Greetings
I have aquired a iMX233-OLinuXino-MINI-WiFi and a preinstalled Linux SD-card (2.6.35-6-ARCH+ kernel). Runs perfectly out of the box. But.
In order to compile support for a ethernet dongle (Asix AX88772) I need the proper kernel header files. The author of this: http://azug.minpet.unibas.ch/~lukas/bricol/olinuxino-imx233/index.html seems to have had them as part of the delivered image. However, I am unable to find them. Both the image delivered to me and the image downloded from Olimex seem to lack the files.
Are they packaged separately? Or can I find them some other way?
Thank you in advance.
Magnus
Hi,
which files are missing?
You are talking about 'images' you downloaded. Do you try to compile on the board or cross-compile?
Regards
Mike
Hi Mike,
Sorry for beeing unclear.
I miss the files I (in this case) expected to find under /usr/lib/modules/2.6.35-6-ARCH+/build. All I find is a broken symlink.
(On Debian systems these are suplied by a linux-headers-... packet under a slightly different path or with the kernel source.)
I am trying to compile on the board.
The image I refer to is the file system image available from Olimex for loading onto your own SD-cards. I downloaded it to see if it was more complete than the card i was delivered. (It wasn't, but it was of a later version.)
Best regards
Magnus
Hi Magnus,
I never tried to compile anything on the board directly and considering the boards performance I don't think I have the patience to do so :-)
You may try to cross-compile the driver you need. Christian Jann provided a nice blog post about building the kernel:
http://www.jann.cc/2012/08/23/building_a_kernel_3_x_for_the_olinuxino_from_sources.html
I know benbiles (https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=5392) did compile his stuff on the board some times ago, maybe he has some useful hints.
Regards
Mike
Thanks!
I'll have a look.
/Magnus
I found solution, of sorts.
The downloaded file system image did actually contain a kernel header packet in the pacman package cache. Installing it and the corresponding kernel package let me compile the driver I needed.
Unfortunatly the system is so out of date that it is utterly incompatible with the current Archlinuxarm repositories. (So mutch for saving time by buying a pre loaded sd-card.)