Re: [LIB] Libretto 100CT - Bought 2 Today! - Now Need Some Advice
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 20:25:21 +0200 From: Miernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 100CT - Bought 2 Today! - Now Need Some Advice On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:41:07AM -0700, Christian Gennerat wrote: I have now Debian Woody. But Mandrake is good and easy to install I use Debian GNU/Linux 'sarge' on mine, and certainly recommend it to anyone. Sarge is not released yet, but almost finished, woody is rather old. sarge installer is much nicer. Anyway I don't have any media drives on mine, so I simply put the drive in a desktop with a 2.5 - 3.5 IDE converter. Worked 'out of the box'. Debian gives each release a name, not only a number. so woody and sarge are releases of Debian. -- Miernik _ xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___/__ tel: +427 __/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.miernik.ctnet.pl/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ** Attached files are not permitted on this list, attachment has been removed.
Re: [LIB] LIb70 and Wifi
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:28:30 +0100 From: Miernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] LIb70 and Wifi On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:23:06AM -0800, dm wrote: I was reading the Adorable little libretto site and it said the cardbus was 16bit for the 70 as well. Just to clear some confusion: Cardbus = 32-bit card old PCMCIA = 16-bit card There is no such a thing as 16-bit Cardbus. -- Miernik xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___/__ tel: +48608233394 __/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.miernik.ctnet.pl/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] CPU Motherboard
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:37:43 +0100 From: Miernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] CPU Motherboard On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:31:32PM -0800, PhotoEngineering wrote: Could we start a public project on this mailing list to design the schematics of the mainboard, that interested participants (who want to order on of the 200 mainboards), can propose design changes, patches, etc? I'm sorry but it would be too expensive for me at this time. On the order of 10,000 main boards I could afford it but not for 200. It won't cost you anything more. I'm not asking you to produce a different version for different people. Maybe you misunderstood me. I'm only asking that you release the schematics of he board to the public before you make it, so people can contribute, fix bugs, etc. You may use their suggestions, or not if you don't like them. But it won't make your project more expensive. It may only help. You where writing about the cost of BIOS for example. If you release your board design under GPL or something similar, me or someone else from the LinuxBIOS hackers will port LInuxBIOS to the board, so you don't have to buy expensive licensed BIOS from AWARD or Phoenix. What chipset do you plan to use on the mainboard? I plan on using FPGAs Did you see this: http://www.opencores.org/projects/ Here is an open-source PowerPC board: ftp://www.openh.org/openHfiles/gemppc/Mechanical_Form_Factor_0-2.pdf ftp://www.openh.org/openHfiles/gemppc/rev0-2_picture1.jpg ftp://www.openh.org/openHfiles/gemppc/ The cost is 138.20 USD As I understand from the mainling list, they didn't do hundreds of these, only a few. They use IBM PowerPC 405GP processor on this board: http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC_405GP_Embedded_Processor When it runs at 200 MHz, has a bogomips of around 198. That's an equivalent of Intel Pentium 100 MHz. PCB, and then people could manufacture mainboards in their own countries. It would also make possible to have different versions of the board, like some might want to have CF sockets, others additional USB. So they could modify the design by themselves, and produce the board they need in a PCB printing shop. Too expensive. But that's the problem of the person which will order etching 1 copyof the board, and not yours. You are just releasing the design, it won't cost you anything more. From what I understood this didn't work. It did work, people actually did build these. But not much people are interested in 486 mono CGA computers :( -- Miernik jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___/__ tel: +48608233394 __/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No Iraq war http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/iraq/invadeIraq082702.html Please call the White House +1-202-456- or fax +1-202-456-2461 and say no! ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] CPU Motherboard
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:45:44 +0100 From: Miernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] CPU Motherboard Hi all. I'm very interested in the projest of one person here to create a new mainboard for an old Toshiba Libretto. The reason I'm interested, is that I need to create a laptop with a build in GPS and GSM devices. I want to have them integrated internally, best somewhere on the mainboard, and have a custom BIOS program to control the GPS and GSM cooperation, so that would be independent of the operating system installed. Here is a projest of a free, open source BIOS replacement, that could be used in this design: http://www.linuxbios.org/ Questions to PhotoEngineering John: Could we start a public project on this mailing list to design the schematics of the mainboard, that interested participants (who want to order on of the 200 mainboards), can propose design changes, patches, etc? What chipset do you plan to use on the mainboard? How many layers would have the board? The reason I ask, is that we could together design the schematics and PCB, and then people could manufacture mainboards in their own countries. It would also make possible to have different versions of the board, like some might want to have CF sockets, others additional USB. So they could modify the design by themselves, and produce the board they need in a PCB printing shop. A similar project of a 486, mono-LCD-CGA based palmtop, was the Morphy-One: http://ms-n.org/DataSheets/MorphyOne/ http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/plaza/aj93/waggy/hp/features/morphyone.htm http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/t_nakagawa/mo1.htm http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.page.sannet.ne.jp%2Ft_nakagawa%2Fmo1.htmlp=ja_entt=url I have also thought of using these motherboards in laptops, but they are very high (2*USB+RJ45), so it would not fit in a laptop case. http://www.mini-itx.com/news/computex2003-1/ Or the Via EPIA MII http://www.mini-itx.com/news/images/story0277.jpg regards, Jan Macek -- Miernik jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___/__ tel: +48608233394 __/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Truth about Bush's military operations: http://www.TruthAboutWar.org/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
