Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-27 Thread John O'Donnell
On 02/24/2012 10:47 AM, David Madden wrote: Thanks for the replies & info. (For some reason, it doesn't look like I'm getting digests, so I just saw them in the web archives.) I've had luck building a 3.2.6 kernel with vanilla sources and a bit of .config file tweaking. My current config is at:

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-26 Thread David Madden
On 2/25/2012 00:19, John O'Donnell wrote: Lemme know if you run into any issues, I'll fix em right up. I havent run on a 3.2 kernel yet. Just 3.1 Hi John. I was going to reply that your patch doesn't work against 3.2.6, but I (stupidly!) was running it in dry-run mode, and some of the end pa

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-25 Thread David Madden
On 2/25/2012 23:31, John O'Donnell wrote: Oh man that was a short trip... I still cant get the newer -current kernels to boot on my guruplug. Did you have to rebuild yours from scratch? I am going to attempt that now. This is why I stopped upgrading. I rebuilt from scratch. I had the same h

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-25 Thread John O'Donnell
On 02/25/2012 03:26 PM, David Madden wrote: On 2/25/2012 09:59, David Madden wrote: will look into this later today. I am just reading all your notes now. Good information! Thank you! Damn something must have changed in 3.2. I am just getting my development guruplug upgraded to the latest

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-25 Thread David Madden
On 2/25/2012 09:59, David Madden wrote: will look into this later today. OK, the first error ("no member named driverlock") was my fault: I hand-applied the patch wrong. Second error ("unknown field 'ndo_set_multicast_list'") was apparently a change in a netdevice structure. Both fixed and

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-25 Thread David Madden
On 2/25/2012 00:19, John O'Donnell wrote: Lemme know if you run into any issues, I'll fix em right up. I havent run on a 3.2 kernel yet. Just 3.1 Something wrong with the uap_drv.h part of the patch (on OS_INT_RESTORE). I applied it by hand, and <...much compiling occurs...> Uh oh: CC [M]

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-25 Thread John O'Donnell
On 02/24/2012 10:47 AM, David Madden wrote: Still no WiFi, but I'll try John's files & patches tonight. Lemme know if you run into any issues, I'll fix em right up. I havent run on a 3.2 kernel yet. Just 3.1 Good Luck John -- === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back aw

[ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-24 Thread David Madden
Thanks for the replies & info. (For some reason, it doesn't look like I'm getting digests, so I just saw them in the web archives.) I've had luck building a 3.2.6 kernel with vanilla sources and a bit of .config file tweaking. My current config is at: http://www.mersenne.com/downloads/GuruP

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-23 Thread John O'Donnell
On 02/23/2012 03:09 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: http://juanisan.homeip.net/guruplug/JJO-Marvell-Libertas-8688-AP-FULLPATCH-up-to-3.1.2.patch I remember you mentioning this before. What would need to happen to make this patch be in the upstream kernel? I consulted the libertas driver author.

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-23 Thread Stuart Winter
> http://juanisan.homeip.net/guruplug/JJO-Marvell-Libertas-8688-AP-FULLPATCH-up-to-3.1.2.patch I remember you mentioning this before. What would need to happen to make this patch be in the upstream kernel? -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org _

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-23 Thread John O'Donnell
On 02/20/2012 01:49 PM, David Madden wrote: Hi, I've been working on customizing a GuruPlug to do some specific tasks on my home network. I've tried installing Slackware & Debian (both successful) but I haven't been able to build a functional kernel or get wireless running. So, I wonder: * How m

Re: [ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-21 Thread Geoff Walton
I had to 'borrow' to firmware files from the debian install that ships on the device in order to get AP mode to work. I never attempted to get it to run as a client. You can download the file system image from plugcomputer.org and exact them. I have good luck in general with the 2.6.33.5-kirkwoo

[ARMedslack] GuruPlug Wireless?

2012-02-20 Thread David Madden
Hi, I've been working on customizing a GuruPlug to do some specific tasks on my home network. I've tried installing Slackware & Debian (both successful) but I haven't been able to build a functional kernel or get wireless running. So, I wonder: * How much of a hassle is it to get from a vani

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-30 Thread Stuart Winter
> I have questions still for Stuart. > I tried compiling a kernel with the config from /kernels/kirkwood > I want to use this as a reference to start trimming down what I do not need > for my project. I am compiling it right on the plug itself. I get a uImage > that doesnt match in byte size (bu

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-26 Thread Thierry Merle
Le Wed, 26 May 2010 21:33:02 +0200, Thierry Merle a écrit : > Hi John, > > Le Wed, 26 May 2010 02:51:29 -0400, > John O'Donnell a écrit : > > > Robby Workman wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 May 2010 22:14:33 +0100 (BST) > > > Stuart Winter wrote: > > > > > >>> I guess we need to change /boot to a FA

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-26 Thread Thierry Merle
Hi John, Le Wed, 26 May 2010 02:51:29 -0400, John O'Donnell a écrit : > Robby Workman wrote: > > On Sat, 22 May 2010 22:14:33 +0100 (BST) > > Stuart Winter wrote: > > > >>> I guess we need to change /boot to a FAT partition!?! > >> I'd look around and ask on the plug web site about it before >

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-26 Thread Stuart Winter
> > Well, I guess if I/we can ever get this ubootconfig project in a working > > state, it could use the full filename of the kernel image. I hadn't thought of that; I think it's a good idea. > for my project. I am compiling it right on the plug itself. I get a uImage > that doesnt match in b

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-25 Thread John O'Donnell
Robby Workman wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 22:14:33 +0100 (BST) Stuart Winter wrote: I guess we need to change /boot to a FAT partition!?! I'd look around and ask on the plug web site about it before making such a choice; I'm shocked to see ext2 filesystem support missing. The Kernel package w

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-25 Thread Robby Workman
On Sat, 22 May 2010 22:14:33 +0100 (BST) Stuart Winter wrote: > > I guess we need to change /boot to a FAT partition!?! > > I'd look around and ask on the plug web site about it before > making such a choice; I'm shocked to see ext2 filesystem support > missing. > > The Kernel package won't ins

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug update

2010-05-24 Thread Stuart Winter
> > you won't be the only person who's going to have a problem. As with the > > Sheevaplug, someone hopefully will come up with a decent u-boot patch set > > and produce a binary. > > Well when I'm finished with the thing, I'll have a JFFS2 (or UBI) fs flashed > and I'll be loading from nand. B

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug update

2010-05-24 Thread John O'Donnell
Stuart Winter wrote: ( this is taking a while minutes later and USB stick still blinking... It didnt take this long to "fatload" DONE finally! - fatload was pretty instantaneous) I don't know about that. The only problems I have seen are with u-boot's USB support being hit and miss

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug update

2010-05-24 Thread Stuart Winter
> ( this is taking a while > minutes later and USB stick still blinking... > It didnt take this long to "fatload" > DONE finally! - fatload was pretty instantaneous) I don't know about that. The only problems I have seen are with u-boot's USB support being hit and miss -- sometimes it

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug kernel panic on reboot

2010-05-23 Thread John O'Donnell
I consistently get a NON FATAL panic on shutting down... r...@guruslack:~# init 6 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal INIT: SRunning shutdown script /etc/rc.d/rc.6: Saving system time to the hardware clock (localtime). Stopping system message bus... Unmounting remote filesystems.

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug update

2010-05-23 Thread John O'Donnell
I installed that new u-boot and now I get ext2load. This is so strange that Globalscale felt it necessary/wise to leave this out. Converting the SD card /dev/sdc1 from FAT back to ext2 on my linux desktop. Symlinks intact.. PLugged back into the plug. and Booting Sweet! -

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-23 Thread John O'Donnell
Stuart Winter wrote: http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=select&id=15 Does the guruplug u-boot binary available from the 2nd url provide ext2load ? I ran "strings" over it: It doesn't. http://oinkzwurgl.org/guruplug_uboot http://oinkzwurgl.org/dl.php?file=gurupl

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-22 Thread John O'Donnell
If you search on the forums you will find various comments about it missing. I found out that the sd card slot is a usb device. Sda and sdb are taken so the usb stick is sdc. Dont know what the other device is yet. I'll post more as I learn more. ** This e-mail was sent from a Linux Android phone

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-22 Thread Stuart Winter
> http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=select&id=15 > > Does the guruplug u-boot binary available from the 2nd url provide > ext2load ? I ran "strings" over it: It doesn't. http://oinkzwurgl.org/guruplug_uboot http://oinkzwurgl.org/dl.php?file=guruplug-u-boot-flipfli

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-22 Thread Stuart Winter
> You could still work around this manually in the installer, but > I'd wait to find out why ext2 support is missing first. http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=1642.0 http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=select&id=15 Does the guruplug u-boot binary ava

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-22 Thread Stuart Winter
> I guess we need to change /boot to a FAT partition!?! I'd look around and ask on the plug web site about it before making such a choice; I'm shocked to see ext2 filesystem support missing. The Kernel package won't install properly to a FAT filesystem /boot because the "uImage-" file names are

Re: [ARMedslack] guruplug

2010-05-22 Thread John O'Donnell
Well you can rethink the way you install Slackware on the GuruPlug. There are many commands missing (and some new) in the U-Boot for the GuruPlug. Missing is an important one for your Slackware directions: ext2load There is no command Marvell>> ext2load Unknown command 'ext2load' - try 'help' Ma