[Arm-netbook] Mysteries of Lemote Yeeloong MIPS netbook

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(1) Mystery of unscrewable screws. Yesterday, a geek from China examined
the four unscrewable screws underneath the touchpad of my Lemote
Yeeloong MIPS
netbook. He said they were allen screws and instructed me to purchase a
small allen wrench. Why didn't Lemote's manual posted on their website
and in their replies to my complaint, disclose the use of phillips
screws and allen screws? Is Lemote intentionally preventing their
customers from opening their netbooks? Or did my abuser's crackers
replace some phillips screws with allen screws?

(2) Mystery of not turning on. I read tutorials on laptops not turning
on. Testing the power adapter with a multimeter was recommended. The
Yeeloong's power adapter registered 20. This week, I decided to throw
out my Yeeloong if my last attempt to turn it on failed. It turned on!!!

(3) Mystery of Chinese backdoor or abuser's crackers' tampering. Redflag
linux, a Chinese variant of Debian is preinstalled on the Yeeloong.While
shutting down, there are two POST messages are very quickly flash on the
screen. Yesterday, I turned my Yeeloong on and off 30 times to write
down the messages. I could not get all the messages on the second
screen.

The messages include an OpenBSD server, starting CRON command scheduler,
file alternation monitor, STARTING network manager, timidity, rsync for
backing up data remotely offsite BSD, etc. I do not have a server, no
cron schedule, no file alternation monitor, do not back up my data
offline, do not have any printers connected. I am not hardwired to the
internet and I disabled the wifi. Why is network manager starting up at
shut down?

Thanks Roman for writing a HOWTO install Debian on the Yeeloong at
http://romanrm.ru/en/loongson/debian
Prior to replacing Redflag linux, Roman or anyone else who owns a
Yeeloong, did you have the same POST messages while shutting down? Did
replacing the OS replace the POST messages at shut down or are you still
having the identical POST messages? If there was an English speaking
Lemote forum, I would ask there.

The first POST message screen:

Init: Enter runlevel 2
Starting OpenBSD secure shell server: sshd
Starting periodic command scheduler: crond 
as root run etc/rc2.d/Sl9hpo2setup
No hpoj devices have been configured.
starting xprint servers: xprt
Starting file alteration monitor: FAM
Starting system message bus: dbus
Starting K display manager: kdm
Starting Avahi MDNS/DNS-SD daemon: avahi-daemon
Starting hardware abstraction layer: hald
Configured enable ALSA sequencer
saned disabled edit/default/saned
Starting network connection manager: network manager
Starting timidity not yet configured. Enable ALSA sequencer by editing
etc/default/timidity
starting DHCP D-bus daemon: dhcdbd
(Then more entries pop up):
Switching to runlevel 0
Sending processes the TERM signal
Stopping K display manager
_____________ not yet configured

Second POST message screen:

using debug method to see details of our search for an access method
SCPlugin - 
stopping rsync daemon
stopping file alteration monitor
stopping fan speed regulation
saving system clock.
DHCP D-bus daemon
stopping nework connection manager
stopping resolv
conf . . . done
ALSA done.
stopping Avahi MDNS
stopping xprint
stopping HP OfficeJet linux driver
starting HP OfficeJet linux driver
asking all remaining processes to terminate
hardware clock via any known method
stopping portmap daemon
stopping enhanced signal syslogd
deconfiguring network devices.  cleaning up.
unmounting temporary file system
unmounting local file systems . . .done
deactivating swap.
ifupdown 




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