On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:30:06PM +0200, JOORIS Emmanuel wrote: > > Does anyone know how to use the watchdog with Debian Squeeze? > > Presumably I need the watchdog package and the correct module, as > > there is no /dev/watchdog yet.
> This is possible with the voyage linux kernel on lenny, with the > geodewdt module. With lenny, this is impossible with the debian kernel No, it is possible under Lenny, with the sxc200_wdt module and the watchdog package. soekris:~# uname -a Linux soekris 2.6.26-2-486 #1 Wed May 12 21:03:35 UTC 2010 i586 GNU/Linux modinfo scx200_wdt filename: /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.ko alias: char-major-10-130 license: GPL description: NatSemi SCx200 Watchdog Driver author: Christer Weinigel <[email protected]> depends: scx200 vermagic: 2.6.26-2-486 mod_unload modversions 486 parm: margin:Watchdog margin in seconds (int) parm: nowayout:Disable watchdog shutdown on close (int) (Have it running on a net4801) But the original question was for Squeeze... While you've nothing to loose trying under Squeeze with the stock kernel, I can't have it running here on the same (2.6.32) backported kernel for Lenny. The module doesn't load for an (yet) undebugged reason : uname -a Linux shazam 2.6.32-bpo.4-686 #1 SMP Mon Apr 12 16:20:13 UTC 2010 i586 GNU/Linux modprobe scx200_wdt FATAL: Error inserting scx200_wdt (/lib/modules/2.6.32-bpo.4-686/kernel/drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.ko): No such device Of course, YMMV under a real Squeeze box. Hih, -- JFS. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
