I thought about the Raspberry Pi but I'm not sure how well/fast that one is.
The guru had a faster CPU but the CPU is older.
Are there experiences running something like eibd, linknx and knxweb on a raspberry Pi?

you could look toward the Raspberry pi

Hi All,

I have a Guruplug and would love to have a new plug for some other stuff.
I'm pretty satisfied with Guru, besides the fact that the NAND is a bit small and the heat issues with the GBit Ethernet.

I'm not sure if the heat issue is still in current GuruPlugs (I bought one of the first ones) and I'm not sure if I can take my lessons learned and apply them on another plug.

What I need is a small low power server running a webapplication (eibd, linknx, PHP)
I also would like to add some serial interface function
- I need 2 serial ports to communicate with my heat pump and air condition (I thought about a usb to serial adapter)

So any hint of what you would use and maybe why would be very helpful.

Thanks

denghauser

Hi All,

I just bricked my Guruplug and can consistently do so. :-)
Here the steps:
Take the latest uboot, kernel, rootfs from here http://www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/guru-plug/

Install it as stated here : http://www.newit.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=417.0
What it says, load the 3 pieces into your nand

Start the plug.

Make sure to step down the network, at least mine needs this to not burn the house :-)
To do this I install ethtool and change my interfaces file.
I also remove the ifplugd pieces from my rc*.d directories

No I can reboot my plug and everything is fine.

If I now do

apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential

and I restart the plug, it gets stuck when it should load the console.

So I end up seeing that my network is connected with 100MBit and my time was updated from the ntpd but these messages are the last I get from the console (serial JTAG connection)

There is a message on the screen [warning] Files in /run will be invisible

In the logiles there is an additional message saying that /dev/console is not availabe.
It looks like /dev/console is just invisible for the bootprocess.

Any hint?

I'm kind of stuck as I don't know where to look next.
I would love to have my Guru running again, but somehow continuously brick it with the install of the build-essential

Thanks

Dietmar

HI,
I have Alcatel 3G USB stick. Do you have any suggestion on how to adopt it to Debian?
Alternatively can you suggest any other stick that is supported by Debian?

Thanks.

Find the images at http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sheevaplug/.

See: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/armel/

I had Debian Wheezy working from an SD on my Sheeva Plug.

The build needs to be for armel and not armhf.  (the HF in armhf refers to hardware floating point, which the Sheeva does not have.)

I just got there on the first try:  http://www.plugcomputer.org/Documentation/howtos/re-building-the-kernel-and-u-boot/.

I should note that before that I had tried a few other links in the HowTo's that failed.  But on the second or third attempt I connected.

I think it may be related to DNS latency.

Hi All,

I searched the web a couple of time to get a good tutorial how to rebuild both, uboot and the kernel for the guruplug.
I always find a promising link named "Re-building the kernel and U-Boot - PlugWiki" which points to http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Re-building_the_kernel_and_U-Boot#Building_U-Boot but this link is dead and I can't find the article.

Is there anybody out there who has a current link to this article or maybe has the article to share?
Or maybe does someone have a even more current tutorial that I can use?

Thanks

denghauser

As I can't believe that nobody else did an upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy and obviously re missing feedback did not run into the smbd issue, may I ask you to share your upgrade procedure with us, please!?