[Arm-netbook] Mysteries of Lemote Yeeloong MIPS netbook

[Simon Kenyon]

On 10/17/12 23:30, freebirds at fastmail.fm wrote:
> (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
>
>
>
>


there is nothing particularly wrong with any of this. perhaps it is a 
bit badly configured.