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Well, I've installed SliTaz on my Eee 900 after decided to turn it in a NAS because its LCD screen got broken a few weeks ago. Now I need to use a kernel module called eee.ko to adjust the processor's clock because when setted to 900 MHz it goes real hot and it's not proper for a device that will be working 24/7.
When I try to compile with make, I get a message saying that /lib/modules/2.6.30.6-slitaz/build doesn't exist. I tried to install linux-source from tazpkg but it hangs when connecting to www.eu.kernel.org. I think it was taken offline when kernel.org detected a flaw in its servers security.
So, my questions are:
- Am I doing it right?
- The origin of the files in build directory under /lib/modules/.../ is eu.kernel.org?
- If positive, how do I change the source of the files?
Thanks!
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why eee.ko - try this:
http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:cpu-frequency
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Thank you, kultex!
Well, I thought of it first because when the Eee had Windows installed, I was using eeectl to control the processor speed directly, almost with fine-tuning and this approached looked fine to be used in SliTaz.
I installed those packages but it didn't work:
mendel@servidor:~$ modprobe acpi-cpufreq
insmod: cannot insert '/lib/modules/2.6.30.6-slitaz/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko.gz': Operation not permitted
modprobe: failed to load module acpi-cpufreq: No such file or directory
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its because you cannot load a module as user - you must be root
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Oh, sorry, I posted the wrong line.
Even logged as root it gives me that error
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Did you install the tazpkg that owns acpi-cpufreq ?
#tazpkg get-install linux-cpufreq --forced
#modprobe -l | grep -i acpi-cpufreq
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Yes, it is installed and the modprobe line returns a valid path...
I'm confused about what module I must choose to control a Celeron M 353 ULV processor
Also, doc.slitaz.org is not loading right now
Thank you guys for trying to help!
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as far as I know, old Celerons dont speedstep...
http://www.computing.net/answers/cpus/pentium-m-vs-celeron-m/10977.html
only newer ones do
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@MendelGusmao
Welcome to SliTaz
Tank replicas for mirrored backup:
http://mirror.slitaz.org/info/
http://mirror.slitaz.org/doc/
http://mirror.slitaz.org/www/
http://mirror.slitaz.org/hg/
http://mirror.slitaz.org/pkgs/
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Well, if the packages described in en:guides:cpu-frequency aren't compatible with my processor, I think I will get back to the idea of compiling the eee.ko, which makes me ask how can I tell tazpkg to not to request data from www.eu.kernel.org and use another host that is up, instead.
Once again, thanks!
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root@slitaz:# cat /usr/src/linux-2.6.30.6-slitaz/slitaz/url
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.30.6.tar.bz2
linux-source url was changed so it works.
I just tested on a clean install of slitaz-3.0
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@MendelGusmao
I dont want to keep you away from compiling, but when I reed the project site http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/ it tells olny, that this module allows the eee pc to run on 900 MHz - by default its running on 633 Mhz - and it is not scaling.
And I think, that Asus did this only because of temerature problems....
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@mojo I tested with a clean install in a vbox and it worked fine! Later I'll try in my Eee
@kultex Yeah, it was first designed to allow the older Eees to run at 900 MHz by providing a way to set the FSB directly, so, it's possible to set any FSB value
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:overclockfsb
Thanks, guys!
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You will have to compile i2c_i801 module :
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:overclockfsb
"Before the version 0.2 eee.ko module can be installed, the i2c_i801.ko module must be installed, since eee.ko uses that interface to the hardware.'
root@slitaz:/home/tux# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i i2c_i801
# CONFIG_I2C_I801 is not set
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I think it's just put i2c_i801.c in modules/ with eee.c, add "obj-m += i2c_i801.o" to Makefile and run make, am I right?
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Modules are software that can have dependencies.
I would think you have to compile and then load the i2c_i801 module.
Otherwise when you attempt to load eee it may fail with unknown symbol in module error
You should see if the eee.ko compiles before you bother with i2c_i801
This thread has directions for compiling/installing an in tree kernel module without recompiling the kernel.
Skip step 5) installing firmware:
http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/5404#Comment_5404
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If i remember, Pankso had a flavor for eeepc (i guess he still have one) that includes the eee.ko module. Can't confirm it right know, because the iso used to be hosted at people.slitaz.org/~pankso, that's currently offline.
Maybe you can try the slitaz-eeepc package on the cooking repos. It brings a script called "tazee" which helps to setup some asus netbooks.
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I proceeded the hard way by recompiling the kernel with i2c_i801 selected in make menuconfig... now I'm having issues compiling eee.c:
root@servidor:/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30.6-slitaz/build M=/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30.6-slitaz'
CC [M] /home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.o
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c: In function âeee_proc_initâ:
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c:399: error: âproc_rootâ undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c:399: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c:399: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c:404: error: âstruct proc_dir_entryâ has no member named âownerâ
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c:421: error: âstruct proc_dir_entryâ has no member named âownerâ
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c: In function âeee_proc_cleanupâ:
/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.c:442: error: âproc_rootâ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module/eee.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/mendel/eeepc-linux/module] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30.6-slitaz'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I think it might be some kind of incompatibility between kernel 2.6.30 and the version used by the author of eee.ko. I'm not a C expert but I'll try to figure out what is wrong with the code
Thanks
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I dont want make advertisment for puppy, because running only as root is very stupid, but to try things out, you may have a look, if you dont succeed in SliTaz
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=2030086327&t=59556
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Nice tip, kultex! What a pity that the site is offline. I'll try to find Puppeee's source in another place to check how it implemented the FSB control. Thanks
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http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/aarf/puppeee4.4-RC2celeron.zip
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I finally managed to compile eee.c in 2.6.30.6-slitaz. The avaliable version in https://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/ is not compatible with the kernel used by slitaz. Fortunately, there's a version tested with kernel versions up to 2.6.32:
https://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/issues/detail?id=23
Just one more question before closing the topic: I see in many pages the instructions to add the modules' names to /etc/modules but this file doesn't exist in my slitaz installation. How do I do to set slitaz to automatically load these modules at boot?
Thanks!
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#nano /etc/rcS.conf
LOAD_MODULES=
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Thank you all, now everything is fine! The question is solved!
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Hi Mendel,
I am trying to install this kernel module like a crazy, can you upload the compiled version somewhere?
maybe you can publish a little tutorial somewhere?
it would be really usefule.
thank you
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