| 06:32 | Coburn | jnettlet: 04:32:25 up 2 days, 19:32, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 |
| 06:32 | Coburn | That's my Clearfog |
| 06:33 | Coburn | checking the dmesg, no disco on the LAN ports for that duration |
| 06:33 | Coburn | in fact, the only thing that discoed was my USB wireless adapter because the plug was making a bad contact |
| 06:34 | Coburn | methinks i'll put it back in normal operation; see how it goes |
| 06:43 | jnettlet | Coburn, okay great. I am still tracking down a few more LEDE tweaks I think we need to add. |
| 06:51 | Coburn | did you fix the unknown symbol thing? |
| 06:51 | Coburn | one thing i'd appreciate is if there's a community build (ie yours) for the clearfog with the 4.9 kernel that it comes with all the basic things so downloads are minimized |
| 06:52 | Coburn | maybe drivers for common things like SATA/mPCIe cards, etc |
| 06:52 | Coburn | The biggest thing that overwhelms me is the modularity of LEDE... there's a lot of small pieces that can jam at any time |
| 06:53 | Coburn | If we had drivers for the Realtek, Ralink, Atheros, Marvell and Intel WiFi cards, that would allow ClearFog owners to slap in a said card and volia. WiFi is ready to go |
| 06:54 | Coburn | On 4.4.61, i had to install the module, then add some stuff into the module manager to load it on boot, then reboot the board otherwise it would complain about a lot of missing things |
| 10:24 | topi` | what kind of connector do I need to connect a 2.5" SATA SSD to my Macchiatobin? I have a 7-pin sata connector on hand, but it doesn't seem to provide power to the disk? |
| 10:29 | jnettlet | topi`, you will need something like a pico-psu that will provide 5V to the SSD |
| 10:35 | topi` | I guess I'll just use an ATX psu |
| 10:41 | Ke | topi`: something like this will do https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008LWGWTC/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=105K9A7V2P59O&coliid=I8WTWOXA271SA |
| 10:42 | Ke | note that it will only work on some sata drives, most probably most sata 2.5" or something |
| 10:43 | Ke | getting incorrect polarity is totally going to scifi your drive probably |
| 10:45 | topi` | I actually have some cables for BananaPI which include this kind of power connector |
| 10:45 | topi` | but the caveat about frying the SSD applies... |
| 11:04 | topi` | some of the traces going from the 8040 to the DDR4 dimm slot look really interesting. they look like wiggly worms... |
| 11:07 | Ke | topi`: the signal time often needs to match, and time is cable length/speed |
| 11:28 | jnettlet | topi`, I think Artox put something together. He hasn't done a full write up on it yet, but perhaps he can be persuaded. |
| 14:04 | Artox | jnettlet, topi` thats a big perhaps here |
| 14:05 | Artox | so we are talking about supplying power to optical drives, HDDs and SSDs? |
| 14:07 | Artox | short story: I wanted to connect 3 spinning disks to the mcbin, and thus used an old PC PSU in the beginning. Turns out that thing wastes a lot of energy when put on a low-power device such as this (compared to a typical pentium 4 pc) |
| 14:08 | Artox | turns out that the mcbin only requires 12V from the PSU, and then the peripherals might want to have 5V and 3.3V |
| 14:09 | Artox | using a trick cable with the 3.3V line disconnected, my harddisks were working fine, so the problem reduced itself to: getting 12V DC, and then getting 5V DC |
| 14:09 | Artox | 12V: laptopt switching PSU |
| 14:10 | Artox | 5V: there are 12V-5V DCDC converters for up to 60W on the market, pretty small and without a need for support circuitry |
| 19:07 | vpeter | jnettlet: any luck with patch for me? :) |