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try sticking

wireless-power off

at the end of your /etc/network/interfaces file

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Its cheap and easy to fudge an ancient composite from digital, not so VGA. Many old VGA monitors have DVI-D interfaces as well as the standard VGA connecters (Its been around for all of the 21st century), these work with a simple, cheap, HDMI-DVI-D lead.

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Cooo, a revision 1 with intact polyfuses. Hang onto it, it will be acquiring a rarity value....

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All 3 of my headless Pi's have static IP addresses and they all can access the internet, so it's definitely your end. Some routers will tolerate you using one of their DHCP range as a static. They check the address isn't already in use (using ping) before blindly shoving out the same one, but it isn...

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There isn't any firmware to speak of on the Pi. (Theres a very short bootloader in the GPU I believe but it can't be changed). The firmware is in the /boot folder aka the FAT partition.

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Just received one from Farnell ordered on the 20th October. Latest 512....

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Ordered 20th October
Notified of Despatch very early (04:46) 25th October
Arrived today - 26th October
Latest 512MB board "Made in the UK" shipped by 2nd Class Royal Mail

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enjoy :

http://www.pluggy.me.uk/raspberry/sakis3g

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My 512 pi hasn't arrived yet, but from experience with linux, the difference will be somewhere between b*gger all and quite dramatic depending on what you're doing. Heavy surfing on heavy duty sites will show most benefit. Most none browser stuff on linux is quite frugal with memory.

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Yes. you can try it at least.

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You would be better just replacing the image. Just image the SD again, it completely overwrites whatever was on it.

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I meant the wireless-power off line caused an error if I used it with the EW-7811, presumably because it doesn't have a power save mode. The other (a no-name) would work for a few hours doing light tarnsfers and then stop. Switching off the power save cured it.

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I had a similar problem with another WiFi adapter, the solution was to stop it going to sleep (power save) by putting this in with the rest of of thge network settings in /etc/network/interfaces wireless-power off Putting it in with a EW-7811 brings up an error during startup, but doesn't stop it wo...

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They're capacitors and my 256MB Rev 2 board doesn't have them, whereas by Rev 1 does. I wouldn't worry about it. Freezes and ethernet problems are usually power issues.

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Do you have a particular reason to put a 3rd partition on the SD card ?. The usual is to stretch the 2nd partition which contains the rootfs and everything uses that. df -h on my conventionally partioned 8 GB SD card (2 partitions) is : root@raspberrypi:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mount...

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What sort of monitor is it ? DVI, HDMI ?

How exactly did you flash the SD card and what do you mean by "which has about 1/3 of extra space left after putting Wheezy on it "

If you're not too technoically minded I'd hang on until the vendor sends you the SD card.

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The normal way of doing it is to plug both the PC and the Pi into the same router and they'll be issued IP addresses by the DHCP system in the router. The Pi will normally report what it's is when it's booted up. If you want to connect the PC directly to the PI, you'll need to to give both the PC an...

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What do you mean by power is lost ? All the lights on the Pi go out ?

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Sorry, its not usual for noobs to want to use the console, of course it's possible. All you need to do is edit the /etc/network/interfaces file This is the content of one of mine set with a static IP address of 192.168.1.249 etc auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp auto wlan0 #iface w...

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Depend on what image you're using you'll probably need some tweaking to be able to use most of it for the CPU. I just explained it here : http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 18#p198518

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What I am doing wrong? Following old guides you found on the internet. ? With a copy of the lastest Raspiian, just logon and startx, theres a Wifi config icon on the desktop. Double click that.... The RTL8188S works out of the box. The Pi software is moving so fast, anything written more than a mon...

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The GPU won't be used when its serving media to another machine that plays it. Allocate the maximum to the CPU.

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On the firmware partition ( /boot on the Pi ), there is a file called start.elf which controls among other things the memory mix between the CPU & GPU. Also in the firmware partition are a load of files called armXXX_start.elf. In simple terms one of these is copied to start.elf and this controls ho...

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Forget the script, you don't need it with the latest Raspbian image. Theres an Icon on the LXDE desktop to set up the Wifi its called 'Wifi Config'. Your adapter already has the driver in the kernel so its only a matter of using built in software.

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Right, we're getting somewhere. You can get to the command line either by running 'LXTerminal' from the graphical desktop or by clicking on the spidery blob thing in the bottom left hand corner and 'Logout' and confirming in the window that comes up. In the first case the command line runs in a wind...

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