARM?

2007-02-13 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Laz wrote: > > Is it possible to dist-upgrade from debian-arm to the EABI port or is it a > > complete reinstall? If so, is it a "by hand" install or is there an > > installer image for it? > > It's a complete reinstall, or a very tric

Re: debian-etch and ssh disconnects

2007-02-02 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:27:03AM +, Laz wrote: > It is so much nicer having a proper Debian installation on this thing than > Unslung! One thing I have noticed, though, is that if I ssh into my > Unslung Slug I get a shell instantly (running bash rather than busybox). > If I ssh into my De

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-27 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:13:21PM -0700, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > Unless you built your own installer image to use packages from > unstable, or manually switched to unstable packages after the install, > you would not have been affected by the bug. And if you are using > unstable, you shouldn't

Re: backing up kernel and initramfs for future rescue use with upslug2

2006-11-27 Thread Philip Armstrong
> No, I sent a email to the package maintainer instead :-) He has fixed > the problem in the repository version of nslu2-utils. Do you know how many times I reflashed my (lovely new) nslu2 last week and ran the Debian installer again to get back to a working system? A lot, that's how many. (Yes, I