[Soekris] gentoo on soekris (atheros)

[KF]

Oh yeah.. I have Atheros working too... with kismet at least... DWL-G650 
and using the vanrtonix driver.

soekris vt_ar5k_cvs # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
vt_ar5k                30912   0  (unused)

vt_ar5k: PCI/CardBus 802.11a WirelessLAN driver for Atheros AR5k chipsets
Reyk Floeter <reyk at vantronix.net>, (C) 2002 by .vantronix | secure 
systems and Reyk Floeter
src/wdev.c: Common wireless stack implementation for Linux
Reyk Floeter <reyk at vantronix.net>, (C) 2003 by .vantronix | secure 
systems and Reyk Floeter
vt_ar5k: regulation domain 'fcc'
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:00.0 to 64
vt_ar5k: card 0: mem_start:0xc4825000, len: 65536, irq:10
vt_ar5k: card 0: AR5001X+ chipset (not fully supported)
cs: warning: no high memory space available!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
src/wdev.c: registered new wireless device 'wlan0'!
vt_ar5k (wlan0): starting card in standard mode
vt_ar5k (wlan0): MAC revision 0x0056
vt_ar5k (wlan0): PHY revision 0x0041
vt_ar5k (wlan0): hardware address 00:80:C8:18:CB:81 (from EEPROM)
vt_ar5k (wlan0): card initialized successfully (status 0x00000100)

soekris vt_ar5k_cvs # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     802.11-OFDM  ESSID:"test"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:5.32GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

-KF


KF wrote:

> Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> Excellent. Got a howto?
>>
> I sort of cheated. I first booted the system using the instructions 
> located here: http://www.innercite.com/~mike/soekris/
> This allowed me to access the flash card as /dev/hda. I took a gentoo 
> stage3 (you can use stage 2 or 1 also but thats alot of compiling) 
> cdrom from: 
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc4/x86/x86/stages/ 
> and copied its contents to a random directory on my filesystem.
> Next chroot to this location with "chroot /path/to/random/directory". 
> You then have access to emerge and other gentoo utilities. You can now 
> roll your own gentoo that fits within your disk limits. My disk is 256 
> mb and I currently have 50 meg left. After building the system you 
> will want to set aside some scratch space for nfs mounting later. You 
> will want to move a few large directories to this scratch space like 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib and /usr/portage. This will help trim some of the 
> uneeded  disk hogs out of your way. Below is the shell script I use on 
> the soekris when I want to access portage and emerge.
>
> soekris root # cat mounts.sh
> portmap
> echo mounting gcc-lib
> mount -t nfs 192.168.1.124:/nfsroot/gcc-lib/ /usr/lib/gcc-lib
> echo mounting kern src
> mount -t nfs 192.168.1.124:/nfsroot/kernel /usr/src
> echo mounting portage
> mount -t nfs 192.168.1.124:/nfsroot/portage /usr/portage
> echo mounting misc
> mount -t nfs 192.168.1.124:/nfsroot/misc /root/misc
> mount | grep nfs
>
> Next you will want to place this chroot dir in your /etc/exports so 
> that it can be accessed by the debian nfs boot setup that you are 
> using from above. Just mount the chroot via nfs and copy away. 
> Obviously you need to fdisk the card first. Simply cp -r everything 
> but /proc (if its still mounted) to the compact flash card. Next on 
> the soekris mount /dev/hdaX and "chroot /path/to/flashcardmount" . You 
> need to edit lilo.conf and run lilo. Most importantly is the kernel... 
> I did not use the gentoo kernel that comes with emerge. Instead I used 
> the vanilla source for 2.4.18 and the same .config from the 
> innercite.com site by mike. You MUST do one thing to the kernel config 
> and that is enable devfs. Gentoo HATES to not have devfs. Because of 
> devfs  you will need to put tts/0 in /etc/securetty or you will pull 
> your hair out for 3 days because you can't login on the console. =] Oh 
> yeah /etc/make.global needs to have all the i586 changed to i486 for 
> best optimization maybe?
>
> That should be a good run down until such time as I can write a proper 
> doc on how to do things...
>
> If you are not familiar with gentoo follow this doc for general 
> install questions. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
>
> -KF
>
>
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