I have two slugs. One is working and the other is not. I can't discover it either on my home subnet or 192.168.1.0/24. nmap can't find it. I don't have a serial port on it.

upslug2 can find it in upgrade mode:

tdh@sneaker:~/sluggo/slugos-4.8-beta/nslu2be.tmp$ upslug2
[no NSLU2 machines found in upgrade mode]
tdh@sneaker:~/sluggo/slugos-4.8-beta/nslu2be.tmp$ upslug2
LKG881183 00:0f:66:88:11:83 Product ID: 1 Protocol ID:0 Firmware Version: R23V63 [0x2363]

So I unloaded OpenSlug and put back the latest Linksys firmware. I still couldn't find it. I did the 10 second push of the reset button and I still couldn't find it.

I found a website which had the manual online. I did a 2 second push of the reset button and I could then find it at 192.168.1.77. I couldn't change the IP of the box though. So I've reflashed OpenSlug onto it and I'm going to see if I can get access at the 192.168.2.77 address.

Okay, I am seeing this problem: Error: Fail to get samba information. But that didn't work, so I'm off to try this one: NSLU2, power problem, samba not found.

Okay, why didn't I try this: FailSambaInformation?

Some notes:

• My putty was not where they wanted it.
• It will start putty up for you, which is so sweet!
• I named the batch file redboot.bat at first.
• Make sure to reconfigure your connecting box from 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.0.0/24. Arrghhh!

There is no way of telling what firmware I used to have on that NSLU2. But now my system is working!

I'm trying to build SlugOS/BE on a Linux box (Fedora Core something or another). I kept on hitting a problem with fakeroot_1.8.3.tar.gz not being found on the Debian mirrors. Well, it is obsolete.

To fix the problem, I ftp'ed to one of the sites and found what the new version was and then I added some BitBake recipes:

[tdh@adept fakeroot]> mv fakeroot-1.8.3 fakeroot-1.9.5
[tdh@adept fakeroot]> mv fakeroot_1.8.3.bb fakeroot_1.9.5.bb
[tdh@adept fakeroot]> mv fakeroot-native-1.8.3 fakeroot-native-1.9.5
[tdh@adept fakeroot]> mv fakeroot-native_1.8.3.bb fakeroot-native_1.9.5.bb

And then I let the make run along...

Down for routine maintenance - you can at least enjoy the following until then:

• Mirror Mounts
• spe - Simple Policy Engine

Cthon '08 went off without a hitch. It started out uneventfully as Kerberos worked right out of the box. Evidently Sun's Kerberos team have been working on making initial configuration being painless. And they succeeded.

The public talks were well received and we've started posting the slides as they are sent in. You can check them out on Talks 08.

I'll post more as they arrive.

Also, we videoed most of the talks this year. As that content becomes available, we will post it up as well.

Be sure to visit www.connectathon.org and see when the talks are scheduled. These are open to the public.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is involved with 6 presentations and then NetApp has 5 of them. I'll be giving two of them, but I'm actually more excited about the one on nfsreplay by Shehjar Tikoo and the Linux development git one by Bruce Fields and Benny Halevy.

Normally we can't share images of the event, but here is one from before the other vendors setting up their gear:

Each of the Sun workstations is probably a node in a pNFS community.