Archive for May, 2008

Slug Speed

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

NSLU2 as produced after May 2006 should have the full 266 MHz speed.
How to find out the actual speed (BogoMIPS)?
TELNET connection => cat /proc/cpuinfo

=> BogoMIPS 263.78

Terminal Program (bit like Hyperterminal) but for linux

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it’s pico instead of mini! It was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem configuration, testing, and debugging tool.

USB display from mirrorbro

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Using ‘Debian’ and Linux kernel  2.4.20 I needed to do the following.

As root user:

Plug the LCD in. Hotplug facility should detect the usb device being inserted and will leave a message in “/var/logs/syslog” stating the product ID and Vendor Code and saying it does not know what to do with this device. Note down these two ID’s as we will need them later.

From the shell type:
mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0
echo “usbserial vendor=0x???? product=0x????” >> /etc/modules

now we must reboot for these changes to take affect. We have created device (handle) for the module to attach the device to and we have added the usbserial module to the list of normally loaded modules. This I found to be the best way so the LCD can be plugged in once the computer has booted or the computer can be booted with the device plugged in.

once a reboot is complete:

echo “Hello World” > /dev/ttyUSB0

It will be necessary to adjust settings in for the tty port. I’ll send you the script of what I have done, but simply reading the man pages for ’stty’ will help most.

Job done.

List vendor IDs etc

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

openOffice – it’s free (It’s almost MS Office for free)

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Visit the site here

AVG Free Antivirus software

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

It’s here

arkengarthdale

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Had a great day despite the attrocious weather but the hush was the best we have seen todate.  We scrambled over rocks and had a great day!

checking and installing on the slug

Monday, May 12th, 2008

dpkg -l (that’s an L)

apt-get

Manage the P8055 through the web (I think)

Monday, May 12th, 2008


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P8055 on Linus

Monday, May 12th, 2008

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