The Linkstation is an 8260 PPC system: BUFFALO INC. Link Station series HD-HLAN (HIDETADA) BUFFALO login: root Password: Linux (none) 2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint...
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stuart_stegall
Sep 21, 2004 8:42 pm
Do you know what the boot process is yet?? Also can you post a dmesg?...
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Thom Mason
thommason
Sep 21, 2004 8:54 pm
Here's a stab at things that might be worthwhile to explore: 1) find a suitable distribution to draw on so that we can use existing ppc binaries. Of course...
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Thom Mason
thommason
Sep 21, 2004 9:01 pm
Here's the log file which gives some indication of the bootsequence dmesg isn't there (another thing for the to do list): Sep 21 05:05:53 BUFFALO...
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Derek Taubert
dtaub001
Sep 21, 2004 9:18 pm
... I've been working on 2/3. I picked up a new binutils and gcc-2.59.3 (that's the version used to build the kernel, although Buffalo seems to have used the...
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Derek Taubert
dtaub001
Sep 21, 2004 9:25 pm
Try this one on for size: Sep 16 23:39:16 HD-HLANA09 syslogd 1.3-3: restart. Sep 16 23:39:16 HD-HLANA09 kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started. ...
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Thom Mason
thommason
Sep 22, 2004 1:32 am
Derek, What was involved in getting rpm up and running? Thom ... 2.59.3 ... seems to ... cross ... easily....
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Derek Taubert
dtaub001
Sep 22, 2004 1:58 am
I didn't run rpm on the box, as I knew the available packages would have incompatibilities. I picked out certain files with rpm2cpio | cpio -i and just copied...
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Derek Taubert
dtaub001
Sep 22, 2004 2:16 am
... Err, looks like I can get them out of the glibc rpm from the GPL zip. Setting up a cross system to handle these GPL rpms is a bit of work. Lots of custom...
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dyoung8888
Sep 22, 2004 2:59 am
Anyone have a link to some detailed photos of the insides of this box?...
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dyoung8888
Sep 22, 2004 3:05 am
Has anyone read yamashita-san's webpage yet? http://www.yamasita.jp/linkstation/ It indicates that HackKit runs on it. If that doesnt ring any bells, IIRC,...
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Thom Mason
thommason
Sep 22, 2004 3:08 am
If you poke around on the Japanese website in the Links section you can find some pictures. Just for fun I took mine apart. It's tightly packed and hard to...
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dfw0118
Sep 22, 2004 5:20 am
Hi all, I've been messing with my "linkstation" for a little while now. Actually, I bought a device that's called the "Kuro-box"; which basically is a rebranded...
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dfw0118
Sep 22, 2004 5:38 am
I've read through that site. It has tons of information to go through. I'm not quite clear what the Hackkit is, but I thought it was like a distro he put...
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shawn_ledbetter
Sep 22, 2004 6:21 am
... Cool -- I've tried following a couple of those sites via online translators, but it doesn't quite work for technical work. The ones that interest me most...
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Matthew Flint
matthewkflint
Sep 22, 2004 11:30 am
... - Kernel support for other USB devices, such as 802.11b/g adapters. - routing functions (so can be used as a cheap wireless router) - a WiKi hosted...
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Thomas Mason
thommason
Sep 22, 2004 1:40 pm
I have added this mailing list to gmane. This will give us a newsfeed and web archive, details below. Thom ... From: "Gmane Administrator" <admin@...>...
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dfw0118
Sep 22, 2004 2:47 pm
... crack ... a ... Reading those machine translated web pages were just too confusing and sometimes funny. :) Luckily I can read enough Japanese to tell...
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Stuart Stegall
stuart_stegall
Sep 22, 2004 3:33 pm
Just a FYI for those who are from the US and Canada, those silly stickers that say you'll void your warranty if they are cut through and what not. We have...
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Derek Taubert
dtaub001
Sep 22, 2004 5:56 pm
This should be relevant: http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2222.pdf hhl stands for Hard Hat Linux, also from MontaVista. Not sure if this is...
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mphoust2
Sep 23, 2004 7:30 pm
All, I am interested in running a source code control system called perforce on the LinkStation. It looks like a promising fit. The progam supports Linux PPC...
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mphoust2
Sep 23, 2004 7:51 pm
Has anyone had much success in translating these pages? I tried Google and babelfish.altavista.com. They both don't work....
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Derek Taubert
dtaub001
Sep 23, 2004 8:36 pm
... It may very well work. glibc is 2.2.3 on the LinkStation. ... You want to run the server on the LinkStation, yes? ... I should have a cross and native...
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mphoust2
Sep 23, 2004 9:02 pm
Excellent news! I may just give it a try. If I buy it from newegg, I suspect I can return it if the experiment is a complete failure (and I don't turn it...
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Thom Mason
thommason
Sep 24, 2004 1:36 am
Babelfish doesn't work with the url but if you cut and paste a paragraph you get soemthing. Trouble is there's so much information it's hard to digest since...
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Derek Taubert
dtaub001
Sep 24, 2004 1:56 am
That binary passed the laugh test: # uname -a Linux HD-HLANA09 2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint #990 2004ǯ 5�� 21�� ������ 13:39:00 JST ppc unknown ...
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mphoust2
Sep 24, 2004 11:57 am
Great news. Looks like I get to order one while the rebate offer still holds. I will post with my results. Thanks a lot Derek! BTW, I use perforce for source...
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LinkStation_General@y...
Sep 25, 2004 3:58 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the LinkStation_General group. File :...
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7tronics Plc, M Smith
seventronics
Sep 25, 2004 9:10 pm
Before acquiring an NSLU2 I posted a couple of places that the Linkstation looked like more of what I was looking for, but lacked the community enhancing this...
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Michael Oberg
frankeymolester
Sep 26, 2004 1:43 am
Be careful, that is the Drivestation! NOT the Linkstation. I almost bought this without realizing the difference. Still is really cheap for a 160GB drive. -...
