Hi,
I have a couple of questions on installing debian on my pogoplug devices ... but with a twist.
I currently have two pogoplug v2 devices, currently running the latest version of archlinux and a pogoplug v3 (oxnas) running debian/2.6.31.6_SMP_820.
1/ I want to use one of them as a HSMM-MESH node (meshed wifi network for ham-radio). However, for the USB wifi dongle I want to use (kernel module "rtl8187") I need a linux kernel 3.4 to use it in "ad-hoc" mode.
Is debian an option here? As far as I see, the latest stable version of debian is 7.2, which has a kernel 3.3
Is there a version of the experimental tree or "unstable" tree of debian that can run on one of these pogoplug-devices?
(I only need a very limited system: a linux kernel, ssh, ip-routing and the "olsr"-daemon).
2/ Most of the documentation I find on the web on how to install debian on a pogoplug start from the original pogoplug software.
Is there some documentation on how to do this, starting from a pogoplug v2 running archlinux?
3/ Or, is there documentation available on the exact boot-process of a pogoplug v2? Exactly what does such a device do when booting? (apparently, there are different partitions on the mtd-device, and nvram parameters, and some other stuff).
4/ On the pogoplug v3 running debian/2.6.31.6_SMP_820; when I do a "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade", the system wants to install the kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-kirkwood (and System.map, config and initrd.img of that version).
This is strange as the system is a pogoplug v3 so a "oxnas" device, not a kirkwood device.
Is there a setting I did wrong?
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
I have a couple of questions on installing debian on my pogoplug devices ... but with a twist.
I currently have two pogoplug v2 devices, currently running the latest version of archlinux and a pogoplug v3 (oxnas) running debian/2.6.31.6_SMP_820.
1/ I want to use one of them as a HSMM-MESH node (meshed wifi network for ham-radio). However, for the USB wifi dongle I want to use (kernel module "rtl8187") I need a linux kernel 3.4 to use it in "ad-hoc" mode.
Is debian an option here? As far as I see, the latest stable version of debian is 7.2, which has a kernel 3.3
Is there a version of the experimental tree or "unstable" tree of debian that can run on one of these pogoplug-devices?
(I only need a very limited system: a linux kernel, ssh, ip-routing and the "olsr"-daemon).
2/ Most of the documentation I find on the web on how to install debian on a pogoplug start from the original pogoplug software.
Is there some documentation on how to do this, starting from a pogoplug v2 running archlinux?
3/ Or, is there documentation available on the exact boot-process of a pogoplug v2? Exactly what does such a device do when booting? (apparently, there are different partitions on the mtd-device, and nvram parameters, and some other stuff).
4/ On the pogoplug v3 running debian/2.6.31.6_SMP_820; when I do a "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade", the system wants to install the kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-kirkwood (and System.map, config and initrd.img of that version).
This is strange as the system is a pogoplug v3 so a "oxnas" device, not a kirkwood device.
Is there a setting I did wrong?
Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.