Text 13233, 85 rader
Skriven 2009-09-20 12:06:03 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 13230 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: explode into space
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Hello Maurice.

19 Sep 09 12:47, you wrote to me:

 MK> I just tried it from a usb flashdisk and a stock ttylinux boots find
 MK> from there.  Unfortunetly the kernel (2.6.30.5) lacks the L2 network
 MK> chip and the ath5k wireless so there is no way to network.  Other than
 MK> that it works.  Looks like someone will have to build a kernel for the
 MK> eeepc and I am guessing it'll have to be me.  :-/

Well, you have better hardware than most I know for the task, not that that is 
a great motivational reason but ... :-)

 >> that is enough, if it boots from the SD card well great

 MK> I might pull off an initrd from the so-called hd on there.  Offhand I
 MK> can't think of another way unless of course your bios 'upgrade' idea
 MK> works.  I have my doubts but I am sure a suitable initrd could work,
 MK> perhaps even from the sd card itself which sounds reasonable to me. I
 MK> lack an sd card but do have a usb one I could try it from first.
 MK> Either that or a laptop hd wired into usb which will probably be
 MK> better all things considered.  If I can get that to work then it
 MK> should work the same for an sd card.

Good enough eitherway ...

 >> All that will be required of it is to run FireFax

 MK> Huh?  FireFox?  Is the above a typo?

Nope Minion, a client/controler program for MPD runs well from firefox ...

For myself, ssh and mpc or ncpmc work more than well enough ...

 MK> Same here.  I see the pci card at an online store across the Strait.
 MK> The don't mention anything about the pigtail or the rackmount though.
 MK> I figure if I can at least get the pci card working the rackmount
 MK> could be added later on if someone wanted to make the further
 MK> investment. More doubts about all this.

Which pci card is that, as far as I can tell, the pci card and rack unit are 
sold as a unit, and not seperately ...

 >> Well, as long as I can get 8-10 meters line of sight out of it,
 >> it will be fine ... , doudt I'll need more than that ...

 MK> I am pretty sure it could.  I might test that later but I am going to
 MK> have to take care of a 32 bit version of my latest work first.  It'll
 MK> just be the basics though (c only) since that is really all that is
 MK> needed. All the rest is just too much hassel for too little rewards.

 MK> Just the good stuff.

Then it is "good enough" ... , not that I am mad about the term "good enough" 
but ...

 >> Well once one "setup" works, adding the extra's is very easy

 MK> Famous last words.  ;-)

:-))

 >> Ubuntu is a reasonable distro, as far as distro's go ...

 MK> I wouldn't know.  From my understanding I am not in their target
 MK> audience which is fine with me.

Nope, but it does have it's place in the sun, ... :-)

 MK> I had input working and was using stock linux kernel source
 MK> (unpatched) at the time.  Had to rebuild the alsa stuff though.

Does yours use the 1712 driver or the 1724 driver ... ?

 MK> You mean when whatever distributions catch on that they're doing it
 MK> wrong? I wouldn't hold your breath on it.  ;-)

 MK> Yeah probably ... eventually.

To quote another bloke I know, "with Linux, there is always hope" <VVBG>

Russell

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