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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:29:51PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:31:00AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
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> >Nothing much to it. Just takes a lot of patience and
> >concentration to choose the right options. Mostly studying
> >.../kernel-sources/Documentation/, using Configure.help as a
> >guideline.
> 
> Things do not usually work right when compiling with old software in BL.
> Half the time I need to change something.  For instance busybox programs 
> don't have some required options so I add the full-size one.

I'm sure I'll be discovering this for myself :-0

> >>I had a great deal of help compiling the
> >>few things I did compile.  My kernel is broken in two respects (won't
> >>work with loop linux or udhcpc).  I just keep experimenting.
> 
> >Debian package descriptions:
> >
> >Package: udhcpc
> >Priority: optional
> It comes with busybox.  My busybox also has telnetd and httpd (usable only 
> if you have index.html) but not an ftpd.  wu_ftpd?
> 
> >Package: udhcpd
> >
> >Description: very small DHCP server DHCP is a protocol like BOOTP
> >(actually dhcpd includes much of the functionality of BOOTPD!).
> >It assigns IP addresses to clients based on lease times. This
> >package is primarily geared towards embedded systems. It does
> >however, strive to be fully functional, and RFC compliant. . This
> >is the server-side application.
> 
> Do I need this? 

Don't know. I've never used these apps.

> The router seems to have it, so does the public library.
> I don't even need udhcpc once I know the IP address I am connecting to, I 
> can use ifconfig instead.

Sounds like a better choice.

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> >If you want me to build a kernel for you, just tell me where
> >the sources are, and the config file. Take about 10 minutes,
> >max. (Not counting downloading the sources, which takes
> >probably an hour.)
>
> I would like help figuring out why the kernels I have compiled
> for 2.4.31 do not work with BL3.40 in loop form but Steven's
> 2.2.26 and David's 2.4.31 kernels do. Mine also does not work
> with udhcpc, did not check David's. The config's for mine and
> his are posted at my site.

If I can figure out which files are which there, I'll look them
over.

> I can compile a kernel from config in 5 minutes at 600MHz.

Okay. Then I should be able to do it faster at 1000MHz, right?

(Not that it matters.)

> >I'll transfer it directly to your box with netcat. Very
> >simple. Very fast. (If you have the source tarball, send it to
> >me that way too.)
>
> I have dialup. I am not running a server. How would you
> transfer anything to my computer without my fetching it?

You'd send me your IP and run this:

nc -l -p <port number over 1000>

And I'd run this:

cat file | nc -w 3 <your IP> <above port number>  

And the file would appear in the directory you are
running nc from, like magic.

Steven knows. I think I saw a script like the above
on BL.

Lee