Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Ethernet over firewire

[Terje W. <wie...@sa...>]

I just installed the rc2 kernel as announced on the list, and the=20
installation went smooth. However, I have the same problem as Jonathan,=20
with your /etc/rc the script finishes with 'Execution finished, Exiting.'=
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after running ifconfig. Is this a problem? Or is it simply because the=20
ipod cannot listen to telnetd and sh at the same time?

I tried adding sh to the end of the script as suggested by someone else,=20
but then it complains about a missing file descriptor for readline.

Anyway, I tried inserting the eth1394 module into my kernel (debian 2.6.2=
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stock kernel). I get "fw pwr +, fw pwr -, fw pwr -, irq: bus reset=20
requested" on the ipod, but I can't ping the ipod from the host. The host=
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is configured with eth1 as 192.10.1.1, and the interface seems to be up.

Then I read that I need a custom eth1394 module since I am running a 2.6=20
kernel, so I downloaded that from CVS. The problem is that I can't get it=
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to compile, presumably because I am running a packaged kernel from debian=
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not one I compiled myself.

Is this custom eth1394 module still needed for kernels 2.6? If so, is=20
there a way of building it without building the whole kernel? I'm guessin=
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by installing the kernel-headers package it should be possible, as with=20
the nvidia kernel module?

Best regards
Terje

> thanks for your quick reply!  I tried your /etc/rc; now I can't even
> ping it anymore.  The output looked very promising - up to and includin=
g
> 'Command: ifconfig eth 192.10.1.2'.  No errors seen before then.  But
> then comes:
>
> 	'Execution finished, Exiting.'
>
> I don't even get the 'bus reset' messages I had been seeing before when
> I probe eth1394 on the host.  Is this inittab correct?
>
> 	inet:unknown:/bin/inetd