**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon May 29 02:59:56 2006 May 29 03:01:16 no, I haven't, but that's worth a try. thing is, it has always been that way since I began with it last week. May 29 03:02:33 I haven't put much on there yet, so I'm thinking of just starting over from scratch. do you think I can get by with simply reformatting my drive on another machine, take it back to the nslu2, reformatting it, and then unslinging again? May 29 03:02:56 or should I reflash it even before doing that. May 29 03:03:08 If you can start clean, I'd recommend it. May 29 03:03:28 You'll probably want to clear *everything* from the NSLU2 if you can then. May 29 03:06:09 You might get lucky unslinging a second time. However, the shares is one of the items that the unsling process tries to preserve, so you're best off reflashing as well. You might even consider resetting the unit to factory default settings, too. May 29 03:09:49 okay, thanks. I thought that behaviour was a little strange. I guess I'll do that now. kind of a bummer but I'm sure it'll be worth it in the long run. May 29 03:10:57 thanks for the great work on the firmware, btw. I'm having a lot of fun tinkering with it. I'm sure that I'll have an easier time of it with the knowledge I've gained from this first run. May 29 06:24:38 mwester, if you're still around, you gave me some tips before about a problem I had accessing the last share in my list. I have re-flashed my NSLU2 and reformatted my drive, unslung and am still having the same problem. I haven't added any shares yet. May 29 06:26:31 the second share on the list in the web interface is 'DISK 2', but when I select it the name in 'Properties' is 'DISK 2 ('. I am unable to make any configuration changes to that share so long as it remains the last share in the list. May 29 06:27:30 FYI, I'm about to investigate whether it's simply a browser compatibility issue, something I hadn't considered before... May 29 06:30:34 which browser are you using? May 29 06:31:12 Safari. I'm about to try it in Firefox. May 29 06:32:05 the clock on the nslu2 drifts off by several minutes within a few hours May 29 06:37:35 well, whaddayaknow? It turns out it was Safari after all. It works just fine in Firefox. I'm kind of astounded I haven't seen anything about this anywhere before. May 29 06:38:31 Is there anyone else out there using Safari that can test this out with Unslung 6.8 or perhaps the current Linksys firmware? May 29 06:39:00 If this behaviour is consistent then it should be posted on the Wiki, no? May 29 06:40:35 At LEAST it appears that some decent error checking is done to ensure that Safari doesn't submit invalid data to the config. May 29 12:23:25 is there someway I can 'see' the output of my slug trying to boot? May 29 12:24:13 I've unslunged, and set up a raid1 (or started to) I'm up to the bit where I'm trying to boot the blasted thing without any devices attached... it just sits here May 29 12:24:36 ready/status light blinking May 29 12:56:32 hi, how to nslu2 map the usbdisk to spezified mountpoints? May 29 12:58:51 hmmm now it's booting, but I'll be buggered if it's talking to me May 29 13:27:08 # /unslung/mdadm -a /dev/md3 /dev/sda3 May 29 13:27:08 mdadm: hot add failed for /dev/sda3: No space left on device May 29 13:27:12 strange... May 29 13:27:42 they're both identical... they're both fd in fdisk... May 29 13:29:51 it's no biggy... it just means I'm without raided swap May 29 14:03:59 Freman, what do you need mirrored swap for? May 29 14:04:58 It's a backup box May 29 14:05:06 I'm just following the howto (c: May 29 14:05:10 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/Raid1onUnslung5 May 29 14:05:22 except where I've had to improvise (linuxrc is changed) May 29 14:05:53 don't have 3 drives (couldn't get the thing to treat either of my flash disks with any respect) May 29 14:07:06 Freman, if you set up swap as "normal" partition and add dem both to the fstab file, they will be automatically used in striping mode (= raid0) May 29 14:07:25 s/dem/them/ May 29 14:07:25 EvilDevil meant: Freman, if you set up swap as "normal" partition and add them both to the fstab file, they will be automatically used in striping mode (= raid0) May 29 14:07:49 cool, I didn't know that May 29 14:08:18 i can't see any advantage in raid-1 swap May 29 14:08:35 well maybe once it's finished mirroring the other 300 gigs (come back in 10 hours) I'll remove md3 and set it up how you suggest May 29 14:08:47 again... I'm just pounding my way through the howto May 29 14:10:08 http://linas.org/linux/Software-RAID/Software-RAID-8.html (see question 18) May 29 14:11:40 or... I could do it now - seems the bloke I'm doing this for supplied me a flapping 250 and a 300, not a pair of 300s May 29 14:13:34 thanks for the tips, I'll use them tomorrow when I resume from 4 hours ago... May 29 14:20:08 Freman, good luck :) May 29 14:24:39 morning... I am trying to install the madwifi packages (modules and tools) and I've downloaded htem to /tmp but ipkg install madwifi.blahblahblah.ipk still seems to try and download it instead of taking the file provided May 29 14:25:21 (I've got one of those v4 WUSB64Gs I'd like to see if I can use) May 29 14:28:50 tzanger, hmm... i have no clue. are the ones ipkg wants to download different? May 29 14:29:51 no, I don't think it can find them at all May 29 14:30:10 hang on I'm getting something different now May 29 14:30:16 Clearing state_want and state_flag for pkg=madwifi-ng-modules (arch_priority=0 flag=16 want=2) May 29 14:30:33 any documentation on what the various flags mean? May 29 14:39:43 http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipkg tzanger you can also unpack the contents of the ipk (ar -x madwifi...ipk; tar xvzf data.tar.gz -C /) May 29 14:42:02 hmm okay May 29 14:42:13 <-- old slackware guy, this package manager stuff confuses me :-) May 29 14:43:34 slackware uses .tar.gz archives as packages, right? May 29 14:43:37 yes May 29 14:44:08 I have no trouble doing that, but that's supposed to be one of the things that's advantageous of "real" package managers -- as soon as I expand it into / manually ipkg will know nothing about it May 29 14:45:06 well.. .deb (and ipk) are 2 .tar.gz archives encapsulated in an ar archive, containing some installation infos (e.g. postinst / preinst in the file control.tar.gz) and files(data.tar.gz) May 29 14:45:16 right May 29 14:45:20 I just read that on the wiki :-) May 29 14:45:27 where? May 29 14:46:21 under "What is the .ipk format" May 29 14:46:35 oh, i c.. the ipkg wiki page... damn... if i had googled that before i wouldn't have need to do that much try and error "engineering" to find that out ;) May 29 14:46:44 :-) May 29 14:46:51 I'm trying to figure out what the flags are though May 29 14:47:02 the madwifi package isn't installing because of some flag conflict apparenlty May 29 14:51:56 tzanger, can you install the wireless-tools package? May 29 14:53:09 yes May 29 14:53:30 hmm.. i'm running out of ideas;) May 29 14:53:38 this thing has two ethernet interfaces?? May 29 14:53:53 yep, but only one is connected May 29 14:54:08 they've got completely different MACs though May 29 14:54:56 generally the OUIs are the same but the last three octets would be different May 29 14:55:08 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/SecondIXPNetworkInterface May 29 14:55:43 interesting May 29 14:56:23 okay, i got to go, heading to the next university ;) May 29 14:56:40 :-) May 29 14:56:42 take care, and thank you May 29 14:56:52 no prob :) May 29 15:03:35 hmm May 29 15:03:46 after the last ipkg upgrade and reboot I can't ssh in anymore... wtf **** ENDING LOGGING AT Tue May 30 02:59:57 2006