Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Ethernet over firewire

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

The "Executing finished, Exiting" is normal.  The rc script is finished
and so it prints that.

The custome eth1394 module is required on _all_ kernel versions.

Sorry, I don't have any (recent) experience with Debian but the kernel
module should compile against a 2.6.2 or newer kernel I think.


On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 19:15, Terje Wiesener wrote:
> I just installed the rc2 kernel as announced on the list, and the 
> installation went smooth. However, I have the same problem as Jonathan, 
> with your /etc/rc the script finishes with 'Execution finished, Exiting.', 
> after running ifconfig. Is this a problem? Or is it simply because the 
> 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, 
> 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 
> stock kernel). I get "fw pwr +, fw pwr -, fw pwr -, irq: bus reset 
> requested" on the ipod, but I can't ping the ipod from the host. The host 
> 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 
> kernel, so I downloaded that from CVS. The problem is that I can't get it 
> to compile, presumably because I am running a packaged kernel from debian, 
> not one I compiled myself.
> 
> Is this custom eth1394 module still needed for kernels 2.6? If so, is 
> there a way of building it without building the whole kernel? I'm guessing 
> by installing the kernel-headers package it should be possible, as with 
> 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 including
> > '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
> 
> 
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