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Linux for magician

I was wondering if any work is in progress to port linux to magician (ie Xanadux for magician).
And if you have a running Linux on magician can you guide me to get it.

Wiki should be up to date on the progress -
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Xanadux
Oh, and, posting 2 topics saying the same thing is a bit off mate. Post it once, in the right place, and it will be found and answered

Thanks for your help, but I already knew that. It just doesn't say about the progress of magician very much. I mean it doesn't say whether anyone is working on it or not.
I'm already waiting for an answer.
P.S. After posting in this section, I didn't see my post and the site said that the last post was not mine. So I decided to post in the other section too.

I'm also having trouble finding out about the linux progress for the magician... AFAICT the number of people working on the magician is so limited that they don't even "appear" on the net...
Anyway, I found a promising project:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~zabel/magician/README
I tried it, it boots ok into graphical mode, the touchscreen works ok.
There is currently no sound support (with this kernel) and the apps keep crashing on launch (on my device).
But I think it is very close to giving us something pretty good - the GPE desktop is filled with goodies.

How did you get the touchscreen to work?
I installed it according to this readme and it also boots up but it isn't usable without working tochscreen.
I have the Qtek s110, can this be the reason?
Did you install the kernel patches? Which versions of the files did you use?

Works great, just follow the step by step guide and you get a running Linux
The only problem is that there isnt yet a Navigation Software for ARM Linux...
TomTom from OpenTom would be great.

lol its funny seeing the linux threads popup every now and again.

hy
Do I need linux to run on my pc so I can make the 2 partitions?I have tried in a command-prompt from windows but "Fdisk" is not exists...could someone help me to understand these steps...thanks
* Create partitions, for example a 10MB /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 using the rest:
fdisk /dev/sda
n
p
<default>
1
+10M
n
p
2
<default>
<default>
w
* Create file systems, a VFAT on /dev/sda1 and EXT2 on /dev/sda2:
mkdosfs /dev/sda1
mke2fs /dev/sda2
* Copy HaRET, the kernel and default.txt onto sda1:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cp zImage-2.6.19-hh8+cvs20070111-magician-20070111150939 /mnt/zImage
cp gnuharet-200609162320.exe /mnt/haret.exe
cp default.txt /mnt/default.txt
umount /dev/sda1
* Unpack the GPE image onto sda2:
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
bzcat Angstrom-gpe-image-test-20070111-magician.rootfs.tar.bz2 | (cd /mnt; tar x)
umount /mnt
Thanks...

Thanks for your attention, I reverence all the help...

Hi, i followed the guide at this page:
-I created 2 partitions, one fat and one ext2
-I copied haret.exe,default.txt and zImage into fat partition
-I extract the linux image into the ext2 partition
but when i run haret.exe and click on RUN button i see that appears the new line "boot MTYPE=875" and nothing else! what's wrong????
This image is what i see at the end.
NB: I'm using a mmc card!
I looked then here and i saw that there are new files avaible included the new project OPENMOKO, but before to try these i'd like to get the guide works first!

Hi,
i tried this rom a time ago and it starts and phone calls also worked.
I followed the instructions from the link Mapoboss posted.
Here is a link to an german site.
http://www.xda-zone.de/thread.php?id=14581&sessid=85fd9df291aaa53b296e27c12235a5e5
Maybe this will help you (with Photos!).
I tried the rom on a SD, maybe this is the problem.
I forgot to say that the dualboot is not working, i have to hard reset the pohne to get back to wm2003.

KingAxel said:
Here is a link to an german site.
http://www.xda-zone.de/thread.php?id=14581&sessid=85fd9df291aaa53b296e27c12235a5e5
Maybe this will help you (with Photos!).
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I would be laughing a lot, if it was not so sad.
Not only somebody greedy asks 40€ for it, but he also spreads
completely misleading statements about the state of this project
I forgot to say that the dualboot is not working, i have to hard reset the pohne to get back to wm2003.
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Dualboot really works only on wince >=5.

Cyanogenized Rogers - Build-Environment [v3.3]

This is a build-environment which adds all that great stuff from CyanogenMod to the rogers-rom.
This will add following features to CyanogenMod (Version 3.4) like:
* Enhanced ramdisk to mount partitions with noatime/nodiratime (perf boost)
* Apps2SD via AUFS (same as UnionFS) enabled by default!
* Uses Ext3 for Apps2SD
* Optimized kernel (no debug options, cfq iosched)
* Maximum CPU scaling frequency set to 528MHz
Thanks to all involved people ... jesusfreke, haykuro, virtudude (thanks for sharing the build-environment), CYANOGEN and all I didn't mention!
*** AT YOUR OWN RISK ***
This build-environment will generate a very *** experimental *** rom for you.
Like the original ROM from haykuro, this requires SPL 1.33.2005 - info about this SPL is available here:
(*** WARNING - Potential Bricking - Read carefully *** )
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3816278&postcount=3
Downloads:
Build-Environment:
http://drop.io/kaobiore/asset/rogers-cyanogenized-v3-3-build-tar-gz
Have fun!
-kaobiore-

Is the boot.img the major difference? Can I just flash it instead of installing the whole ROM if I'm currently on Soulife's Roger's ROM?

Very theoretically yes ... but yeah ... it would be really hard to do (using different methods of flashing / replacing files).
If you really want to do it ... drop me a private message (remember ... it will be quite hard to do - you know what fastboot and adb is?) and will give you instruction how to do it.
But anyway ... I've included the build-environment (which was created originally by jesusfreke and was adepted by virtudude for rogers) and this could be used by other devs or even you to build your own rom.

I flashed boot.img without any side effects (that I've seen). Is there a way to verify whether or not I'm taking advantage of anything? I'm going to flash the whole build and check it out.

grokdesigns said:
I flashed boot.img without any side effects (that I've seen). Is there a way to verify whether or not I'm taking advantage of anything? I'm going to flash the whole build and check it out.
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if you only flash boot.img:
wifi wont work ... app2sd is messed up
The better choice is to flash my build ...

Flashed the whole build without wiping from Soulife's Rogers' ROM. Everything seems to work fine. AUFS is working correctly (apps weren't automatically moved to SD, but that's fine). Nice build!

grokdesigns said:
Flashed the whole build without wiping from Soulife's Rogers' ROM. Everything seems to work fine. AUFS is working correctly (apps weren't automatically moved to SD, but that's fine). Nice build!
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Are you already on a ext3-filesystem (apps2sd)?
You could check that by using "mount"-command in console - you should find a line similar to this:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,data=ordered)

exactly what I want, thanks. downloading.

kaobiore said:
Are you already on a ext3-filesystem (apps2sd)?
You could check that by using "mount"-command in console - you should find a line similar to this:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,data=ordered)
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Yes I already had an ext3 partition and yes, I have that mount entry. I installed a new application and it correctly went to /system/sd/app, but my old programs are still in /system/intmem/app. Like I said, not a big deal, they're easily moved.

update wont install get:
E: Can't chown/mod /data/app
E:Failure at line 63:
set_perm_100 1000 0771 DATA:app
Installation aborted

nabzilla1990 said:
update wont install get:
E: Can't chown/mod /data/app
E:Failure at line 63:
set_perm_100 1000 0771 DATA:app
Installation aborted
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I hit exactly the same problem, end up extract boot.img from update.zip and
flashed this way
Code:
# cat /dev/zero >> /dev/mtd/mtd2
write: No space left on device [this is ok, you can ignore]
# flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img
works fine after that

so i do this before I flash the update

EDIT: Realized that HTC Sync was mentioned in the OP.

gladoo said:
I hit exactly the same problem, end up extract boot.img from update.zip and
flashed this way
Code:
# cat /dev/zero >> /dev/mtd/mtd2
write: No space left on device [this is ok, you can ignore]
# flash_image boot /sdcard/boot.img
works fine after that
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Are you guys using the latest SPL from haykuro (1.33.2005)?
This SPL is mandatory - please see first post for info/instruction!

yes im using the latest spl but worked with those commands

kaobiore said:
Are you guys using the latest SPL from haykuro (1.33.2005)?
This SPL is mandatory - please see first post for info/instruction!
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I am on the new SPL and am upgrading from virtuadude v3. I also get this error.
Code:
E: Can't chown/mod /data/app
E:Failure at line 63:
set_perm_100 1000 0771 DATA:app
Installation aborted
Is it possible that it has to do with having the lucid apps to sd previously? I am a linux noob, but that is the only thing I can think of.

glock30 said:
I am on the new SPL and am upgrading from virtuadude v3. I also get this error.
Code:
E: Can't chown/mod /data/app
E:Failure at line 63:
set_perm_100 1000 0771 DATA:app
Installation aborted
Is it possible that it has to do with having the lucid apps to sd previously? I am a linux noob, but that is the only thing I can think of.
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Mmmmhh ... could be.
Could you please try to wipe before flashing my rom?
Are all others who are having this problem using an app2sd-card-mod?
If yes, which one?

did a wipe and fresh ex3 partition still gave me that error but fine after the commands really fast build love it

nabzilla1990 said:
did a wipe and fresh ex3 partition still gave me that error but fine after the commands really fast build love it
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Mmmmh ... weird ... I going to remove this set_perm-command (update-script) and will upload version 2.
Sorry for that ...

I actually did do a wipe... I tried once again with a wipe... still the same issue. Tried using the info gladoo posted and ended up with a endless loop at the HTC screen... ended up going back to vurtuadude's for now... Hopefully this info helps.

Debian Working on Hero

So i dont know about others since there are a billion posts and a billion builds.. but i was able to get Debian working on hero today with a few changes to the code and manually typing in the start scrip myself .. i tried to make a stat script but it always fails at mounting. i tried numerous ways of mounting in the script which all fail.. any ideas?

I was having similar issues when I tried this but was able to get it by specifying the fs type of the debian image e.g.
Code:
#mount -t ext2 -o loop debian.img /data/local/mnt
This is assuming of course you are in the directory containing debian.img and you have already created the mnt dir in /data/local. I just tested this from twisted hero 5 but had success on one of the earlier JAC builds and superhero b1. No other modifications were necessary for this and I was able to mount the others listed in the mountonly script included in the 2.1 installer package similarly. I have stopped using the dootdeb script entirely and now just mount and chroot manually when needed.
Hope that helps.

daemontux said:
I was having similar issues when I tried this but was able to get it by specifying the fs type of the debian image e.g.
Code:
#mount -t ext2 -o loop debian.img /data/local/mnt
This is assuming of course you are in the directory containing debian.img and you have already created the mnt dir in /data/local. I just tested this from twisted hero 5 but had success on one of the earlier JAC builds and superhero b1. No other modifications were necessary for this and I was able to mount the others listed in the mountonly script included in the 2.1 installer package similarly. I have stopped using the dootdeb script entirely and now just mount and chroot manually when needed.
Hope that helps.
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question since debian can run flash player has anyone installed it on there just for kicks

i tried it when i was on 1.2 before cupcake. i got as far as getting debian to work and then use lxde for gui. I got ice weasle installed then install flash which somehow broke my iceweasle browser. I would imagine it would be slower than flash on hero rom though.

superg05 said:
question since debian can run flash player has anyone installed it on there just for kicks
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While flash is supported on many desktop linux distributions, I have not found an ARM EABI version of it. I was looking when I first put debian on the phone but without finding the correct package and considering iceweasel was painfully slow in the chroot/vnc environment even without the plugin I did not try for long. I was running a class 2 card at the time maybe it is a little better on my class 6 but I think ill wait for adobe to release an android version anyway
@maydaysos was it an armel package you installed? If so where did you find it? I only remember seeing libflash gnash and possibly swfdec in the armel deb repositories

[MOD]Auto Swap Extention

What you need:
1. Swap Capible ROM with Root Access (see list below)
2. A third Partition on your SD card, known as Linux-swap set between 16-32MB (Easiest way to achieve that for free if you don't have linux with gparted is to download the Ubuntu ISO disk and install it on your system, all for free. can even be installed through Windows or run straight off the disk. you can also follow the link Here.)
3. Research
4. Terminal or ADB
5. Thumbs
What to do:
1. download the attached file and copy it to your sdcard, unmount sdcard from computer.
2. in terminal or adb shell type:
don't type things in ().
Code:
$su (terminal only)
#mv /sdcard/userinit.sh /system/sd/
#chmod 775 /system/sd/userinit.sh
#sh /system/sd/userinit.sh
This should do it, no reboot required. if you want to verify that you have your swap space running now or after a reboot simply type:
Code:
#free
you should see total memory to the right of "Swap" be filled in with the number of bytes you set.
A little bit about Swap on the G1:
Swap partitions are currently completely seperate from ROMs. all ROMs should be able to do this, however I'm not specfically certain and don't have the time or patience to try in or do research for it.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO FLASH YOUR ROM AT THE SAME TIME TO GET THIS TO WORK. In fact, you will have to do this everytime AFTER you do a new flash or wipe. I'm getting mixed reports about this, I myself didn't have to redo this after flashing CM 3.5.3, however it is possible that some are not mounting /system before pushing/copying the file over, which makes thier effort pointless and explains the confusion!
Other Notes:
This script was written by Dwang, I had no part in it, I'm just trying to make it easier and seperate it from Cyanogens mod threads.
Also please understand that Linux does ./sdcard/ and /sdcard/ in linux, nor is there any difference from /sdcard/tmp/ and /tmp/ when you prompt to /sdcard/ (ie, typing cd /sdcard or cd sdcard)
Also, please do not set up your linux swap over 32MB, you're asking for trouble.
Swap Capible ROMs (Dev's PM me if you incorperate this into your ROM):
Cyanogen's MOD 3.5.2 + higher
JACHero w/ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4054111&postcount=19

Thank you.. will give this a try and let you know.

A small .bat file would be nice for this since it has to be done after every flashing
We might need a .bat file for all the .bat files i'm collecting.
Wasnt this experimental in CM's rom and it ran "sluggish"?

Unsure, and it runs fine. as far as a .bat.... why? it's all .sh. does .bat even work in linux?

Denkai said:
What you need:
YOU DO NOT NEED TO FLASH YOUR ROM AT THE SAME TIME TO GET THIS TO WORK. In fact, you will have to do this everytime AFTER you do a new flash or wipe.
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I thought userinit.sh on /system/sd would survive a flash an/or wipe?
Also you might add that mkswap should be run once on a newly created swap partition.

looking over the userinit.sh...........
What exactly does this, .sh, do??

bkmo said:
I thought userinit.sh on /system/sdcard would survive a flash an/or wipe?
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/system/sdcard doesn't exist. it's /system/sd and no, it doesn't it gets copied over.

Mikey1022 said:
looking over the userinit.sh...........
What exactly does this, .sh, do??
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first part checks to find the 3rd partition and sets it up as linux swap. the second script checks for media files meant for ring tones and seperates them so that the file doesn't show up twice in your music player.

Denkai said:
/system/sdcard doesn't exist. it's /system/sd and no, it doesn't it gets copied over.
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Sorry system/sd ...I was editing the post to correct it when you replied. I re-flashed cyanogen 3.5.2 without a wipe and userinit survived.

Denkai said:
/system/sdcard doesn't exist. it's /system/sd and no, it doesn't it gets copied over.
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/system/sd doesn't get copied over on a flash - that's why userinit.sh is placed there, so users can put custom commands in a location where the ROM (just CM, AFAIK) will know to execute them.
If you aren't running CM 3.5.2 or greater you'll need to set this up somehow so that it is run on boot. Cyanogen has a line added to his A2SD script that will do that.
Now.. Any advice on how to create my swap partition if I don't have a memory card reader to use on a PC w/ Ubuntu? I tried a gparted live cd on my GF's Thinkpad, but the card reader wasn't detected. I'm sure there's some way to do it at the command line, but my linux-fu is out of practice and I never did mess with partitions much.
BTW, thanks for posting - I saw this in the CM experimental thread but kept forgetting to install, until I saw this post. Doing it now

Saiboogu said:
Now.. Any advice on how to create my swap partition if I don't have a memory card reader to use on a PC w/ Ubuntu? I tried a gparted live cd on my GF's Thinkpad, but the card reader wasn't detected. I'm sure there's some way to do it at the command line, but my linux-fu is out of practice and I never did mess with partitions much.
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Gparted was not detecting my SD reader on my Dell until I installed the newest Gparted from source on Ubunty Jaunty.

bkmo said:
Gparted was not detecting my SD reader on my Dell until I installed the newest Gparted from source on Ubunty Jaunty.
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OK -- I should have tried a Jaunty disk anyway, I just got sidetracked by the gparted disk not working. I'll try the newer Gparted version with that. Thanks.

Thanks for making a separate thread. You should probably put the post I wrote on how to make a swap partition in your first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4029519&postcount=145

Instead of running it again and again, I would prefer it to be added to runme.sh in boot.img... so that it will be run automatically on every boot...
I am trying it now...

it only gets run once on boot, I believe. will add that post, thanks.

what level swappiness is everyone finding optimal?
i'm on a non class 6 microsd and if i set swappiness over 30, it doesn't take long for the system to get bogged down by IO

alapapa said:
what level swappiness is everyone finding optimal?
i'm on a non class 6 microsd and if i set swappiness over 30, it doesn't take long for the system to get bogged down by IO
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yeah I think 30 may be a bit too high. I'm using 10 or 20 now.
Try 100 It actually makes the phone super responsive at first, but then it starts getting very laggy after a while.

sangeet.003 said:
Instead of running it again and again, I would prefer it to be added to runme.sh in boot.img... so that it will be run automatically on every boot...
I am trying it now...
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The script was written for cyanogen's ROMs 3.5.2 or greater.
Those ROMs will automatically execute /system/sd/userinit.sh on bootup. Which means no modifying anything in update.zip

The attached boot image is for JACHERO 2.~r6 I have added the script to the runme.sh to mount swap on every boot i am trying to add the .29 kernel which has multitouch....
The swappiness is set to 80 which I feel Works Great Means +20 than the system Default(60) swappiness...
I have not tested it Coz i cant Partition the Sdcard currently with 1 more partition, Will be testing it later say in 5-6 hours...
Testers are appreciated...
Just extract it on computer & fastboot flash it.... on the boot partition...
Noobs Dont Try It

Saiboogu said:
/system/sd doesn't get copied over on a flash - that's why userinit.sh is placed there, so users can put custom commands in a location where the ROM (just CM, AFAIK) will know to execute them.
If you aren't running CM 3.5.2 or greater you'll need to set this up somehow so that it is run on boot. Cyanogen has a line added to his A2SD script that will do that.
Now.. Any advice on how to create my swap partition if I don't have a memory card reader to use on a PC w/ Ubuntu? I tried a gparted live cd on my GF's Thinkpad, but the card reader wasn't detected. I'm sure there's some way to do it at the command line, but my linux-fu is out of practice and I never did mess with partitions much.
BTW, thanks for posting - I saw this in the CM experimental thread but kept forgetting to install, until I saw this post. Doing it now
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If you mount the sdcard from the menu bar (USB), it will also mount the ext partition too. From there u should b able to partition from within Ubuntu.

Working aircrack-ng with monitor mode and packet injection !

Hi,
so after few days of playing with drivers patches kernel sources i finally got aircrack-ng working on g1 ! ( If you dont know whats aircrack-ng http://www.aircrack-ng.org/) I tested airodump for 1h, had it dumping packets to the sdcard to a cap file with channel switching and aireplay with deauth attack. I monitored this from my laptop to see if the packets are being sent ok and the client was disconnected from the network as expected.
I used patches for the n900 form the "download here" link at the bottom of this page http://david.gnedt.eu/blog/wl1251/. I also followed this tutorial http://bobcopeland.com/android_wifi.html and used his excellent kernel patch to get the msm_wifi.ko module. I then used the kernel and the zip file herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14768272&postcount=2427
You will want to make a backup of your system before you do anything. With that kernel you won't be able to use wifi in the Android UI.
Requirements to use attached files:
2.2 Rom
Debian installed in chroot on g1 with aircrack-ng installed ( you can use this img http://www.mediafire.com/?0ab95ia8xbale0i , just extract in on /sdcard/ so debian.img path is /sdcard/debian/debian.img )
How to make it work ?
steps 1-5 are one time only
First boot your android ROM and type
adb shell
$ su
# mount -o remount,rw /
# cd /system/etc/firmware
# ln -s ../wifi/Fw1251r1c.bin wl1251-fw.bin
# cat /proc/calibration > wl1251-nvs.bin
# mount -o remount,ro /
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Extract attached files ( g1_wl1251.zip ) to sdcard
Apply ez_1.5.1_wl1251.signed.zip from recovery ( it got 2708 and ebi0 kernel for now will add ebi1 later)
Boot the phone
adb shell
su
cd /sdcard/wl1251_modules
sh ../insmod.sh
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Now chroot into you debian installation ( if you used mine debian.tar.bz2 there is script startdeb just write: sh /sdcard/debian/startdeb and you should be chrooted correctly )
screen ( dont know why airodump doesnt give any output without screen on adb shell ?! )
bash
airmon-ng start wlan0
airodump-ng -i mon0
and DONE
How com compile it
First you need to get sources:
kernel sources i used https://github.com/ezterry/kernel-biff-testing tag ezgb-2636-v1.5.1-20110820
prepatched compat-wireless-2010-12-22 ( attached in sources.zip. I did some small build fixes and applied every patch from wl1251-maemo/patches/wireless-testing/ EXCEPT 0003-wl1251-fix-scan-behaviour-while-not-associated.patch as i got build errors with it )
rest of the files in patches.zip
Kernel:
You can just apply all patches in the kernel dir
If you want to make your config by yourself you have to compile as module cfg80211 and mac80211, compile in CONFIG_RFKILL_PM, CONFIG_CRC7 and UNSET CONFIG_TIWLAN1251. Its important as there as some ifdefs for CONFIG_TIWLAN1251 in drivers/mmc/core/core.c which is compiled in and with CONFIG_TIWLAN1251 WL1251 drivers doesnt work !
Compat wireless:
there is make.sh script edit it and change the patchs for your crosscompile toolchain and kernel location
./make.sh
and copy all *.ko modules
I hope everything is clear and more ppl can use it in custom roms If something is unclear plz write about it

too bad i sold my g1!

Thank you for the great tutorial! I think many people are using Gingerbread right now with several different incompatible ROMs. I think it would be useful if you list your ROM version as well as SPL & Radio info. Also if you could PLEASE make an image of your G1 with the debian install, it would help a lot. If you don't want your personal data in the image then I can remove it for you and will host the image. At the very least people need to know how exactly you installed debian before attempting this.
Please PM me if you can supply the image, thanks again!

Debian location can by anywhere, nothing depends on it and i got it on sdcard so g1 dump wont do anything. But i can send u ready debian.img to mount it with wireless tools installed just want to add new kismet and as i cant find ready deb for debian i would need to compile it probably. As for the radio u can use that new 2708 radio and old one for kernel i provided. I used cm6 for it but i think you can use any 2.2 rom as its froyo kernel. I need to clean up everything and redo it to write good tutorial how to compile it for any kernel and how to patch drivers.

zewelor said:
Debian location can by anywhere, nothing depends on it and i got it on sdcard so g1 dump wont do anything. But i can send u ready debian.img to mount it with wireless tools installed just want to add new kismet and as i cant find ready deb for debian i would need to compile it probably. As for the radio u can use that new 2708 radio and old one for kernel i provided. I used cm6 for it but i think you can use any 2.2 rom as its froyo kernel. I need to clean up everything and redo it to write good tutorial how to compile it for any kernel and how to patch drivers.
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Thanks for the response. I just upgraded my hboot to a version that CM6 doesn't support, but I can use a different Froyo ROM that is still working.
On Gingerbread I am having a very hard time getting ext2.ko loaded. I already have an EXT(4) partition mounted, but since I am not on Froyo none of the kernel modules can be loaded correctly. I also think that ext2 support is already there but I don't know how to make use of it. There are filesystem modules under /system/lib/modules/2.6.36.4-s3-cos/.
My goal is to create a clockwork image of a Froyo/Debian install (with working injection driver) and use it as needed while keeping a 2.3.4/2.3.5 Android image for testing newer Apps that don't work on 2.2.
For anyone that just needs the Debian image, you can download it from the original G1 Debian tut site here: http://www.saurik.com/id/10
Please PM me if you are willing to upload a copy of your .img container file & I will host it for everyone to use. Thanks!

If u want u can still flash cm6 and after flashing it, flash kernel.zip from attached zip in 1st post ( it got also kernel for newer radio, but i havent tested it as i got older radio). As i saw in ezterry's kernel config ext2 partitions are mounted using ext4 so u dont have to load ext2 ( it works at least in froyo version of ezterry's kernel ). I can send now debian.img without working kismet but i think its better to get also kismet running so ppl wont have to redownload it. My debian.img its normal debian only with aircrack-ng installed nothing special in it. Only magic is kernel config and modules with patches compiled for that kernel thats it nothing more.

zewelor said:
If u want u can still flash cm6 and after flashing it, flash kernel.zip from attached zip in 1st post ( it got also kernel for newer radio, but i havent tested it as i got older radio). As i saw in ezterry's kernel config ext2 partitions are mounted using ext4 so u dont have to load ext2 ( it works at least in froyo version of ezterry's kernel ). I can send now debian.img without working kismet but i think its better to get also kismet running so ppl wont have to redownload it. My debian.img its normal debian only with aircrack-ng installed nothing special in it. Only magic is kernel config and modules with patches compiled for that kernel thats it nothing more.
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Yes, let's wait until Kismet is working and then you can upload the image. I will try your suggestion and use EXT4. If I still have trouble I will create a flashable ZIP that has Froyo optimized for Debian with your Kernel patch included and a startup app to launch Debian via UI. Thanks again for your great contribution!

But when you mount debian img just write mount -o loop -t ext2 not ext4 it should work

Updated first post with some instructions how to compile drivers and kernel

Constantly getting "mount: can't setup loop device: No such file or directory"
I tried "mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0" but neither "mount -o loop,noatime /mnt/sdcard/debian.img /data/local/mnt" nor other variations using ext2 work. I did mount / as rw and created the /data/local/mnt directory. I also tried 2 versions of busybox and so far no luck; I guess you are using the version that comes with CM6? Thanks

Yes i used busybox from cyanogenmod
Copy debian.img to /sdcard/debian/debian.img ( or change location in startdeb script )
First do mkdir -p /data/local/debian/mnt
then sh /sdcard/debian/startdeb ( or where u got it )
startdeb script i used:
#!/system/bin/sh
if [ ! -e /dev/block/loop99 ]
then
mknod -m 660 /dev/block/loop99 b 7 99
fi
if [ ! -e /dev/loop1 ]
then
ln /dev/block/loop99 /dev/loop0
fi
mount -o loop -t ext2 /sdcard/debian/debian.img /data/local/debian/mnt
busybox mount -o bind /sdcard /data/local/debian/mnt/sdcard
export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:$PATH
export TERM=linux
export HOME=/root
export USER=root
busybox mount -t proc none /data/local/debian/mnt/proc
busybox mount -t sysfs sysfs /data/local/debian/mnt/sys
busybox mount -t devpts devpts /data/local/debian/mnt/dev/pts
busybox chroot /data/local/debian/mnt/ /bin/bash
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can u do it for lg optimus black ?

That depends on wifi chipset there, if its wl1251 it should be doable.

nice work, a year ago I did the same work (I think I posted it in the modaco android forum), however there was no injection patch at that time, so only packet capturing worked. The HTC Hero has the same TI wifi chip (wl1251). By the way you don't need an entire linux environment it is sufficient to compile static binaries (aircrack, kismet..). If i remember correctly compiling aircrack was very straight forward, however for kismet I had to make a dirty hack because it complained for a missing environment variable, but int he end Kismet worked fine too, even the gps . Unfortunately I lost my dev environment due to a harddisk failure, otherwise I would share the patches and binaries.
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HA! I found the aircrack binaries on an old backup disc
If you want to copy the files on your sdcard remember to remount it with (mount -o,exec,remount /mnt/scard), because by default the noexec flat is set or you copy the files to internal memory.

Thx for that aircrack I have chosen debian to avoid recompiling everything i will like to use and to have normal command line enviroment. Except aircrack and kismet u can also like to have iw / wireless tools / ping / nmap /tcpdump etc so you will have to search for it or recompiling staticly everything. I just prefer to find .deb file and install it, as using apt-get on g1 takes forever Also htc magic got wl1251 as afaik its the same as g1 (?).

yeah thats true, I decided to compile everything statically because I had very poor performance using debian (apt-get, compiling stuff etc), another advantage is you can start the programs very easily from the homescreen using gscript, sl4a..., in the end its just a question of preference

Sorry for asking in wrong topic, but:
Is there any airdump app that works well on HD2 ? (Broadcom chip: bmc 4329).
Or maybe the right question is : If it is even possible to create such app for hd2/nexus ?

misieq666 said:
Sorry for asking in wrong topic, but:
Is there any airdump app that works well on HD2 ? (Broadcom chip: bmc 4329).
Or maybe the right question is : If it is even possible to create such app for hd2/nexus ?
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The problem is not the app, the problem is having wireless driver that support packet injection/Promiscuous-mode for the specific wireless chip, which in this case are afaik not available.

And even not a driver but firmware for specific chipset that allow to do that. As i read the main problem in bmc4329 is the firmware as driver can only do what firmware will allow. Well u can rewrite driver to workaround some limitations in firmware etc. Anyway here is a page u can follow http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 they even got monitor mode in todo so maybe it can be done

Hi guy, final step, I got this:
airmon-ng start wlan0
Interface Chipset Driver
wlan0 wl1251_sdio - [phy0]SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
(monitor mode enabled on mon0)
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and this:
airodump-ng mon0
ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed: No such file or directory
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how should i fix this? plz.
Thank you.