[OM2009] modules files with wrong version

[Angus Ainslie]

On July 12, 2009 07:52:36 am Previdi Roberto wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Angus Ainslie <nytowl at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > On July 11, 2009 06:18:38 pm Previdi Roberto wrote:
> > > I downloaded the image at
> > > http://downloads.openmoko.org/distro/testing/NeoFreerunner/
> > > but the contained kernel (2.6.29-rc2) don't boot (it give a lot of i/o
> > > errors and then kernel panic).
> >
> > I installed those images yesterday and they were working fine. Did you
> > install
> > to flash or SD ?
>
> SD
>
> How did you install them ?
>

I installed directly to flash but I can try an SD install sometime later.

>
> i just unpacked the fso-paroli-image-om-gta02.tar.gz on the empty sd
> partition and made the uImage-GTA02.bin link for qi
>

It sounds like you might made the link to the wrong file.

> > Then i downloaded the suggested kernel (2.6.28) and modules, but the
> >
> > > modules package contain the folder
> > > lib/modules/2.6.29-rc2
> > > like the one already present in the image.
> > > They don't seem to be the same files, because sizes changes, so i
> > > created
> >
> > a
> >
> > > 2.6.28 folder and i'll see if it works.
> >
> > The 2.6.28 modules tarball does contain 2.6.29-rc2 modules it's how the
> > files
> > get named in OE.
> >
> > Angus
>
> umm can the 2.6.29 modules work with a 2.6.28 kernel?
> is the suggested kernel effectively suggested?
> After trying a bit the distribution it seems like all the phone functions
> are working, and it locked just one time, after sending an sms. I have the
> buzz and echo when i call someone though, while with shr i don't have any.
> (my phone has got the capacitor between 2 of the sd pins, called buzz-fix)


No they can't. The uImage-2.6.28+andy_tracking is a 2.6.29-rc2 kernel again 
due to OE naming conventions.

Angus