USB/IP

ArgusR

Thank you Janus, managed to install the packages with the --force-depends, but now when I try to run de application I'm getting a library missing, and can't find how to installed:
#usbip
usbip: can't load library 'libglib-2.0.so.0'

EDIT: Just found in the same place as the usbip packages, appears to be working now.

Levi Roberts

Thanks for sharing your update with us! I was actually just playing with this idea yesterday. I assumed I was going to have to compile USB/IP from source, which is why I was looking into compiling a custom kernel. What I gather from your posts is that I don't need to do that. Very cool! I'll try to follow your steps this evening and post my results.

Levi Roberts

Update:
Just tried this but I'm getting an Unknown package error. What am I missing? Are you using a custom build or something? I've tried with and without -force-depends

$ opkg install kmod-usb-ohci
Unknown package 'kmod-usb-ohci'.
Collected errors:

opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-usb-ohci.

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And here's my uname in case it's helpful:

$ uname -a
Linux Omega-1848 3.18.23 #1 Fri Jan 15 18:15:53 UTC 2016 mips GNU/Linux

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Update again:
Issuing opkg update seems to have fixed my issue although I just did this earlier. No idea what happened there.

Not having any luck installing usbip-server or usbip-client though. Perhaps outlining the steps you used to install usbip would be helpful. Thanks!

Running:
$ opkg install -force-depends http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages/usbip_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk

Results in:
Collected errors:

satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for usbip:
kernel (= 3.18.20-1-7bed08fa9c06eb8089e82c200340ec66) *

ArgusR

Hello Levi! Did you try opkg update prior to opkg install kmod... ? You solved when I was writing, so for the next question, use this 3 packages:
opkg install http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages/usbip_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk
opkg install http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages/usbip-client_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk
opkg install http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages/usbip-server_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk

I did managed to install as I told before, I can list the usb devices but can't make it run, because the kernel modules that are required are not loading:
usbipd: error: please load usbip-core.ko and usbip-host.ko!

This modules are from a differente kernel version (3.18.20) and when I try to load with insmod the terminal just not respond anymore until reboot.
lsmod doesn't show this modules either.

Stuck again.

Levi Roberts

@ArgusR Aha. Okay, I misunderstood that you were able to get it running. I suppose I can be a test-bunny meanwhile.

See my edit again for the result on trying to install those packages from the OpenWrt wiki.

ArgusR

sorry, miss that.
Did you use - - (2) before force-depends
opkg --force-depends install ....

Levi Roberts

@ArgusR I appreciate the help. That got me up and going for a bit.

Got this error when trying to install the usbip-client however:

Configuring kmod-usbip-client.
failed to find a module named vhci-hcd
Configuring usbip-client.
Collected errors:

satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for usbip-client:
kernel (= 3.18.20-1-7bed08fa9c06eb8089e82c200340ec66) *

And:

$ opkg --force-depends install vhci-hcd
Unknown package 'vhci-hcd'.

Janus Sanders

@ArgusR Glad I could help

ArgusR

@Levi-Roberts So the package usbip_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk worked but the usbip-client_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk didn't?

Levi Roberts

@ArgusR said:

@Levi-Roberts So the package usbip_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk worked but the usbip-client_1.1.1-2_ar71xx.ipk didn't?

That is correct.

ArgusR

Ok, I did something wrong and apparently I killed my Omega, heheh. Only have access thru USB-Serial, nothing accept lo on ifconfig.
I would try to go back to factory restore, but can't access the Web-GUI. Anyone knows if I can reflash thru serial?

Kit Bishop

@ArgusR If you have got your Omega into a state where you can't access it via web browser there are two things you can do:

Try pushing and holding the reset button for several seconds (I usually allow at least 30 seconds) - if you are lucky, this will restore you to factory settings
If you have serial access to you Omega and can transfer files to it and run commands on it try the following:
- Get yourself a copy of the current Omega system image from: repo.onion.io/omega/images/
  I believe that omega-v0.0.6-b266.bin is the current image.
- Copy this file to the /tmp directory on your Omega
- From the /tmp directory on your Omega, run the command:
  sysupgrade omega-v0.0.6-b266.bin
  and wait for the installation to be applied and the Omega to reboot - takes quite a time - don't be impatient and interrupt it!

ArgusR

@Kit-Bishop Thank you, the first option of hard reboot worked, back to action.

ArgusR

And stuck again. I have 5 modules on /lib/modules/3.18.20 that appears after I installed the usbip packages, and I can't figure out how to load them on the kernel.

Janus Sanders

@ArgusR I'm not in front of my onion but can you load the modules by:

insmod <module_name> <parameters>

ArgusR

@Janus-Sanders I did try insmod "module", but the command console doesn't come back anymore, stop responding, and after a few tries I bricked the Onion. Just waiting to solve this brick problem to come back to the modules issue.

Josh Rosenthal

So, a bit belatedly, but did ya'll ever get usb-ip ever working? While working on it, I found http://www.virtualhere.com/ which works using the MIPS version of their server on the Onion Omega. Performance doesn't seem particularly amazing, but definitely works, and gives a basic gui for control on clients.