Opening the box and first boot
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Opening the Box
| The Sheeva Plug development kit comes in a very attractive white board with a magnetic clasp. It contains the Sheeva Plug, ethernet cable, mini USB cable for serial access, extension cord and a CD. |  |
| The Sheeva Plug allows you to remove the wall wart plug and use an extension cord type of plug. This is absolutely the best design I've ever seen. I felt like the only person in the world who hates wall warts that takes up 3 wall sockets. With the extension cord, my Sheeva Plug sits nicely on the side of the power strip and uses exact ONE socket. The person who came up with this needs to be given a raise and a corner office. |  |
| The casing opens up to 2 compartments, the right holds the transformer that converts AC to DC. The 4 pin connected on the top right connects the transformer to the main board. I believe (although not sure) that it is 5v. The empty space on the left holds the mainboard. |  |
| The assembled main board set with the main board on the bottom, then a heat spreader, and the daughter card with the SD connector, serial/jtag connector. |  |
| The top of the separated board set. You can see the Ethernet and USB connector in the front. The DDR2 memories are on the far left, the Kirkwood CPU is near the center of the board. The PHY is between the CPU and the RJ45 and the top most chip is the NAND flash. On the right is the heat spreader. The gray strips on the heat spreader mates to the memory, CPU and PHY. |  |
| The bottom of the separated board set. The SD connector and the serial/jtag connector is visible on the daughter card. |  |
First boot
First boot was fairly simple, plug in the Ethernet cable and power code was all it took for the Sheeva Plug to boot. I had some trouble getting the serial port working but it works after doing these steps. Once the serial console was working, I could log in with:
username: root password: nosoup4u
I was then able to get the Sheeva Plug's IP address and ssh into the box. The whole ordeal took about 15 minutes.
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May 18 2009 1:52 pm
Please keep comments clean and constructive. Inappropriate comments will be removed. Thank you.
Jul 14 2009 4:56 am
Can i connect a wifi card? and i make i a webserver
Jul 14 2009 8:34 am
Sure, here's how you setup USB wifi
http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Setting_up_a_wireless_USB_dongle
and here's how you setup apache
http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Apache,_Samba_and_mysql
Jul 19 2009 5:42 am
Hi,
can you tell me the price and place of purchase?
Thx
Jul 24 2009 8:42 am
I bought mines from www.globalscaletechnologies.com for $99 + shipping.
Aug 10 2009 11:24 am
Could you please either add here, or indicate how the ShPlug is taken apart, as you hav in your photos? How to open the outer plastic box (without breaking it :) ). Thank you,
Aug 10 2009 12:25 pm
the screws are underneath the rubber feet. Just pull out the rubber feet with a pliers and you'll see them.
Aug 17 2009 11:37 pm
Do you know if the plug has an i2c-bus? Does sensors-detect from the lm-sensors package find any?
Regards,
Matthias.Aug 19 2009 11:24 pm
I think it does have an i2c bus, but its not hooked up externally on the sheeva plug. I image if it is then it should be accessible by lm-sensors.
Sep 19 2009 1:23 pm
Will this 1.2ghz cpu adequately handle apache/tomcat/java stack for low-intensity web applications...or does it crawl?
I presume I can merely plug in usb drives via the usb port for storage needs.
Sep 21 2009 10:36 pm
This website runs entirely off the Sheeva Plug, so you can gauge for yourself how fast the system responds. I don't have tomcat installed but you can take a look at my installing java page (link from the front page). Luca made some comments about java that you may find useful.
Yes, you can use a usb drive for storage. I have a Western Digital 320G passport powered only by the Sheeva Plug and it has been no problems for several months of uptime
Aug 16 2010 10:45 am
Hi - I don't understand why one needs to connect via the RS232 port before first login - can't I just connect via ethernet from a port with a static IP from my router, and login with the same username/password pair?
Or must the initial login upon first boot be via serial port?
Thanks,
Sinclair
Aug 17 2010 9:43 am
Sure you can log into it over Ethernet. I can't remember if the default settings is dhcp or static IP so that might be a problem.