Should I begin with ramdisk images first, maybe? > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 11:29 PM > From: "Ben Mulvihill" <[email protected]> > To: "Genghis Khan" <[email protected]> > Cc: "OpenWrt User List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Installing OpenWrt 14.07 on a Siemens Gigaset 604 IL (IL) > > (Resent because list was missing first time) > > Hi, > > > I am about to install OpenWrt Barrier Breaker 14.07 on a Siemens > > Gigaset 604 IL device, following installation procedure of BT HomeHub > > 2.0 Type B http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v2b#installation > > which I am not sure I understand. > > > > You are going to have to be prepared to do some development work, not > just installation. Even if the two boards are very similar, an > image compiled for the Home Hub is unlikely to work perfectly out > of the box on the Siemens. In order even to attempt this you are > going to need to be comfortable digging into the code and > rebuilding openwrt. >
What sort of modifications do I need to preform? > You will also need to solder a serial console onto your board, as I > very much doubt that the version of the uboot bootloader installed > on the Siemens has netconsole enabled. Do you have a serial console? > If so can you get the uboot prompt on it? > What is a serial console and where is it? > Once you have a serial console you can install tftpd on your system > (exactly which packages you need depends on what system you have - > you'll find plenty of advice by Googling). The tftpboot folder referred > to in the wiki is the directory on your system where you place files > you wish to be able to download to your device via tftp (depends on > which version of tftpd you have). > I have tftp-hpa-5.2-i486-1 of Slackware 14.1 installed. > Once all that is set up you will be in a position to test openwrt > builds. > > I wouldn't flash any images yet. Start with ramdisk images > loaded into the memory of your device via tftp and executed from there. > Before building your own you could try the precompiled ramdisk image > for the Home Hub. Ie (from the uboot prompt): > > tftpboot 81000000 openwrt-lantiq-xway-BTHOMEHUBV2B-uImage-initramfs > bootm 81000000 > > If you get that far post the bootlog. > > Regards, > > Ben > > P.S. By the way, there is something wrong with the links in your mail. > Do you refer to the hyperlinks in Site Map? _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
