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00:04.41prpplaguedsaxena: hey deepak, hows things over at MV these days?
00:05.19dsaxenapretty good
00:05.29dsaxenajust doing community work these days :)
00:05.47prpplaguecool
00:05.55prpplaguedsaxena: you make it to OLS this year?
00:06.00dsaxenayep
00:06.14dsaxenawouldn't miss it
00:07.00prpplaguedsaxena: cool, i've not been able to attend for the last two years (change in management at work)
00:08.20prpplaguedsaxena: btw, this is dave anders, the guy that bought dinner for the ARM ppl at the 2002 OLS
00:09.40dsaxenaThe Beer guy!
00:09.44dsaxenacorrect?
00:09.58dsaxenawith the ipaq with custom beer-cataloging software
00:10.14dsaxena-ETOOMANY beers @ OLS
00:11.47prpplaguedsaxena: yep thats me
00:14.10dsaxenastill keeping track of the beers you try?
00:15.13prpplagueyea, although its been hard to find new ones in texas these days
00:15.30prpplaguehttp://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=1210
00:16.44dsaxenai'm thinking of going to Belgium next year for one week beer-drinking tour
00:16.58prpplaguedsaxena: that would rock
00:17.46prpplaguedsaxena: hehe, linux come a long way since Linux expo we attended in raleigh
00:17.53dsaxenaoh yeah
00:18.25dsaxenaprpplague: i also moved up to Portland so I can surround myself with good beer :)
00:18.50prpplaguedsaxena: cool, portland is nice area, not real fond of seattle though, hehe
00:19.28prpplaguedsaxena: what brings you to irc on a friday evening?
00:20.07dsaxenawas looking up some stuff on nslu2-linux
00:20.24dsaxenaand it's only 5:30 here
00:21.09prpplaguedsaxena: ahh, yea, cute little unit, thought about making a small POS device out of it, hehe
00:24.25prpplaguelater folks
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04:22.34Russheheh
04:22.39Russwhat are we laughing at?
04:24.01Russdsaxena: wait...ols is in july
04:24.18Russoh, past tense, tm
04:24.20Russer, nm
04:30.05sorphinRuss: sup mr dill
04:32.05Russnot much
04:32.17Russidly thinking about a mips based myth frontend
04:33.39Russthrow in a minipci slot for 802.11g
04:35.07sorphinheh
04:35.27sorphinRuss: it has a spot for a CF slot (tied directly to the IDE tho)
04:37.01RussI hate cf
04:37.38sorphinRuss: heh, i've never had/used CF
04:37.39Russbtw, I still have a bunch of those doc cards if you have anything with an isa slot
04:37.55MonMothawhat's so bad about CF?
04:38.05sorphinRuss: but the IOs have little room, so an HD isn't much of an option for me, and a 16M sandisk won't work
04:38.14Russnot reliable, no access to underlying flash
04:38.25sorphinRuss: may be taking you up on that if i get the 48M DOCs and they work
04:38.39sorphinRuss: how easy is it to implement a DOC into something?
04:39.18MonMothathey do make linear flash CF cards
04:39.22MonMothathough they're ungodly expensive and small
04:40.08sorphinRuss: what would be nice too is if i could access all these damn flash cards (pcmcia) from all old cisco gear, etc
04:40.29MonMothasorphin: ooooh....do you by chance have any 32MB linear flash PCMCIA cards?
04:40.57sorphinMonMotha: i dunno what my biggest is.. why?
04:41.31MonMothabecause I have an application that needs a 32MB linear flash card, but it needs to be a certain type (or at least so it seems), and I'd be willing to buy one if you happen to have one of the right type :)
04:41.46sorphinMonMotha: ahh
04:42.00MonMothait's a Fujitsu something or other
04:42.19sorphinMonMotha: well, i think my biggest is 16M, tho i have a few of those, and one of them actually shows up as 20M
04:42.19MonMothaI can get the exact part (though I don't think it's written on the card, but it will ID itself as such in the vendor string field if you slap it in a pcmcia slot)
04:42.27MonMothahum....k
04:42.31MonMothathis needs to be 32MB of course
04:42.56sorphinnod
04:43.06sorphinnever ran into bigger than 16M
04:43.15MonMothaheh, I've got a 32MB one, but it's not working
04:43.18sorphincan't use em in anything other than small ciscos
04:43.22sorphinno drivers
04:43.37MonMothataking the error message at face value, I'd say the timings aren't being met
04:43.50MonMothahowever, it may be a "This isn't the card we were expecting, numbnuts, now go home"
04:44.08sorphinnod
04:44.14sorphinMonMotha: this isn't ddr again is it?
04:45.12MonMothayeah :)
04:45.28MonMothathey use a 32MB flash card to store some extra data
04:45.33sorphinMonMotha: heh, i dunno if i had one then that i'd even contribute to your delinquency
04:45.36sorphin;)
04:45.40MonMothathe older ones used a 1MB, and solo uses no card, but to upgrade them you need a 32MB card
04:45.56sorphin:P
04:46.10sorphinMonMotha: i prodded samtec for connector sample
04:47.27sorphini got too many of these cards around
04:48.53MonMothaheh
04:49.02MonMothawell, I can do some DCT work I guess
04:49.08MonMothaI'll bring it here to rose next time I go home
04:49.24MonMothaincidentally, that means that if you need any low level hardware analysis done, I've probably got the tools
04:49.34MonMothasince I have free access to all the EE labs any time I want basically
04:49.39sorphinMonMotha: such as?
04:51.16MonMothasorphin: 32 channel logic analyzer
04:51.42sorphinMonMotha: fyi, i start new job (crossing fingers) on the 27th, so anything i do is best to do before then
04:51.42MonMothaand hell, a 3GHz spectrum analyzer...though I can't really imagine that being useful unless we get into the digital cable stuff
04:52.16MonMothahum, well, I won't be going home until (at the earliest) next weekend, but it looks mroe like it will be the weekend of Oct 2-3
04:52.25sorphink
04:52.53MonMothahowever, I can still get a copy of the bootloader binary and see about how we would get stuff to boot on it, preferably without having to JTAG it
04:53.04MonMothaor at the very least, without replacing the mask ROM
04:53.22MonMothahowever, I do also have access to some nice ROM programmers, so I could burn a new ROM if we want
04:53.29sorphinyeah
04:53.35MonMothayeah, it's on elinux.org
04:53.48sorphinyeah
04:53.50MonMothaI seem to recall someone figured out that it should be possible to at least JTAG something into the flash on the board and have the original ROM boot it
04:54.10sorphinno one mentioned it in the wiki
04:54.25sorphinfurthest ken got was where i did and saw the stuff on the serial
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04:54.31MonMothaah, ok
04:54.35sorphintoo bad that guy that was hacking the DCT3k's page is gone
04:54.40MonMothawell, I can run my disassembler over the ROM dump
04:55.08sorphinMonMotha: and we have sjhill's brain (as it were)
04:55.39MonMothaheh
04:55.54sorphinMonMotha: well, it is packed full of MIPS evilness
04:56.06MonMothayes
04:56.14MonMothaI'm not too bad with MIPS these days
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05:12.04sorphinMonMotha: here's some fun for ya.. the IOpener will take memory up ot 256M, but the sodimms have to have 8 chips (128M parts)
05:13.04sorphin8 chips per side
05:14.50MonMothaah, fun fun
05:14.54MonMotha8 chips on an SODIMM
05:14.57MonMothastack them I guess
05:15.10sorphinMonMotha: dunno, but it apparently exists..
05:15.26sorphinMonMotha: seems to be related on how it's 'seeing' the memory
05:15.40sorphinif you put in an sodimm that only has 4 per side
05:15.44sorphinit'll only see 128
05:16.06MonMotha?
05:16.51sorphin"The iopener will only recognise and use the full 256mb is there are eight chips on each side. If there are four chips per side the iopener will only use 128mb."
05:18.03MonMotha16 bits vs 8 bits of data maybe?
05:18.33sorphinthere's been sayings of the address setting in the bios..
05:18.58sorphin"The chipset is NOT aware at powerup how much or even IF there is any memory. The bios must load a register telling the physical base address and maximum quantity of memory for each chip select."
05:19.20sorphinit doesn't like things right now using 256MBit parts
05:19.40MonMothathat's fairly normal
05:20.10sorphin"First guess at finding the faulty section in the BIOS is to search for all occurrences of "MOV DX,8" followed by "OUT DX,AL" (= BA 78 03 EE), and find the one that follows a line that moves 30h or 31h into AL. According to Award documentation, 30h is the POST code for getting base memory and extended memory size; and 31h is the POST code for testing extended memory . . ."
05:20.27sorphintoo bad the award src code i have isn't for the 4.51G bios
05:20.29sorphin:P
05:21.53Russsorphin: docs are pretty easy
05:21.57RussI would recommend grub
05:22.06sorphinRuss: i mean hw implementing
05:22.09Russhowever, I think grub still only understand nftl
05:22.15Russhardware?
05:22.24Russits basic 8 bit bus
05:22.25sorphinimplementing a DOC into a hw design
05:22.28MonMothasorphin: apparently there are portions of the award BIOS that haven't been touched in 10 years, and nobody knows what exactly they do
05:22.29Russthere isn't much to say
05:22.45Russit implements the same as a small rom
05:22.55Russ(ie 512 or 256kb)
05:23.14sorphinMonMotha: no shock
05:23.33sorphinand now that they're part of phoenix, it only gets worse ;)
05:23.47sorphinRuss: heh.. well, considering i've not implemented a small rom ;)
05:23.55Russin fact, if hardware has a rom slot, ie for bios, there are many cases where you can drop in a doc instead
05:24.14sorphinRuss: what about say on an ethernet card w/ a bootrom socket?
05:24.25Russit is normal chipselect/rd/wr memory
05:24.42Russcs low, set address/data, use rd or wr to clock out
05:24.51Russsorphin: may be possible
05:25.16sorphinRuss: so those cards you have, basically just make it look like it would if it were slapped onto the MB?
05:25.30Russya, they drop it into a memory space
05:25.40sorphinkk
05:25.42sorphinerm
05:25.42sorphink
05:25.55sorphinhmm
05:26.20sorphinthe athlon board and the WSP
05:26.42sorphinand the wsp has a DOC onboard
05:27.13sorphinMonMotha: want a laugh? guess how i found the award src
05:27.15sorphinjust googling
05:27.23sorphintruely sad
05:27.27MonMothahah
05:27.33MonMothayou haev the source to the award bios?
05:27.41MonMothatruely pathetic
05:27.50sorphinMonMotha: i /m'd you telling you that :P
05:28.11Russbios will find seach that memory space for a signature, and use it as a boot rom if it finds one
05:28.11sorphinit's *very* messy ASM
05:28.33sorphinMonMotha: the source was on someone's page of bios tools
05:28.42sorphinheh
05:28.46sorphinMonMotha: and on ed2k
05:28.49sorphinthere's the source too
05:29.07sorphinit's all 6.00pg tho
05:29.22sorphinjust 4.51
05:29.30sorphinso it's not even a good reference
05:29.36sorphinRuss: ic
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05:49.08sorphinMonMotha: couple legit tools that were made by the iopener crowd
05:49.11sorphinare com2rom
05:49.16sorphinand loadbios
05:49.24MonMothawhat do they do?
05:49.26sorphinloadbios will take a bios image
05:49.43sorphinand put it where your bios would normally be shadowed
05:49.47sorphinthen you warm reboot
05:49.50sorphinand you're using that bios
05:49.53sorphinit's good for testing
05:49.59MonMothanice
05:49.59sorphinif it don't work, just hard reboot
05:50.09MonMothareblob :)
05:50.20sorphinMonMotha: it'll work on the via chipset on the io
05:50.26MonMothaspeaking of, I need to port BLOB to the webpal
05:50.30sorphincouldn't get it working on the damn chipset in the WSP
05:50.37sorphinstupid cyrix crap
05:50.52MonMothais there a common MIPS linux bootloader?
05:51.01sorphinMonMotha: and com2rom took a normal com file and adapts it for use as an award bios module
05:51.19sorphinMonMotha: silo?
05:51.23sorphinwait
05:51.24sorphinmilo
05:51.25sorphinthat's it
05:51.38sorphinmilo for mips, silo for sparc (i think)
05:51.42sorphinor something like that
05:51.45MonMothasilo is sparc I know
05:51.52sorphinthen it's milo
05:52.22MonMothais it appropriate for embedded systems, or is it SGI oriented?
05:52.35sorphindunno, to be honest
05:52.37sorphinhaven't used it
05:52.55MonMothak
05:53.05MonMothaDCT...
05:53.14sorphinMonMotha: right, but we can't even use that yet :P
05:53.40sorphinMonMotha: i have sjhill's phone numbers, i could slap him around :P
05:53.57MonMothaheh
05:54.01MonMothaI'll take a look at it tomorrow
05:54.20MonMothaalong with a zillion other things
05:54.25MonMothathe ham radio club here just got a new radio
05:54.29MonMothavery cool toy :)
05:54.47sorphinlet my license expire
05:54.55MonMothaah, I find it fun
05:55.12MonMothaI don't really have any equipment (just use the club's) other than my HT, which I've found useful
05:55.24MonMothabasically, it's a fun way to toy with all the stuff I learn in my EE classes :)
05:55.57sorphinMonMotha: well, it was fun back in the day, but i don't have any gear anymore and no time to trek anywhere..
05:56.32MonMothayeah
05:56.44MonMothathe nice thing about having a club like this is that it isn't very expensive
05:57.46MonMothaI was thinking of operating a rover in the VHF sweepstakes this january...could be fun
05:57.56MonMothaah, I'm a general, so I can do HF
05:58.42sorphinwell, i coulda done HF had i went for code
05:59.21MonMothayup, the code is the hard part of the general
05:59.37MonMothathe extra actually has some electronics theory on it that I don't know, though not too much
05:59.52sorphinMonMotha: well
05:59.57sorphinthey've changed the structure now
06:00.00sorphinclass wise
06:00.00MonMothatrue
06:00.06sorphinand code requirement wise
06:00.06MonMothayou used to have to do MUCH faster code
06:00.09sorphinyup
06:00.12MonMothanow it's just 5WPM for everything
06:00.15sorphinyeah
06:00.23sorphinMonMotha: well, not like anyone manually does code anymore ;)
06:00.26MonMothaI know one of the old hard-core extras...got his extra in like the 60s :)
06:00.31MonMothasorphin: I do, but only for grins
06:01.24MonMothahard to find someone willing to do 7WPM with "non-perfect" spacing that their computer can't decode :)
06:01.57sorphinheh
06:02.08sorphinapparently no one wants the 4.51pg source, only the 6.00pg
06:06.17sorphinMonMotha: one thing i hate
06:06.28sorphinthe WSP has the intel pxe boot code as a module in the real bios
06:06.33sorphinso you can't upgrade it
06:06.47sorphinit's a neat idea, but makes thigns shitty since they use .99
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08:06.48sorphinjacques: sup mr miata
08:07.53jacqueshi sorphin, I'm just trying to figure out why the net's so slow and balky
08:09.36sorphinahh
08:09.38sorphindunno
08:10.05sorphinprolly cuz it sucks ;)
08:16.33sorphinjacques: how's the 1.6l beast?
08:17.47jacquesmine's a 96 - 1.8l :-)
08:20.52sorphinah
08:21.21sorphinjacques: didn't know they'd bumped it up, only looked at a 92
08:21.58jacquesyeah for 94 model year
08:22.10jacquespretty much every year engine is slightly different
08:22.20jacquesbut the 1.6->1,8 was the big jump
08:23.33jacquesnot that it made much difference because they kept increasing the weight
08:23.39sorphinyeah
08:24.13sorphinwell, the mini still zips around, tho maybe now once i'm employed again i can do my mods :P
08:24.13jacquescongrats if it's not premature
08:24.39kergothi need to look at getting my ECU reprogrammed on my crossfire
08:24.42kergothone of these days
08:25.20jacquesmy ecu's not smart enough, but now that I'm inoregon I can pretty much do what I want
08:25.24sorphinjacques: tnx, well, only thing that could kill me is the background check and people have told me that it shouldn't since i'm not and won't be convicted
08:25.27jacquessubject to cost of course
08:25.42jacquessorphin, cool
08:25.45sorphin1st mod is the supercharger pulley
08:25.50sorphin15% reduction
08:26.12jacquesyep easy power and cheap
08:26.21sorphinjacques: pita to put on tho ;p
08:26.23jacquesnothing that raises power on a stock miata is cheap
08:26.38sorphinjacques: well, that's because a stock miata doesn't come w/ an SC ;)
08:26.48sorphintho, w/o the SC a miata would smoke it
08:26.58jacquesright, if it came with FI it would be easy to get some more power
08:27.28sorphintho, the eaton we have isn't the best thing in the world
08:28.21jacquesi hear they are not bad these days - they are still advancing in small ways
08:29.00sorphinjacques: i still worry about my clutch, but prolly always will :P
08:29.35jacquesyeah if i add any significant power I must change clutch - I already have a new one ready - have for like three years :-\
08:30.45jacquesi think i want this: http://flyinmiata.com/news/ubercharger.php
08:31.26sorphinjacques: my worry is killing it :P i was a bit hard on it when i 1st got the car ( never rode nor do i ride it now), but i was a lil rough on the mini at 1st
08:31.36sorphini think my linkage might need adjustment tho
08:31.43sorphinsometimes it won't find the 'gate'
08:32.17jacquesah yeah sounds like it needs adjustment
08:33.06sorphinlocal mini dealer's svc is incompetant
08:33.24sorphinjacques: 1st time i went in there mention some stuff (in the 1st 2,000 miles)
08:33.26jacquesthat's a shame
08:33.29sorphinthe FOREMAN
08:33.34sorphintold me this paddle sounding sound
08:33.41sorphinwas just the mass of the gears making noise
08:33.47sorphinas i've now since learned
08:33.55sorphinit's a known problem w/ the Getrag tranny
08:34.04sorphinand usually means it's got a prob
08:34.46jacquesyeah I reported a problem with the steering in mine in the first couple of weeks and the foreman said he had "never heard of anything like that"
08:34.53jacquesI had to find and fix the problem myself
08:35.12sorphina whistling when recirc is on (it's a grommit or something that gets replaced i think), and the hatch is leaking and needs adjustment (where my back seat used to be, had a pool of water in each spot) the last time i really rained bad, and the hatch is the only visible culprit
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08:35.51jacques:-\
08:36.10sorphinjacques: i was glad nothing was in that spot now other than sound deadener
08:36.20sorphini woulda been pissed if my subs were already in
08:36.34jacquesyeah really
08:38.30jacquesunfortunately I think it's in their job desc
08:39.38sorphinwell, we'll see
08:59.13sorphinactually
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