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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks Benny,<br>
<br>
this is very good information.<br>
<br>
I took an old 1M USB flash and plugged it to Alix as a swap memory.
Then I did mkswap and swapon, and the stick showed nicely as swap.
After that the make command to the linux source passed smoothly.<br>
<br>
Anttu<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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On 31.03.2010 13:51, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:benny.tops@skynet.be">benny.tops@skynet.be</a> wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:b201c9$c2coi4@relay.skynet.be" type="cite">Hi
Anttu,<br>
<br>
You need to copy a file named sierra.ko. There's another kernel module
called sierra_net.ko, but unless you're planning to do exotic stuff
(such as MUX, ...), you won't need it.<br>
<br>
Building the driver from source is quite easy, but there are some
caveats. Below you find my notes regarding the build process of the
Sierra driver. If you don't manage to follow these, I can send you the
driver I've built as an attachment (only for kernel 2.6.30). Then you
can insmod it on your platform.<br>
<br>
The instructions:<br>
- Download source code of driver:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sierrawireless.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/500">http://sierrawireless.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/500</a><br>
- Go to the folder containing the driver source code, unzip it: tar
–xvf v.x.y.z_Kernel2.x.y.zip (x, y en z = f(kernel version))<br>
- Compile and install the new driver: make; make install<br>
- Verify if the driver is correctly installed using modinfo<br>
<br>
Remarks:<br>
- You need the packages build-essential and linux-headers-2.6.<your
kernel
version>-voyage<br>
- In the makefile of the Sierra driver, change the kernel header path:
BUILDDIR := /usr/src/linux-headers-<your kernel version>-voyage<br>
- You also need to change 2.6.<your kernel version>-voyage to
2.6.<your kernel version>-486-voyage in the following files:<br>
o /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.<your kernel
version>-voyage/include/config/kernel.release<br>
o /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.<your kernel
version>-voyage/include/linux/utsrelease.h<br>
<br>
Hope this helps and kind regards,<br>
<br>
Benny<br>
<br>
<br>
Van: Antti Turunen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:antti.turunen@siptune.fi"><antti.turunen@siptune.fi></a><br>
Datum: 31 maart 2010 07:34:58 GMT+02:00<br>
Aan: voyage-linux <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:voyage-linux@voyage.hk"><voyage-linux@voyage.hk></a><br>
Onderwerp: Antw.: [Voyage-linux] Linux header for 0.6.5?<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
what I actually would need is only to get a newer version of Sierra
Wireless USB modem driver in. Currently there is 1.3.x in Voyage and
all the newer Sierra
modems require 1.7.x.<br>
<br>
Is there then a simpler way for just getting make work for the driver
installation? If I do it on another machine, what is stuff I need to
copy?<br>
<br>
(Sorry for me being so newbie with this.)<br>
<br>
Anttu<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 31.03.2010 04:13, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:<br>
<br>
Hi Anttu,<br>
<br>
I don't recommend to build kernel on a slow, limited memory ALIX. If
you still want to do so, you will need some swap space. Probably, you
won't want a swap file on the flash memory, perhaps you need extra USB
harddisk for swap.<br>
<br>
Another way would be using the SDK, and install it on VMWare,
VirtualBox, etc. Then you transfer your kernel and other compiled
stuff to your board.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.voyage.hk/develop">http://linux.voyage.hk/develop</a><br>
<br>
The last, but may not work, is to change the kernel compression to gzip
to see it would use less memory than lzma.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Punky<br>
<br>
On 3/30/2010 10:31 PM, Antti Turunen wrote:<br>
Obviously not. But this
wonderful new awareness still does not help me forward. :)<br>
<br>
Is there a way to free some memory?<br>
<br>
<br>
Anttu<br>
<br>
<br>
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