Re: Is it possible to build a RaQ2 using PPP?

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

vizi0n (debian-mips) wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thiemo Seufer" <ths@networkno.de>
> 
> >>>I guess your Internet access works via PPPOE, this would mean you need
> >>>a complete base installation before you can set up the PPPOE connection.
> >>>
> >>>The .debs needed for a base installation are the same as the ones
> >>>included on the 100 MB "netinst" installer ISO. A while ago I wrote
> >>>a script which creates a minimal partial mirror sufficient for a base
> >>>installation, available from the d-i SVN:
> >>>http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/scripts/testmirror?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
> >>>
> >>so basically I would need to run this script on my RaQ2 used to nfsroot,
> >>and then use that machine as a source for APT during the installation on 
> >>my
> >>RaQ2+ with the content that it would've downloaded?
> >
> >In principle yes. The script might be a bit outdated, though.
> >
> >>Just making sure, because when this thing goes, there's no more
> >>smtp,pop3,http, etc etc :)
> >
> >Better keep the old disk around unaltered, just in case. :-)
> 
> okay, but before doing all this I'd like to compile myself a kernel with 
> PPPOE, Netfilter and all that.

All of that is already available in the standard kernel, what's missing
in the installer is the userland support for PPPOE, and an automated
way to set it up.

> I've downloaded kernel-source-2.4.27 and 
> kernel-patch-2.4.27 (-10.sarge1)
> 
> I've got all the software needed for the build, I just wanna make sure that 
> I'm doing this correctly because right now I'm using a 2.6 kernel on my 
> RaQ2+ and it is buggy a bit. To apply the patches, I need to do them all 
> manually?
> 
> [root@zoidberg:/usr/src/linux]$ 
> /usr/src/kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips-2.4.27-10.sarge1.040815/debian/patches/00_linux-mips.dpatch 
> -patch

Rather:
  apt-get source kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips
  cd kernel-patch-2.4.27-mips*
  (optional: Edit debian/rules to comment out all other subarches than
   r5k-cobalt, otherwise all supported mipsel kernels will get built)
  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -B 2>&1 |tee ../makelog

This method uses the kernel config from configs/mipsel/r5k-cobalt.


Thiemo