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| 00:43.44 | [g2]-away | hey did you guys see the /. on Jacmet's article ? |
| 00:44.18 | jacques | nope |
| 00:44.36 | [g2]-away | http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/07/20/1845231.shtml?tid=222&tid=90&tid=193&tid=106 |
| 00:44.37 | jacques | looking now |
| 00:46.53 | jacques | this is the kind of idiotic responses I expected: |
| 00:46.56 | jacques | <PROTECTED> |
| 00:46.56 | jacques | by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20, @07:24PM (#13118809) |
| 00:46.56 | jacques | The Linksys NSLU2 has already been hacked [tomsnetworking.com] so you can run your own applications on it. |
| 00:47.16 | jacques | "Score:4, Informative" /. is the suck |
| 00:47.22 | jacques | dammit |
| 00:47.34 | jacques | stupid xchat fixed my intentional typo |
| 00:49.53 | jacques | teh teh teh |
| 00:49.53 | jacques | heh |
| 00:49.55 | jacques | fixed it |
| 00:51.24 | jacques | oh, and this: |
| 00:51.27 | jacques | <PROTECTED> |
| 00:51.27 | jacques | by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 20, @07:25PM (#13118821) |
| 00:51.27 | jacques | ARM is the hardware equivelent of a turing tarpit. Only a RiscOS fan would be insipid enough to think this was a good idea. |
| 00:51.53 | jacques | I wonder if there's a way I can make it so I cannot read /. |
| 00:52.46 | [g2]-away | echo "127.0.0.1 www.slashdot.org" >> /etc/hosts |
| 00:54.24 | rwhitby | I wonder if ka6sox's server is getting any more traffic due to Jacmet's /. article |
| 00:55.07 | jacques | [g2]-away, I need a way I cannot undo in a moment of weakness |
| 00:55.35 | rwhitby | So "Slug" is now official - it's been on Slashdot :-) |
| 00:55.56 | rwhitby | and the overclocking too :-) |
| 00:56.03 | jacques | yep :-) |
| 00:57.10 | rwhitby | I'm a bit peeved that the first mention of other firmware goes to tomshardware instead of our site :-( |
| 00:57.22 | jacques | yeah, but that's /. for you |
| 00:58.23 | jacques | /. is a double-edged sword |
| 00:58.30 | rwhitby | ok, we're mentioned a bit further down in the comments. |
| 00:58.43 | rwhitby | no new donations overnight though ... |
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| 01:26.50 | rwhitby | Jacmet: you're famous dude |
| 01:28.09 | rwhitby | Jacmet: do you have a name for your debian slug distro? |
| 01:28.54 | dyoung-web | Jacmet: have you been in touch with anyone at Monte Vista ? |
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| 01:43.51 | jacques | if this publicity spurt generates an email from linuxworldexpo .org committee to anyone, can you please let me know? |
| 01:45.27 | rwhitby | ok |
| 01:48.01 | jacques | thanks rwhitby |
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| 03:08.44 | christopher | woot, debian on NSLU2 :-) |
| 03:09.29 | [g2] | go terps! |
| 03:17.01 | jacques | hi christopher |
| 03:23.07 | christopher | hi |
| 03:23.38 | christopher | [g2] yes, I am staying at the University of Maryland while working at NASA Goddard this summer |
| 03:23.53 | [g2] | excellent |
| 03:24.06 | [g2] | I used to live near there |
| 03:25.36 | christopher | [g2] cool, it's my first time on the east coast |
| 03:28.02 | [g2] | I'm down in Research Triangle Park area now |
| 03:28.22 | [g2] | but the MD/VA/DC area was fun |
| 03:28.45 | [g2] | I miss the cheap ethnic food |
| 03:28.56 | [g2] | cheap and yummy |
| 03:31.09 | christopher | yeah, and all the museums are free |
| 03:32.50 | [g2] | yup |
| 03:34.47 | christopher | has anyone here tried the debian for NSLU2 yet? |
| 03:53.43 | [g2] | Jacmet isn't here right now |
| 03:53.55 | [g2] | that's his article |
| 03:54.16 | [g2] | we run at least two other flavors |
| 03:56.51 | christopher | mostly I was excited to see all of the packages that it made available for it |
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| 07:20.31 | rwhitby | dyoung: I need a tftp server, and I don't have an unslung slug any more :-( |
| 07:21.14 | rwhitby | well, actually I do, but it's the slug I'm going to use for DebianSlug |
| 07:21.44 | dyoung | atftp is in openslug |
| 07:22.05 | dyoung | dunno if theres a daemon with that though... |
| 07:22.35 | rwhitby | Hmm - not in openslug-packages ... |
| 07:22.35 | dyoung | Yeah, daemon included. |
| 07:23.11 | rwhitby | Man, it's sooo long since I typed a RedBoot command line ... |
| 07:23.21 | dyoung | Me too. |
| 07:23.37 | dyoung | I'm thinking that I'm gonna slugimage the byteswapped image and upslug it. |
| 07:25.19 | rwhitby | that's one thing we don't have in the master makefile - slugimage development |
| 07:27.10 | rwhitby | oh, I spoke too soon - it's already there! |
| 07:27.40 | rwhitby | Did I mention recently how you just build infrastructure and other people do the stuff that yo uneed? |
| 07:29.31 | rwhitby | ah - that's why atftp is not in openslug-packages - it doesn't compile. |
| 07:38.32 | dyoung | hehe |
| 07:38.38 | dyoung | I added slugimage a few days ago. :-) |
| 07:38.41 | rwhitby | what am I thinking - I can just use a http server instead ... |
| 07:39.43 | dyoung | I think the Master Makefile target is setup-slugimage-development or similar. |
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| 07:40.06 | rwhitby | whoa - /srv <- first time I've see that. |
| 07:40.37 | dyoung | Hi odoc. |
| 07:44.44 | odoc | hi dyound |
| 07:45.14 | odoc | sup ? |
| 08:00.35 | rwhitby | dyoung: got the installer low memory blue screen, but no response - perhaps it's cause I'm getting in through microcom on the wl500g ... |
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| 08:11.40 | rwhitby | (i.e. I can't hit the continue button on that screen) |
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| 08:23.56 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby 07org.nslu2-linux.dev * r4b51f527... 10/Makefile: Added the setup-apex-developer target |
| 08:23.59 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby 07org.nslu2-linux.dev * ra90fbc8b... 10/Makefile: Added the build-apex target |
| 09:02.59 | copperbeech | Anyone see the NSLU2 posting on the slashdot front page? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/20/1845231&tid=222&tid=90&tid=193&tid=106 |
| 09:03.40 | rwhitby | yep |
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| 09:20.00 | copperbeech | rwhitby: nice to see the slug is still out there and attracting new people. |
| 09:22.55 | rwhitby | we're thinking of trying to add debianslug to our OE repo, so we can build an image and flash it with upslug |
| 09:27.42 | copperbeech | what about the eth0 drivers ? aren't they big-endian? |
| 09:31.01 | rwhitby | it will require a usb nic |
| 09:46.22 | ingeba | "svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.berlios.de': Connection refused" - is it me or does the host have a bad day? |
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| 09:57.12 | rwhitby | bad day for svn here too |
| 09:59.11 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby 07org.openembedded.nslu2-linux * r2cba5405... 10/conf/bitbake.conf: Added STAGING_LOADER_DIR to bitbake.conf |
| 09:59.13 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby 07org.openembedded.nslu2-linux * r3d6cac6f... 10/packages/apex/ (apex_1.2.19.bb nslu2/defconfig): Added the Apex bootloader (initially configured for nslu2) |
| 10:04.12 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby 07org.openembedded.nslu2-linux * r45523d76... 10/ (15 files in 12 dirs): |
| 10:04.12 | CIA-8 | propagate from branch 'org.openembedded.dev' (head 93d082d6c4a3db13947817853eef91fb326fc223) |
| 10:04.12 | CIA-8 | <PROTECTED> |
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| 10:22.09 | rwhitby | Jacmet: ping |
| 10:24.42 | Jacmet | rwhitby: hi |
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| 10:25.39 | rwhitby | Jacmet: I'd like to try and add DebianSlug to OpenEmbedded, so we can build a single image that can be flashed with UpSlug or the SerComm tool. |
| 10:25.50 | rwhitby | dyoung is going to work on it too |
| 10:25.58 | rwhitby | Is that something you'd be happy for us to do? |
| 10:26.02 | Jacmet | rwhitby: name? well, it's just normal Debian .. |
| 10:26.15 | Jacmet | dyoung: mvista? nopes - why? |
| 10:26.47 | rwhitby | Jacmet: yes, it's debian, but with a slug kernel - hence DebianSlug :-) |
| 10:27.31 | Jacmet | rwhitby: yes, that's fine - basically all there is to it is the timy kernel patch + byteswapping |
| 10:28.14 | dyoung | Just wondering if you had contact with mvista regarding plans for 2.6 support in IAL. |
| 10:28.35 | rwhitby | yeah, we'd like to keep it up to date with the latest openslug kernel, and get slugimage to do the byteswapping when the 8MB image is built |
| 10:30.04 | Jacmet | dyoung: nopes - I haven't actually spent that much time on the ethernet support - I gave it a try for a day and two and I didn't got it working - but since I already had an USB<->ethernet adapter that wasn't such a big deal |
| 10:30.14 | Jacmet | rwhitby: ok |
| 10:31.15 | rwhitby | Jacmet: we'll also add a nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DebianSlug/HomePage which links to your project page ... |
| 10:32.10 | Jacmet | rwhitby: great |
| 10:32.27 | rwhitby | it should have the same status as Unslung and OpenSlug in my book ... |
| 10:33.18 | rwhitby | bbiab |
| 10:44.55 | senneth | I'd be so happy with a DebianSlug |
| 10:45.12 | senneth | it would replace my dual celeron 466 Debian machine :) |
| 10:47.01 | Jacmet | senneth: well, performance isn't exactly comparable, but yes ;) |
| 10:47.15 | senneth | well it's just an internet gateway |
| 10:47.27 | senneth | it doesn't require performance :) |
| 10:47.50 | senneth | it makes the electricity bills higher |
| 10:48.20 | Jacmet | ok, then DebianSlug would fit perfectly |
| 10:48.41 | Jacmet | or well, it would fit even better if we get the onboard ethernet working ;) |
| 10:49.15 | dyoung | It'll eventually happen. |
| 10:49.37 | senneth | \o/ |
| 10:50.27 | senneth | i wonder if this serial cable i assembled at work will work with the slug |
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| 11:10.08 | rwhitby | Jacmet: did your server get hammered after the /. article? |
| 11:10.54 | Jacmet | rwhitby: fairly - but luckily the article linked to the linuxdevices.com article, so they had the most traffic |
| 11:11.22 | Jacmet | rwhitby: unfortunately my machine was down for 13h yesterday |
| 11:12.15 | rwhitby | yes, I saw you mention the bad timing by the cable company |
| 11:12.33 | Jacmet | rwhitby: they were doing some electricity work yesterday, and I didn't get hold of anyone until in the evening |
| 11:13.28 | Jacmet | rwhitby: it's "hosted" on a small dsl line in another country (~1100km from here) |
| 11:13.29 | rwhitby | Did you submit the story to LinuxDevices, or did someone else submit it after seeing your page? i.e. did you have any forewarning it would appear? |
| 11:14.39 | Jacmet | rwhitby: I posted the link on debian-embedded, and Bill Gatliff submitted the story |
| 11:15.28 | rwhitby | Jacmet: I tried it myself today, but didn't get past the Low Memory page - for some reason my serial terminal couldn't cause the "Continue" button to be pushed. I think it's because I'm going through PuTTY to bash on a wl500g router, then microcom to get to the slug serial console. |
| 11:16.05 | Jacmet | rwhitby: I also had some problems with minicom - cu works much better |
| 11:16.33 | rwhitby | My only linux boxes with hardware ports are slugs :-) |
| 11:16.47 | Jacmet | heh |
| 11:16.52 | rwhitby | my development platform is linux under vmware on a windows xp laptop |
| 11:17.22 | rwhitby | I wonder if the debian installer has a non-graphical option .... |
| 11:22.14 | Jacmet | rwhitby: non-curses? dunno |
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| 11:25.19 | rwhitby | Jacmet: do you think there is a way of completing our DebianSlug process with just a single image flash? |
| 11:26.16 | rwhitby | i.e. is changing the root= cmdarg the only reason for the second kernel ? |
| 11:28.09 | Jacmet | rwhitby: yes, that's it - setting kernel cmdline from Redboot doesn't seem to work |
| 11:28.35 | rwhitby | yeah, it doesn't work in redboot. however it does work in apex. |
| 11:29.42 | Jacmet | ohh, ok |
| 11:30.15 | rwhitby | so what needs to be done in this byteswapping (so I can add it to slugimage) ? |
| 11:30.35 | rwhitby | is it each two bytes in a 16 bit word swapped? or 4 bytes in a 32 bit word? |
| 11:33.17 | rwhitby | and was there a particular reason to choose the lart distro, or would any debian arm distro initrd do? |
| 11:33.43 | Jacmet | rwhitby: 4 bytes in a 32bit word - E.G. 0x11223344 becomes 0x44332211 |
| 11:34.13 | rwhitby | ok, so that's why you pad out to a multiple of 4 |
| 11:34.36 | Jacmet | rwhitby: basically any arm initrd would work, but the lart is fairly similar to the nslu2 (embedded system, 32mb RAM) |
| 11:34.37 | Jacmet | yes |
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| 11:37.56 | Jacmet | rwhitby: oh btw - remember that the debian installer requires devfs - so your kernel needs to support that |
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| 11:47.03 | Jacmet | there is some network-console support in the debian installer - perhaps we could use that so people don't need the serial port hack |
| 11:47.53 | Jacmet | see http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianInstallerNetworkConsole |
| 11:48.03 | rwhitby | yeah, that's the end-goal - a DebianSlug with no hardware mods and just requiring a usb nic |
| 11:49.41 | divteed | whats wrong with the onboard nic? |
| 11:50.41 | rwhitby | little endian only binary drivers at the moment |
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| 11:50.56 | rwhitby | Jacmet: I understand almost nothing on that page |
| 11:54.25 | dyoung-zzzz | he meant "Only Big Endian binary drivers at the moment". |
| 11:54.57 | dyoung-zzzz | LE support was introduced in the IAL 1.5. |
| 11:55.29 | rwhitby | right. ignore anything I say about endianness cause it's usually wrong |
| 11:55.58 | dyoung-zzzz | Jus t dont start typing in endian-wrong mode. :-) |
| 11:56.33 | Jacmet | rwhitby: the debian installer page? you can preseed (preconfigure) the installer - and there's apparently a mode where it will start up a ssh server that you can connect to in order to run the installer |
| 11:57.11 | Jacmet | % ls -lah /var/log/apache/peter.korsgaard.com-access.log |
| 11:57.11 | Jacmet | -rw-r----- 1 root adm 65M Jul 21 13:40 /var/log/apache/peter.korsgaard.com-access.log |
| 11:57.13 | Jacmet | wow ;) |
| 11:59.35 | Jacmet | http://traffic.48ers.dk/webalizer/peter.korsgaard.com/ |
| 12:00.02 | dyoung-zzzz | Can't be helped. you're famous now. |
| 12:00.40 | divteed | slashdot.org :p |
| 12:00.53 | Jacmet | dyoung-zzzz: yes, I just had my 15m of fame - it's all downhill from here ;) |
| 12:01.29 | dyoung-zzzz | Nah, I expect that you'll be famous again once someone figures out how to make the IAL work. |
| 12:01.33 | dyoung-zzzz | in le mode |
| 12:02.28 | rwhitby | yeah, we've been lucky so far in nslu2-linux - all the publicity has gone to other people (like buzbee and jacmet) rather than slashdotting our site directly :-) |
| 12:03.19 | Jacmet | rwhitby ;) |
| 12:03.40 | rwhitby | Jacmet: I hope you don't have extra bandwidth charges on your site :-) |
| 12:04.00 | Jacmet | rwhitby: no, luckily it's a flatrate connection |
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| 12:10.02 | rwhitby | ok, looks like I can pull bytes off in groups of 4 and use pack("N", unpack("V", $string)) in perl ... |
| 12:11.33 | Jacmet | rwhitby: ok .. |
| 12:12.01 | rwhitby | slugimage is in perl :-) |
| 12:13.07 | Jacmet | I know ;) |
| 12:15.37 | rwhitby | http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DebianSlug/HomePage is up - Jacmet, feel free to edit as you please. |
| 12:15.50 | Jacmet | rwhitby: thanks |
| 12:16.02 | rwhitby | I added it to the sidebar too |
| 12:16.48 | rwhitby | DebianSlug is a wikigroup like Unslung and OpenSlug, so you can create DebianSlug/FooBar pages as you please. |
| 12:17.06 | dyoung-zzzz | Intel has the eCos Access Library 2.01 epk available. |
| 12:17.28 | Jacmet | rwhitby: ok |
| 12:18.37 | dyoung-zzzz | the endianness is a compile time option though. |
| 12:19.47 | rwhitby | dyoung-zzzz: I'm going the change the slugimage -e (ethaddr) option to -m (macaddr) and then use -e to swap endianness on the kernel and ramdisk as they are read in. |
| 12:19.55 | Jacmet | rwhitby: I will update the page soon - gotta go now though |
| 12:20.02 | Jacmet | afk |
| 12:20.04 | rwhitby | Jacmet: no hurry |
| 12:21.41 | rwhitby | dyoung-zzzz: we're changing from big to little endian, right? |
| 12:21.56 | rwhitby | perhaps I should remove the payload option (since we're not using it, and use -l for little endian) |
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| 12:25.15 | dyoung-zzzz | Apex looks liek it can start in LE mode too. |
| 12:31.14 | dyoung-zzzz | rwhitby, The primary reason for all this byteswapping is the bootloader is expecting the kernel and initrd in BE format; but if thebootloader is already in LE mode, we may be able to eliminate some of the byteswapping steps. But that is going to be for advanced users. |
| 12:32.20 | rwhitby | right - either slugimage byteswaps for redboot, or doesn't byteswap for apex |
| 12:32.41 | dyoung-zzzz | Right. |
| 12:33.27 | dyoung-zzzz | I gotta talk with beewoolie; I'm halfway wondering if its going to be possible to make apex start in a selectable mode through the config block. |
| 12:33.43 | rwhitby | if it's not now, then it will be :-) |
| 12:35.36 | dyoung-zzzz | that may mean fairly siginificant change to the way config blocks are handled; since it will need to detect what mode its in. I didnt dig too deep yet. |
| 13:01.00 | rwhitby | $_->{'data'} = pack("N*", unpack("V*", $_->{'data'}.pack("CCC", 0))); |
| 13:01.15 | rwhitby | that's how slugimage will byteswap |
| 13:02.08 | dyoung-zzzz | Want some line-noise with that? |
| 13:02.20 | dyoung-zzzz | nah, its not that bad to read. |
| 13:04.14 | VoodooZ_Work | do I need to get the Makefile? I'm getting: svn: Can't connect to host 'svn.berlios.de': Connection refused |
| 13:04.27 | VoodooZ_Work | I meant, the NEW makefile. |
| 13:04.44 | ingeba | VoodooZ_Work: No - it is a general problem with berlios |
| 13:04.56 | VoodooZ_Work | ok. thanks. |
| 13:07.05 | rwhitby | ok, slugimage is byteswapping now ... |
| 13:07.50 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby * 10slugimage/slugimage: Added the -l option for byteswapping the kernel and ramdisk. |
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| 13:08.08 | rwhitby | can someone else check that out from CVS and confirm that it does the byteswapping correctly? |
| 13:08.31 | VoodooZ_Work | apex is now part of the Makefile I see? |
| 13:10.12 | rwhitby | yep, but it will be removed soon, cause I just added it to OpenEmbedded instead |
| 13:10.27 | dyoung-zzzz | Leave it in please. |
| 13:10.33 | VoodooZ_Work | I see. I guess I'm one step closer to trying it then. thanks. |
| 13:10.38 | rwhitby | dyoung-zzzz: ok |
| 13:10.48 | dyoung-zzzz | Because it makes testing WAY faster. |
| 13:11.04 | rwhitby | dyoung-zzzz: I'll leave in the setup, but not the top-level build target. |
| 13:11.10 | VoodooZ_Work | How can I tell when there's been an update to the Makefile? |
| 13:11.17 | dyoung-zzzz | rwhitby, okay. |
| 13:11.22 | rwhitby | VoodooZ_Work: just do make update regularly |
| 13:11.24 | VoodooZ_Work | I mean, without diff'ing it of course. |
| 13:11.34 | VoodooZ_Work | oh! So the Makefile is also updated? |
| 13:11.38 | rwhitby | yes |
| 13:11.45 | VoodooZ_Work | Ah! Good! I wasn't sure. |
| 13:11.48 | rwhitby | by the update-master subtarget |
| 13:11.55 | VoodooZ_Work | nice |
| 13:12.15 | VoodooZ_Work | I was afraid to miss out on new features or breakage! ;) |
| 13:12.34 | rwhitby | we can guarantee you will see any breakage ... |
| 13:12.34 | VoodooZ_Work | Did you hear about me burning yet another I/O pin? |
| 13:12.38 | dyoung-zzzz | Yeah, its a self-breaking development env. |
| 13:12.53 | VoodooZ_Work | and I'm clueless so I break things easily! |
| 13:13.47 | VoodooZ_Work | I've got one LED left to reroute the dead I2C pin. Hopefully I didn't kill both SCL & SDA this time! :( |
| 13:14.02 | VoodooZ_Work | I'm planning on switching over to USB soon because of that. |
| 13:18.57 | CIA-8 | 03rwhitby 07org.nslu2-linux.dev * rabe1f701... 10/Makefile: Removed build-apex target, as it is now in OpenEmbedded instead. |
| 13:21.29 | rwhitby | ok, once someone else has tested slugimage (make sure you do *not* flash the output of an unproven slugimage unless you have jtag) I will tag it and update oe to use it. Then we can start byteswapping stuff in a debianslug image. |
| 13:27.45 | rwhitby | awww - you could have been the second victim .... |
| 13:32.37 | ingeba | Good night rwhitby-away |
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| 21:13.34 | CIA-8 | 03jp30 * 10unslung/ (5 files in 2 dirs): more qemu stuff |
| 21:14.48 | BOfH | If you're going to install OpenSlug, installing a serial port is a necessity? |
| 21:15.11 | ByronT-Desktop | no, it is not |
| 21:15.28 | ByronT-Desktop | it's very nice to have one.. and it's not that hard to add |
| 21:15.59 | BOfH | Difficulty isn't an issue, finding the parts is. |
| 21:16.12 | ByronT-Desktop | radio shack has the cables |
| 21:17.05 | ByronT-Desktop | and if you put a 4 pin header, you can use a speaker cable out of old computers to be the connection |
| 21:17.45 | BOfH | btw, the obvious/lame question: why is it called a slug? |
| 21:17.49 | NAiL | Using a USB cable is simpler, since you only need three pins |
| 21:18.05 | BOfH | yes, Pin1 has NC |
| 21:18.11 | ByronT-Desktop | dyoung, history lesson time |
| 21:18.40 | Tiersten | BOfH: Any large electronics mail order company will be able to supply you the parts if you can't find the correct USB serial cable |
| 21:19.00 | BOfH | But that involves *waiting* :P |
| 21:19.44 | senneth | yeah, i build a connector from an old siemens mobile phone cable, dunno if it works, since i forgot the that you have to solder on the board, i'll test it tommorow anyway |
| 21:20.04 | senneth | s/the that/the pins that/ |
| 21:20.11 | Tiersten | Unless you've got some magical method of instantly creating components out of thin air then whatever method will involve waiting |
| 21:20.11 | NAiL | I built one from a nokia cable |
| 21:20.23 | ByronT-Desktop | I bought a LG6000 cable from radio shack, and the other parts from digi-key.com |
| 21:29.13 | dyoung | its called a slug because I once dyslexically read "unslung" (or maybe it was "NSLU2", cant remember anymore) as "unslug" or "nslug", and thought it a cool petname for the device. |
| 21:29.44 | ByronT-Desktop | *there's* the history lesson for the day, boys and girls |
| 21:31.26 | dyoung | ~ubessa |
| 21:31.26 | jbot | from memory, ubessa is a Unorthrodox But Effective Super Serial Adapter. It refers to a UBE board using a MAX232 coupled to a 74LVC244 because somebody was too lazy to get a MAX3232. |
| 21:31.59 | DaKa2 | lol.. I just got a MAX3232 instead :-) |
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