Re: kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?
Hi Joachim On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Joachim Beckers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's the same issue as the one that popped up in sid's 2.6.24. It > seems that the udev fix is not in the lenny kernel or that it fails > somehow. I was able to successfully boot by using this trick from > kevin price: > "For me 2.6.24-2 from today's sid runs fine with the line "ixp4xx-eth" > in > /etc/modules and an according rule in > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules" You shouldn't need to do this with the latest kernel in lenny. I've just tested it and udev loads the ethernet module automatically. Please send the output from the following commands: ls -l /boot cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules udevtest /sys/devices/platform/ixp4xx_eth.16 > Side note: Now my slug works fine, apart from the front usb-connector > leds. they are off, but both connectors have drives attached and > mounted correctly... Sounds like your udev is not happy because nslu2-utils uses udev to automatically turn the leds on and off when devices are plugged into the USB ports. Please send can you send the output of cat /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_nslu2-led.rules so that I can try to figure out what has gone wrong. Thanks. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing drivers for USB Ethernet adapters
> I have enabled CONFIG_USB_CATC, CONFIG_USB_KAWETH, CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS, > and CONFIG_USB_RTL8150 for arm, but I'm not sure when a kernel with > these options enabled will be released. Once again, sorry for the > inconvenience. Could you please also enable the cdc_ether driver? At least my Motorola cable modem (SURFboard SB5100E) uses this driver when you connect to it via USB, and that's exactly what I'm doing with my NSLU2... Thanks! :) -- Kurt Bernhard Pruenner --- Haendelstrasse 17 --- 4020 Linz --- Austria ...It might be written "Mindfuck", but it's spelt "L-A-I-N"... np: Donnacha Costello - Grape B (Colorseries) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?
On 28 Mar 2008, at 20:41, Joachim Beckers wrote: On 28 Mar 2008, at 20:29, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Hi Joachim On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Joachim Beckers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the advice. Much needed as my slug wouldn't come up after the upgrade. Does it check its hard drives after such an upgrade? It seems like the bootlog is completely normal (network comes up btw) but the leds were off except for the top one that was blinking (two times orange, then green). There was a lot of disk activity, and I let it do its thing for a while but then decided that the upgrade probably had failed. Couldn't ping it or ssh into it. The upgrade shouldn't trigger a partition check (fsck). fscks are usually run every 30 times the drive is mounted, so it is possible that a disk check may have been coincidental. The network access would come up after a partition check so it makes sense that if it was running fsck, you would not have been able to ping or ssh to the NSLU2. I'm guessing it was a coincidental fsck too. After fscking the root usb stick on my laptop, the slug boots normally, but still with no networking (the led is off, I cannot ping it). I'll see if I can get into the thing with a usb-to-ethernet adaptor. I'll try the kernel on a clean installation of lenny this evening to see if I can reproduce the problem, and let you know what I find. Ok, great. It's the same issue as the one that popped up in sid's 2.6.24. It seems that the udev fix is not in the lenny kernel or that it fails somehow. I was able to successfully boot by using this trick from kevin price: "For me 2.6.24-2 from today's sid runs fine with the line "ixp4xx-eth" in /etc/modules and an according rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules" Side note: Now my slug works fine, apart from the front usb-connector leds. they are off, but both connectors have drives attached and mounted correctly... Joachim
Re: kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?
On 28 Mar 2008, at 20:29, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Hi Joachim On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Joachim Beckers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the advice. Much needed as my slug wouldn't come up after the upgrade. Does it check its hard drives after such an upgrade? It seems like the bootlog is completely normal (network comes up btw) but the leds were off except for the top one that was blinking (two times orange, then green). There was a lot of disk activity, and I let it do its thing for a while but then decided that the upgrade probably had failed. Couldn't ping it or ssh into it. The upgrade shouldn't trigger a partition check (fsck). fscks are usually run every 30 times the drive is mounted, so it is possible that a disk check may have been coincidental. The network access would come up after a partition check so it makes sense that if it was running fsck, you would not have been able to ping or ssh to the NSLU2. I'm guessing it was a coincidental fsck too. After fscking the root usb stick on my laptop, the slug boots normally, but still with no networking (the led is off, I cannot ping it). I'll see if I can get into the thing with a usb-to-ethernet adaptor. I'll try the kernel on a clean installation of lenny this evening to see if I can reproduce the problem, and let you know what I find. Ok, great. Joachim
Re: kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?
Hi Joachim On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Joachim Beckers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. Much needed as my slug wouldn't come up after > the upgrade. > > Does it check its hard drives after such an upgrade? It seems like the > bootlog is completely normal (network comes up btw) but the leds were > off except for the top one that was blinking (two times orange, then > green). There was a lot of disk activity, and I let it do its thing > for a while but then decided that the upgrade probably had failed. > Couldn't ping it or ssh into it. The upgrade shouldn't trigger a partition check (fsck). fscks are usually run every 30 times the drive is mounted, so it is possible that a disk check may have been coincidental. The network access would come up after a partition check so it makes sense that if it was running fsck, you would not have been able to ping or ssh to the NSLU2. I'll try the kernel on a clean installation of lenny this evening to see if I can reproduce the problem, and let you know what I find. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?
Hi Gordon, On 28 Mar 2008, at 18:36, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Hi Joachim On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Joachim Beckers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, While looking at the updates for my NSLU2 running debian lenny just a few minutes ago, I noticed that kernel 2.6.24-1 is available. According to the changelog, this does not have the network driver autoloading fix yet. Or does it? In other words: is it safe to upgrade? Source version 2.6.24-3 includes the change required to load the network driver automatically. The new binary version is built from 2.6.24-5 so it should work. If you want, you can always backup the flash with sudo cat /dev/mtdblock* > backup.img and then copy this flash to your PC. If anything goes wrong with the upgrade, you can then use upslug2 [1] to reflash the NSLU2 the image stored in backup.img. To do this, you would 1. Put the NSLU2 into upgrade mode [2]. 2. On the PC run 'upslug2 -i backup.img' Thanks for the advice. Much needed as my slug wouldn't come up after the upgrade. Does it check its hard drives after such an upgrade? It seems like the bootlog is completely normal (network comes up btw) but the leds were off except for the top one that was blinking (two times orange, then green). There was a lot of disk activity, and I let it do its thing for a while but then decided that the upgrade probably had failed. Couldn't ping it or ssh into it. regards, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?
Hi Joachim On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Joachim Beckers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > While looking at the updates for my NSLU2 running debian lenny just a > few minutes ago, I noticed that kernel 2.6.24-1 is available. > According to the changelog, this does not have the network driver > autoloading fix yet. Or does it? In other words: is it safe to upgrade? Source version 2.6.24-3 includes the change required to load the network driver automatically. The new binary version is built from 2.6.24-5 so it should work. If you want, you can always backup the flash with > sudo cat /dev/mtdblock* > backup.img and then copy this flash to your PC. If anything goes wrong with the upgrade, you can then use upslug2 [1] to reflash the NSLU2 the image stored in backup.img. To do this, you would 1. Put the NSLU2 into upgrade mode [2]. 2. On the PC run 'upslug2 -i backup.img' Gordon [1] http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Main/UpSlug2 [2] http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/UseTheResetButtonToEnterUpgradeMode -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.6.24-1 in lenny, safe to upgrade?
Hi, While looking at the updates for my NSLU2 running debian lenny just a few minutes ago, I noticed that kernel 2.6.24-1 is available. According to the changelog, this does not have the network driver autoloading fix yet. Or does it? In other words: is it safe to upgrade? kind regards, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two etch on nslu2 related questions
Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb Martin Michlmayr: > Sorry for the delay. > > * Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-01 15:17]: > > - my backup stick is only 1 GB whereas my regular one is 2 GB. > > > > I created the same partitions on the backup stick and copied all > > files (using cp -ra). The nslu2 rejects to boot from the backup > > stick, I see no entries in the syslog. > > > > Any idea why this does not work? > > I'd use tar instead of cp but I'm not sure that's the problem. But > what about /sys and /proc? Did you copy those. I'd exclude those and > just create empty directories. Thanks. Using tar instead of cp solved the problem. /proc and /sys have been empty, because I was copying the stick on a standard Linux PC, not while running on the nslu2 itself. > > - I was running on my spare nslu2 some time ago Debian etch as well > > (prerelease probably). Judging from the syslog it boots but it is > > looking for kernel modules 2.6.18-3 for the ixp4xx ethernet driver > > which are not on my flash stick anymore. > > > > I am tempted to add an init script (at the end of the init process) > > which does a "dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-6-ixp4xx" > > You mean to write it to flash? You could just run flash-kernel > 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx. But if 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx is installed on your machine, > I could also give you a firmware image that you could write with > upslug2. Yes, I want to write it to flash. Since everything works fine, would it work to backup a flash image as described at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/CompletelyBackupTheNSLU2 ? My RedBoot parition table looks slightly different (there is a "loader" but no "Flashdisk"). Searching for RedBoot partition table in IXP4XX-Flash.0 at offset 0x7e 6 RedBoot partitions found on MTD device IXP4XX-Flash.0 Creating 6 MTD partitions on "IXP4XX-Flash.0": 0x-0x0004 : "RedBoot" 0x0004-0x0006 : "SysConf" 0x0006-0x0008 : "Loader" 0x0008-0x001e : "Kernel" 0x001e-0x007e : "Ramdisk" 0x007e-0x0080 : "FIS directory" Would the appropriate way to create a firmware image be dd if=/dev/mtdblock0 of=redboot.bin dd if=/dev/mtdblock1 of=sysconf.bin dd if=/dev/mtdblock2 of=loader.bin dd if=/dev/mtdblock3 of=kernel.bin dd if=/dev/mtdblock4 of=ramdisk.bin dd if=/dev/mtdblock5 of=fisdir.bin cat redboot.bin sysconf.bin loader.bin kernel.bin ramdisk.bin fisdir.bin > fullimage.bin ? Many thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/
Re: Two etch on nslu2 related questions
* Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-28 15:46]: > Would the appropriate way to create a firmware image be You can simply do: cat /dev/mtdblock? > backup-mtd -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video application
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Richard schrieb: Hi All Has anyone tried to use a NSLU2 for video streaming, ie connect a web cam to it and use it as a streaming server. I'd like to be able to video an object exploding , stream the video to another computer, sample at a high rate and then play it back slowly. has anyone already done any thing similar ?? I used to experiment with video streaming on ASUS WL-500gP (266 MHz, 32 MB RAM, mipsel arch). I used vlc for video transcoding and streaming and Philips USB camera. The device was swapping a bit and was a bit slow. You say you want high rate to film an exploding object - you may have trouble with that with NSLU2, I guess. I would think so. In particular, it will (a) be difficult to find an off-the-shelf webcam with a useful frame rate (b) that won't also swamp the NSLU2's bandwidth-constrained, floating-point-challenged processor which at the same time is (c) overwhelmed with pushing what data it can out over TCP/IP through a bandwidth-challenged ethernet implementation to another machine. I'm not really an authority on such matters, though. Just my $0.02 after working with other, comparable processors and other platforms. I looked at some solutions out of curiosity once, and discovered that a lot of the high-speed streaming camera implementations used for this kind of thing actually bolt the camera core right to the CPU over DMA, and then "stream" the raw frames to SRAM. An offline process then pushes those frames out over a fast link (Firewire? SCSI?) to another processsor with the memory and horsepower to turn them into streaming-compatible formats. Or they do the compression with FPGAs. Big ones. :) These were 1000s of frames per second-type systems intended for scientific work, though. Maybe beyond what you're after, but even a cinematic-quality experience is probably beyond the NSLU2. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video application
Richard schrieb: Hi All Has anyone tried to use a NSLU2 for video streaming, ie connect a web cam to it and use it as a streaming server. I'd like to be able to video an object exploding , stream the video to another computer, sample at a high rate and then play it back slowly. has anyone already done any thing similar ?? I used to experiment with video streaming on ASUS WL-500gP (266 MHz, 32 MB RAM, mipsel arch). I used vlc for video transcoding and streaming and Philips USB camera. The device was swapping a bit and was a bit slow. You say you want high rate to film an exploding object - you may have trouble with that with NSLU2, I guess. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non-working coreutils and findutils in arm chroot, running armel kernel
block 472982 by 462677 block 472983 by 462677 thanks 462677 cloned as bugs 472982, 472983. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 04:34:14PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > I'll let you test it, but otherwise: Tested now, rm/find work beautifully. Submitted to the arm patch tracker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Video application
Hi All Has anyone tried to use a NSLU2 for video streaming, ie connect a web cam to it and use it as a streaming server. I'd like to be able to video an object exploding , stream the video to another computer, sample at a high rate and then play it back slowly. has anyone already done any thing similar ?? TIA -- Best Wishes Richard Bown ~ Registered Linux User 365161 OS Mandriva 2008.1 Kernel 2.6.24.3-desktop-13nmb HAM Callsign G8JVM : Locator IO82SP QRV all bands 80mtrs to 3 cms ,( non WARC ) http://www.software-radio.org.uk A computer is like a Native American Indian teepee, it has no gates, no windows and has an apache inside. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
