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

[Igor Videc]

Actually this is the answer... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221768
I deleted /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules , rebooted and
all was well.


On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Igor Videc <igor.videc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
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