FSG-3 getting lenny up and running

[tsr-4]

Hi,

I have a FSG-3, a couple years ago I bricked it and about a year ago I
managed to fix it by completing the last step of
http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Freecom_FSG-3#Configuration_on_the_original_FSG-3
and then moving on with that guide. (That did install a custom etch, if
I understand corretly).

For the last 24 hours I have tried to upgrade this to debian lenny.
Following a general upgrade guide I have managed to upgrade everything
but the kernel. This is good.

I would really like to update the kernel though as newer versions
include better wireless drivers and support for the leds on the device.

I have tried to compile one (the latest release from kernel.org,
2.6.31?) and I am currently compiling from the debian-lenny sources
(2.6.26). Compiling the kernel.org one exited with some kind of error
(unfortunately I didnt keep them).

This second go had the same result (and again I didnt save the exact
error, but it had something to do with vgacon.o.

I have two questions:
- when configuring the kernel do I have to chose anything else than the
ixp4xx-hardware and then the FSG-target?
- how do I go about loading the new kernel?

Ofc, if you need any specific information (about my hardware, or errors)
I am more than glad to give you that (if you tell me how to get it).

Hopefully,
tsr


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[Martin Michlmayr]

Copying Tomasz Chmielewski and Holger Levsen who both have a FSG.
Maybe they can comment.

For the record: while we enable FSG support in the kernel, this device
is not officially supported by Debian and from what I hear this would
be pretty difficult.

* tsr <tsr@...> [2009-11-02 00:46]:

> I have a FSG-3, a couple years ago I bricked it and about a year ago I
> managed to fix it by completing the last step of
> http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Freecom_FSG-3#Configuration_on_the_original_FSG-3
> and then moving on with that guide. (That did install a custom etch, if
> I understand corretly).
>
> For the last 24 hours I have tried to upgrade this to debian lenny.
> Following a general upgrade guide I have managed to upgrade everything
> but the kernel. This is good.
>
> I would really like to update the kernel though as newer versions
> include better wireless drivers and support for the leds on the device.
>
> I have tried to compile one (the latest release from kernel.org,
> 2.6.31?) and I am currently compiling from the debian-lenny sources
> (2.6.26). Compiling the kernel.org one exited with some kind of error
> (unfortunately I didnt keep them).
>
> This second go had the same result (and again I didnt save the exact
> error, but it had something to do with vgacon.o.
>
> I have two questions:
> - when configuring the kernel do I have to chose anything else than the
> ixp4xx-hardware and then the FSG-target?
> - how do I go about loading the new kernel?
>
> Ofc, if you need any specific information (about my hardware, or errors)
> I am more than glad to give you that (if you tell me how to get it).
>
> Hopefully,
> tsr
>
>
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[mangoo]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> * tsr <tsr@...> [2009-11-02 00:46]:
>> I have a FSG-3, a couple years ago I bricked it and about a year ago I
>> managed to fix it by completing the last step of
>> http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Freecom_FSG-3#Configuration_on_the_original_FSG-3
>> and then moving on with that guide. (That did install a custom etch, if
>> I understand corretly).
>>
>> For the last 24 hours I have tried to upgrade this to debian lenny.
>> Following a general upgrade guide I have managed to upgrade everything
>> but the kernel. This is good.
>>
>> I would really like to update the kernel though as newer versions
>> include better wireless drivers and support for the leds on the device.

AFAIK FSG-3 includes a Libertas mini-PCI card (88w8335), which was
neither supported by "my" kernel, nor is supported by the
latest-greatest kernel.org kernel (and "libertas" driver does not
support it, as it's different hardware).
I had some early FSG-3 models even without any wireless.
If something changed here, I'd be glad to know.

See also this post (and a reply to it):

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2008-August/001904.html


Original FSG-3 did support 88w8335 as it contained some
hacked/unmaintainable versions of this driver from Marvell.


>> I have tried to compile one (the latest release from kernel.org,
>> 2.6.31?) and I am currently compiling from the debian-lenny sources
>> (2.6.26). Compiling the kernel.org one exited with some kind of error
>> (unfortunately I didnt keep them).

Well, it's hard to help if we can't see what the error was.


>> This second go had the same result (and again I didnt save the exact
>> error, but it had something to do with vgacon.o.

VGA console? Most likely not needed on hardware with no graphics support.


>> I have two questions:
>> - when configuring the kernel do I have to chose anything else than the
>> ixp4xx-hardware and then the FSG-target?

Not sure if Lenny isn't EABI?


>> - how do I go about loading the new kernel?

Just flash it, as described on my page.


>> Ofc, if you need any specific information (about my hardware, or errors)
>> I am more than glad to give you that (if you tell me how to get it).

Also, do you have a serial cable which you can connect to your FSG-3? It
greatly helps debuggin / starting new kernels.


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