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Sheevaplug

4 comments, 925 views, posted 1:20 pm 23/03/2011 in Linux & Open Source by griffin
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Mine arrived yesterday.


Image swiped from wikipedia.

From wikipedia: The SheevaPlug is one of the first "Plug computers" on the market. It features a 1.2 GHz Marvell Kirkwood 6281 ARM-compatible CPU (aka Feroceon). The device has already been called an "NSLU2 killer" due to its low price (and the discontinued status of the NSLU2).

The SheevaPlug comes supplied with Ubuntu 9.04 ARM build. The SheevaPlug has been supported since Linux Kernel version 2.6.27 and is currently shipping with 2.6.30-rc5 Marvell offers a development kit to assist in the development of software for the platform. The kit includes the GCC cross-compiler for ARM. The device includes a mini USB connector wired to an FTDI FT2232 chip which provides the developer's computer with access to two ports, a JTAG port connected to the internal JTAG bus, and an RS232 port connected to the Kirkwood processor's serial port through which the bootstrap and kernel console can be accessed. This debug console can be accessed from any computer with support for the FTDI bus translator (FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows).

One of the things I want to do is to install a web server, and create a mobile homepage for myself. This homepage would have weather, news headlines and my most used links on it in one 'plain html' fast loading page.

So far I've been playing with it and setting up ssh, console and vnc access to it. I also installed a faux X server (Xvfb) that I can access via vnc, though that was just for fun, rather than for any particular reason.

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1:28 pm 23/03/2011

mohit_117

What does it do?? How do you create a web server with it?? Is it connected to a windows machine or a Linux? What do the 2 wires on the right do? Where are they connected? Is it a modem or router of any kind? Is it for specific hardware?

What's that coin? A Dollar $ ? Or a Pound £ ?

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2:06 pm 23/03/2011

griffin

Quote by mohit_117:
What does it do??


Everything a small low-wattage general purpose computer running linux can do.

Quote by mohit_117:
How do you create a web server with it??


Simply install the server software of your choice. I think I'll go with Cherokee.

Quote by mohit_117:
Is it connected to a windows machine or a Linux?


It is a standalone computer. You can connect to it from either windows or linux.

Quote by mohit_117:
What do the 2 wires on the right do?


The black one is a USB cable. The white one is cat 5 ethernet cable.

Quote by mohit_117:
Where are they connected?


One goes to the external drive pictured above, the other presumably goes to a router, switch or hub of some kind.

Quote by mohit_117:
Is it a modem or router of any kind?


No. It is a general purpose computer.

Quote by mohit_117:
Is it for specific hardware?


What hardware do you mean?

Quote by mohit_117:
What's that coin? A Dollar $ ? Or a Pound £ ?


Neither. It is a one Euro coin.

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3:12 pm 23/03/2011

mohit_117

Thanks griffin! All answers answered... Didn't know any of that..

Quote by griffin:
What hardware do you mean?

Like for a Camera or Scanner etc.... but you already clarified that it's for a computer...

Thanks again.

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4:50 pm 28/03/2011

Edorph

Awesome. Does it support ethernet via the electricity outlet/socket? That'd be awesome. I like the mobile homepage idea.. that's just flamboyantly nerdy :-)

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