Re: [Olpc-france] extend the memory flash space with an SD card to build open80211s

2009-03-14 Thread Walter Bender
You may want to check out the Debina pages in the Sugar Labs wiki,
which tend to be kept reasonably up to date.

http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian

-walter

2009/3/13 Aime Vareille aime.varei...@wanadoo.fr:
 p...@laptop.org a écrit :
 rekik wrote:
   Hi,
  
   I tried to build the kernel open80211s on a group of machines which use
   ubuntu 8.10 and it's work. Now I had to build it on an XO. The problem
   is that I don't have enough space on my flash memory ( 1Go ). So, I had
   to extend it with an SD card ( to have a space  1024 Mo), but I
   don't know the steps to make this solution and the minimum size of the
   SD card..
  
   can anyone help me !!!

 it sounds like you're trying to do the build of open80211s on
 the XO itself.  most people don't do development for the XO that way --
 we build on another machine, and move the binaries onto the XO.

 for simple programs, you can build on most any modern linux
 distribution and your binary will work on the XO, because the
 libraries and environment tend to be compatible.  (you could
 perhaps build a static binary to be sure.)

 the XO is based on fedora, so a fedora machine will be the best
 build host.

 Yes, but debian can also run on XO.
 However I found http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO not good
 because it puts the fedora kernel on the ubuntu which works with some
 discrepencies ; it takes also some time because of qemu and the boot is
 not optimal.
 Today, the stuff with debian on XO is cleaner and very fast to install
 and test ; http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DebXO is the best page I found
 about it :
  # zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz  /dev/sdX  (for instance, sdb; not sdb1)
 And update the firmware to q2e34.rom at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/
 Then it works fine either on SD card or USB pendrive of 2 GB minimum and
 you can still boot and use the native fedora XO build.
 With SD cards you could need some swap that can be made with a file
 /swap.bin as explained at
 http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053.0
 However, I have to compile a more recent kernel because the 2.6.25
 version on that debian lenny is not sufficient for some of my experiments.
 With all the wiki documentation pages I don't know on which I should write.
 Regards
 Aimé
 paul
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Re: [Olpc-france] extend the memory flash space with an SD card to build open80211s

2009-03-13 Thread Aime Vareille
p...@laptop.org a écrit :
 rekik wrote:
   Hi,
   
   I tried to build the kernel open80211s on a group of machines which use
   ubuntu 8.10 and it's work. Now I had to build it on an XO. The problem
   is that I don't have enough space on my flash memory ( 1Go ). So, I had
   to extend it with an SD card ( to have a space  1024 Mo), but I
   don't know the steps to make this solution and the minimum size of the
   SD card..
   
   can anyone help me !!!

 it sounds like you're trying to do the build of open80211s on
 the XO itself.  most people don't do development for the XO that way --
 we build on another machine, and move the binaries onto the XO.

 for simple programs, you can build on most any modern linux
 distribution and your binary will work on the XO, because the
 libraries and environment tend to be compatible.  (you could
 perhaps build a static binary to be sure.)

 the XO is based on fedora, so a fedora machine will be the best
 build host.
   
Yes, but debian can also run on XO.
However I found http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO not good
because it puts the fedora kernel on the ubuntu which works with some
discrepencies ; it takes also some time because of qemu and the boot is
not optimal.
Today, the stuff with debian on XO is cleaner and very fast to install
and test ; http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DebXO is the best page I found
about it :
 # zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz  /dev/sdX  (for instance, sdb; not sdb1)
And update the firmware to q2e34.rom at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/
Then it works fine either on SD card or USB pendrive of 2 GB minimum and
you can still boot and use the native fedora XO build.
With SD cards you could need some swap that can be made with a file
/swap.bin as explained at
http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053.0
However, I have to compile a more recent kernel because the 2.6.25
version on that debian lenny is not sufficient for some of my experiments.
With all the wiki documentation pages I don't know on which I should write.
Regards
Aimé
 paul
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Re: [Olpc-france] extend the memory flash space with an SD card to build open80211s

2009-03-13 Thread quozl
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 07:27:47PM +0100, Aime Vareille wrote:
 However I found http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO not good
 because it puts the fedora kernel on the ubuntu which works with some
 discrepencies ; it takes also some time because of qemu and the boot is
 not optimal.

Fedora and Ubuntu use the same upstream source for the kernel.  What are
these discrepencies, and why aren't they fixed?

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Re: [Olpc-france] extend the memory flash space with an SD card to build open80211s

2009-03-13 Thread david

look at using debxo to give you a debian install on the XO

David Langp...@laptop.org a écrit :
 rekik wrote:
   Hi,
   
   I tried to build the kernel open80211s on a group of machines which use
   ubuntu 8.10 and it's work. Now I had to build it on an XO. The problem
   is that I don't have enough space on my flash memory ( 1Go ). So, I had
   to extend it with an SD card ( to have a space  1024 Mo), but I
   don't know the steps to make this solution and the minimum size of the
   SD card..
   
   can anyone help me !!!

 it sounds like you're trying to do the build of open80211s on
 the XO itself.  most people don't do development for the XO that way --
 we build on another machine, and move the binaries onto the XO.

 for simple programs, you can build on most any modern linux
 distribution and your binary will work on the XO, because the
 libraries and environment tend to be compatible.  (you could
 perhaps build a static binary to be sure.)

 the XO is based on fedora, so a fedora machine will be the best
 build host.
   
Yes, but debian can also run on XO.
However I found http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO not good
because it puts the fedora kernel on the ubuntu which works with some
discrepencies ; it takes also some time because of qemu and the boot is
not optimal.
Today, the stuff with debian on XO is cleaner and very fast to install
and test ; http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DebXO is the best page I found
about it :
 # zcat debxo-$DESKTOP.ext3.img.gz  /dev/sdX  (for instance, sdb; not sdb1)
And update the firmware to q2e34.rom at http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/
Then it works fine either on SD card or USB pendrive of 2 GB minimum and
you can still boot and use the native fedora XO build.
With SD cards you could need some swap that can be made with a file
/swap.bin as explained at
http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4053.0
However, I have to compile a more recent kernel because the 2.6.25
version on that debian lenny is not sufficient for some of my experiments.
With all the wiki documentation pages I don't know on which I should write.
Regards
Aimé
 paul
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