From: John C. <jrp...@ya...> - 2007-12-25 09:57:40
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I spent some time trying to get my WiFi and system size problems resolved without success. So I tried the latest revision 1578 and couldn't get that to work with WiFi. There is some confusion with mwlan0 and wlan0, but it didn't matter much to me as neither one worked. I went back to revision 1541 and that with the default configuration of buildroot worked fine as soon as I had set up /etc/network/interfaces and left about 6.2M free flash space. So I have resolved my immediate issue, but this leaves two new issues. 1) How do I find out which revisions are the "good" i.e. stable ones? Obviously 1578 has "issues" and 1541 is at least somewhat stable, but is there a stable version between 1541 and 1578? 2) Apart from trial-and-error is there a way to determine which of the options in the buildroot configuration are necessary for a functioning system with WiFi and which are just "nice to have"? Hope everyone is having a great Christmas! John Cummins ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping |
From: Dave H. <dhy...@gm...> - 2007-12-25 16:31:00
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Hi John, > I spent some time trying to get my WiFi and system size problems > resolved without success. So I tried the latest revision 1578 and > couldn't get that to work with WiFi. There is some confusion > with mwlan0 and wlan0, but it didn't matter much to me as > neither one worked. > I went back to revision 1541 and that with the default configuration > of buildroot worked fine as soon as I had set up /etc/network/interfaces > and left about 6.2M free flash space. > So I have resolved my immediate issue, but this leaves two new issues. > 1) How do I find out which revisions are the "good" i.e. stable ones? Unfortunately, there is no way to know except to try them. Some releases might be stable for say wifi, but bluetooth doesn't work, or some other combination of things. > Obviously 1578 has "issues" and 1541 is at least somewhat stable, but is > there > a stable version between 1541 and 1578? I'm going to double check 1578. I thought I had wifi working with it. > 2) Apart from trial-and-error is there a way to determine which of the > options > in the buildroot configuration are necessary for a functioning system with > WiFi > and which are just "nice to have"? Well, if you use lsmod, it will show you what which modules are loaded and what they depend on. I seem to recall that the wifi module is named something like mcf25.ko. So all of the modules it needs need to be loaded in order for wifi to work. -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ |
From: Scott P. <spa...@ho...> - 2007-12-25 22:03:54
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Guys, Anybody got an idea as to what this build error might be?? I am doing a fu= ll build of the trunk and I am using the latest open SUSE. I am guessing I am= missing a default=20 command(s) ... I thought it might be objdump... but it seems to be availab= le. Scott . . . . checking whether malloc is declared... yes checking whether realloc is declared... yes checking whether sbrk is declared... yes checking whether strverscmp is declared... no checking whether canonicalize_file_name must be declared... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes checking for working mmap... yes checking for working strncmp... yes updating cache ./config.cache configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating testsuite/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing default commands make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/scottp/gumstix/trunk/toolchain_build_arm_= nofpu/binutils-2.17.50.0.6-build' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/scottp/gumstix/trunk/toolchain_build_arm_= nofpu/binutils-2.17.50.0.6-build' make: *** [/home/scottp/gumstix/trunk/toolchain_build_arm_nofpu/binutils-2.= 17.50.0.6-build/binutils/objdump] Error 2 |
From: Dave H. <dhy...@gm...> - 2007-12-26 00:30:46
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Hi Scott, > Anybody got an idea as to what this build error might be?? I am doing a full > build of the trunk and I am using the latest open SUSE. I am guessing I am missing a default > command(s) ... I thought it might be objdump... but it seems to be available. Usually, a failure in binutils means that makeinfo is either not installed or too new. See: <http://docswiki.gumstix.com/Buildroot#Troubleshooting> -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ |
From: Scott P. <spa...@ho...> - 2007-12-26 05:11:11
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That nailed it. Builds fine. ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:30:50 -0800 > From: dhy...@gm... > To: gum...@li... > Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] Build problem >=20 > Hi Scott, >=20 >> Anybody got an idea as to what this build error might be?? I am doing a= full >> build of the trunk and I am using the latest open SUSE. I am guessing I= am missing a default >> command(s) ... I thought it might be objdump... but it seems to be avai= lable. >=20 > Usually, a failure in binutils means that makeinfo is either not > installed or too new. >=20 > See: >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Dave Hylands > Vancouver, BC, Canada > http://www.DaveHylands.com/ >=20 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |