Re: [Mipsbook-devel] Bootstrapping a Debian Lenny rootfs for the 2.6 kernel

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Ruben,

Am 30.04.2010 um 14:53 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller:

Now, the next steps are to fix the chroot /lenny and populate with more configuration (e.g. copy /etc/fstab, /etc/network/interfaces etc.) and applications (e.g. apt-get usbutils), WiFi firmware etc.

Finally, it should be possible to copy all files from /lenny to / (after making a .tbz or .img and/or on a second SD card) and boot that.

My config now boots with a console login. I have attached the dmesg. Of course, there are still some misconfigs to iron out. Now, I want to try to get WiFi working. For that I need some more hints because I have no experience in installing that myself (I always had Linux systems where that was pre-installed)

a) udev install

What do I need to download/install here?

b) zd1211-firmware install

Where can I get that from?

c) may need to update/reinstall wpa_supplicant (you need one without the compiled zydas driver, this only worked for kernel 2.4)

Ok.

d) reconfigure /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf with the correct security encryption.

Ok.

e) For easy use also add the /etc/network/interfaces and add the eth1 (or wifi, whatever you want to name it)

BR,
Nikolaus

Excerpts from dmesg:

Creating 5 MTD partitions on "NAND 1GiB 3,3V 8-bit":
0x00000000-0x00100000 : "bootloader partition"
0x00100000-0x00400000 : "kernel partition"
0x00400000-0x00500000 : "mac partition"
0x00500000-0x00a00000 : "mini rootfs partition"
0x00a00000-0x40000000 : "yaffs2 rootfs partition"



Here is another section that indicates a problem:

drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
---> ak4642en initialization!
Write I2C device 0x13 failed.
Write I2C device 0x13 failed.
Write I2C device 0x13 failed.
Write I2C device 0x13 failed.
Write I2C device 0x13 failed.
JzSOC On-Chip I2S controller registered (DAC: DMA(play):2/IRQ34,

Then the RTC

drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)

And finally, it tries to ifup eth0 (but I had no cable attached)

eth0: JZ On-Chip ethernet (MAC 00:ef:a3:c1:00:03, IRQ 19)
eth0: Found 1 PHY on JZ MAC
eth0: Ethernet Module AutoNegotiation failed

eth0: Ethernet Link offline!

That is already part of the network/interfaces (I think it was imported by debootstrap) indicates that we could flash the bootloader, kernel and rootfs from a system installed on SD card. eth0: Provide Modes: (1)10BaseT-HD (2)10BaseT-FD (3)100baseTx-HD (4)100baseTx-FD

dmesg
Description: Binary data

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