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Posted by mnaumann on Wed 6 Jan 2010 at 03:26
Preliminary note:
I know this web site is actually about 'Debian Administration' so if this article, which also deals with the underlying hardware and linux driver issues, appears offtopic please notify me so I can move it elsewhere.
All information in this article refers to the Asus UL30A-QX130V with BIOS v211.
The first thing I did is what I always do on a new system with Windows preinstalled: install the latest firmware update, since it is convenient to do it this way before replacing Windows by Linux since most vendors still fail to provide BIOS flashing support for linux (actually the only vendor I know to support it on some of their products is DELL) and unsupported ways can fail, especially on laptops (my mom's laptop refused to even power on after flashing its BIOS with coreboots' "flashrom" the other day, ouch).
I ended up installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) on the UL30A using the Alternate installer. This is not really straight forward since you need to get the Alternate Installer image onto a USB stick first (or setup net booting) and the recommended way to do this - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-a-ubuntu-9-10-live-usb-in-windows/ - will not work with the Alternate Installer. However, one of the methods provided at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/USB%20Installation%20Media should work. Alternatively, if you have another Ubuntu desktop, you can use the 'USB start media creator' (usb-creator-gtk) application recent versions provide. The version in Karmic (have not tested other versions of usb-creator-gtk) works fine with the Alternate Installer ISO.
When installing Ubuntu, you should select manual partitioning, since you do not really want a 12G swap partition (WTF!) it would setup by default. You may (or not) also want to preserve the first partition (a hidden partition with an NTFS file system on it) which is the Express Gate partition. If you remove it Express Gate will no longer work - which is fine for me, but your mileage may vary. Apparently Splashtop (the original non-Asus-branded title of this software) is not really installed on a SSD in this case, it is just invoked by a NAND-flash contained boot loader which will print an error message on screen and reboot if you power the laptop up using the left hand side Express Gate button after having removed the Express Gate partition.
Once I had completed the installation, I ended up with a kernel image which was of a later patch level than the modules I had installed. This negatively impacted the loadable kernel modules, i.e. neither ethernet nor wireless worked. A dirty workaround of adding a symlink to the old modules worked around it. A better way is probably to make sure you have the modules installed for the kernel you are using whenever you upgrade it.
I also installed the linux-backport-modules package so that I could have access to the latest modules. I did not actually test whether they are neccessary, though. Most critical stuff (chipset, CPU, graphics, keyboard, NIC, USB) seemed to work fine without them, too.
I finally ended up with this:
Everything worked fine out of the box with the following exceptions:
* the Elantech touchpad is incorrectly detected as a Logitech USB mouse: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/418282
* the webcam image is flipped upside down, apparently due to an issue in the lib4l-0 version shipping with Karmic; the Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04) version as available at http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libv4l-0 may fix this, if it does not try to follow the instructions provided by Hans Goede around page 21 of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=838210; a possible workaround (which I have not tested) is also mentioned at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8256802; some applications (such as 'cheese') also allow for flipping the image upside down
* the SD 5-in-1 card reader is detected but fails to detect any media (I tested with two different SDHC media only), so they cannot be mounted; according to the Asus driver download website this device is an "Alcor AU6433 Card Reader"; the vendor website is at http://www.alcormicro.com/en_content/c_product/product_01b.php?CategoryID=7&IndexID=1; this bug is being tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/366478
* some people seem to have issues with the Bluetooth device not being detected; This can be a BIOS bug which according to the BIOS changelog on the Asus support website has been fixed as of version 209: "Fix the issue that MF210 3G card and Bluetooth cannot be detected." I am currently using BIOS v211 and Bluetooth seems to work out of the box (though I have no other Bluetooth device to test with).
Reviews:
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/asus-ul30a-review.html
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/asus-ul30a.aspx
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Asus-133-UL30A-CULV-Notebook-Review/
http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2009/12/18/linux-on-asus-ul30a-x5/
http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+ul30a
More reviews at tuxmobil.org, linux-on-laptops.com and linuxcompatible.org
Manual:
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/UL30A/E4790.zip
Downloads:
http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx?model=UL30A&os=8
Troubleshooting:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Old/AsusUL30A
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=3&model=UL30A
https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30
Debian HCL entry:
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ASUS/UL30A-QX130V
Hacking ExpressGate / Splashtop:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11610
lshw Output:
I know this web site is actually about 'Debian Administration' so if this article, which also deals with the underlying hardware and linux driver issues, appears offtopic please notify me so I can move it elsewhere.
All information in this article refers to the Asus UL30A-QX130V with BIOS v211.
The first thing I did is what I always do on a new system with Windows preinstalled: install the latest firmware update, since it is convenient to do it this way before replacing Windows by Linux since most vendors still fail to provide BIOS flashing support for linux (actually the only vendor I know to support it on some of their products is DELL) and unsupported ways can fail, especially on laptops (my mom's laptop refused to even power on after flashing its BIOS with coreboots' "flashrom" the other day, ouch).
I ended up installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) on the UL30A using the Alternate installer. This is not really straight forward since you need to get the Alternate Installer image onto a USB stick first (or setup net booting) and the recommended way to do this - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-a-ubuntu-9-10-live-usb-in-windows/ - will not work with the Alternate Installer. However, one of the methods provided at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/USB%20Installation%20Media should work. Alternatively, if you have another Ubuntu desktop, you can use the 'USB start media creator' (usb-creator-gtk) application recent versions provide. The version in Karmic (have not tested other versions of usb-creator-gtk) works fine with the Alternate Installer ISO.
When installing Ubuntu, you should select manual partitioning, since you do not really want a 12G swap partition (WTF!) it would setup by default. You may (or not) also want to preserve the first partition (a hidden partition with an NTFS file system on it) which is the Express Gate partition. If you remove it Express Gate will no longer work - which is fine for me, but your mileage may vary. Apparently Splashtop (the original non-Asus-branded title of this software) is not really installed on a SSD in this case, it is just invoked by a NAND-flash contained boot loader which will print an error message on screen and reboot if you power the laptop up using the left hand side Express Gate button after having removed the Express Gate partition.
Once I had completed the installation, I ended up with a kernel image which was of a later patch level than the modules I had installed. This negatively impacted the loadable kernel modules, i.e. neither ethernet nor wireless worked. A dirty workaround of adding a symlink to the old modules worked around it. A better way is probably to make sure you have the modules installed for the kernel you are using whenever you upgrade it.
I also installed the linux-backport-modules package so that I could have access to the latest modules. I did not actually test whether they are neccessary, though. Most critical stuff (chipset, CPU, graphics, keyboard, NIC, USB) seemed to work fine without them, too.
I finally ended up with this:
# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.31-16-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) ) #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:02:15 UTC 2009 #
# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:294a] (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller [8086:2917] (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03) 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 100 Series [8086:0083] 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132 / L1c Gigabit Ethernet Adapter [1969:1062] (rev c0) #
# lsusb Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b036 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0b05:1751 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub #
Everything worked fine out of the box with the following exceptions:
* the Elantech touchpad is incorrectly detected as a Logitech USB mouse: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/418282
* the webcam image is flipped upside down, apparently due to an issue in the lib4l-0 version shipping with Karmic; the Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04) version as available at http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libv4l-0 may fix this, if it does not try to follow the instructions provided by Hans Goede around page 21 of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=838210; a possible workaround (which I have not tested) is also mentioned at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8256802; some applications (such as 'cheese') also allow for flipping the image upside down
* the SD 5-in-1 card reader is detected but fails to detect any media (I tested with two different SDHC media only), so they cannot be mounted; according to the Asus driver download website this device is an "Alcor AU6433 Card Reader"; the vendor website is at http://www.alcormicro.com/en_content/c_product/product_01b.php?CategoryID=7&IndexID=1; this bug is being tracked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/366478
* some people seem to have issues with the Bluetooth device not being detected; This can be a BIOS bug which according to the BIOS changelog on the Asus support website has been fixed as of version 209: "Fix the issue that MF210 3G card and Bluetooth cannot be detected." I am currently using BIOS v211 and Bluetooth seems to work out of the box (though I have no other Bluetooth device to test with).
Reviews:
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/10/asus-ul30a-review.html
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/asus-ul30a.aspx
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Asus-133-UL30A-CULV-Notebook-Review/
http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2009/12/18/linux-on-asus-ul30a-x5/
http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+ul30a
More reviews at tuxmobil.org, linux-on-laptops.com and linuxcompatible.org
Manual:
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/UL30A/E4790.zip
Downloads:
http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx?model=UL30A&os=8
Troubleshooting:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/Old/AsusUL30A
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=3&model=UL30A
https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30
Debian HCL entry:
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ASUS/UL30A-QX130V
Hacking ExpressGate / Splashtop:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11610
lshw Output:
| id: | computer | ||||||
| description: | Notebook | ||||||
| product: | UL30A | ||||||
| vendor: | ASUSTeK Computer Inc. | ||||||
| version: | 1.0 | ||||||
| serial: | [REMOVED] | ||||||
| width: | 64 bits | ||||||
| capabilities: | smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 vsyscall64 vsyscall32 | ||||||
| configuration: |
|
| id: | core |
| description: | Motherboard |
| product: | UL30A |
| vendor: | ASUSTeK Computer Inc. |
| physical id: | 0 |
| version: | 1.0 |
| serial: | [REMOVED] |
| slot: | MIDDLE |
| id: | firmware |
| description: | BIOS |
| vendor: | American Megatrends Inc. |
| physical id: | 0 |
| version: | 212 (12/28/2009) |
| size: | 64KiB |
| capacity: | 960KiB |
| capabilities: | isa pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int17printer int10video acpi usb smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot |
| id: | cpu |
| description: | CPU |
| product: | Genuine Intel(R) CPU U7300 @ 1.30GHz |
| vendor: | Intel Corp. |
| physical id: | 4 |
| bus info: | cpu@0 |
| version: | Genuine Intel(R) CPU U7300 @ 1.30GHz |
| serial: | [REMOVED] |
| slot: | Socket 478 |
| size: | 1300MHz |
| capacity: | 1300MHz |
| width: | 64 bits |
| clock: | 200MHz |
| capabilities: | fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority cpufreq |
| id: | cache:0 |
| description: | L1 cache |
| physical id: | 5 |
| slot: | L1-Cache |
| size: | 64KiB |
| capacity: | 64KiB |
| capabilities: | internal write-back data |
| id: | cache:1 |
| description: | L2 cache |
| physical id: | 7 |
| slot: | L2-Cache |
| size: | 3MiB |
| capacity: | 3MiB |
| capabilities: | internal write-back unified |
| id: | cache |
| description: | L1 cache |
| physical id: | 6 |
| slot: | L1-Cache |
| size: | 64KiB |
| capacity: | 64KiB |
| capabilities: | internal write-back instruction |
| id: | memory |
| description: | System Memory |
| physical id: | 20 |
| slot: | System board or motherboard |
| size: | 4GiB |
| id: | bank:0 |
| description: | SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns) |
| product: | N/A |
| vendor: | N/A |
| physical id: | 0 |
| serial: | [REMOVED] |
| slot: | SODIMM0 |
| size: | 2GiB |
| width: | 64 bits |
| clock: | 800MHz (1.2ns) |
| id: | bank:1 |
| description: | SODIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns) |
| product: | N/A |
| vendor: | N/A |
| physical id: | 1 |
| serial: | [REMOVED] |
| slot: | SODIMM1 |
| size: | 2GiB |
| width: | 64 bits |
| clock: | 800MHz (1.2ns) |
| id: | pci | |||
| description: | Host bridge | |||
| product: | Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2A40] | |||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | |||
| physical id: | 100 | |||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:00.0 | |||
| version: | 07 | |||
| width: | 32 bits | |||
| clock: | 33MHz | |||
| configuration: |
| |||
| resources: |
|
| id: | display:0 | ||||||||||||
| description: | VGA compatible controller | ||||||||||||
| product: | Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2A42] | ||||||||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||||||||
| physical id: | 2 | ||||||||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:02.0 | ||||||||||||
| version: | 07 | ||||||||||||
| width: | 64 bits | ||||||||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||||||||
| capabilities: | msi pm bus_master cap_list rom | ||||||||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | display:1 | |||
| description: | Display controller | |||
| product: | Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2A43] | |||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | |||
| physical id: | 2.1 | |||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:02.1 | |||
| version: | 07 | |||
| width: | 64 bits | |||
| clock: | 33MHz | |||
| capabilities: | pm bus_master cap_list | |||
| configuration: |
| |||
| resources: |
|
| id: | usb:0 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1a | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1a.0 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
|
| id: | usb:1 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1a.1 | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1a.1 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
|
| id: | usb:2 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1a.2 | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1a.2 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
|
| id: | usb:3 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293C] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1a.7 | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1a.7 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | pm debug bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
|
| id: | multimedia | ||||||
| description: | Audio device | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293E] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1b | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1b.0 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 64 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
|
| id: | pci:0 | |||
| description: | PCI bridge | |||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] | |||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | |||
| physical id: | 1c | |||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1c.0 | |||
| version: | 03 | |||
| width: | 32 bits | |||
| clock: | 33MHz | |||
| capabilities: | pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list | |||
| configuration: |
| |||
| resources: |
|
| id: | pci:1 | ||||||
| description: | PCI bridge | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1c.1 | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1c.1 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | network | ||||||||||||||||||
| description: | Wireless interface | ||||||||||||||||||
| product: | Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [8086:83] | ||||||||||||||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||||||||||||||
| physical id: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:02:00.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| logical name: | wlan0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| version: | 00 | ||||||||||||||||||
| serial: | [REMOVED] | ||||||||||||||||||
| width: | 64 bits | ||||||||||||||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||||||||||||||
| capabilities: | pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless | ||||||||||||||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | pci:2 | |||||||||
| description: | PCI bridge | |||||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:294A] | |||||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | |||||||||
| physical id: | 1c.5 | |||||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1c.5 | |||||||||
| version: | 03 | |||||||||
| width: | 32 bits | |||||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | |||||||||
| capabilities: | pci pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list | |||||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | network | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| description: | Ethernet interface | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| product: | AR8132 Fast Ethernet [1969:1062] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| vendor: | Atheros Communications [1969] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physical id: | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:03:00.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| logical name: | eth0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| version: | c0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| serial: | [REMOVED] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| capacity: | 100MB/s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| width: | 64 bits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| capabilities: | pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | usb:4 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1d | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1d.0 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | usb:5 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1d.1 | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1d.1 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | bus_master cap_list | ||||||
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| id: | usb:6 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1d.2 | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1d.2 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | bus_master cap_list | ||||||
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| id: | usb:7 | ||||||
| description: | USB Controller | ||||||
| product: | 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293A] | ||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | ||||||
| physical id: | 1d.7 | ||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1d.7 | ||||||
| version: | 03 | ||||||
| width: | 32 bits | ||||||
| clock: | 33MHz | ||||||
| capabilities: | pm debug bus_master cap_list | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | pci:3 |
| description: | PCI bridge |
| product: | 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] |
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] |
| physical id: | 1e |
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1e.0 |
| version: | 93 |
| width: | 32 bits |
| clock: | 33MHz |
| capabilities: | pci bus_master cap_list |
| id: | isa | |||
| description: | ISA bridge | |||
| product: | ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller [8086:2917] | |||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | |||
| physical id: | 1f | |||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1f.0 | |||
| version: | 03 | |||
| width: | 32 bits | |||
| clock: | 33MHz | |||
| capabilities: | isa bus_master cap_list | |||
| configuration: |
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| id: | storage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| description: | SATA controller | |||||||||||||||||||||
| product: | ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| vendor: | Intel Corporation [8086] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| physical id: | 1f.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| bus info: | pci@0000:00:1f.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| logical name: | scsi0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| version: | 03 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| width: | 32 bits | |||||||||||||||||||||
| clock: | 66MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||
| capabilities: | storage msi pm bus_master cap_list emulated | |||||||||||||||||||||
| configuration: |
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| resources: |
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| id: | disk | ||||||
| description: | ATA Disk | ||||||
| product: | ST9320325AS | ||||||
| vendor: | Seagate | ||||||
| physical id: | 0.0.0 | ||||||
| bus info: | scsi@0:0.0.0 | ||||||
| logical name: | /dev/sda | ||||||
| version: | 0002 | ||||||
| serial: | [REMOVED] | ||||||
| size: | 298GiB (320GB) | ||||||
| capabilities: | partitioned partitioned:dos | ||||||
| configuration: |
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| id: | volume:0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| description: | Linux filesystem partition | ||||||||||||||||||
| physical id: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| bus info: | scsi@0:0.0.0,1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| logical name: | /dev/sda1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| serial: | [REMOVED] | ||||||||||||||||||
| size: | 297GiB | ||||||||||||||||||
| capacity: | 297GiB | ||||||||||||||||||
| width: | 256 bits | ||||||||||||||||||
| capabilities: | primary bootable encrypted luks initialized | ||||||||||||||||||
| configuration: |
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| id: | volume:1 |
| description: | Extended partition |
| physical id: | 2 |
| bus info: | scsi@0:0.0.0,2 |
| logical name: | /dev/sda2 |
| size: | 243MiB |
| capacity: | 243MiB |
| capabilities: | primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended |
| id: | logicalvolume | |||||||||
| description: | Linux filesystem partition | |||||||||
| physical id: | 5 | |||||||||
| logical name: | /dev/sda5 | |||||||||
| logical name: | /boot | |||||||||
| capacity: | 243MiB | |||||||||
| configuration: |
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| id: | scsi | |||
| physical id: | 1 | |||
| bus info: | usb@2:5 | |||
| logical name: | scsi4 | |||
| capabilities: | emulated scsi-host | |||
| configuration: |
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| id: | disk |
| description: | SCSI Disk |
| physical id: | 0.0.0 |
| bus info: | scsi@4:0.0.0 |
| logical name: | /dev/sdb |
| id: | battery |
| description: | Nickel Cadmium Battery |
| physical id: | 1 |
| version: | 08/11/97 |
| slot: | In the back |
| id: | network | ||||||
| description: | Ethernet interface | ||||||
| physical id: | 2 | ||||||
| logical name: | vboxnet0 | ||||||
| serial: | [REMOVED] | ||||||
| capabilities: | ethernet physical | ||||||
| configuration: |
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#3
Posted by mnaumann on Fri 20 Nov 2009 at 03:44
Friends of mine were looking for a new dedicated server provider, and I may end up managing their systems. They don't want to spend enough to be able to have fail-over, i.e. they can only a single server, but they cannot afford lots of downtime either. And they may want virtualization, so I was looking for offers with multiple public IPv4 addresses, too.
So I was wondering which german dedicated server providers offer affordable servers with out-of-band / lights-out management, baseboard management controllers or serial console switch access.
So I was wondering which german dedicated server providers offer affordable servers with out-of-band / lights-out management, baseboard management controllers or serial console switch access.
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#2
Posted by mnaumann on Thu 30 Apr 2009 at 23:10
If you run into this error message while booting a Xen DomU which does not have encrypted devices and your Dom0 is on an encrypted partition, then you'll be as puzzled as I am and these people. So far, the only workaround I know is to start the DomU with serial console attached (xm create -c domuname.cfg) and hit return a couple times until it gives up to mount the seemingly encrypted root device and continues to boot the DomU.
This issue is, however, very annoying and breaks any attempts of automation of DomU startups. The problem seems to be a combination of two facts:
* the DomU uses the same initrd image as the DomO
* cryptsetup-root (as contained in the initrd) does not actually test whether the target device it is to mount is actually a compatible device but dumbly expects that it must be one if it is configured as such and thus keeps trying to mount it.
A better workaround or even a fix would be greatly appreciated. I know of at least three other parties who are running into the same issue but have not yet found a better solution. I guess I should file a bug but I'm not sure which package to file it against.
This issue is, however, very annoying and breaks any attempts of automation of DomU startups. The problem seems to be a combination of two facts:
* the DomU uses the same initrd image as the DomO
* cryptsetup-root (as contained in the initrd) does not actually test whether the target device it is to mount is actually a compatible device but dumbly expects that it must be one if it is configured as such and thus keeps trying to mount it.
A better workaround or even a fix would be greatly appreciated. I know of at least three other parties who are running into the same issue but have not yet found a better solution. I guess I should file a bug but I'm not sure which package to file it against.
#1
Posted by mnaumann on Fri 16 Mar 2007 at 11:55
Here's what I consider a handy snippet to quickly determine your current external/public IP address. This can be useful in a NAT environment where you have no access to the firewall and networking configuration (such as in a virtual server which has no public IP address assigned to it).
GET checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'
If you don't have sed, try awk, or any scripting language which supports regular expressions (the pattern formatting may differ with other implementations).
GET requires perl to be installed. If you don't have perl, try one of these:
curl -s checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//' wget -q -O - checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//' links -dump checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//' lynx -dump checkip.dyndns.org|sed -e 's/.*Current IP Address: //' -e 's/<.*$//'|grep -v '^$'
This snippet is dependant of the availability and current output formatting of http://checkip.dyndns.org/. Luckily, this URL is also used by many dyndns clients/updaters, so it's likely to remain the same for quite a while.
You know an easier way? Let me know!