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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the feedback Doug.<br>
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      Certainly understand about things taking time.... and rest assured
      my question wasn't intended as a hurry up prod (grin)<br>
      Have had no issues with the current image I have running. Again
      THANKS for all you've done.<br>
      <br>
      Appreciate you mentioning about the easy way to do the upgrade.
      Reminded me I don't have a copy of my own configs saved after my
      initial install and will do so soon as I finish this reply.<br>
      <br>
      Larry - N7FM<br>
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      On 09/18/2014 07:50 AM, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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          face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Larry,<br>
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           As usual theses things take a little more time than
          expected.  I am hoping to get it out before the end of the
          month and hopefully a little before that. I suppose it depends
          on your situation whether you want to wait or not. It is not a
          big deal to update once you have the configs setup. You just
          bring up the new image do the first time setup and then copy
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        <b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font
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          <hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 01:10:58 -0700<br>
          From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:larry@thunderbolt.net">larry@thunderbolt.net</a><br>
          To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>
          Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Next BBB update<br>
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          <div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">Hi Doug,<br>
            <br>
            Getting ready to construct a new Beaglebone setup for a
            friend.<br>
            <br>
            Just curious if the next image update is close enough that I
            may as well wait for it or should I go ahead with the
            present version?<br>
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            By the way thanks to you and anyone that may have helped
            provided us with this neat package. <br>
            <br>
            Larry - N7FM<br>
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            On 08/25/2014 02:46 PM, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr"><font style="" face="Tahoma">Just a little
                little tease regarding the next release of the BBB
                image. <br>
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                There have been very few problems with the current
                release but the biggest complaint or concern is the
                vulnerability of the USB to power spikes, EMI, etc.
                Unfortunately when this happens the current kernel often
                does not recover gracefully and a reboot is almost
                always necessary. This is annoying with local servers
                but for those deployed in remote areas it is just not
                acceptable.<br>
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                The latest ArchLinux kernel </font><font style=""
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                  minor fix to the simpleusb channel driver </font>has
                solved that problem. This is in testing now and so far
                it seems rock solid. You can remove and replace the USB
                cable from the BBB while connected and it restores
                instantly. Thus if a USB spike takes out the connection
                it will recover. This adds a huge increase in
                reliability to the BBB. So for those of you who are
                experiencing these problems help is on the way!<br>
                <br>
                The new kernel seems to start faster and although still
                under testing it appears the 30 second boot delay that
                is now in rc.local can be reduced significantly or
                possibly eliminated. The entire startup process is
                looking a lot faster. I have gone from power up to
                connection to a node in less than a minute.<br>
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                Other things that should make it to the next release are
                GPIO and backup/restore and a few other nice utility
                scripts like weather alerting. Right now we are shooting
                for mid September.<br>
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                There are lots of ideas brewing about future updates and
                if anyone has any particular (realistic) needs in
                additional features or can provide additional features
                that would be useful to all please email me.<br>
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              <b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font
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