{"id":77,"date":"2008-06-13T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-06-13T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T02:14:11","slug":"turbo-slug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/turbo-slug\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbo Slug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I finally got around to de-underclocking my NSLU2 (aka Slug).\u00a0 It took about 10 minutes start to finish, so I really have no excuse for why it took me this long to get around to it.<\/p>\n

The NSLU2 Linux wiki has very detailed directions on cracking the case open<\/a>.\u00a0 Go slowly to avoid snapping off the plastic tabs.<\/p>\n

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Now comes the fun part, modifying the hardware.\u00a0 It turns out that for whatever reason the NSLU2 was underclocked, the wikipedia article<\/a> discusses this and other interesting facts about this device.\u00a0 While this is a discontinued device, they are readily available from amazon<\/a> still.\u00a0 All we need to do to allow the Slug to run at its native 266MHz is remove a resistor<\/a>.\u00a0 I used a pair of tweezers.<\/p>\n

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If you look closely, you’ll see the tiny resistor in the center of the palm of my hand.\u00a0 I later dropped it onto the floor and lost sight of it.<\/p>\n

Putting the unit back together isn’t documented as well on the wiki – I found that it was easier to insert the circuit board into the light grey “front” and then snap the back on.\u00a0 Again, go slowly to avoid breaking any tabs off.<\/p>\n

Having installed a version of Debian<\/a> on it the other day, I was able to ssh into my new “turbo slug” and cat \/proc\/cpuinfo which showed me BogoMIPS: 266.24.\u00a0 Success!\u00a0 It does seem to be more responsive.\u00a0 I’m tempted to try tinkering with doing a memory upgrade<\/a>, but that may be beyond my soldering skill level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I finally got around to de-underclocking my NSLU2 (aka Slug).\u00a0 It took about 10 minutes start to finish, so I really have no excuse for why it took me this long to get around to it. The NSLU2 Linux wiki has very detailed directions on cracking the case open.\u00a0 Go slowly to avoid snapping … Continue reading “Turbo Slug”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}