Since the release of Kernel 5.8-rc1, any attempt I made to run a VMware client on that host system has failed catastrophically. ( see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2753 ) and the problem still persists, with 5.8-rc6. I had posted brief details of the issue on the VMware forum some weeks ago, but there has been no useful response. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/638457 I … Continue reading →
I finally got my old DreamPlug working again, but found that the power would fail intermittently.. After checking for software faults, I tracked the problem down to the power supply cable ‘clip-on’ connector.. The problem was caused by the internal connection between the two external pins and the internal slide-on metal tabs being loose, and causing … Continue reading →
Installed 3.13 Final on my test system, and then on my main system, and encountered an odd problem with VMware (10.0.1).. On my test system, VMware had been compiling and installing/running OK on all the 3.13-rc versions, and 3.13 Final, but on my main system, vmnet failed to compile: … /tmp/modconfig-I1rVjt/vmnet-only/filter.c:206:1: error: conflicting types for ‘VNetFilterHookFn’ VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned … Continue reading →
Still trying to find a way round the ‘always boot to rom’ conundrum, and the results of my latest test are not looking too positive.. Instead of running the various parameters in the U-Boot environment, I entered the basic commands by hand: WMT # usb reset (Re)start USB… wmt.usb.param: 11:3 usb select port D scanning bus for … Continue reading →
On the hunch that there may be something within the U-Boot parameters that causes the boot-to-ram problem, I removed almost all the ‘wmt.xxx‘ parameters. The only one remaining was wmt.usb.param=11:3, which enables the USB subsystem – as I was booting from a USB-attached ‘disk’.. You can effectively ‘remove’ U-Boot parameters by setting their values to <blank>: setenv … Continue reading →
My initial success at getting the APC to boot from the micro-SD card instead of built-in ram was tempered by another issue.. Apart from examination of the boot process on the console, I had confirmed that device boots from the micro-SD card when I inadvertently formatted it as EXT3, and the boot process failed with an appropriate … Continue reading →