debian+fso+gta02: newer kernels?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 11.09.2008, 01:01 +0200 schrieb Julian Köpke:
> I have successfully installed debian with the new kernel. I downloaded
> the daily build from http://downloads.openmoko.org/daily/
> Then I extracted the /lib/modules directory and created a modules.tar.gz
> from it and put it together with the uImage.bin on my local web server.
> Finally I changed the variables in the install.sh to
> KERNEL_IMAGE=http://192.168.0.200/uImage.bin
> KERNEL_MODULES=http://192.168.0.200/modules.tar.gz
> and ran it. It worked perfectly and booted the new kernel.

Nice, thanks for testing. I wonder why they have published a
modules.tar.gz for the milestone2 kernel, but not for the daily builds.
Maybe someone from Openmoko can enable that there as well?

> After booting I noticed some problems... usb networking doesn't work
> (so I couldn't install anything and had to do everything with the
> xterm and matchbox-keyboard),

Add "g_ether" to /etc/modules (IIRC).

>  and after suspending, everything stops
> working.

I have heard reports about that, not sure what the 2008.8 stack does
differently from the FSO stack WRT suspending.

> The only improvement is, that the card doesn't get messed up
> and can still be booted. Receiving a call with the new kernel worked,
> too.

Nice.

Greetings,
Joachim
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