eBoxPup - a custom eBox-2300 Puppy - suggestions needed

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raffy · #16 Post by **raffy** » Wed 20 Dec 2006, 02:20

This is really great - blind people will find this specially useful.

Hear that, Lobster? Some really great news for Christmas.

raffy · #17 Post by **raffy** » Thu 21 Dec 2006, 21:54

While it may be simple, maybe it will help users to know how you installed flite, Paul.

Another option to consider is Puppy 1.02, as it has a Linux 2.6 kernel. Check the download sites from Barry's site: http://puppyos.com/download/downpage.htm

or this http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/

The good news is that its browser behaves (in my Yahoo mail) like Firefox - this must be the early release of Seamonkey.

Oops, the system of 1.02 is OSS - discussion of the sound driver for 1.02 is created at forum.puppylinux.net.

jeef · #18 Post by **jeef** » Fri 26 Jan 2007, 02:28

Has anyone got the wireless going on this?

klhrevolutionist · #19 Post by **klhrevolutionist** » Thu 01 Feb 2007, 07:43

Is ewayco the only company selling this product ? I could have sworn that there were a couple others ?? If you could point me to more links and info (wiki perhaps) I would appreciate it.

Also has the sound issue been worked out and are there any other issues with the computers running puppy ?

pakt · #20 Post by **pakt** » Thu 01 Feb 2007, 08:11

klhrevolutionist wrote:Is ewayco the only company selling this product ? I could have sworn that there were a couple others ?? If you could point me to more links and info (wiki perhaps) I would appreciate it.

klh, you'll find info and tips in the 10th post of this thread: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13528

Oh, and sound works perfectly if you run Puppy 2.13 on it. Just don't forget to add zdrv_213.sfs to the CF card.

Paul

jkorz · #21 Post by **jkorz** » Thu 01 Mar 2007, 19:59

I just bought the ebox from www.wdlsystems.com. It was 116 for a single unit after shipping - with ground shipping I ordered it mon afternoon, it was here wed (they might just be close to me in mich). Very helpful staff (much better than getting it from taiwan).

MorganP · #22 Post by **MorganP** » Thu 01 Mar 2007, 21:52

I just got a quote back from nohrtec today. The basic MicroClient Jr for $120 + $57 for shipping. WOW.

lm317t · #23 Post by **lm317t** » Mon 10 Dec 2007, 16:37

I booted this distro on my ebox 2300, and it worked great (did a pxelinux net boot) except for one thing. My problem was I could not adjust the audio level, none of the mixers would work. How does one adjust the gain? I know there's no alsa support, only oss. I just want to have sound with mpg123.

When I ran mpg123 and it wouldn't allow me to change the volume, it gave an error that basically said that this feature is not accessible on this card when I passed the -g <value> option.

Is it possible to adjust the gain somehow, the default output when I run mpg123 is very low, like -45 dB or so.

pakt · #24 Post by **pakt** » Mon 10 Dec 2007, 19:25

lm317t wrote:How does one adjust the gain?

You can either click on the taskbar volume applet (the speaker icon) or type in a terminal:

setvol 0 80 80

to set the volume to 80% in both audio channels (for example).

lm317t · #25 Post by **lm317t** » Mon 10 Dec 2007, 20:18

Thanks for the reply! I'll give that a try.

I had tried the one mixer in the desktop menu, but that did not seem to work. I did not know about the setvol command. I'll give that a try.

lm317t · #26 Post by **lm317t** » Tue 11 Dec 2007, 15:50

I just ordered more eboxes, looks like they're eol as of 12/07/2007. Unfortunately there's nothing comparable to replace it, the 2300sx is no good because it has no Floating Point or audio. The 3800 costs more than 2x as much.

Anyone have any more info on this?

amigo · #27 Post by **amigo** » Tue 11 Dec 2007, 16:22

I have a site with a few hundred GTK-1.2 apps. The only thing I ever use that is not GTK-1.2 is the opera browser -just cause I'm spoiled from using it.
You can get slackware-type packages or sources from here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... /download/

raffy · #28 Post by **raffy** » Tue 11 Dec 2007, 21:23

I have a site with a few hundred GTK-1.2 apps.

Is this in another link?

the_squire · #29 Post by **the_squire** » Wed 12 Dec 2007, 18:58

lm317t wrote:I just ordered more eboxes, looks like they're eol as of 12/07/2007. Unfortunately there's nothing comparable to replace it, the 2300sx is no good because it has no Floating Point or audio. The 3800 costs more than 2x as much.

Anyone have any more info on this?

Not much more info, but I can say that WDLSystems told my company the same thing. Due to hue and cry from all and sundry, the Last Order date *may* have been pushed back to February 28, 2008.

A supplier in the UK offers what looks to be a very similar device, the Aleutia E1. See The Aleutia Web Site. The case and specifications are identical to the eBox 2300 - it's hard to believe the units aren't actually one and the same - but the EOL date is stated to be 2010. The price seems a little steep, though.

Peace.

wdlDonnie · #30 Post by **wdlDonnie** » Fri 14 Dec 2007, 20:37

I can confirm that the last time buy date has been pushed out to February 28, 2008. This is the final date that distributors and resellers can place orders for this model, but the channel should be able to supply end users with small quantities for several months after this date. I don't have anything official on why it has been discontinued, but I suspect that lack of RoHS compliance plays a big part in this.

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