Re: rock64's dead w/update, have latest bannana pi's coming

2022-10-28 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 01:55:16PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > My 3d printer farm is out of business, all the rock64's died, as in no hdmi > video anymore, and the rock64's weren't > that great due to extreme interference between the video and usb activity. I > can still log in

Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: compat: Implement misalignment fixups formultiword loads

2022-07-19 Thread Tobias Frost
LinAdmin, your way how you interact on this Mailling list is highly inappropiate. You've been called out due to name calling and instead of appoligizing you're doubling down in your response. Such kind of messages will not be tolerated on Debian mailing lists, and you have been told that before.

Re: making debs for u-boot kernels

2019-07-31 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:31:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 30 July 2019 06:42:15 Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:02:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: (...) > Thanks everybody who has a clue. Gene, you have been repeatly asked to keep the postings on-topic.User questio

Re: loss of synaptic due to wayland

2019-07-12 Thread Tobias Frost
Can you please move this discussion to another channel, please! This ist 1) a Debian mailing list, and raspian ist Not debian 2) Not a User Support list

Re: my raspbian jessie repo seems to have been moved to packagecloud.io

2018-09-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 07:59:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > So how do I install the new key for B62D900077D1B979 raspian != Debian. Ask there. > Thanks all. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jur

Re: Official support Odroid hardware and other ARM development boards.

2014-02-26 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Mittwoch, den 26.02.2014, 18:26 -0700 schrieb Eric Nelson: > Hi Luke, > > On 02/26/2014 05:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > On Wed, > Ahem You can run our boards with 100% open source, and I think > our quad-core GHz i.MX6 > > There's one key piece that's normally closed-sou

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Donnerstag, den 13.06.2013, 15:46 +0100 schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > Hi, > > On 13/06/13 13:51, Matthias Klose wrote: > > GCC 4.8 is now the default on all x86 architectures, and on all ARM > > architectures (the latter confirmed by the Debian ARM porters). I did not > > get > > any feedback

Re: Debian on thecus N2100

2013-04-27 Thread Tobias Frost
Maybe your terminal programm isn't transfering Ctrl+C? Or at the wrong time? I used gtkterm and I usually hitted Ctrl+C like crazy. Do not wait for "enter ^C to abort" to appear. Am Donnerstag, den 25.04.2013, 18:49 +0100 schrieb Brian Platt: > bsp; >

Re: qcontrol development

2011-03-06 Thread Tobias Frost
I did form my Thecus N2100 a small program. Maybe it helps you as well. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fanctrl/ The programm uses smartctl to derive hdd temperature and a /sys/... sensor file to get the Thecus' temp sensor reading... Am Sonntag, den 06.03.2011, 13:15 +0100 schrieb Rob J. Eppin

Re: WD green drive

2011-01-02 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 12:25 -0800, Doug wrote: > So not sure wether this drive is a good choice or not. I am not sure what the > stock head park time is but I guess you could always cron something to access > the disk at a higher rate than the park timeout. Be aware that the time in my 2TB drive

Re: Unidentified subject!

2011-01-02 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 18:19 -0800, Doug wrote: > I wonder what the groups experience has been with low power drives under > Linux > on the nslu2? I see there are a lot of complaints about the WD Cavier Green > drives on all OS's but others seem to have no problems. I've got a WD Caviar Green

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Do someone has a link to the discussion? Martin mentioned that on the l-k-a there was some, but I couldn't find it... BTW: Is is possible to use that patches also for recent kernels -- I saw that there was some work on the hifn driver lately... On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 21:30 +0200, JF Straeten wr

Re: fake rtc

2010-10-21 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:08 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > Another approach would be to use a u-boot environment variable to save > and restore the (approximate) time. The advantage is that it could be > done before fscking any filesystems, at the cost of some additional > wear on the flash. > No ma

Re: Thecus N2100: where's the bottleneck?

2010-10-21 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo Martin, thanks for your effort. Just a question: Have the patched been updated from intel side? I'm asking because yesterday -- coincidential on the same day as Nathan ;-) -- I played with my Thecus and the DMA enabled kernel on your repository. Along the kernel, I also install the linux-li

Re: [Qnap TS-210] don't boot anymore

2010-10-09 Thread Tobias Frost
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 23:58 +0200, Sylvain L. Sauvage wrote: > By the way, I'm also looking for a TTL-serial converter (with > the good connectors or adapters) in France or Europe (French or > English, and Euros would be better), if you happen to know a > trustworthy (and not too expensive) re

Re: Thecus N2100: Mapping the real root dev

2010-10-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Well, I just rememembered that I have to install the flash kernel package before calling update-initramfs. So the hook was not there. Thanks for On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 19:40 -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Tobias Frost [2010-10-07 00:06]: > > Can someone give me a pointer wher

Thecus N2100: Mapping the real root dev

2010-10-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Hallo, I've got a problem with my Thecus: It seems that initrd does no longer "repairs" the kernel command line passed by redboot ( the part root=/dev/ram0 to the real root=/dev/md0) Can someone give me a pointer where to look? (Update-initramfs' cryptsetup complains about not able to parse /et

Re: Thecus N2100 recovery

2010-03-17 Thread Tobias Frost
Do you know what firmware you had before installing debian? AFAIK with 2.1.05 booting via redboot was supported. BTW: You got an ARP response So redboot (or something else) initializes ethernet. I'm asking because for my Thecus N2100, I usually needed more than one attempt to get into redboot.

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:33 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 18:02, wrote: > >> John Holland wrote > >> > >>> You could use a 2.5" HDD. The Momentus has a typical usage > >>> specified @ > >>> 1.5W seek and .7W idle. > >> > >> Thanks for pointing out the low energy consumpti

Re: Re: Thecus N2100 installation fails

2010-02-06 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:42 +0100, Kai K. wrote: > 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 instruc

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: [Fwd: Howto (active-backup) bonding eth0 and wlan0 (was Re: nslu2: two ethernets: one by default)]

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Once I tried with a LaFonera to archieve the same, wasting a day or so. The result was, as soon as I turned on encryption, it stop working. So I *think*, that the AP / WPA checks or uses the MAC address of the frame for encryption or to check if the packages are legitimate. Short story: I do not t

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.32-rc8

2009-11-22 Thread Tobias Frost
The kernel works on my Thecus N2100. On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 11:14 +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Tobias Frost [2009-11-22 11:19]: > > When dpkg -i'ing, I get the warning that the firmware files for the > > rtl8169 are missing. > > > > As I could not find t

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.32-rc8

2009-11-22 Thread Tobias Frost
When dpkg -i'ing, I get the warning that the firmware files for the rtl8169 are missing. As I could not find them, I need a hint where to find them --- snip --- This system is currently running Linux 2.6.30-rc5-iop32x and you are installing Linux 2.6.32-rc8-iop32x. In the new version some

Re: n2100 kernel crash (?)

2009-09-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Pierre, what NFS server are you using? Do you have a possiblity to check if there are messages on the serial port? On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 10:44 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Note that I've read about [1] on the archive. My thecus N2100 runs the > kernel from tbm's repository, with the DMA patch.

Thecus N2100 2.6.30 kernel problem (crash?)

2009-07-20 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi! I've experiencing some problems with the kernel, under high load (copying a big file over nfs to a crypted filesystem) Some more infos/observations: (random order) - kernel nfs server - file to be copied is 100G, copied with dd-rescue (does not complete) - using a hifn 765x crypto accelerato

Overriding root in initrd?

2009-06-30 Thread Tobias Frost
ride to the correct root. For that, I'd need a pointer where to look Thanks for helping! (The initrds are crafted with the initramfs-tools.) coldtobi -- Tobias Frost tobi ät coldtobi.de http://www.coldtobi.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.o

SF-Project: fanctrl for Thecus N2100

2009-03-07 Thread Tobias Frost
Just maybe interesting for users of the Thecus N2100: I created a project for a small C-Programm controlling the fan of the N2100: http://fanctrl.sourceforge.net Have fun! Tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

crypto accelerator card for Thecus N2100 and dm

2009-02-01 Thread Tobias Frost
I want to get me a crypto accelerator card -- the soekris vpn1411 [1] -- card for my arm-based thecus n2100, running debian. There is a driver for the chip -- a hifn 7955 -- in the kernel-sources. The goal I want to achieve is to increase throughput for the dm-(luks) encrypted storage. So the qu

Re: spindown no longer working after upgrade from etch -> lenny

2009-01-25 Thread Tobias Frost
You can user the laptop-mode-tools for diagnostics, especially lm-profiler for hints who is accessing the disks. BTW: Linux thecus 2.6.26-1-iop32x #1 Mon Dec 15 19:33:14 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux is the kernel I am using, and its sleeping a lot ;-) thecus:/home/tobi# cat /tmp/frostynasstat/hdd

Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images

2008-11-11 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 17:21 +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote: > With the thecus, I won't have the > option of pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fx to get a shell. You can ssh in a second time and then exit the installer to get dropped to a shell. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: XFS filesystem corruption on the arm(el) architecture

2008-10-18 Thread Tobias Frost
I tried xfs both on the old and new ABI. (my first try was Jan 2008, old ABI) ASAIR at kernel version 2.6.18 On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 11:46 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-16 17:13]: >

XFS filesystem corruption on the arm(el) architecture

2008-10-01 Thread Tobias Frost
gards, Tobias Frost http://blog.coldtobi.de PS: Thank you for your great work! Some Logs (copies from the debian mailing list, so you don't have to follow the whole thread there:) -I did test xfs on my Thecus 2100. I could reproduce the fs-corruption with xfs. The xfs was created freshly on the

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-28 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 10:24 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Tobi: Are you going to take this upstream to the XFS devels or linux-kernel? > > Gaudenz Yes, but not before the weekend... (I plan to do some tests with 2.6.27 by my own.) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
I'm running armel. thecus:~/#uname -a Linux thecus.coldtobi.ip 2.6.26-1-iop32x #1 Fri Aug 8 23:42:37 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux > > Tobias: Are you running arm or armel? The XFS on arm bug referenced in the > kernel changelog suggests that at least some parts of the problem may be > arm speci

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-27 Thread Tobias Frost
t the problem to the xfs authors (or to the LKML) -- coldtobi http://blog.coldtobi.de On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:19 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > So, part copied and did some testing... I'll attach a transcipt. > > Abstract: This time xfs_repair did not fail, but the corruption > reoccu

Re: XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-26 Thread Tobias Frost
So, part copied and did some testing... I'll attach a transcipt. Abstract: This time xfs_repair did not fail, but the corruption reoccured immediatly. I will prepare a test-image of the partition, if someone is interested. (I just have to nullify the swap before.) thecus:~#xfs_check /dev/md1 2

XFS is unsafe (Was: Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool)

2008-08-26 Thread Tobias Frost
After making some test off-list together with Xan, I decided to get back on the list, after I got my first results. Here's a snippet from the conversation off-list, to help everyone understanding what we were doing. >> Thanks Tobias for the intro: >> * The mounting process was OK. >> *

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Tobias Frost
(except of one that are ext2). > Can you will help me for migrating one partition to jfs and detecting > the possible bug? > > Thanks, > Xan. > > En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: > > You could test it > > Make an ext3 for root, just big enough for debian, install d

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Tobias Frost
ing > > En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit: > > When I installed my Thecus N2100, I had the same. But thats half an year > > ago. (As I wanted xfs not for the root fs it was not an issue. The > > partition planed to hold this fs was a dm-mapped (luKS-crypted) one) > So,

Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool

2008-08-22 Thread Tobias Frost
When I installed my Thecus N2100, I had the same. But thats half an year ago. (As I wanted xfs not for the root fs it was not an issue. The partition planed to hold this fs was a dm-mapped (luKS-crypted) one) After installing one could part I it with [xj]js: However, I got servere filesystem issue

Re: thecus n2100 armel lenny upgrade, won't boot

2008-08-18 Thread Tobias Frost
I guess, that you'll need a serial console. Without, you can only guess, where it stuck, like did it access the disks and so... If it gets that far, you probably could check the logs, as it might logged something of interest. coldtobi On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 16:08 +0200, Joost Yervante Damad wrot

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.27-rc2

2008-08-13 Thread Tobias Frost
to get me a MAX232 and solder two wires to it... I'll look in my electronics box. There could be one coldtobi On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 23:18 +0200, Kevin Price wrote: > Hi Tobi, > > Tobias Frost schrieb: > > Sorry, I still do have to by myself a USB-to-RS232 converter, ther

Re: ARM kernel snapshots - 2.6.27-rc2

2008-08-11 Thread Tobias Frost
Martin, This one is NOT booting on my Thecus N2100. Sorry, I still do have to by myself a USB-to-RS232 converter, therefore I cannot tell exactly where it (probably) paniced. But it seems "stuck" before accessing the disks, and also the amber LED keeps blinking. I testet the kernel out of memor

Re: Thecus N2100 could not load module after redboot back to thecus firmware

2008-06-08 Thread Tobias Frost
Redboot again and load the debian installer image. (See my blog blog.coldtobi.de for a howto. ) (If that's what you want. Or do you want to chroot?) Tobi On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 18:19 +0200, Thomas Winter wrote: > Hi, > after trying to get booted by disk label I lost my box. > > I did redboot and

Re: Thecus N2100 lenny kernel and fs

2008-05-29 Thread Tobias Frost
You can extract the files out of the debian-installer "image". I wrote a howto some time ago: http://blog.coldtobi.de/1_coldtobis_blog/archive/188_thecus_n2100_testing_a_kernel_prior_flashing.html Tobi On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 17:36 -0700, Ashwin Chaugule wrote: > Could anyone mail me the Lenny kern

Re: n2100, failed raid 1 disk: cannot shutdown

2008-05-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Before that, sync and try to force mount them readonly Just to make sure. On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 11:07 +0200, Joachim Beckers wrote: > Can you power off just that disk? i.e. by unplugging it's power > connector. That should definitely stop the kernel from trying to > access it, right? :-) >

Re: 2 Disks (by label/UUID)

2008-05-12 Thread Tobias Frost
I had also the issue with the UUIDS. However, I did not flash the kernel in-between, I only changed /etc/fstab. Also -- at least in my case -- it was sufficient to try to mount *some* filesystem, not necessarly the rootfs. (Maybe, Stuart, can you try this too? Does it break if you use UUIDS on som

Re: [OT] LCD/TFT Displays

2008-04-24 Thread Tobias Frost
. :-/ > > > Am 2008-04-18 13:55:31, schrieb Tobias Frost: > > ???As I don't know your application, it could be that this is not > > suitablefor you, but for the smaller resoltions there are OLED > > Displays. ??? (rated for only 20k-hours; prospective 50k-hours en

RE: 2 Disks (by label/UUID)

2008-04-21 Thread Tobias Frost
my thecus n2100 also stopped booting when trying to mont a memory stick to /media/sth via fstab and UUID. Someone should file a bug against .. Well, that was actually the problem: I do not know excatly what causedit (=whom to "blame"), but I did not find time. Maybe you could investigate? On Mon

Re: Debian upgrade

2008-04-19 Thread Tobias Frost
Might be not your case, just throwin in: I had the same at my thecus some time ago... However, in my case this was caused by trying to mount something using UUIDs. If you changed your fstab, you should check if this is the cause -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Puzzling difference between debian-arm and debian-i386 re growisofs

2008-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
Can you mount a DVD created on i386 on the NSLU? Maybe there is some endian-related issue? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] LCD/TFT Displays

2008-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
As I don't know your application, it could be that this is not suitablefor you, but for the smaller resoltions there are OLED Displays.  (rated for only 20k-hours; prospective 50k-hours end of this year. Therefore not suitable for always-on applications) Distributor is glynn.de. (I saw them at t

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-18 Thread Tobias Frost
 > Sorry to barge into this conversation, but I was wondering if you maybe > could share a few tips about how to configure aptitude on an NSLU2 so > it's not unbearably slow. Well... I am not at the Box, so I cannot lookup my settings right now. However, here are some tricks I can remember. The

Re: Reinstalling debian on n2100

2008-04-17 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Andrew, everyone started at one point with linux, so keep up, as the learning curve is quite steep. As a suggestion, look into "aptitude". aptitude has the advantage, that it will show you what it does, and especially for a beginner it might be helpful to see the consquences / dependencies of

crypto acclerators (was Re: LUKS overhead encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)

2008-04-04 Thread Tobias Frost
I have to correct myself: in git, there is at least a file for the HiFn796x crypto chips, which is used on the soekris card. And after registering, there are some data sheets available. I'll take a look into it. On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 17:21 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Tobias Frost

Re: LUKS overhead (was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)

2008-04-03 Thread Tobias Frost
Yes, this is the other card I found. However, as written on some list (lost the URL), the 2.4 driver must be buggy as hell and datasheets are subject to NDAs. > > Boards, http://www.caviumnetworks.com/acceleration_boards_Mini-PCI.htm) > > VPN 1411 from Soekris could in theory help: http://soekr

Re: LUKS overhead (was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)

2008-04-03 Thread Tobias Frost
to throw another number into the round, I got around 2-3 MByte/s on the new ABI. BTW: Does someone know a Mini-PCI crypto accelerator card fit for LUKS/device-mapper? I found some two solutiions the net, but all of them are very "secret", that is you need probably a NDA to get more infos like dat

Re: n2100/redboot/tftp timeouts

2008-03-19 Thread Tobias Frost
Did you specify the ip_address with ip_address -h ip_address -l On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 19:49 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > Hi folks, > > I finally got a serial console soldered on :) So now I try > to use redboot's tftp to yank a kernel across the network. > > RedBoot> load -r ramdisk.ar

Re: Fwd: Upgrading from arm to armel

2008-03-16 Thread Tobias Frost
BTW, I now found out what "pushed" me into the armel transition (I was anyway thinking about switching. That only accelerated it.) I tried to mount a memory stick via fstab using its UUID. This caused somehow that the box did not come up right. As I thought the error might be in this direction, I

Re: Fwd: Upgrading from arm to armel

2008-03-16 Thread Tobias Frost
Update: LuKS and Reiser can be seen as compatible for direct migration from arm to armel. (fsck.reiserfs --check said everthings ok) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Fwd: Upgrading from arm to armel

2008-03-16 Thread Tobias Frost
I just loaded the Mar-15 d-i for armel, and till now everthing ok. (Mirror: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/daily/iop32x/netboot/) I try to make notes if there is someting not as expected... 1) the md5sums of the kernel inside the n2100.bin and the kernel on the mirror are dif

Re: Upgrading from arm to armel

2008-03-15 Thread Tobias Frost
Thanks for the hint and link... Browsing through the list, I think I can live with that limitations right now. (The only package both in this list and my wishlist is php5.) (Luckily (on that perspective) , I don't have enough time to do all the things with the thecus I am intending to do, as I

Upgrading from arm to armel

2008-03-15 Thread Tobias Frost
I just screwed up the root fs of my Thecus N2100 (well, its technically not screwed up, I just messed with some startup scripts leading to no network after booting and I can't find the issue) However, this would be a nice possibilty to upgrade to armel. The question is: The data storage is on a se

Re: Re: getting IP support in redboot for older n2100s

2008-01-27 Thread Tobias Frost
>It should work. I'm not sure the upgrade process of the Thecus >firmware will complain when the version you're running is not higher >than the one you want to upgrade to, but hopefully it will just let >you do it. >The other option would be to unpack the Thecus firmware (according to >the instru