[debian-non-standard] wl500gP 128MB memory upgrade ?

[Igor Videc]

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
>