LACP will bond the two ethernet cards into one link on my switch. I set the switch up and had LACP working. I could verify it was working since I also set it for my NAS which was happily used the LCAP ports.

The key to setting up LCAP on Leopard is the the little 'tool' widget/control in the Network Preference Pane:

Selecting Manage Virtual Interfaces leads you to this sub-panel:

Where you can create a new bonded 'virtual' interface.

You can then add in your two ethernet interfaces to this, and the should come up and negotiate with teh LCAP enabled ports on your switch.

I'm only running Leopard on my G5, but it had some serious errors with both interfaces plugged into the switch. It came up but had no BW - it could barely load a web page. Unplugging one of the physical links resolved the issue, but defeats the purpose of the LCAP. I'm doing more investigation as to why this won't work properly.

The good news is that Ubuntu allowed me to install the Nvidia 185.18 driver right after boot (it detected the ION automatically) and this version is working with suspending. The better news is that wired ethernet worked out of the box!

I've since then found some easy directions to get wifi working (using the win2k drivers and NDISwrapper- I'll post this up soon).

I'm much happier with Ubuntu Karmic, and I'll be following up soon with some more detailed posts about what I've done with the 1201N.

Below is exactly what I did to my system to get this working. Do this as root.


# wget http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos/ubuntu-repos.key && apt-key add ubuntu-repos.key && rm ubuntu-repos.key
# echo "deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos jaunty release" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/avenard.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic
# apt-get install nvidia-glx-195 nvidia-195-libvdpau
# nvidia-xconfig
# apt-get install vim
# vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
-- [Change Mouse to /dev/input/mice]
# /etc/init.d/gdm stop
# rmmod nvidia
# modprobe nvidia
# echo nvidia >>/etc/modules
# /etc/init.d/gdm start


Reference Pages:

http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2009/08/asrock-ion-330-nettop-with-jaunty.html
http://www.avenard.com/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html

Update: I also updated the BIOS of the 1201N to the latest version; downloaded from Asus website - you can grab it right here- 0318
- unzip the new bios
- stick it on a USB stick
- rename it from 1201N-ASUS-0318.ROM to 1201N.ROM on the USB stick
- put the USB stick in the 1201, remove all other USB devices

To update the bios- power off and hold ALT+F2 as you power on. The 1201N has 'bootblaster' which makes it difficult to do this (it will often just go right into grub), if you can't get the BIOS update utility to come up I suggest you get into the BIOS itself (F2) and then choose to disable Bootblaster then try the ALT+F2. The flash utility will load and read the usb stick and update the BIOS automatically, then restart the netbook.

With blastwave (CSW) you install pre-built binaries for your system as regular solaris packages. Removing them using pkgrm is a pain if you want to clear blastwave off completely and start fresh. However, there is a solution.

I found the command over at glaasse's blog:


# yes | pkgrm `pkginfo | grep CSW | awk '{print $2}'`


Does the trick, and you can sit back and watch it happen. Be careful using the yes command and pkrm however.

Meanwhile, the excellect Nitch software package, which implements GTD on the Newton has actually made me fire up my 2100 and get it connected to a desktop so that I could install Nitch. Eckhart Köppen has written zn amazingly useful package that really shines on the Newton form factor, and proves that the Newton is relvant even today.

Getting it connected back up to a desktop, to install the software is another story, and is a big issue for anyone getting back into the Newton scene. I'll write that up later.

Here is a posting back in 1999 from John Arkley, newton engineer about creating system patches. This collection was forwarded on the Newton Talk list by Jon Glass, who collected these.

I've edited for spelling.....

Q. What would I need to do to make my code an OS patch that others could apply?

Well i am not sure how you have been doing this development but i assume you did it with the Newton C++ Tools for Macintosh? or do you just have a prototype algorithm running on a desktop? or did you use NTK? I suggest you just ship a complete app and forget about trying to make a Newton OS "patch". Why? A Newton System Update or "system patch" is a complex intermixed collection of MMU tables, 40-70 assembler "fixes" all packed together in a collection of ordered 4K RAM pages. Building and testing a System Update is complex and expensive process and no single engineer could do it. The Newton OS only supports ONE system patch, so ALL the existing "fixes" and any new ones have to be combined together to combined to create the "next" System Update. Newton OS is unusual in this reqard; it like only allowing ONE "init" in the MacOS instead of a whole folder full of "Extensions". You can't do this "as a system patch"; Apple is the only one who has the tools to build a new System Update and all the engineers who know how to do it don't work for Apple any more (me for example) although _maybe_ there is one remaining employee who could eventually do a new one given enough time. A new NewtonScript GC is not very likely something you could complete and test without the ROM sources. The performance of MANY MANY things in the OS change if the GC is messed with and you probably wouldn't find out just how sensitive the SYSTEM is to changes. Making GC "faster" probably would have negative side effects you couldn't anticipate and it would thus break all kinds of stuff. Having GC happen at the wrong time can have just a bad an effect on the Newton OS as changing it speed would. If you can engineer a new GC for newton OS without documentation and source, i suggest you should be working as a programmer for someone who will pay you well for your effort.

Easy, has wonko.com has the answer and it worked perfectly! I love Google.

airbot:~ [504]$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- \
>   --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib \
>   --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/mysql/include
Password:
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed mysql-2.7
1 gem installed

And your off.....

Update: don't forget to add the gems require at the top of your ruby scripts:

require 'rubygems'

This will get rid of the

in `require': no such file to load -- mysql (LoadError)

errors. On my linux machine, mysql was not installed as a gem so I didn't have the require in my scripts.

two great apps to have on your phone, and they don't cost a dime.

Meanwhile, I've got SimCity for the iPhone and it's everything they claim it is, only downside is that it can't run in the backgroud. I no longer need a port for the Mac.

The post over at My Apple Newton is worth the read, if just to prove that the newton is still here.

I found ADB back in the latest SDK, and used it to connect to my emulator. You can start a shell and poke around. I want to get networking up on the emulator-- without connectivity this whole enterprise is pointless.

Find your device first:

$ adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5554	device

Start a shell:

$ ~/work/android-sdk-mac_x86-1.0_r1/tools/adb -s emulator-5554 shell
# ls
sqlite_stmt_journals
cache
sdcard
etc
system
sys
sbin
proc
init.rc
init.goldfish.rc
init
default.prop
data
root
dev
#

Reading Materials

I just ordered some Android books: Hello Android & Unlocking Android. They both have PDF versions available right now.

In your droid repo directory, this will start the emulator:

$ out/host/darwin-x86/bin/emulator -system out/target/product/generic -kernel prebuilt/android-arm/kernel/kernel-qemu

From there, you are back to working with it just like in the SDK.