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Little Packages: Cross Compilation 03
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Because good things come in Little packages. Tuesday, August 5, 2008. I was right. It was too good to be true. I mounted the .ext2 file created by buildroot. Sudo mount -t ext2 -o loop rootfs-arm nofpu.ext2 /mnt/mybook. And was able to browse around. It has all the config files and scripts under /etc (woop) but the /bin directory is completely empty (meh). So it looks like, at the very least, I haven't built the kernel or busybox. On the plus side, the build arm nofpu/staging/dir/bin. Rather than a diary...
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Little Packages: April 2009
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Because good things come in Little packages. Saturday, April 25, 2009. Quick update, My MyBook died before christmas so was sent away for a replacement. It took aaaaages for the replacement to come back and I've been using an older tower with Ubuntu in the meantime. I'm finally getting round to transferring everything back to the new MyBook and for some reason, ushare isn't working, despite following my own instructions here. The very thing this blog was for). To simply check shares. Port to listen for T...
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Little Packages: Cross Compilation 2
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Because good things come in Little packages. Monday, August 4, 2008. I almost typed cross copulation there! That would have been funny? Right this was too easy. After a few trip ups. Needed to install flex, bison and patch (via apt-get of course). Ubuntu links /bin/sh to the dash shell which was causing a syntax error: bad fd number(? So I changed the softlink to use bash instead of dash. Copied all the directories under buildroot-patches/packages and buildroot-patches/patches into buildroot/package.
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Little Packages: January 2008
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Because good things come in Little packages. Thursday, January 31, 2008. Smbconf Ovewrites. It's not finished. Root /etc/init.d/lighttpd.sh stop. Which takes down lighttpd and the nasMaster.pl FCGI script. Then edited /etc/init.d/network servers.sh to disable start and stop of lighttpd at startup and shutdown. Then manually updated /var/oxsemi/shares.inc to add a new share. When the machine comes back up, the file has not been overwritten. A-ha! The drive management tool writes its updates to a shares...
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Little Packages: You Say To-ma-to
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Because good things come in Little packages. Friday, May 9, 2008. I run a hacked. Western Digital MyBook World Edition. It runs SSHD and with port forwarding of port 22 enabled on my router, I am able to login and access the 500Gb of storage from work. Unfortunately this has meant opening port 22 on the router to the outside world and I was finding logs like this on the mybook recently. May 9 15:53:07 anya auth.info /usr/sbin/sshd[15614]: Invalid user fluffy from 220.227.218.21. Diary of a Geek. Unfortun...
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Little Packages: Cross Compilation 04
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Because good things come in Little packages. Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Tutorial from IBM whih pretty much covers it all. I've run into a problem at the moment where I'm trying to build uClibc instead of glibc, as covered in the guide. I have the error. Ubuntu arm-linux-uclibc-gcc -Wall . -mlittle-endian . -c arm/resolve.S -o arm/resolve.o. As: unrecognized option: -EL. I'll then have two C libraries available andjust need to make sure the correct one is used when cross compilin for the MyBook.
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Little Packages: February 2008
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Because good things come in Little packages. Saturday, February 9, 2008. Put it all together and whaddaya got! After faffing about a bit trying to get everything to boot up on startup, it all ended up being simpler than I expected. First, create your configuration file for wpa supplicant. Because I started off using the network-tool, this is /etc/wpa supplicant/wpa psk.conf for me. Gordon more /etc/wpa supplicant/wpa psk.conf. This file describes the network interfaces available on your system. Reboot an...
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Little Packages: August 2008
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Because good things come in Little packages. Saturday, August 30, 2008. I have movies stored on the MyBook streaming to the XBox and it works better than I could have imagined! I was expecting stuttering (as happens when viewing films on my wireless PC connected to the telly (I suspect the USB wireless adapter on it just isn't up to the task) ) and it streams almost instantly, unlike on my laptop which seems to download the whole file before starting to play it. Cd libupnp-1.6.6. Gordon]$ ./configure...
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Little Packages: uShare Revisited
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Because good things come in Little packages. Saturday, April 25, 2009. Quick update, My MyBook died before christmas so was sent away for a replacement. It took aaaaages for the replacement to come back and I've been using an older tower with Ubuntu in the meantime. I'm finally getting round to transferring everything back to the new MyBook and for some reason, ushare isn't working, despite following my own instructions here. The very thing this blog was for). To simply check shares. Port to listen for T...