[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] compiling kernel Re: Fwd: [maemo-users] howto use the 770 as wlan-card replacement?

[From: Ilkka Poutanen]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:44:55AM +0100, Delitsyn Igor wrote:
> I´ve compiled the kernel exactly like Clemens said and I´ve also used ´make 
> n770_defconfig´ like Ed proposed. Then I´ve used flasher to flash the kernel. 
> The problem is, in both cases the kernel works, the system starts loading and 
> just before the actual start it hangs and after a while the device restarts. 
> If I flash the original kernel extracted from FIASCO image back to the 
> device, it works just fine. Do you have any ideas on how to fix the problem?

In my experience this is due to initfs inconsistency as somebody already
pointed out.

IIRC there's a module or two that don't get built from the kernel
sources, possibly because of license issues. In other words, just
replacing the old modules in /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current with the
ones that *do* get built isn't enough, you also need the binary-only
ones.

Replacing only the ones that do get built and using the old versions of
the other ones might work but I've never tried it myself.


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Ilkka Poutanen, research assistant
Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Software Systems