Here is our chating for other people who could work with us:
2007-01-22
(00:20:48) nikosaei:
are you there?
(00:43:59) nikosaei:
hi
(00:44:08) nikosaei:
?
(00:44:08) nikosaei:
my friend are you there
(10:38:51) nikosaei:
hi
(10:39:03) nikosaei:
are you there my friend?
(10:42:16) nikosaei:
i want a little help to create the cf card
(10:42:24) nikosaei:
can you help me?
(10:44:09) louaysakka:
hello
(10:44:41) louaysakka:
are you there?
(10:44:47) nikosaei:
oh helloe from greece
(10:44:55) nikosaei:
of cource i am
(10:45:03) louaysakka:
helo from Dubai
(10:45:07) louaysakka:
(10:45:27) louaysakka:
So did you read my post?
(10:45:34) nikosaei:
and i am waiting you to talk to me
(10:45:39) nikosaei:
how are you
(10:45:40) nikosaei:
?
(10:45:51) nikosaei:
Dubai
(10:46:02) nikosaei:
well don
(10:46:04) nikosaei:
done
(10:46:14) nikosaei:
sorry for my english
(10:46:18) louaysakka:
I want to know where did you stop?
(10:46:28) louaysakka:
no problem
(10:46:32) nikosaei:
of cource i read your post
(10:51:02) nikosaei:
just a moment to tell you
(10:51:20) nikosaei:
i just compile the openwrt
(10:51:26) nikosaei:
i can create images but
(10:51:38) nikosaei:
when i write them on cf i get
(10:51:45) nikosaei:
kernel panic
(10:53:12) nikosaei:
are you there i see there is a problem with skype messages tells me that not delevered yet!
(10:56:01) louaysakka:
hello
(10:56:11) louaysakka:
sorry got disconnected
(10:56:17) nikosaei:
hi
(10:56:34) nikosaei:
a ok
(10:56:59) louaysakka:
For me I did not copy them from the image
(10:57:06) nikosaei:
and i stated to find why
(10:57:19) louaysakka:
I make a file system manually
(10:57:55) nikosaei:
just a moment to understant please
(10:57:57) nikosaei:
ok?
(10:58:12) louaysakka:
mksquash or mkext2
(10:58:40) louaysakka:
so you use a standard kernel
(10:58:59) louaysakka:
I could be able to boot squash fs
(10:59:09) louaysakka:
as root, on cf2
(10:59:19) louaysakka:
I create 3 partition
(10:59:37) louaysakka:
boot, squash and ext2
(10:59:42) nikosaei:
i don t understand
(10:59:48) nikosaei:
just a moment please
(11:00:00) louaysakka:
sure
(11:00:08) nikosaei:
sorry a want to learn
(11:00:13) nikosaei:
first
(11:00:36) nikosaei:
i need to create a partions to my cf
(11:00:40) nikosaei:
ok?
(11:00:48) nikosaei:
i have a cf 512 mbyte
(11:00:59) louaysakka:
no probelm
(11:01:08) nikosaei:
how i create these 3 partitions
(11:01:21) louaysakka:
fdisk
(11:01:33) nikosaei:
can you tell me to learn how can this do?
(11:01:40) louaysakka:
when you connect it with usb
(11:01:42) nikosaei:
ok
(11:01:55) louaysakka:
you can do dmesg
(11:02:10) louaysakka:
and see what your kernel called it
(11:02:15) nikosaei:
just a moment to get inside
(11:02:33) louaysakka:
sre
(11:02:34) louaysakka:
sure
(11:02:46) nikosaei:
i see
(11:03:21) nikosaei:
sdb
(11:03:27) nikosaei:
ok /dev/sdb
(11:03:31) nikosaei:
i get inside
(11:03:55) louaysakka:
yes for example
(11:04:13) louaysakka:
you do fdisk /dev/sdb
(11:04:17) nikosaei:
it is a 512
(11:04:23) nikosaei:
mbyte compact flash
(11:04:30) nikosaei:
erase everything?
(11:04:39) nikosaei:
yes i know
(11:05:08) louaysakka:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 0 MB, 0 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 17 4336 27 Unknown
/dev/sdc2 18 82 16624 83 Linux
(11:05:16) louaysakka:
as for example
(11:05:26) louaysakka:
you can create 3
(11:06:25) nikosaei:
and how i create bootable squasfs and the other
(11:06:38) nikosaei:
i erased everything
(11:07:45) nikosaei:
ok do this you paste?
(11:07:48) nikosaei:
2 or 3?
(11:08:06) louaysakka:
you don't create the bootable
(11:08:36) louaysakka:
you make sure that your boot id 27
(11:08:47) nikosaei:
i don t understan
(11:09:00) nikosaei:
just a moment
(11:09:10) nikosaei:
to paste you
(11:09:58) nikosaei:
my cf
(11:10:05) louaysakka:
for boot we dd the openwrt vmlinux
(11:10:22) louaysakka:
are you on linux>
(11:10:24) louaysakka:
?
(11:10:30) nikosaei:
yes
(11:10:39) louaysakka:
do you have static ip?
(11:11:03) nikosaei:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
16 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
(11:11:20) nikosaei:
i am behind nat througgh network
(11:11:59) louaysakka:
ok no problem
(11:12:05) nikosaei:
i prees n
(11:12:09) nikosaei:
and then p
(11:12:11) louaysakka:
just add two partition
(11:12:11) nikosaei:
ok?
(11:12:17) louaysakka:
you know how to do
(11:12:31) louaysakka:
yes
(11:12:35) louaysakka:
n
(11:12:37) louaysakka:
p
(11:13:15) louaysakka:
just print help and you see
(11:15:24) nikosaei:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
16 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 17 8401 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 18 500 239568 83 Linux
(11:15:34) nikosaei:
and and i have more space live free
(11:17:12) nikosaei:
now i pree t?
(11:17:19) nikosaei:
press t?
(11:17:33) louaysakka:
but you need to change id
(11:17:58) louaysakka:
to 27 on bootable
(11:18:19) nikosaei:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 17 8401 27 Unknown
/dev/sdb2 18 500 239568 83 Linux
(11:18:20) nikosaei:
now?
(11:18:43) nikosaei:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 17 8401 27 Unknown
/dev/sdb2 18 500 239568 83 Linux
(11:19:07) louaysakka:
yes
(11:19:14) louaysakka:
that great
(11:19:30) nikosaei:
bootable
(11:19:32) louaysakka:
you can create 3 partition to get to where I am
(11:19:49) louaysakka:
not important
(11:20:11) nikosaei:
i don t understand
(11:20:16) nikosaei:
now i have two
(11:20:20) nikosaei:
i need onother one?
(11:20:35) nikosaei:
there is no bootable
(11:20:42) louaysakka:
make sure that the sdb1 is more than 4M
(11:21:50) nikosaei:
i thin it is
(11:22:03) nikosaei:
it is bigger than you paste later
(11:22:27) nikosaei:
Disk /dev/sdb: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
16 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 17 8401 27 Unknown
/dev/sdb2 18 500 239568 83 Linux
(11:22:52) nikosaei:
now ny cf is like this
(11:23:09) nikosaei:
byt there is no 3 partition or bootable
(11:23:18) nikosaei:
what i have to do now?
(11:23:27) louaysakka:
no you can do
(11:23:30) louaysakka:
n
(11:23:33) louaysakka:
p
(11:23:36) louaysakka:
3
(11:24:00) louaysakka:
and you will have 3 partition
(11:24:12) nikosaei:
and sfter n?
(11:24:15) nikosaei:
after n?
(11:25:04) nikosaei:
Disk /dev/sdb: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
16 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 17 8401 27 Unknown
/dev/sdb2 18 500 239568 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 501 1009 252464 83 Linux
(11:25:07) nikosaei:
this is
(11:25:08) nikosaei:
now?
(11:25:28) louaysakka:
great
(11:25:35) nikosaei:
ok
(11:25:35) louaysakka:
now you write
(11:25:37) louaysakka:
w
(11:25:45) louaysakka:
then quit
(11:25:47) louaysakka:
q
(11:25:56) nikosaei:
bootable?
(11:26:00) nikosaei:
no bootable?
(11:26:21) louaysakka:
no nee
(11:26:24) louaysakka:
d
(11:26:51) nikosaei:
ok ready
(11:27:25) nikosaei:
now what i have to do
(11:27:29) louaysakka:
now you make part two
(11:27:47) louaysakka:
/dev/sdb2 as squash
(11:27:53) louaysakka:
here how:
(11:27:57) nikosaei:
i have create the images
(11:28:45) louaysakka:
/root/louay/kamikaze/trunk/staging_dir_mipsel/bin
(11:28:55) nikosaei:
ok sdb2 will be squash
(11:29:12) louaysakka:
mksquashfs-lzma
(11:29:34) louaysakka:
you use that program to format your harddisk
(11:29:43) louaysakka:
sorry flash
(11:29:51) louaysakka:
.dev.sdb2
(11:32:22) nikosaei:
mksquashfs-lzma
(11:32:26) nikosaei:
where is it
(11:32:34) nikosaei:
it is a program?
(11:32:50) louaysakka:
/kamikaze/trunk/staging_dir_mipsel/bin
(11:33:06) louaysakka:
where is your kamikaz
(11:33:31) nikosaei:
ok i am inside
(11:34:48) nikosaei:
ok
(11:34:54) nikosaei:
i found that
(11:34:56) nikosaei:
it is green
(11:35:16) louaysakka:
what do you mean?
(11:35:30) louaysakka:
is it working now?
(11:35:45) nikosaei:
it is not a program
(11:36:57) louaysakka:
yes it is
(11:37:12) louaysakka:
but you need to do teh following
(11:37:23) nikosaei:
what ?
(11:37:28) louaysakka:
./mksquashfs-lzma ../../build_mipsel/root/ squshfs
(11:37:44) louaysakka:
from:
(11:37:50) louaysakka:
/root/louay/kamikaze/trunk/staging_dir_mipsel/bin
(11:40:29) nikosaei:
./mksquashfs-lzma /dev/sdb2
(11:40:39) nikosaei:
this is what i have to do?
(11:41:11) nikosaei:
it is tel me syntax wrong
(11:41:38) louaysakka:
no
(11:42:02) louaysakka:
like what I write you before
(11:42:39) louaysakka:
./mksquashfs-lzma ../../build_mipsel/root/ squshfs
(11:42:52) nikosaei:
a ok
(11:44:45) nikosaei:
sudo ./mksquashfs-lzma ../../build_mipsel/root/squshfs
(11:45:00) nikosaei:
something it is not right
(11:45:54) nikosaei:
i have to create dir squashfs
(11:45:55) nikosaei:
?
(11:46:31) nikosaei:
squshfs
(11:46:32) louaysakka:
you need to choose a file name for image
(11:46:48) louaysakka:
like suqshfs
(11:48:02) nikosaei:
ok it wanted a space
(11:48:34) nikosaei:
ok
(11:48:47) louaysakka:
now you dd it to your 2ed partition
(11:48:57) nikosaei:
it did something i think
(11:49:58) louaysakka:
what?
(11:50:10) louaysakka:
what do you see?
(11:51:04) nikosaei:
just a moment
(11:51:10) nikosaei:
squasfs
(11:51:13) nikosaei:
is inside
(11:51:15) nikosaei:
root?
(11:51:43) louaysakka:
what do you mean?
(11:52:16) nikosaei:
that image i create where is it?
(11:53:00) louaysakka:
we got it from openwrt directory
(11:54:13) nikosaei:
and now i have to dd squasfs image i just create
(11:54:16) nikosaei:
ok?
(11:55:13) nikosaei:
that it is i dont understand
(11:56:52) louaysakka:
sorry
(11:57:09) louaysakka:
here is the right command:
(11:57:15) louaysakka:
./mksquashfs-lzma ../../build_mipsel/root/ squshfs
(11:57:34) louaysakka:
so your image is ../../build_mipsel/root/
(11:58:03) louaysakka:
you can go there you will see etc, www , ...
(11:58:32) nikosaei:
yes i see
(11:58:38) nikosaei:
them i am inside root
(11:59:18) nikosaei:
bin dev etc lib mnt proc var www
(11:59:33) nikosaei:
what i have to do now?
(12:00:40) louaysakka:
you dd it?
(12:01:37) nikosaei:
the command is
(12:02:14) nikosaei:
i don t want to do something stupid
(12:02:38) nikosaei:
sorry
(12:03:04) louaysakka:
dd if=squshfs of=/dev/xxx2
(12:03:20) louaysakka:
xxx2 is your 2ed partiton
(12:04:15) nikosaei:
that is the problem
(12:04:24) nikosaei:
i don see anywhere squashgs
(12:04:43) nikosaei:
squashfs
(12:05:24) nikosaei:
i am in root
(12:05:36) louaysakka:
[11:57:15] … ./mksquashfs-lzma ../../build_mipsel/root/ squshfs
[11:57:15] … ./mksquashfs-lzma ../../build_mipsel/root/ squshfs
(12:05:48) louaysakka:
you remember our command
(12:06:03) louaysakka:
when we create it?
(12:06:19) louaysakka:
using ./mksquashfs-lzma
(12:06:27) louaysakka:
what did you name it?
(12:06:37) nikosaei:
yes
(12:06:58) nikosaei:
mipsel/root/ squshfs
(12:07:03) louaysakka:
that is a file,
(12:07:06) nikosaei:
like that
(12:07:12) louaysakka:
you need to dd
(12:07:34) louaysakka:
dd if=that file of=/dev/xxx2
(12:12:50) nikosaei:
ok
(12:13:15) louaysakka:
let me know
(12:13:20) nikosaei:
so squshfs
c squshfs
(12:13:47) nikosaei:
so squshfs
(12:13:57) nikosaei:
is just a name of the image
(12:14:07) nikosaei:
nothing other
(12:14:08) nikosaei:
ok
(12:14:24) nikosaei:
i dd it in sdb2
(12:14:46) nikosaei:
i am ready now
(12:15:54) nikosaei:
what has the menu?
(12:16:04) louaysakka:
let me know what you see
(12:16:31) nikosaei:
in what?
(12:16:43) louaysakka:
just to boot from flash
(12:16:55) louaysakka:
on serial
(12:17:04) louaysakka:
you have serial right?
(12:17:39) nikosaei:
sorry i have the routerboard in my link and plays
(12:17:41) nikosaei:
play
(12:17:52) nikosaei:
i have to put it off
(12:18:29) nikosaei:
yes i don t have routerboard next to me
(12:18:48) nikosaei:
i have to boot it with cf card?
(12:19:34) nikosaei:
and see serial?
(12:19:40) louaysakka:
yes
(12:20:37) nikosaei:
have you time
(12:20:37) nikosaei:
?
(12:21:04) nikosaei:
can you wait to put it near me
(12:21:21) louaysakka:
sure I am working here
(12:21:41) louaysakka:
try to give me a ring
(12:21:53) nikosaei:
tell me somethink
(12:22:29) nikosaei:
it is a lot of work
(12:22:36) nikosaei:
to make it play?
(12:23:32) nikosaei:
do you have the same machine and play with openwrt? 2.6 and madwifi?
(12:23:33) louaysakka:
play what?
(12:24:06) louaysakka:
yes
(12:24:09) nikosaei:
play with openwrt
(12:24:23) louaysakka:
I have one problem
(12:24:47) nikosaei:
what?
(12:24:52) louaysakka:
I need to get the kernel directly to read/write system
(12:25:08) louaysakka:
but sqush is readonly
(12:25:32) nikosaei:
it is only readonly
(12:25:34) louaysakka:
but I could from there mount ext2 and chroot
(12:25:40) nikosaei:
bun in squasfs
(12:25:45) nikosaei:
we can write?
(12:25:59) louaysakka:
then I have a full read/wire fs
(12:26:11) louaysakka:
not on squash
(12:26:22) louaysakka:
only when you compile
(12:26:29) nikosaei:
but in wrt
(12:26:34) louaysakka:
so your image is one time use
(12:26:46) nikosaei:
i use squasfs and i write
(12:27:04) louaysakka:
where?
(12:27:23) louaysakka:
there is limited writable space
(12:27:27) nikosaei:
is i install i quagga i could not write the confs?
(12:27:40) louaysakka:
you can't change all
(12:28:01) nikosaei:
tell me
(12:28:03) louaysakka:
I can't
(12:28:24) louaysakka:
maby when you do it you can help me
(12:28:37) nikosaei:
just a moment
(12:29:00) nikosaei:
sorry i don t understand
(12:29:39) nikosaei:
i want to put openwrt and quagga and madwifing
(12:29:42) nikosaei:
thats all
(12:31:12) nikosaei:
i can later to write confs bgpd.conf and zebra
(12:31:40) nikosaei:
and to write a script for my atheros card to get in managed mode,rates,txpower,channels etc
(12:31:48) louaysakka:
yes you can
(12:32:20) nikosaei:
a ok
(12:32:24) louaysakka:
for me I need to go thru manual process include chroot
(12:33:00) nikosaei:
thanks god!!!\
(12:33:05) louaysakka:
how do you run madwifi?
(12:33:13) nikosaei:
ok lets set up this fucking machine
(12:33:16) louaysakka:
what is the commad?
(12:33:20) nikosaei:
and get off mikrotik and routeros
(12:34:49) nikosaei:
where in openwrt?
(12:35:08) nikosaei:
in debian is moprobe ath_pci to load the module
(12:35:18) nikosaei:
i openwrt i think it is insmod
(12:35:23) louaysakka:
so tell me what is the command to run madwifi? do you know
(12:35:25) louaysakka:
?
(12:36:21) louaysakka:
then?
(12:36:30) nikosaei:
i don t understan
(12:36:32) louaysakka:
how do you run it?
(12:36:58) nikosaei:
sorry in openwrt you speak
(12:37:01) nikosaei:
?
(12:37:50) nikosaei:
you do an ipkg install madwifi....
(12:37:56) nikosaei:
and then it loads only
(12:38:13) nikosaei:
you don t have to load it
(12:38:47) nikosaei:
it doing this automaticaly
(12:38:55) louaysakka:
yes
(12:39:21) louaysakka:
then what is the command to run it?
(12:40:05) louaysakka:
after ipkg and all that
(12:40:07) nikosaei:
run what?
(12:40:28) louaysakka:
how do you setup tx pwr for example
(12:40:31) nikosaei:
tjust reboot
(12:40:40) nikosaei:
a ok
(12:41:00) nikosaei:
if you want to see your
(12:41:08) nikosaei:
wifis
(12:41:18) nikosaei:
just pree iwconfig
(12:41:30) nikosaei:
if you want to setup tcpower
(12:41:54) nikosaei:
iwconfig ath0 txpower etc..
(12:42:03) nikosaei:
iwconfig essid nikos
(12:42:17) nikosaei:
iwconfig ath0 essid nikos
(12:42:17) louaysakka:
I see
(12:42:35) louaysakka:
how do you setup like bridge list
(12:42:51) louaysakka:
like wl mac1 mac2 ...
(12:42:51) nikosaei:
wlanconfig ath0 destroy
(12:43:00) louaysakka:
on broadcom?
(12:43:20) louaysakka:
if I need to make WDS
(12:43:33) louaysakka:
between two AP2
(12:43:41) nikosaei:
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap
(12:44:10) louaysakka:
P2P
(12:44:47) nikosaei:
i don t know apbout wds
(12:45:13) nikosaei:
i don t know sorry
(12:45:42) louaysakka:
no problem
(12:46:02) nikosaei:
so i am going to put routerboard on
(12:46:06) nikosaei:
my serial
(12:46:08) nikosaei:
ok?
(12:46:10) nikosaei:
wait
(12:46:15) louaysakka:
so let me know if the image worked
(12:46:26) louaysakka:
sure
(12:46:30) nikosaei:
i want to make this thing work
(12:47:01) nikosaei:
i just put cf and
(12:47:09) nikosaei:
run?
(12:47:28) louaysakka:
sure
(12:47:29) nikosaei:
we have mot make bootable