| 14:12 | RandomPixels | hello rabeeh |
| 14:12 | rabeeh | RandomPixels: hi |
| 14:13 | RandomPixels | i have a small problem while trying to install something in ubuntu 13.04 (i think) |
| 14:13 | RandomPixels | when i run "make" |
| 14:13 | RandomPixels | it says it cannot find a specific file |
| 14:13 | RandomPixels | i've tried to locate it, it exists, but it's a symlink to /home/rabeeh/work/linux/kernel |
| 14:14 | rabeeh | this is my kernel build dir\ |
| 14:14 | rabeeh | this is my kernel build dir |
| 14:14 | rabeeh | probably it's looking for kernel modules? |
| 14:15 | RandomPixels | yes |
| 14:15 | rabeeh | are you trying to build the kernel from scratch? or something else? |
| 14:15 | RandomPixels | could you up somewhere an archive? for me it's simpler to create the /home/rabeeh/work/linux/kernel files :) |
| 14:16 | RandomPixels | no, i'm trying to install the drivers for the konig cmp-wnusb22 wifi dongle |
| 14:16 | rabeeh | oh; so it's looking for the kernel sources. |
| 14:17 | rabeeh | the kernel sources are exactly what is in github |
| 14:17 | rabeeh | https://github.com/rabeeh/linux |
| 14:17 | rabeeh | and i typically use cubox_defconfig |
| 14:18 | rabeeh | i think best is cloning that git; make cubox_defconfig inside it soft link that directory to /home/rabeeh/work/linux/kernel |
| 14:19 | TrevorH1 | is there a newer kernel than the 3.6.9 debian wheezy one? I did try the 3.8.0+ one but it has no ipv6 |
| 14:23 | rabeeh | TrevorH1: can you build your kernel? |
| 14:24 | TrevorH1 | I have done in the past though not on the cubox yet, only had it 2 days |
| 14:25 | TrevorH1 | right now I suspect I'm limited by available disk space, it's running off the supplied 4GB sd card though I have a 64GB ssd on its way |
| 14:30 | rabeeh | why not cross compiling? |
| 14:30 | rabeeh | that's what i typically do |
| 14:30 | rabeeh | for instance - |
| 14:30 | rabeeh | export ARCH=arm |
| 14:31 | rabeeh | export CROSS_COMPILE= |
| 14:31 | rabeeh | make cubox_defconfig |
| 14:31 | rabeeh | make uImage |
| 14:36 | RandomPixels | thanks rabeeh, since we haven't spoken in a while, congrats for the new achievements :) |
| 14:37 | RandomPixels | (especially the USB installer) |
| 14:37 | rabeeh | thanks RandomPixels :) |
| 14:46 | TrevorH1 | rabeeh: I don't generally run debian but there's no arm centos so debian is the next best thing. Pretty sure there's no arm toolchain for centos and that's what all my other machines run |
| 14:53 | Wizzup | centos is usually the best thing? I'm surprise anyone would say that |
| 14:53 | Wizzup | surprised* |
| 14:54 | TrevorH1 | fedora = too unstable and not supported for long enough, debian/ubuntu use apt-* :( |
| 14:58 | Wizzup | I have no technical problems with apt, at least not more than with the other format :-) |
| 14:58 | Wizzup | ebuilds ? |
| 15:04 | TrevorH1 | yeah I gave up on gentoo about 5 years ago after my system nuked itself for the 4th or 5th time after an update |
| 15:09 | RandomPixels | linux usually nukes itself sometimes |
| 15:38 | _rmk_ | yea, but not very often... in about 18 years so far, the only fs problems I've had have been (a) due to a sticky label eating through a track on a RAID card resulting in fs corruption, and (b) fedora 9 eating its ext4 rootfs |
| 15:40 | _rmk_ | the big problem I encounter though is when I do an upgrade to a new version, inevitably something I depend on breaks, is removed or simply stops working |