Re: [Gc-linux-devel] GC-Linux

[Adam T. <ad...@io...>]

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 08:13, Matt Melling wrote:
> I have been looking at the GC-Linux project for a little while now, and I
> have not got round to buying the Broadband Adapter and PSO yet (Waiting
> for them on eBay :-P), but I was wondering, how do you enter data straight
> to the cube, like is there a keyboard you can get or something?

There is a keyboard produced (for PSO), and there is also a PS/2-to-GC
keyboard adapter.  I don't have either yet, but network access works
quite well.

Has anyone else had trouble with nbd?  I can't get it to work; I can get
nbd-server running on any number of machines and architectures here
(cygwin, Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, OS/X), and clearly *some* communication
is happening, since instead of "Connection Refused" I get "NBD: So such
device or address" (I think; I'm not near my cube at the moment).  NBD
does appear to be compiled into the kernel.

I'm using the Debian root FS from 2/29 or so (btw: a neat little trick:
if you install ntpdate and then modify the start script to manually set
the date to 1/1/2004 before running ntpdate, you have a clock at
startup, (I don't know how well it tracks real time, though).
If you don't manually set the clock to the right ballpark, Linux decides
that some time in 1936 is closer to 1/1/1970 than some time in 2004 is,
so you end up with a Depression-era Gamecube).

Adam