John Meier wrote: > Hey Nick- > > Meant to mention that I also have some experince with soldering surface > mount junk - I've modded a few playstations and the like. I have a > soldering iron with a fine tip. I could give it a try ... > > > I also just bought a nslu2 locally, so if yours gets fubared, I could > probably return it :) > Holy crap, the nail clippers actually worked. I had read about it before you sent me the link, but I just didn't have the guts to do it before. Anyway, since you everything you sent me (the razor blade, exacto knife, etc ideas from the mail you sent to my address) agreed with the idea in theory, I figured fuck it and when I got home from work, I was willing to bet $80 it would work, and literally *double* my cpu speed. My gosh, it worked! (Of course, in having been an idiot and just powered it down w/o halting it [so the drive was still mounted] I can't seem to get it to power back up to my gentoo install on the usb drive... ssh never comes up. However, I know it worked, and am guessing I just need to plug the usb drive into one of my desktops and run fsck on the thing... I think the ssh daemon never comes up because it's running fsck on the 120 gig drive on the slug, which is a slow machine even though I just doubled the speed. :) BTW, I know it worked because if I unplug the usb drive, openslug does come up and I can ssh in to that, and dmesg shows 266 mhz / bogomips so *sweet* hehe anyway, I am celebrating, but once I get gentoo back up and the ssh daemon lets me in, then I really will be happy because holy shit will it be cool to suddenly just literally double the speed of a machine... especially a gentoo box. : ) Anyway, updates to follow... Also, john, I am very interested in the serial port mod as well... I have everything, pre assembled with a 4 ping female end... just need to solder pins or wires into the holes on the board... still though, I am afraid of breaking it. If you think you could pull off the serial mod... : ) Nick "All unix, all the time." http://npt.ath.cx > On 7/11/06, nick thompson <nicholas.thompson1 at mchsi.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I don't know if anyone else out there is playing with an nslu2, if you >> haven't heard about them they are a $80 linksys box w/ 2 usb2 ports and >> you plug in usb drives and suddenly have cheap NAS.... but of course, it >> runs linux, and can run modified firmware and run full blown debian, >> gentoo, and others. Anyway, since the dang thing is underclocked from >> 266 mhz to 133 mhz on purpose (? heat maybe) one surface mount resistor >> needs to be removed. I don't want to break the thing. I mean, I can >> solder but surface mount scares me. Anyone in town done the mod and >> could I pay you to do it / buy you a beer? >> >> Nick >> >> "All unix, all the time." >> >> http://npt.ath.cx >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >