From francois.ruvoen at gmail.com  Sat Mar  7 04:29:23 2009
From: francois.ruvoen at gmail.com (Francois RUVOEN)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:29:23 +0100
Subject: Original kernel and modules for nw3100
Message-ID: <b4ddd950903070129veac7a9bi1b00d7aa416402ec@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I have been using a nw3100 as a home server for a few years now (Debian,
Ext3, Lighttpd, DLNA server) and I am very pleased with it. Unfortunately it
swaps a little too much so I am willing to upgrade it from 128MB to 256MB.
As it required a frmware upgrade which requires the orginal 2.4.0 kernel (as
pointed out by Ralph), I rather went for aggressive tweaking of my
applications. It did the trick for a few month but now I am back to the
original problem.
Has anyone of you still got that original kernel?

Thanks to Ralph I already have the firmware images.

Francois.
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From janrinze at home.nl  Sat Mar  7 06:01:13 2009
From: janrinze at home.nl (janrinze)
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:01:13 +0100
Subject: Original kernel and modules for nw3100
In-Reply-To: <b4ddd950903070129veac7a9bi1b00d7aa416402ec@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b4ddd950903070129veac7a9bi1b00d7aa416402ec@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1236423673.7785.2.camel@core2-64-desktop>

Hi Francois,

I am not sure if it is 2.4.0 that you need. The firmware upgrade might
work with any 2.4 kernel. Ralph should be the judge of that..
I will dig into some old stuff tomorrow and see if i can find you
something. I assume it is an ARM based netwinder.

regards,

Jan Rinze.

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 10:29 +0100, Francois RUVOEN wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been using a nw3100 as a home server for a few years now
> (Debian, Ext3, Lighttpd, DLNA server) and I am very pleased with it.
> Unfortunately it swaps a little too much so I am willing to upgrade it
> from 128MB to 256MB. As it required a frmware upgrade which requires
> the orginal 2.4.0 kernel (as pointed out by Ralph), I rather went for
> aggressive tweaking of my applications. It did the trick for a few
> month but now I am back to the original problem.
> Has anyone of you still got that original kernel?
> 
> Thanks to Ralph I already have the firmware images.
> 
> Francois.
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> Netwinder at netwinder.org
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From ralphs at netwinder.org  Sat Mar  7 08:18:27 2009
From: ralphs at netwinder.org (Ralph Siemsen)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 08:18:27 -0500
Subject: Original kernel and modules for nw3100
In-Reply-To: <b4ddd950903070129veac7a9bi1b00d7aa416402ec@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b4ddd950903070129veac7a9bi1b00d7aa416402ec@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20090307131827.GB18486@harvey.netwinder.org>

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 10:29:23AM +0100, Francois RUVOEN wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone of you still got that original kernel?

It is included in the firmware, and you can access it as follows:

Interrupt the firware at "Press any key to abort autoboot" prompt,
then type the command "shell" to get a shell.  At this point,
you will be running the old 2.4.0 kernel, and the appropriate
flash module will be loaded.  The flashwrite program is
available in /bin as well.

The only thing missing is the new firmware image, which you 
presumably have saved on the hard disk previously.  To access
the disk, mount it with "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt" for example.

Hope this helps!
-Ralph

PS. changing the RAM on the 3100 is risky - even if the firmware
upgrade succeeds, it may not run with the new RAM.  In that case
you have no way to flash it back.  You can only keep trying different
RAM modules in hopes that one of them works...  all of this is
an unfortunate side-effect of how Transmeta processors work...



From francois.ruvoen at gmail.com  Mon Mar  9 04:13:46 2009
From: francois.ruvoen at gmail.com (Francois RUVOEN)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:13:46 +0100
Subject: Original kernel and modules for nw3100
In-Reply-To: <20090307131827.GB18486@harvey.netwinder.org>
References: <b4ddd950903070129veac7a9bi1b00d7aa416402ec@mail.gmail.com>
	<20090307131827.GB18486@harvey.netwinder.org>
Message-ID: <b4ddd950903090113y45b56361n88a29256fce45886@mail.gmail.com>

In my version of the firmware, there is actually no flashwrite anywhere on
the flash fs but the mtd kernel module is there.

2009/3/7 Ralph Siemsen <ralphs at netwinder.org>

> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 10:29:23AM +0100, Francois RUVOEN wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone of you still got that original kernel?
>
> It is included in the firmware, and you can access it as follows:
>
> Interrupt the firware at "Press any key to abort autoboot" prompt,
> then type the command "shell" to get a shell.  At this point,
> you will be running the old 2.4.0 kernel, and the appropriate
> flash module will be loaded.  The flashwrite program is
> available in /bin as well.
>
> The only thing missing is the new firmware image, which you
> presumably have saved on the hard disk previously.  To access
> the disk, mount it with "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt" for example.
>
> Hope this helps!
> -Ralph
>
> PS. changing the RAM on the 3100 is risky - even if the firmware
> upgrade succeeds, it may not run with the new RAM.  In that case
> you have no way to flash it back.  You can only keep trying different
> RAM modules in hopes that one of them works...  all of this is
> an unfortunate side-effect of how Transmeta processors work...
>
>
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