<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">nick thompson</b> <<a href="mailto:nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com">nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Steven N. Trapp wrote:<br>><br>> <<OVER-AND-OUT<br>> --<br>> Wow. That's way cool thing you're doing. As far as hardware goes,<br>> I independently reinvented the BLOB METHOD when it comes to soldering.
<br>> So I don't do much of that. Besides I breathed too much lead trying.<br>><br>Hehe yeah it is pretty fun, the nslu2 community is incredibly helpful<br>too, of the like ga-zillions of unix / tech / computer / unix / unix
<br>mailing lists I'm on, nslu2-linux list is great, openslug list is great,<br>nslu2-general is more broad, unslung openslug everything is talked about<br>on here. still good though. Also, *this* very mailing list kicks ass, as
<br>you can see by how nice John is being, and just how nice and helpful<br>everybody is. I love TCLUG. Anyway, hope to hear back on the serial<br>mod... cool either way, just scared to break it. Anyway, I am too damned<br>
tired to work on this thing tonight, and that is very unlike me...</blockquote><div><br><br>I can do your soldering. I have to find my solding junk - so contact me off list for date/time to do it. the mod instructions didn't give me a good view of the connector that is soldered on the board - does it go through the board and soldered on the other side or is it surface mounted? I would think it'd go through...
<br><br><br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">...But I have been working on getting a 2.6 kernel working on a compaq
<br>proliant 2500 with a U1 storage array and a 2/DH storage array<br>controller. Anyone with personal experience with a 2.6 kernel on this<br>type of machine, I would love it if you would say something... (to the<br>person whom i got this from, you know who you are... : ) I would feel
<br>guilty asking you for help on this one, since you hooked me up with such<br>great equipment. anyway, I of course in no way mean "do not respond" I<br>just mean, don't put effort into it if it's at all a bother, you already
<br>helped me out so much. hehe. I ramble. anyway, this thing has 12 4.3 gb<br>scsi drives, between the 5 in the machine (dual ppro 200, 320 megs ram)<br>and the 7 in the separate rackable (both rackable) U1 storage array, so
<br>anyway... apparently these Smart/2 controllers are cool as hell, from<br>what I've read. : ) Anyone have any experience?<br><br>p.s. sorry for combining posts... i should scold myself<br><br>Nick<br><br>"All unix, all the time."
<br><br><a href="http://npt.ath.cx">http://npt.ath.cx</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>> What I was wondering is if anyone knows of anyone willing to think<br>> about selling a BorderGuard 1000 or BorderGuard 2000 (preferably a
<br>> 2000). They were manufactured by NSC/STK/SUN when they were at<br>> 7600/7625 BooneAvS. Their URL was the infamously great (but their<br>> website was stupidly under done): <a href="http://www.network.com">
www.network.com</a><br>> --<br>><br>> Party like it is 2006! --Prince will do this, I hope!<br>><br>> .signature file contents:<br>> --<br>> ##====================## <a href="mailto:steventrapp@comcast.net">
steventrapp@comcast.net</a><br>> || SSS N N TTTTT|| a.k.a. "The Keystone Strapper"<br>> || S NN N T || a.k.a. __keystoneStrapper__<br>> || SSS N N N T || Mpls, MN 55421, USA
<br>> || S N NN T || 5020 Mulcare Drive<br>> || SSS N N T || Steven N. Trapp<br>> ##====================## Apt Bsmt (763) 913-6271<br>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<br>> --<br>> As John Nelson (uncle of RHS) would say:<br>> OVER-AND-OUT<br>> --<br>><br>> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, nick thompson wrote:<br>><br>>> John Meier wrote:<br>>>> Hey Nick-<br>>>>
<br>>>> Meant to mention that I also have some experince with soldering surface<br>>>> mount junk - I've modded a few playstations and the like. I have a<br>>>> soldering iron with a fine tip. I could give it a try ...
<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> I also just bought a nslu2 locally, so if yours gets fubared, I could<br>>>> probably return it :)<br>>>><br>>> Holy crap, the nail clippers actually worked. I had read about it before
<br>>> you sent me the link, but I just didn't have the guts to do it before.<br>>> Anyway, since you everything you sent me (the razor blade, exacto knife,<br>>> etc ideas from the mail you sent to my address) agreed with the idea in
<br>>> theory, I figured fuck it and when I got home from work, I was willing<br>>> to bet $80 it would work, and literally *double* my cpu speed. My gosh,<br>>> it worked! (Of course, in having been an idiot and just powered it down
<br>>> w/o halting it [so the drive was still mounted] I can't seem to get it<br>>> to power back up to my gentoo install on the usb drive... ssh never<br>>> comes up. However, I know it worked, and am guessing I just need to plug
<br>>> the usb drive into one of my desktops and run fsck on the thing... I<br>>> think the ssh daemon never comes up because it's running fsck on the 120<br>>> gig drive on the slug, which is a slow machine even though I just
<br>>> doubled the speed. :) BTW, I know it worked because if I unplug the usb<br>>> drive, openslug does come up and I can ssh in to that, and dmesg shows<br>>> 266 mhz / bogomips so *sweet* hehe anyway, I am celebrating, but once I
<br>>> get gentoo back up and the ssh daemon lets me in, then I really will be<br>>> happy because holy shit will it be cool to suddenly just literally<br>>> double the speed of a machine... especially a gentoo box. : ) Anyway,
<br>>> updates to follow...<br>>><br>>> Also, john, I am very interested in the serial port mod as well... I<br>>> have everything, pre assembled with a 4 ping female end... just need to<br>>> solder pins or wires into the holes on the board... still though, I am
<br>>> afraid of breaking it. If you think you could pull off the serial mod... : )<br>>><br>>><br>>> Nick<br>>><br>>> "All unix, all the time."<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://npt.ath.cx">
http://npt.ath.cx</a><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>>> On 7/11/06, nick thompson <<a href="mailto:nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com">nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>>> Hi all,
<br>>>>> I don't know if anyone else out there is playing with an nslu2, if you<br>>>>> haven't heard about them they are a $80 linksys box w/ 2 usb2 ports and<br>>>>> you plug in usb drives and suddenly have cheap NAS.... but of course, it
<br>>>>> runs linux, and can run modified firmware and run full blown debian,<br>>>>> gentoo, and others. Anyway, since the dang thing is underclocked from<br>>>>> 266 mhz to 133 mhz on purpose (? heat maybe) one surface mount resistor
<br>>>>> needs to be removed. I don't want to break the thing. I mean, I can<br>>>>> solder but surface mount scares me. Anyone in town done the mod and<br>>>>> could I pay you to do it / buy you a beer?
<br>>>>><br>>>>> Nick<br>>>>><br>>>>> "All unix, all the time."<br>>>>><br>>>>> <a href="http://npt.ath.cx">http://npt.ath.cx</a><br>>>>>
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