Opening the box and first boot
Details about the innards of the Sheeva Plug, with pictures.
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Can i connect a wifi card? and i make i a webserver
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
Hi,
can you tell me the price and place of purchase?
Thx
I bought mines from http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com for $99 + shipping.
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,
the screws are underneath the rubber feet. Just pull out the rubber feet with a pliers and you’ll see them.
Do you know if the plug has an i2c-bus? Does sensors-detect from the lm-sensors package find any?
Regards,
Matthias.
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.
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.
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
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
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.