..And use ALOT more power....

Here is the commit, seems the Marvell crypto stuff is now in mainline...

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=85a7f0ac5370901916a21935e1fafbe397b70f80

Thank for pointing that out.   Updated script and images are uploaded here: 

http://www.mediafire.com/sheeva-with-debian

Can't seem to reproduce this.  I'm not getting errors on either build.   Just to confirm, you were building on a filesystem that allowed device creation (dev) and exxecution (exec)?

Thanks for the tip about the apt cache, that's taken 40MB out the download size (both about 60MB -70MB).   I'll upload a prebuild lenny and squeeze..

The distance between the ethernet port and the USB port.

if they are right next to each other, it's an old one, if they are apart (by about 40mm) then it's a rev1.3

OLD:


NEW:

I would use the sheevainstaller (under Linux) to flash the plug, as it converts it from JIFS (slow) to the newer and much faster to boot UBIFS, along with a updated Ubuntu (or optionally Debian).  From this point, you can then just download a kernel from sheeva-with-linux...

I had this problem, and the only way I fixed it was using a different flash drive. 

Fixed for the mknod serial console (script 1.4 attached to the first post in this thread).  Also some other tweaks (see readme for details).

Silly question time.  I understand 2.6.32 brings in the Marvell crypto stuff for the Sheevaplug Feroceon CPU.   Once this arrives, will it make stuff like ssh and disk encryption and things faster, without changes to the binaries that use them (i.e. will be benefits be invisible to the applicaton, and just execute quicker because the CPU knows how to do crypto)?

Or will it involve compiling everything specifically to support the crypto kernel APIs?

Not sure how much I can help, but I have the 3.4.25 u-boot, kernel 2.6.31.6 (sheeva-with-linux) and debian squeeze on internal NAND (using my alternative method), and ping works just fine regardless of what I do.

It's almost certain you will get a Rev1.3.   I ordered mine about 4 months ago from GlobalScale, and it's a rev 1.3

The updated prebuilt of Squeeze it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?tiifeiwnyle

Done some fixes to the script to identify the dash problem and inform the user if they launch the script incorrectly, and a few other tweaks (include ssh server for example).

Just done a build from it, and all seems fine, any problems with the update script, please post.   I'll also upload the rebuild rootfs.tar.gz  (as it will have newer packages than the older one).

It was mentioned it could be down to the system, or shell thats being run on the build system. Without knowing too much about your build environment, it's hard to tell.

I use BASH, and that script works 100% correctly (both on the standard Ubuntu 9,.04 that the plug comes with, and Debian Squeeze)...   If that part of the script fails, it's likely others may be too

Yes, UBIFS.  Why do I use internal NAND?  Because it's about 2x faster than the fastest SDHC card, and SDHC is a who world of hurt getting something that works fast AND reliably.,.