**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue Jun 06 02:59:57 2006 Jun 06 05:02:04 Can people fix http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/UsingTheBinary to refer to the imminent SlugOS (DebianSlug, OpenSlug) 3.8 binary release? Jun 06 05:02:14 (looking for wiki editors ...) Jun 06 05:02:44 I just copied it from OpenSlug, and it needs some fixing. If you want to help get 3.8 out the door, now is your chance. Jun 06 05:07:59 We also need http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/ReleaseNotes3x8 written Jun 06 13:01:49 NAiL, Hey! Long time no chat. Jun 06 13:12:07 VoodooZ: yes! Jun 06 13:12:21 also: Jun 06 13:12:21 11:18 < rwhitby> OpenSlug 3.8 and DebianSlug 3.8 are released. Jun 06 13:12:27 ah, cool Jun 06 13:12:39 30 minutes before I leave for holidays :) Jun 06 13:12:41 It's not entirely announced yet :-P Jun 06 13:12:43 haha Jun 06 13:13:10 there's apparently two "bugs". We need to figure out why they're there before the release is announced Jun 06 13:13:38 http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/report/3 <-- those two. Jun 06 13:13:53 * NAiL goes off to smoke Jun 06 13:30:55 *sigh* Jun 06 13:31:12 I guess someone should write a page describing the new leds subsystem on the wiki. Jun 06 13:34:48 hey! Sorry. I'm at work (new job and real busy one at that) Jun 06 13:35:39 hehe Jun 06 13:35:52 cool. I'll have a look at it. I haven't touched my robot since the April competition and I'm moving soon. Jun 06 13:36:01 It should probably be me. I guess I'm the most familiar with the leds subsystem anyway. Jun 06 13:36:06 But I'm definitely going to try to be more active here. Jun 06 13:36:10 It's looking good :-D Jun 06 13:36:18 Great work buddy! Jun 06 13:36:37 I promise I'll break it for you! You know I'm good at that! :) Jun 06 13:36:42 hehe, good ;) Jun 06 13:36:51 just don't break the rootfs :-P Jun 06 13:37:00 Is it fully usable though? Jun 06 13:37:04 hehe Jun 06 13:37:23 what are themajor highlights/features? Jun 06 13:37:24 It appears to be. There's a lot of changes that will go into the next release (I hope) Jun 06 13:37:54 I can mail you a short list I wrote from memory... what's your mail addy? Jun 06 13:38:07 cool. I'm looking forward to using it on my robot. I've been kludging the old 3.1 version for too long now. Jun 06 13:38:18 gauthier.stephane@gmail.com from now on. Jun 06 13:41:24 there Jun 06 13:41:38 it's just a quick "from memory" thing. Jun 06 13:45:12 hmm Jun 06 13:45:38 Wasn't there someone claiming that the network performance of slugos-lag was lower than slugos-bag? Jun 06 13:48:26 really? Possible. Not that I use it much on my bot. I use my ZD1211 now. More power drain but worth it for debugging. Jun 06 13:50:52 power drain should be ~200mAh during network traffic IIRC Jun 06 13:51:36 unfortunately, this slugos-release won't support the zd1211rw-driver (The rewrite-project that hopefully makes a *proper* driver). Jun 06 13:52:40 so we'll have to stick with the "old" release (iirc, there's 8 revs between what's in the feeds and the latest driver available. Gotta test the new driver soon) Jun 06 13:53:51 The kernel modularization didn't happen for this release. There's too much work getting the proper modules loaded at boot, and it'll need a fair bit of testing. Jun 06 13:54:10 a complete rewrite? by the same guys? cool. Jun 06 13:54:23 yeah Jun 06 13:54:25 well, kindof Jun 06 13:54:32 they can't rewrite the firmware ofcourse Jun 06 13:54:38 yeah, the usb dongle is 150ma at idle the spec says. Jun 06 13:54:41 but they're rewriting the kernel module Jun 06 13:55:03 nice. It wasn't that unstable before but that should be even better. Jun 06 13:55:10 they're talking to the zydas engineers and suggesting fixes ;-) Jun 06 13:56:01 if we're lucky, the zd1211rw driver will be in the next release as an official vanilla kernel-module Jun 06 13:56:40 (the -rw driver requires some in-kernel wireless fancyness that wasn't added until 2.6.17-pre-something Jun 06 13:57:55 I see. Jun 06 13:58:27 I hope the new release has a better turnup as I couldn't get turnup memstick to stick. it worked only some times. Jun 06 13:58:36 there has been fixes Jun 06 13:58:50 I needed it to install all the junk required by zd1211 and others. Jun 06 13:58:50 happened between 3.6/3.7 IIRC Jun 06 13:58:54 nice. Jun 06 13:59:11 I'm not sure which version my robot used anymore. 3.1 or maybe 3.6 Jun 06 14:00:01 it's been a messy road to release :-P Jun 06 14:09:21 yep. Almost there though. Jun 06 14:26:24 Anybody has a text based Hex editor to recommend? unless vim can do it? Jun 06 21:14:04 hi, what does it mean if my slug flashes red-orange during booting ? Jun 06 21:14:17 don't think i ever saw that before Jun 06 21:14:27 it even happens if the slug is booting without hard disk Jun 06 22:00:33 Anyone tried the 3.8 binary yet? **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Jun 07 02:59:56 2006