On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote: > Igor Videc schrieb: > > > > > Hy all, > > > > I have setup a wl500gP with debian as per instructions on > > http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe . > > It runs great with a 2.5'' notebook hdd on usb2.0. > > As I started adding more services I noticed that ram usage went above > > 32MB and swap was getting used a lot. > > If you read http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=12962 it sounds > > perfectly possible to upgrade to 128MB of ram which would make wl500gP > > one fantastic small debian system. > > For the 128MB support it is neccessary to have this patch > > http://oleg.wl500g.info/wl500gp/kernel-mvista-mem.patch (or maybe not > > ?). > > Is that patch already included ? > > If not, can it be ? > > I'm not that much into kernel compiling(not at all) and have no idea > > if that is applicable to 2.6.19.2 in use at the moment(the newer > > kernels are not stable?) ? > > I would rather know in advance before I disassemble my router :-) > > > > No, this patch is not included. > > But as you download it, you will see it's really trivial and should apply > without problems. > > You're brave to do these intrusive things to your router ;) I got 5 of these routers pretty cheap(second hand, 30€) so for the sake of experimenting I think it is worth it :-) If I understand correctly according to http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=14560 if I add wget --no-check-certificate -q -m -nd -O - "https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/3177/detect-128mb-ram.diff?format=raw" | patch -p0 right after svn checkout --revision 6850 https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ according to your instructions then that should apply the patch ? As I have never before even tried compiling the kernel I have no idea if this is the right step to make ? Thanks Igor > > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > |