Hi David, I'm glad to see I've got some company! On May 10, 2009, at 2:06 PM, David Given wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rick Thomas wrote: [...]My first shivaplug arrived this morning. While I was waiting for it to arrive, I already purchased a USB hub, a 16GB USB stick (for main systemresidency), and a mess of 1GB sticks (for misc temporary stuff duringinstallation), so I plan to spend the weekend getting Debian installed.Be careful --- this is pretty much the same setup I have (except I bought four 16GB USB sticks [30MB/s read, 15MB/s write via RAID-0, hehheh heh] and so far I've noticed that the SheevaPlug is very, very pickyabout USB hubs.
I'm using a Belkin hub. I've never had any trouble with them. A bit more expensive than the "generics" but worth it!
Next: (when they release a version that supports both of the on-chip ethernet ports) I plan to replace my home router/firewall/IPv6-tunnel-endpoint with a Debian shivaplug.How are you with a soldering iron? The kernel supports both ports already!
I can make cables, but I wouldn't trust myself to solder directly to the pcboard. I know some folks who have the skills and the tools. I may try it, once I've got the software aspects under control.
I'm planning to use a USB ethernet widget on mine.
I'm planning to use the USB for a wifi port; router, Wifi, firewall, and network utils box all running Debian; and all solid-state so no moving-parts disks to go bad -- pretty cool!
Rick