iConnect - Arch Linux

[alxscott2011]

Tried modprobe on the Dib0700 drivers and although the modules load there's no device node on "/dev/". Would I have to manually mount the device?! I'm at the limits of my Linux knowledge here! Haha

Ps Thank you for your help!!!!

[pepedog]

I see this in config for core linux
#
# Supported USB Adapters
#
CONFIG_DVB_USB=m
# CONFIG_DVB_USB_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_USB_A800 is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_USB_DIBUSB_MB is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_USB_DIBUSB_MC is not set
# CONFIG_DVB_USB_DIB0700 is not set

Go to https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs and request it in issues

[alxscott2011]

Thank you for that! Would recompiling the kernel be an option if they choose not to include the
Module I require?!

[pepedog]

Yes, the way I would do it is
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -S base-devel git
git clone https://pepedog@github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs.git
cd PKGBUILDs/core/linux')
Uncomment this line
#make menuconfig # CLI menu for configuration
then makepkg -Acs --asroot
and install it with pacman -U <filenamesofpackages)

[alxscott2011]

Ah!! Sweet, cheers dude, ill try that now! Much appreciated!

Ps For info this is the issue / feature request link : https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues/151

[alxscott2011]

@pepedog

Did exactly what you said, and its currently chugging away compiling the new Kernel. Would you mind confirming something please?

Once it has compiled the package and i run pacman, do I just need to reboot?! Or will I need to manually delete the old kernel / modules?! Sorry if this is a bit of a noob question, its just dont want to mess it up at the end and have to recompile again! At this rate it'll be done by Monday! haha

Thank You in advance!

[pepedog]

I think it will take 6 hours or so.
Don't have an iConnect, what does mount show? Some machines have to have kernel on 1st partition and that gets mounted as boot. If rootfs is on 1st partition you won't have a problem. You do just reboot.
Perhaps someone can confirm on iConnect

[alxscott2011]

This is my output of mount:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw,relatime,errors=continue)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=126652k,nr_inodes=31663,mode=755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
')

My understanding is that the original uBoot is retained, just modified to allow boot from USB. The USB has one partition formatted as EXT2. So hopefully a reboot will be it sorted!

[xenoxaos]

The 'pacman -U packagename' will update the kernel and install it. You shouldn't have to do anything else.

[alxscott2011]

@xenoxaos Yeah, like you said, pacman install and reboot and it picked up my device straight away!

To anyone who finds this via google a VERY simple way to add modules to your kernel! Just time consuming because of the compile. Thanks to all who helped!