Building kernel modules

[twinsen]

Hi!
I just bought a wl500gp, and installed Oleg's 1.9.2.7-7g firmware. It works fine, a really good work! My only problem is that it's a bit short on kernel modules.

First it need a reiserfs module. Unfortunately migrating all my data to ext3 is currently not an option.
The question is: what is THE recommended toolchain and kernel source to build modules. If I get a _stock_ buildroot, generate a MIPS little endian toolchain and compile a _stock_ 2.4.20 kernel modules, will that work?
I'm just asking because I don't want "play" around for days trying useless solutions.

Second question (not that important right now): What is THE recommended way of building userspace applications? I see that this firmware has a nice ipkg based package system. So if I cross-compile an application it fits into the current layout. By this I mean configuration management, linking against shared libs on the system (not static linked apps). Eventually the package could land in the ipkg repository.

Third: does this project has a wiki? Something like wiki.gp2x.org?

Thanks!
>Twinsen

[twinsen]

Hi again!
I've managed to build kernel modules (reiserfs ). Drop me a note here if you're interested.

[newbiefan]

Sounds pretty good, it would allow me to use all my hdds from my outdated freenas server!
How can I get the module and a short how to?

Newbiefan

[Arise]

Well, if you manage to build the NTFS-3G modules, then would be a damn big THANK YOU!

Also, would be nice if you can write a guide for newbies about compiling modules.

[DrChair]

Well, if you manage to build the NTFS-3G modules, then would be a damn big THANK YOU!

NTFS-3G needs FUSE and FUSE needs atleast a 2.4.21 kernel (instead of 2.4.20). Oleg already tried to port it, but didn't succeed...

[lly]

At now OpentWRT kamikaze 7.09 based on 2.4.34 linux kernel only. In future, Oleg also has plan to migrate to 2.4.36 kernel, but this task is really hard.