Hello,

I'm reading Martin Michlmayr's "Upgrading SheevaPlug's U-Boot" to upgrade my SheevaPlug from Ubuntu to Debian, and apparently, this requires first upgrading Uboot from its old, Marvell version.

The article includes this link to Uboot:


Before I go ahead, is there a more recent Uboot for the SheevaPlug?

Thank you.

Thanks for the link.

I'm a bit confused about what to do/choose:

1. The "Sheeva Plug Installer 1.0" is 145 MB: What does it contain?

Edit: Apparently, the Sheevaplug Installer uses Ubuntu

2. After running mgillespie's Alternative Debian install, I'm apparently required to install the "Sheeva Plug Installer 1.0"", and replace its rootfs.tar.gz with mgillespie's: What's the difference between the two rootfs.tar.gz?

Edit: Apparently, mgillespie's rootfs.tar.gz uses Debian.

3. What about the Gentoo files? Is Gentoo a better alternative to Debian when upgrading from the outdated Ubuntu 9.04?

Thank you.

Now the source code is available at http://www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/mirabox-2/

Ventura

unfortunately from offline conversation between the Debian developer and the Marvell custodian to uBoot, there was not much appetite/availability to fix the code. The one referred to by me on my Archlinux post did the job for me. Otherwise a faster or different SD card may be your fastest bet.

PS: just 'found' the test binary here  https://doukki.net/plugs/sheevaplug/testing/

PPS: and just found the link to a "Marvell uboot (3.4.16)" version in the "Linux distributions" section of this forum http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=6239.msg20460

While following up on this thread and reading the latest info posted to http://bugs.debian.org/687006#20 I see that the same code but translated with another compiler works!? As far as I can see the binary on tbm's site is still the 'faulty' one?

And further reading  http://bugs.debian.org/687006#25 I'd be keen to test the version with the new generic MMC/SDIO driver, as it "fixes an issue with most SDHC cards because of timeout delay" as I seem to suffer from that one as well (after power cycling the plug I have to wait a few seconds and have to press the reset button to get my SD card recognized by the system). Is there already a (publically) available binary (I'm not too good in compling stuff myself ;-)

Hi!

Got stuck half-way into an upgrade - still have the stock Ubuntu 9.04 on the NAND, but managed to upgrade U-Boot to 2011.12 in anticipation of changing the OS. Unfortunately my plug now doesn't boot properly. It loads the kernel, but then gets stuck. Ideas/suggestions?

I am installing the Kernel 3.8.3 to the new GlobalScale Mirabox appliance. At this time I am using NFS root file system. The ethernet cards are fine but it seems that there are no support for the micro SD port neither for USB 3.0. The original kernel that come in the flash is 2.6 and everything works. I have some questions:

1. Where I can find the source code of firmware??? Until now I found only binary.
2. Should I be doing something wrong or the mainline kernel really doesn't have support for those peripherals???

Ventura

I have a SheevaPlug, which it seems at this point has been obsoleted by many other iterations of plug computer, but that's what I have, so that's what I'm working with.

I've done days of Googling and searching this forum for a solution, but to no avail (most of the results I clicked on here at plugcomputer.org resulted in 404 errors) :-(

What I'd like to do is set up a number of USB and IP webcams on my Sheeva, control them with the motion daemon, and then serve them with Apache2. All simple enough stuff!

I have motion and Apache2 configured and running, and I'm able to see my IP cameras this way just fine. The problem lies with my USB cameras.

Both of my USB cameras contain Vimicro chipsets. What I'm looking for is a video for linux driver for these cameras. As it turns out, there are a TON of cheap Chinese cameras out there that aren't really supported by Linux, so this guy (or group of two guys) made a package that will supposedly make over 260 generic webcams work as valid Video For Linux devices.

I downloaded the files from http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html, but when I try the make file, I get an error stating that I don't have the kernel source loaded onto my SheevaPlug, so, naturally, I go looking for the source. I can't find it anywhere (I'm guessing that the kernel is different for an ARM architecture, and that's why I can't find it, but I guess I'm more of a newb to linux than I thought). Even the links on plugcomputer.org that seem to lead to it just lead to that 404 page. So then I thought maybe I would upgrade to a newer kernel, and get the source for that, but I can't seem to do that either.

I'm kinda at a loss, here. I just want my cheap webcams to work with my SheevaPlug. I either A) have to get drivers for it to work B) find the correct kernel source or C) I don't know what.

Here's some information that may be pertinent:

uname -a output:
Linux sheevaplug-debian 2.6.22.18 #1 Thu Mar 19 14:46:22 IST 2009 armv5tejl GNU/Linux


lsusb output:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ac8:3450 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

ls /dev | grep usb output:
usbdev1.1_ep00
usbdev1.1_ep81
usbdev1.2_ep00
usbdev1.2_ep81
(Through trial and error, I determined the last two are the webcam)

ls /dev | grep video output:
blank

Any little nudge in the right direction would be great.

Thanks,

Tony

This download includes the following: 

• Marvell uboot (3.4.16)
• Linux Kernel 2.6.22.18
• Debian 5 rootfs on jffs2

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0imSF-34b8dNnlUbDVwVjQxS0k/edit?usp=sharing