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

[Igor Videc]

looks like http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221768 might be
tha answer.....
I'm about to try it right now......


On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Igor Videc <igor.videc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>