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Emachines MSN Companion for $25

New MessageEmachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) debug
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I also posted this in the breaking news section since I'm
not sure if this is only a one day price. It seems like a
good deal to me at $25.


http://www.hitechcafe.com/eshop/product.asp?dept%5Fid=14&sku=EZNET+200

10-24-2002 18:24:23

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) my80chevette
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The Price on these has risen to $49.00. Hope they have plenty of warehouse space because at that price they'll have them for awhile.
10-29-2002 07:25:20

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) zxhwk
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THEY HAVE DROPED THE PRICE TO JUST 18 DOLLARS AS OF 11/01/02
11-01-2002 06:54:09

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) debug
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Just got mine in today. It came with a free bag
of Jellybeans to "sweeten" the deal. It works fine
with the MSN sw, now to fix that somehow to run
another OS. Anyone have any suggestions??


doug-

11-01-2002 20:13:51

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) shaitan
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I also got the jellybeans too. Been trying for 3 days to boot off a usb Zipdrive, usb 1.1 harddrive, usb 2.0 harddrive and compact flash reader w/340 microdrive. Nothing works. The Zip is the older blue translucent drive. It does not respond at all as far as I can see. The usb 1.1 drive pulls to much power and will lock up the MSN companion unless I use a powered hub in between. If I hot plug it in, it will spin up (and lockup the MSN Companion). The CF adapter's led will blink several times and then stop. The usb 2.0 harddrive acts like the Zipdrive, no indication of access. If I use a hub in between, the corresponding port led will blink with the CF adapter, but the leds don't blink at all for the zip and harddrives (and I tried every possible usb boot option in the bios). So, I can't get in at all. My next step is to try the short the two pin header as described in other posts.
peter
11-26-2002 21:11:54

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) hwhack
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I have had the jumper IN when I booted the USB ZIP.

Regards.

11-27-2002 12:17:19

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) shaitan
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Yes, despite what others have posted about using the pause key, I found that one must jumper the pins. I now have a permanent jumber installed. I can switch between booting Zip or Sandisk by leaving the zip disk in/out.

I have Zipslack installed on the zip. I'm having troubles getting it to go past the kernal panic. The booting howto says to use right-shift page-up to find out what device the zip shows up at, but I can't scroll. Under dos, the zip appears as A: and the sandisk as C:. So I tried the fd0 as the root device and the booting process stops right after the zip is recognized because it is looking for an non-exisitant floppy. It is reported to be emulating a scsi device (sda) so I tried every variation of 1 to 4 for x in "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/sdax rw" but none works.

So, now I've used dolly to write the 1A-1 midori_3 image onto the sandisk. It boots and after about ten dots the screen goes blank. Oh well, I'm getting closer at least. Anybody knows what sandisk image might work?

Peter

11-27-2002 13:03:37

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) zonyl
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If you are trying to root mount any USB device, you need to change the kernel to wait for the USB controller to powerup. (kernel gets to root stage faster than usb gets setup)

I found a patch for an older kernel that I changed for 2.4.19 and root works great on usb pendrives and nfsroot from usb pegasus now.

11-27-2002 14:48:30

New MessageRE:Emachines MSN Companion for $25 (modified 0 times) Technohazard
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Could you post the updated kernel somewhere or email it.
Thanks.
11-28-2002 12:32:55

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