Hy, a friend of mine has managed to compile a kernel with this patch, old stable version of kernel, the same as yours. I had a usb disk from the last test so I just flashed the upgraded WL-500gp(128MB) and tried to boot....... At first all was coming well but at one point I can see the following messages on the console(serial) port: Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Failed to bring up eth0. Set name-type for VLAN subsystem. Should be visible in /proc/net/vlan/config Device "eth0" does not exist. eth0 does not exist, unable to create eth0.100 run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan exited with return code 1 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0.100: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device eth0.100: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device eth0.100: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Failed to bring up eth0.100. after that I tried clearing nvram and this time it booted up recognizing 64MB(to see full 128MB some nvram variables need to be changed from defaults) and nothing changed... Than I tried flashing your firmware version and still the same error, needless to mention that right now I have no network but on the bright side I have a system with 128MB of ram. Do you have any idea what might be the cause of this error ? Thanks Igor On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote: > Igor Videc schrieb: >> >> 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 ? > > Look inside that patch - you will see which files it changes. > > "-" means the lines it removes, "+" means the lines it adds. > > Before you apply any patch, you have to do at least one build - otherwise, > kernel source won't be downloaded and unpacked. > > If you've never compiled Linux kernel before, it may be a bit hard, I guess. > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > |