[Gumstix-users] Compact Flash Problems

[Aaron J. <Lit...@ma...>]

I am VERY new to linux and have been working with the gumstix (as an isp for
the robostix) now for about 1(1/2) months and have hit one road block after
another. First I could not get a working buildroot environment even after I
tried to build it on 4 different linux machines. I finally did get it to
work in windows with VMware running Fedora Core. Next I ran into the problem
of my robostix drivers, when inserted, threw out conflicting kernel version
errors and would not let me force it into the kernel anyway. The buildroot
would not spit out a new root-fs-arm image so I didn't know what to do,
trying to keep moving forward I patched it with the module-init-tools to
gain uisp support and it DID build the root-fs-arm image. I'm not sure
why???. Now the robostix driver works but now my gumstix on board storage is
4mb and my file sys. Is 3.7mb, so simultaneously I hit 2 more walls #1 no
space to drop my programs (I can put stuff in that last free space but then
they will not delete!?!?). I have been trying to get the cf card expansion
to work but it wont create hda in /dev and it is not present in fstab so I
cant mount it, but when I remove the card from the slot it tells me that a
PCMCIA card at socket 0 has been removed. #2 I cant get any code(even
example code) to compile in the buildroot it gives me seemingly different
errors every time. To solve this i'm trying to do it in WinAVR and use
AVRLib but no luck yet.. If any one could help me with either of these 2
problems it would be awesome!!!!!!
            Aaron Jones