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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Network Device Hotplug Seems Not To Work

« on: September 17, 2006, 01:58:27 pm »

Two things are broken for me:

- USB network interface hotplugging. If g_ether is loaded I must manually ifup to be able to SSH into my poodle.

- hotplug for my SanDisk ConnectPlus. My Belkin Bluetooth card is detected and configured, but I must manually modprobe hostap_cs and reinsert the WLAN card for it to work. I cannot get the storage and wi-fi to work simultaneously, so since I have a 1 GB MMC card I want to use the Wi-Fi only for now.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: August 01, 2006, 09:48:39 am »

To build a kernel 2.6 for poodle, you should specify what kernel version you want in your local.conf file. There is a variable (the name of which escapes me ATM) for specifying the kernel series (2.4 or 2.6) on machines that support it (like poodle). You can also set PREFERRED_PROVIDER and PREFERRED_VERSION variables for the kernel there. See the OpenEmbedded wiki and other .conf files for examples and more information.

The configuration file for the kernel is located in packages/linux/linux-openzaurus-2.6.17/defconfig-poodle (I think). You can just modify that file if you want to change some options.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: July 30, 2006, 08:30:24 pm »

Speaking of the kernel, hotplug seems to not be working, at least for PCMCIA. I have to 'modprobe hostap_cs' or whatever to activate my CF cards (wifi and bluetooth). It works on my laptop (also 2.6.17), but I am out of date on how hotplug/udev operates these days (/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is empty) so I've been poking around /proc and /sys on the Z and on my laptop, comparing them to figure out what's missing.

Incidentally, udev seems out-of-date (084). My laptop has 093. Is there a reason for this or could this be the reason that hotplugging CF cards isn't working?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: July 30, 2006, 04:00:16 pm »

ipkg-make-index -p Packages .
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Alright, thanks. It should be a feed now:

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src kernel-modules-test http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/linux/zaurus/kernel-modules-2.6.17-r9/
Any problems, let me know.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: July 30, 2006, 03:18:47 pm »

Could you please post these modules?  Also, how did you build the kernel?  Just "bitbake virtual/kernel"?

Thanks.

The modules are attached to this message. All the kernel-module-*.ipk files built by bitbake are in a single .tar.gz file. Beware, some of them are already provided by the test image and will not install. Also, you can fetch individual .ipks from this address:

http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/lin...ules-2.6.17-r9/

It is not a feed, though. I haven't figured out how to generate those.

I created them by building 'linux-openzaurus-2.6.17' out of the .oz354x branch. I had hengtes CVS in my BBPATH, but I don't think that was necessary. See 'GettingStarted' on the OpenEmbedded wiki if you need more help.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: July 30, 2006, 11:04:31 am »

Those should be in the feeds if they were built as modules
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Well, I couldn't find a feed for the test images, so I built the linux-openzaurus-2.6.17 kernel for poodle myself, and that gave me all the modules I needed (and then some) as .ipk files. The whole batch of module packages is only 3.7MB so if anyone wants any of them I can post them my server.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: July 29, 2006, 03:34:21 pm »

Can I put in a request to get WPA crypto modules added to the kernel image? I'm talking about ieee80211_crypt_tkip (which I need) and ieee80211_crypt_ccmp. I connect to two wireless networks about 99% of the time and they both use WPA/TKIP Enterprise.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: July 29, 2006, 02:15:00 pm »

That means "Help, I'm out of memory", try adding some (more) swap
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Is swap possible on the inbuilt (jffs2) flash? Creating a swap file works, but activating it fails with 'invalid argument', and the kernel says 'swapfile has holes'.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Poodle Kernel 2.6 Preview

« on: July 29, 2006, 01:34:54 pm »

I'm having trouble using ipkg. It works once, e.g on 'ipkg update', and then when I go to do 'ipkg upgrade' or 'ipkg update' again, I get this:

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root@poodle:/var/tmp# ipkg upgrade
Upgrading gpe-bluetooth on root from 0.51-r0 to 0.53-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4.1/feed/x11/gpe-bluetooth_0.53-r0_arm.ipk
xsystem: ERROR: fork failed before execution: `wget --passive-ftp    -q -P /tmp/ipkg-zCmREl http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4.1/feed/x11/gpe-bluetooth_0.53-r0_arm.ipk'
Upgrading libcontactsdb0 on root from 0.3-r0 to 0.4-r0...
Downloading http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4.1/feed/x11/libcontactsdb0_0.4-r0_arm.ipk
xsystem: ERROR: fork failed before execution: `wget --passive-ftp    -q -P /tmp/ipkg-zCmREl http://ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl/mirror/www.openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.4.1/feed/x11/libcontactsdb0_0.4-r0_arm.ipk'
Package libusb is already installed in root.
Nothing to be done
Collected errors:
Failed to download gpe-bluetooth. Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update'?
Failed to download libcontactsdb0. Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update'?
Only way to fix it is to reboot or 'rm -rf /var/ipkg'

The PDA is connected via USB to my laptop and NAT is working properly; resolv.conf is also properly set up.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Dosbox On A Poodle?

« on: July 11, 2006, 03:31:30 pm »

the armv5-package is the right one for the poodle, because it is optimized for its CPU.
You may try to install a debugger like strace oder gdb and find out, where it dies.
But perhaps you still haven't enough RAM simply.
Try to shutdown everything not necessarily needed and increase swap-size.
Dosbox will still be unuseable slow, I think, but you can try of corse.
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I don't know about the speed issue, but I will say this: It is almost usable on my Nokia 770, which has a 250MHz ARM processor. I would think the poodle with a 400MHz processor would work quite well. When I was much younger I ran this game on a 25MHz 486SX without any problems so the 10x emulation rule of thumb test is certainly passed here.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Dosbox On A Poodle?

« on: July 08, 2006, 11:41:33 am »

More information:

It runs if I add swap space on a CompactFlash card, but the program I am trying to run inside DOSbox (Jill of the Jungle, an old DOS freeware game) appears to cause it to seg fault later. The SDL window for DOSbox comes up and it goes full screen (as specified in the config file I'm using) but it never gets beyond a black screen--it is killed by SIGSEGV shortly after going fullscreen.

Incidentally, it does run on my Nokia 770, albeit just a bit too slow to be usable. I want to try the Z because it has a 400MHz ARM CPU as opposed to the Nokia's 250MHz.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Dosbox On A Poodle?

« on: July 07, 2006, 12:57:31 pm »

I notice that there is an ARM .ipk file and and armv5te .ipk file for DOSbox. ipkg insists on installing the armv5te .ipk on my machine. Is there a difference, especially one that could be causing a segmentation fault?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Dosbox On A Poodle?

« on: July 07, 2006, 12:05:32 pm »

I am trying to use DOSbox on my poodle (OZ/GPE 3.5.4; PXA250) and when I run it it segfaults. Is this a hardware problem, does DOSbox not run on this hardware, or should I try recompiling the package for my self?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oe Mirror Dead?

« on: June 23, 2006, 03:11:52 pm »

I think that server was having issues with the 3.5.4.1 build and needed to be reset but was switched off instead (reset monkey went wrong), something like that,

Hopefully it'll be up and running soon,


Si
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I figured it was something like that. I'm just glad it isn't on my end...guess I'll have to wait a while to play around some more with OpenEmbedded.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Oe Mirror Dead?

« on: June 23, 2006, 01:44:15 pm »

The developer list too is down since 3 days...


http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=43045
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I don't think this is related. Sourceforge is having problems with all their mailinglists.