Ok, i need a hand here.

In the past (2.4 kernel land) everything hummed very well. Almost boring well.
Then... i fried my asus wifi card.
Then... i bought an atheros wifi card (Specially for upgrading to 2.6 kernel)

Segmentation fault! was raining down the pipe like it was it's birthday.

i've read some tickets, like this one : https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2035 (all the way)

i now know that the last snapshot from xwrt ( http://downloads.x-wrt.org/xwrt/kamikaz … m47xx-2.6/ ) works flawlessly. no sigfaults whatsoever but ... no kmod-usb-core, kmod-fs-ext2... and so on.. a lot of support not there through the packages.
before the change, i ran kamikaze 7.09 root pivoted to hdd, and a bunch of services from there... flawlessly.
i just want the same here. i do like kernel 2.6 however, i saw some stuff i might want in the future (such as support for prolific usb-serial adaptors) and the improved speed with the internal flash and so on.

Could someone lend me a hand here? ( I WOULD start compiling everything if i knew how... what linux distro to install, what packages, a little step by step how to or something)
anyway, i would be extremely happy if i would just find the packages missing from the xwrt snapshot. i cannot install any module from 7.09 because the kernel is upgraded from 2.6.22 to 2.6.23 or something.

PLEASE, HELP ME!

Fixed in Trunk. Btw. if you use Atheros wireless card you shoul use kernel 2.6. Trunk is at the moment more stable then 7.09.

Hi,
just a quick answer.

You can compile on lot of distribution. I use Linux Mint (debian) and it works fine.

If you need to install some packages you will probably be notified.

http://wiki.x-wrt.org/index.php/Compile … _Webif%5E2

Then you need setup a local repository for your packages. It can be done either through a web server on your lan or you just put them on a USB stick   and point your ipkg.con to the latter. I chose the usb solution and my ipkg.conf looks like this:

src USB file:///mnt/usbdrive/bin/packages
dest root /
dest ram /tmp

Tex

thank you very much.
right now i'm downloading debian and then i'll be installing it on parallels (running a Mac here)
if i get into trouble i'll put my questions here...
now i know that i'm heard

ok. Compiling is a good training .. nevertheless if you need only "some" packages and you don't want to bother with compilation, I can just pack my repo and send it to you.

T.

offtopic: are you running the alpha debian 0.23 mint?

Tex-Twil that will be absolutely PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i will however continue with my debian download and then compiling things.. i am a programmer, industrial machines programmer.
however i have no experience with linux programming.

i'll send you a PM with my e-mail address.

http://linuxmint.com/

It is a distribution very similar to Kubuntu / Ubuntu.

Really, I do not recommend Debian on the Premium.

Just compile recent trunk (target: brcm47xx 2.6). The OpenWrt build-system is very easy.

forum2008, it's about what distro to use to compile kamikaze. not to actually use the distro on the router ) (even though i've heard it actually works)
i'm going to proceed into compiling the sources, i hope i'll manage it.
i'm hoping for the Tex-Twill compiled svn for now... at least i'll have a stable router.

thanks everyone, this community is absolutely great!

hi

You have a latest trunk compiled and working with no segfaults (and with swap turned on), i thought it was still broken

actually the latest trunk it's 100% stable.
anyone else calling for an update on "stable" 7.09 with kernel 2.6 which is pretty UNUSABLE.
edit: swap is on alright, partition.

(Last edited by dlbogdan on 11 Apr 2008, 21:15)