MK802 and ArchLinux

[djony]

Hi.
It is possible to use the install instructions of mele A1000 for MK802?

King Regards
Djon

[WarheadsSE]

I believe that you will need a different script.bin (that can be easily changed out with uEnv.txt), but you may also need a slightly different u-boot. Also, I might need to give instructions to pre-prepare it to connect to wireless. There is no X11/Xorg installed by default, and even if it were, there are issues with the Xorg integration drivers at the moment.

[djony]

Can I use script.bin and uImage from another linux like one from miniand? I have got an usb-lan-adapter (mcs7830), so I don't need wireless connection.

[WarheadsSE]

You should, in theory, only need the script.bin. If the USB ethernet adapter comes up as eth0 out of the box, it should pop right up on ssh.

uImage != u-boot though.

[djony]

Are driver for MCS7830 already included? I will try now to copy script.bin from miniand-release.

[WarheadsSE]

Checked the config on github.

CONFIG_USB_NET_MCS7830=m

[djony]

usb-lan-adapter doesn't work... can you give me instructions to pre-prepare it to connect to wireless? thank you

King Regards
Djon

[WarheadsSE]

You'll need to (caveat - I don't have an MK802)
- make the wpa_supplicant configuration (which is platform agnostic)
- add wpa_supplicant call to either rc.local, or appropriate netconfig stuff.
- ensure dhcpcd gets pointed at that interface. I don't know the interface's name.

[badfish]

I got my MK802 working like this:

1. Download and install a pre-built Ubuntu image (google for it); that got me a working system, so I could be sure that the bootloader, kernel etc were correctly configured.
2. Backup the /lib/modules diectory from the working image
3. Wipe the linux partition, and then install the Arch runtime into it
(http://us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/Ar ... est.tar.gz)
I also installed the netcfg package.
4. Edit the following files to ensure that I could log into the system after it had booted:
/etc/shadow (to set a root password: I just copied this from another machine)
/etc/rc.conf (to load the "net-profiles" daemon)
/etc/conf.d/netcfg (to load a profile named "wlan0")
/etc/network.d/wlan0 (copy /etc/network.d/examples/wireless-wpa and fill in the ESSID and key)
5. Copy back the contents of the Ubuntu /lib/modules directory into /usr/lib/modules

Then the MK802 booted into Arch, using the ubuntu kernel,and I could log in using ssh.
If it doesn't seem to be working, mount the SD card on another machine and have a look at /var/log/boot and /var/log/everything.log to see what is wrong.

The next stage will be to replace the Ubuntu kernel and bootloader with the Arch ones, to see whether I can get them to work.

[vonfritz]

https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/d ... -the-mk802