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Nov 20 17:00:52 <tidux> I think my sheevaplug might be dead
Nov 20 17:01:20 <tidux> I'm trying to connect to it, I've modprobe'd usbserial and ftdi_sio
Nov 20 17:01:29 <tidux> but /dev/ttyUSB0 isn't appearing
Nov 20 17:01:35 <tidux> and there's no mention of it in dmesg
Nov 20 17:02:32 <PhotoJim> tidux: the power supplies in the older Sheevas are delicate.  I had one die.  luckily the replacements are superior and quite inexpensive.
Nov 20 17:02:42 <PhotoJim> tidux: you can tell for certain by the LEDs, if you can get to the Sheeva.
Nov 20 17:02:53 <tidux> well the green and blue LEDs are up
Nov 20 17:03:10 <tidux> and when I plug in an ethernet cable it blinks for a while looking for an IP I think
Nov 20 17:03:26 <PhotoJim> hmm.
Nov 20 17:03:55 <PhotoJim> http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1318.0
Nov 20 17:03:59 <PhotoJim> seems still likely to be a PSU
Nov 20 17:04:02 <PhotoJim> how old is the Sheeva?
Nov 20 17:04:22 <tidux> got it mid-2010
Nov 20 17:04:32 <PhotoJim> I'd definitely suspect the PSU then.
Nov 20 17:04:42 <tidux> ok
Nov 20 17:04:47 <tidux> how much does a replacement run?
Nov 20 17:04:54 <tidux> and do I have to solder anything to replace it?
Nov 20 17:04:57 <PhotoJim> about $11-12, plus shipping
Nov 20 17:05:04 <PhotoJim> No, it's a fairly easy replacement.
Nov 20 17:05:25 <PhotoJim> Getting the original PSU out is easy.  Getting the new one to align with the holes in the case is tricky, but I'm all thumbs and I was still able to do it in about 20 minutes total.
Nov 20 17:05:34 <PhotoJim> someone who's decent at this could do it in 5 minutes.
Nov 20 17:05:56 <tidux> k
Nov 20 17:06:08 <PhotoJim> some of the PSU failures are obvious.  you could disassemble yours to look for such damage to confirm a dead power supply.
Nov 20 17:06:17 <PhotoJim> mine didn't have the symptoms, though.  still, replacing the supply fixed my Sheeva.
Nov 20 17:06:24 <PhotoJim> so whatever happened to mine was invisible to the eye.
Nov 20 17:06:47 <PhotoJim> I took advantage of the high shipping costs to Canada ( :) ) to buy a second Sheeva.  didn't increase the shipping.
Nov 20 17:07:11 <PhotoJim> (I run my IRC session on it.  it's hidden behind the home theatre system in the living room.  Ethernet already there for the TV/Blu-Ray/receiver/Slingbox/Mac Mini :) ).
Nov 20 17:07:37 <tidux> yeah, I use the hell out of mine
Nov 20 17:07:57 <PhotoJim> what do you use yours for?
Nov 20 17:08:03 <tidux> screen session, ngircd, apache, vsftpd, and rtorrent
Nov 20 17:08:10 <tidux> oh, and opensshd obviously
Nov 20 17:08:13 <PhotoJim> my original one is my offsite backup device.  external 1.5 TB drive.  I sync my server to it every night.  it lives at my brother-in-law's.
Nov 20 17:08:22 <PhotoJim> ahh, you do quite a lot then.
Nov 20 17:08:24 <tidux> makes a great little poor man's VPN if you're using public unsecured wifi
Nov 20 17:08:25 <tidux> yeah
Nov 20 17:08:30 <PhotoJim> yes it does.
Nov 20 17:08:36 <tidux> Debian Squeeze on a 4GB SDHC rootf
Nov 20 17:08:36 <tidux> s
Nov 20 17:08:54 <PhotoJim> I run Squeeze on both of mine.  one has the external hard disk.  the other is SD.
Nov 20 17:09:08 <PhotoJim> 16 GB it seems.  way bigger than I need but I had it kicking around.
Nov 20 17:27:48 <tidux> aha
Nov 20 17:27:50 <tidux> fixed it
Nov 20 17:28:00 <tidux> I needed to run `sudo modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x9e88 product=0x9e8f `
Nov 20 17:28:36 <tidux> ok sweet, I'm in uBoot
Nov 20 17:29:33 <PhotoJim> oh, that was easy.
Nov 20 17:29:38 <PhotoJim> glad it wasn't the power supply.
Nov 20 17:30:13 <tidux> yeah
Nov 20 17:30:30 <tidux> now I just need to remember how to set that to load at boot time on my laptop
Nov 20 17:31:37 <Tootoot222> /etc/modules.d/modprobe.conf iirc
Nov 20 17:31:41 <tidux> aah
Nov 20 17:31:42 <Tootoot222> or something similar, depending on your distro
Nov 20 17:32:16 <tidux> I'm using Debian Testing here
Nov 20 17:32:31 <tidux> in case you couldn't tell from what I'm doing with my plug, I'm a Debian guy
Nov 20 17:32:35 <tidux> :P
Nov 20 17:33:55 <Tootoot222> i think debian might be /etc/modules
Nov 20 17:34:13 <Tootoot222> i run gentoo on all 3 of my plugs, my laptop, and 2 of my desktops =p
Nov 20 17:34:59 <PhotoJim> I tried Gentoo on my second Sheeva but I got frustrated.
Nov 20 17:35:03 <tidux> yeah, found it
Nov 20 17:35:04 <PhotoJim> Still run it on a Sun Ultra 1 though.
Nov 20 17:35:08 <tidux> dang
Nov 20 17:35:16 <tidux> I actually have OpenBSD on a netbook
Nov 20 17:35:25 <tidux> not for long, though
Nov 20 17:35:28 <tidux> I had to disable ACPI
Nov 20 17:35:44 <tidux> because it was reporting a temperature of 255C (which it erroneously converted as 5428 K)
Nov 20 17:35:51 <Tootoot222> XD
Nov 20 17:35:53 <tidux> when the thing was barely warm to the touch
Nov 20 17:35:54 <tidux> yeah
Nov 20 17:36:09 <tidux> so it'd boot up to the point where acpitz0 ran a temp check
Nov 20 17:36:13 <tidux> then panic and shut down
Nov 20 17:36:17 <Tootoot222> lol
Nov 20 17:36:26 <tidux> I had to dick around in the kernel config
Nov 20 17:36:57 <tidux> oh, and I wrote a kermit startup script to initialize it properly for the sheevaplug
Nov 20 17:37:06 <tidux> want me to pastebin it or add it to the wiki?
Nov 20 17:38:11 <tidux> shit shit shit shit shit
Nov 20 17:38:18 <tidux> I think I just nuked /boot on my sheevaplug's SDHC
Nov 20 17:38:29 <tidux> WELP time for reinstall
Nov 20 17:38:31 <tidux> :/
Nov 20 17:45:55 <PhotoJim> Oops.
Nov 20 17:47:19 <tidux> it's all good
Nov 20 17:47:58 <tidux> but thanks for the help, guys
Nov 20 19:10:25 <Colin_> so the rootfilesystem ile is missing from the official downloads page ? anyone have a clue where to find it now?
Nov 20 19:16:11 * Colin_ is getting desperate 
Nov 20 19:32:50 <Colin_> well .. found iot ..
Nov 20 19:32:59 <Colin_> dead links everywhere
Nov 20 19:53:57 <tidux> I'm having some trouble getting the sheevaplug to boot from SDHC
Nov 20 19:54:29 <tidux> Marvell>> run bootcmd
Nov 20 19:54:29 <tidux> Usage:
Nov 20 19:54:29 <tidux> mmcinit - init mmc card
Nov 20 19:54:29 <tidux> ** Bad partition 1 **
Nov 20 19:54:29 <tidux> ** Bad partition 1 **
Nov 20 19:54:29 <tidux> ## Booting image at 00800000 ...
Nov 20 19:54:29 <tidux> Bad Magic Number
Nov 20 19:55:11 <tidux> this is after the Debian installer finished and returned to uboot
Nov 20 20:05:11 <tidux> never mind
Nov 20 20:05:15 <tidux> somehow, rebooting fixed it
Nov 20 20:05:17 * tidux shrugs
Nov 20 20:07:26 <tinker-f595> Colin_: were are you looking?
Nov 20 20:10:19 <Colin_> i found it
Nov 20 20:11:06 <Colin_> thanks ?. theres just a bunch of dead links to things on the plugcomputer.org site .. But i found the files anyway ?
Nov 20 20:11:50 <Colin_> things seem to be going ? OK ? writing the rootfs now
Nov 20 20:12:39 <Colin_> reseting now .. WOOOO ,? i think  its going!
Nov 20 20:15:17 <Colin_> OH wow .. i did it .. succsess!
Nov 20 22:13:39 <tinker-f595> Colin_: This is the place to start to look for official links http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-downloads.aspx
Nov 21 00:28:06 <Colin_> <tinker-f595> thanks ?.
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