Well… This was supposed to be an article on Linux on the Zealz GK802… Sadly, that is not going to happen. The device I received in July 2013 died after only 20 minutes, and after a tortuous exchange of emails I managed to get a replacement sent, after I returned the faulty one. This took (literally) months, … Continue reading →
Just updated the Dreamplug to Kernel 3.11-rc3.. Although the device is (relatively) old now, it does have the enormous benefit of being (almost**) fully supported by the mainstream Linux Kernel.. ** The only ‘unsupported’ item is the Libertas wifi in Access Point (UAP) mode, but it is supported in ‘client’ mode…. The original patch to enable AP … Continue reading →
Just installed the ‘final / released’ version of the Raspberry Pi 3.8 kernel, from https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-3.8.y, and everything seems to be behaving.. This is already based on 3.8.6, so no need (yet) to apply any ‘incrementals’… Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.8.6-pi on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ……………….. # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.8.6-pi #1 PREEMPT Fri Apr … Continue reading →
Just updated the Dreamplug to Kernel 3.9-rc4, by the usual cross-compile, etc.. (as described in earlier posts, last year) Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.9.0-rc4 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.9.0-rc4 #1 Sun Mar 24 11:36:48 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. March 24th, 2013. … Continue reading →
Updated the main system (x86_64) to kernel 3.8.4, and (incrementally..) updated the Raspberry Pi (armv6), as well.. Latest VMware (9.02) and NVIDIA (313.26 and 310.40) drivers all compile without any patches.. Precise details here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.4 # uname -a Linux rglinux 3.8.4 #1 SMP Thu Mar 21 02:03:44 GMT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ‘Incremental’ patch from 3.8.3 … Continue reading →
Ever since first running yum on the Dreamplug, over a year ago, I have had intermittent problems with yum/rpm ‘hanging’ for no apparent reason. There were no errors reported, and – for a time – everything just seemed to work OK.. Now I have just attempted to do an install of xfce4 on the system, with approximately … Continue reading →
Just updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.8.3, by applying the incremental patch, from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/incr/patch-3.8.2-3.bz2 Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.8.3-pi on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ……………….. # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.8.3-pi #2 Sun Mar 17 20:27:05 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux Attempts to ‘hack’ 3.9-rc2 by applying the standard kernel.org patch to my Pi … Continue reading →
Just updated the Raspberry Pi from (hacked!)3.8.0 to 3.8.1, by applying the 3.8.0-1 patch at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/patch-3.8.1.bz2 Note that this first incremental patch is in the ‘main’ kernel directory. Only the subsequent ones (3.8.1-2, etc..) will be in the /incr subdirectory.. The patch applied cleanly, and all seems to be working OK: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel … Continue reading →
Just updated the Dreamplug to 3.8-rc1, without any problems.. Used the .config from 3.7.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.8.0-rc1 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.8.0-rc1 #1 Wed Dec 26 22:00:22 GMT 2012 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. December 26th 2012. … Continue reading →
Just updated the Dreamplug to 3.7-rc5 (just released..) and there are no surprises.. Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Kernel 3.7.0-rc5 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………………… $ uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.7.0-rc5 #1 Sun Nov 11 23:10:12 GMT 2012 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon.. November 11th 2012. … Continue reading →