Slug
Bought a NSLU2 from Ebuyer. Was about ~50GBP hence qualifying for free delivery with 5 working days. I don’t know why, but according to the packaging it was sent “next day” on the 4th day(!?). The device came direct from the usual suspects Computer2000, one of the oldest and biggest computer part distributors in the UK. Sidenote: I wonder if Ebuyer can claim to have stock, when it’s actually their distributors stock?
tbm’s slug install page aided my Debian etch install. This slug has a 80G external USB hard drive attached with 10G ext3 for Debian and the rest for my legacy pr0n collection on fat32. I’ve already configured nfs and it seems to work well. 539M Debian install for that… bloat.
I am worried I might have not have given it enough swap, so now I am thinking of how to ramp up the memory. I’ve reassuringly discovered my slug is already operating at full 266 speeds. It would be good if this device can handle btdownloadcurses. Other ideas is to setup a logging server on it. Also I’d like to familiarise myself better with the architecture. I think I’ve seen these Xscale’s in at least one mobile phone. :)
Other hardware purchases I am thinking of:
- a USB wireless device – Anyone knows what chipset a Linksys WUSB54GR sports and if it is compatible with aircrack?
- Another USB stick
- Another huge USB external drive for the slug
- USB serial for connecting up my etrex primarily
I wish this slug had a USB-style power supply.
As for backups, I want to switch everything I have over to LVM2 eventually and use its snapshot features. Any tips or suggestions, let me know. I am not a fan of RAID solutions btw.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Mine handles rtorrent happily (while also doing many other things at the same time). The only shortcoming I find is network file access which is very slow (specially via samba but via nfs too).
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
maybe try mlnet over btdownloadcurses, you can connect it using sancho or other interfaces
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
One of these days I really, really must get around to getting one of these things – I’m feeling distinctly left out!
Trouble is, I don’t actually need the storage – I just want to try it out.
:-)
Does it have any internal storage? – even 10Mb would be enough.
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Hi Neil,
I think it only has 8Mb and it’s spread across:
Get an external USB drive. They’re cheap!
I hope you get one Neil. :)
July 4th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Ebuyer’s entirely open about “drop shipping” . I suppose they must be advertising their suppliers’ stocks of products for which they do this. I’ve also seen delayed next-day shipping rather than dispatch via a slow service. Perhaps the price grades are there because they can batch up less urgent orders to get discounts from their suppliers, rather than on delivery?
July 4th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Hey Ben, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for your input.
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Just for the record, I’ve found an awesome UK site doing Linux compatible wireless network equipment:
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/#pid88170
August 10th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Be careful with the rt2×00 based devices and the NSLU2 at present, in theory Rt2500USB and rt73usb devices should work but there are some remaining issues that are stopping the device from receiving data and with the mac80211 changes in the kernel it will be a lot easier for everyone when we get to around kernel 2.6.22 in the slug. I am working on it!
Also as for the internal storage its 8Mb but you must get your kernel and basic rootfs tools in there first
August 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
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