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piCore-5.2alpha1
Paul_123:
I remember linux from years ago.....anytime you are on the latest stable tree, you get updates like mad. But that is the price of cutting edge.
The Updates in 5.2 sound good
Paul_123:
I have a model A setup for testing for another project, so I downloaded this to test (I downloaded the SSH version).......the card loaded fine, but then I realized that the model A does not have a network connection without wireless.
So I mounted the card on a different machine and manually installed the Wifi extensions onto the card.....
Perhaps adding wifi to the ssh image would be helpful.
Sadly the 8192cu Kernel Modules are still broke. I'll just install my 3.12.7 kernel with modified drivers.........there has been not changes to this in the 3.12.9 kernel either.
I'll get everything loaded up and see what happens.
One annoyance that has been there since the last version.. Running filetool.sh -b. There is a linefeed/cr missing at the end of the output.
bmarkus:
--- Quote ---Perhaps adding wifi to the ssh image would be helpful.
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It would increase significantly the size of the image and TC's beuaty (one of) is its small size. Also I do not want to offer one more prebuilt image. Maybe, piCore-X with preinstalled SSH and WIFI parts is a good choice. Questin is how to configure WiFi connection at the first time w/o wired net. Either from console or some automatic connection (it was alerady discussed in the forum if I'm right). Third option is configure offline on another machine editing SD card content.
--- Quote ---Sadly the 8192cu Kernel Modules are still broke. I'll just install my 3.12.7 kernel with modified drivers.........there has been not changes to this in the 3.12.9 kernel either.
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Can we add your module to the repo?
--- Quote ---One annoyance that has been there since the last version.. Running filetool.sh -b. There is a linefeed/cr missing at the end of the output.
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Will check
Paul_123:
--- Quote from: bmarkus on February 06, 2014, 03:24:46 AM ---It would increase significantly the size of the image and TC's beuaty (one of) is its small size. Also I do not want to offer one more prebuilt image. Maybe, piCore-X with preinstalled SSH and WIFI parts is a good choice. Questin is how to configure WiFi connection at the first time w/o wired net. Either from console or some automatic connection (it was alerady discussed in the forum if I'm right). Third option is configure offline on another machine editing SD card content.
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On a Model A Rpi, setting up Wifi has to be done from console. Model B's worked fine with just SSH. The struggle was getting all of the wifi dependencies and extensions. There are 6 or 7 different extensions and MD5 files that had to be grabbed manually with wget.
I've had problems with module loading compatibility by just replacing a single driver....so I now just replace the whole kernel and rebuild all of my module extensions that I need. I'm using the linaro cc toolchain provided on the RPi github. The only modification to the 8192cu driver is to edit the makefile and change the option CONFIG_POWER_SAVE to 'n'. before compiling. There is something really messed up in the driver, as if it goes into power save, the driver quits responding to arp requests even after wakeup. I've tried to disable the power savings through the /etc/modprobe.conf but that is not working either.
Can you compile busybox without the password strength checking? I have to keep my own version of busybox around, just to set the password that I want to use.
bmarkus:
--- Quote from: Paul_123 on February 06, 2014, 10:22:49 AM ---Can you compile busybox without the password strength checking? I have to keep my own version of busybox around, just to set the password that I want to use.
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No, it is the standard behavior of Linux for users, except root. As root you can create a weak password for a user, there is just a warning.
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