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Jan 19 16:52:05 <dieter|work> Hi everybody - I'm looking for a board like the plug for marvell new Aspen/Armada AP168 CPUs. Any hints are welcome :)
Jan 19 18:17:16 <Guest50987> Chunky_K1: I figured out the FTP issue
Jan 19 18:17:32 <Balrog> sorry it's me
Jan 19 18:17:43 <Balrog> turns out lftp works very well and has the necessary features
Jan 19 18:27:38 <cyrilb> hi
Jan 19 19:56:53 <zumbi> clear
Jan 19 19:57:00 <zumbi> err
Jan 19 20:03:47 <armin76> fail
Jan 19 20:45:48 <cemc> n00b question: if I connect to the plug with screen port speed, how can I disconnect?
Jan 19 20:48:01 <cemc> I mean if I just close the terminal, screen goes in the background, and I have to kill it
Jan 19 20:53:30 <Balrog> cemc: ctrl-a d
Jan 19 20:53:57 <Balrog> I think that's it
Jan 19 20:54:08 <Balrog> if it's still in the background, ctrl-a k will do that
Jan 19 20:54:11 <cemc> that detaches it, and screen goes in the background
Jan 19 20:54:14 <cemc> not what I want ;)
Jan 19 20:54:16 <Balrog> on some systems you need a capital K
Jan 19 20:54:20 <Balrog> (k for kill)
Jan 19 20:54:57 <cemc> bingo! thx
Jan 19 20:55:47 <cemc> really cool this plug ;)
Jan 19 20:59:27 <Balrog> yea it's nice
Jan 19 20:59:35 <Balrog> I just need an 8GB SD card for the rootfs
Jan 19 20:59:40 <Balrog> 512MB is way too small
Jan 19 20:59:58 <cemc> I have a 4GB one
Jan 19 21:00:16 <cemc> installed Debian on it with the d-i
Jan 19 21:00:16 <Balrog> you figured out how to boot from it?
Jan 19 21:00:22 <Balrog> ahh
Jan 19 21:00:29 <Balrog> I'll probably do Debian
Jan 19 21:00:43 <cemc> have Ubuntu on the flash still, but the updated one
Jan 19 21:00:46 <Balrog> only I need a more up-to-date release of Transmission than what's default
Jan 19 21:00:48 <cemc> with the SheevaInstaller
Jan 19 21:00:59 <Balrog> default is like 1.22 or something; current is 1.76
Jan 19 21:01:01 <Balrog> I see
Jan 19 21:01:35 <cemc> there's 1.77 in squeeze
Jan 19 21:01:39 <cemc> that's what I have installed
Jan 19 21:01:59 <cemc> and 1.76 in lenny-backports
Jan 19 21:02:03 <cemc> if you want stable
Jan 19 21:02:12 <Balrog> I see
Jan 19 21:02:32 <cemc> you just have to enable -backports I guess
Jan 19 21:02:45 <Balrog> what I did is modify the apt configuration to allow me to install specific unstable packages
Jan 19 21:02:56 <tlied2> I use mine as a home router- openvpn, ospf, bgp, etc - I just use a 2G SD card - running Angstrom built by openembedded
Jan 19 21:03:37 <cemc> tlied2: actually I'm using it as router too, no bgp stuff, just openvpn and vlans connected to a linksys
Jan 19 21:03:43 <Balrog> yea? but it only has one ethernet port?
Jan 19 21:03:46 <Balrog> ahh vlans
Jan 19 21:03:55 <Balrog> mine will be a torrent box and server
Jan 19 21:04:08 <Balrog> I have an apple time capsule router
Jan 19 21:04:14 <Balrog> solid and reliable, but unmodifiable
Jan 19 21:04:41 <tlied2> cemc: nice - I haven't gotten openssl using the hardware crypto, but even with just the cpu it seems to keep up quite well with my 25/25 connection here
Jan 19 21:04:51 <Balrog> hmm
Jan 19 21:05:01 <tlied2> yeah, vlans - luckily I have a bunch of managed switches already
Jan 19 21:05:23 <Balrog> I wonder if performance would be decent using an encrypted fs image...
Jan 19 21:05:30 <cemc> tlied2: I've tested with openvpn but it goes to like 20mbps max (more like 18) with no comp-lzo
Jan 19 21:05:31 <tlied2> actually I did stick a 100Mb USB NIC on it too
Jan 19 21:05:41 <cemc> with comp-lzo goes to 30+ mbps (iperf)
Jan 19 21:05:50 <cemc> depends on the traffic I guess
Jan 19 21:05:57 <cemc> if it can be compressed or not
Jan 19 21:06:39 <cemc> but compared to the 2.5mbps linksys speed, it's quite nice :)
Jan 19 21:06:39 <tlied2> yeah, we run lzo, but yeah, I haven't done much testing, just compared to the athlonxp it replaced it works good, and my voip never stutters or anything
Jan 19 21:06:56 <cemc> yep
Jan 19 21:07:03 <tlied2> hehe, yeah, I used to run it on my openwrt too, which was a bit painful in several ways
Jan 19 21:07:24 <cemc> limited to 1 (max 2) openvpns ;) and 300KB/s speed, not fun :)
Jan 19 21:08:05 <cemc> btw, the gigabit part goes to like 650mbps with iperf (old 2.6.2x ubuntu kernel),
Jan 19 21:08:18 <cemc> and like 570mbps with the new 2.6.30+ kernel
Jan 19 21:08:29 <cemc> that's not half bad :)
Jan 19 21:09:08 <tlied2> heh, yeah, I was happy with it - I'm running 2.6.32 IIRC - my memory is a bit foggy but I think I was getting more like around 800
Jan 19 21:11:59 <tlied2> oh, also have it hooked up to a stereo via a usb audio dongle - mostly just use moc (command line media player thing) to control it
Jan 19 21:12:18 <cemc> ;)
Jan 19 21:13:24 <cemc> one thing I don't really get is the crappy SD slot ;)
Jan 19 21:13:42 <cemc> everything else is so nice, why did they mess it up? :)
Jan 19 21:13:46 <Balrog> cemc: you mean the slot itself?
Jan 19 21:13:56 <Balrog> I read that the updated driver fixes slowness issues
Jan 19 21:14:01 <cemc> I mean the fact that the card sticks out
Jan 19 21:14:03 <Balrog> ahh
Jan 19 21:14:13 <Balrog> you have a globalscale plug?
Jan 19 21:14:18 <cemc> yes
Jan 19 21:14:25 <Balrog> okay
Jan 19 21:15:52 <tlied2> yeah would be nice if the SD was flush, but of course I have so much stuff hanging off it, doesn't make too much difference - when I stop messing with it so much I'll just flash the onboard with my latest, not even a couple hundred megs yet
Jan 19 21:16:02 <tlied2> although don't ask me if I can print from it yet :)
Jan 19 21:19:03 <cemc> I somehow am 'afraid' of using the flash :)
Jan 19 21:19:20 <cemc> SD you can always replace, the flash not so much :)
Jan 19 21:21:13 <tlied2> yeah, it looks like the distro I use does a nice overlay with ram for things like logs, I'll feel better about using it when I understand exactly how my setup works better
Jan 19 21:30:26 <Balrog> cemc: just don't have swap on internal flash
Jan 19 21:30:26 <Balrog> lol
Jan 19 21:34:17 <cemc> :-)
Jan 19 21:34:41 <cemc> don't have any swap, not expecting anything memory hungry ;)
Jan 19 21:45:41 <Balrog> I may have 1GB of swap on a hard drive
Jan 19 21:55:12 <cemc> ;)
Jan 19 21:55:39 <cemc> I always say, if you need to swap, you have bigger problems :)
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