I am attempting to create a Bering image with the following qualities:
1) boots from 4 MB compact flash connected to ide controller on Soekris net4501
(www.soekris.com)
2) supports the National Semiconductor ethernet devices on the Soekris net4501
3) has console on serial port
4) has ipsec support
My question is this: in order to accomplish 3 and 4, I had to compile a new kernel.
I did this by acquiring the bering-beta4 config file, applying the freeswan patches to
a 2.4.17 source tree, and making the kernel and modules on a Debian Woody box. Is
this allowed? Do I have to compile my kernel and modules on a Slink box as well as
the binaries?
The kernel boots fine with serial support and all, ipsec and natsemi modules seems to
work fine, but eventually, I get a kernel panic. When I try to ping machines
connected to either interface, I get nothing but transmit timeouts and it seems to
accelerate the process. the output of ifconfig for that interface shows:
TX packets:3 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:3 carrier:3
Collisions:0
I have also posted to the soekris-tech list, but I do have a sneaking suspicion that I
have taken a short cut that has gotten me into hot water.
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