I finally got it working with Ubuntu 17.10 and a dynamic VM with an initial 30gB size with 8gB RAM. It was building for 4 hours before I went to bed, but had finally completed by the morning. Thanks

Did you ever get this to work? I would be interested to know what you did. Has anyone tried and been successful on getting the wpantund driver to work on the onion?

I have not found how to disable it so I try to compile firmware but after reflashing i have some errors and Omega not booting. So i'm still searching how to disable it without compiling. Is any way how to change booting process where i can disable failsafe mode? I have found that booting process is saved in read-only partition squashfs and i don't know if is possible to change something there. I would like to use Onion Omega 2 for commercial use and i need to disable access to file system. Problem is that via failsafe mode and mount_root anybody can read and edit any content in device without password. Thanks

I found the problem gcc is not available in: http://downloads.lede-project.org/snapshots/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages/Packages.gz Go download the new packages from: https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/packages-17.01/mipsel_24kc/ just add: src/gz reboot_base https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/packages-17.01/mipsel_24kc/base src/gz reboot_packages https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/packages-17.01/mipsel_24kc/packages in /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf This help may not be directly related to the Title, should I make a new Topic for this?

The underlying issue here has been covered many times before. The Omega 2+ has an ill-chosen flash chip, which cannot expose its full capacity unless operated in a 4 byte mode which is incompatible with the configured expectation at boot. There is no actual working poweroff command, and there never has been one. However, programs that reboot without putting the flash chip back in a boot compatible mode end up hanging in a tight loop at boot, giving the impression of being sort of "off". Also note that unexpected reboots, such as triggered by a watchdog will also result in a hang, rather than a successful boot. As the Omega 2 (non +) flash chip fits entirely in 3-byte addressing mode, it should not experience this problem. Flash chip commands can be found in the relevant data sheets, as well as the U-Boot and Linux Kernel sources.

Edit: for reference, see here,

@Joan-Iglesias there have been several posters that have reported using official sources so i would imagine that if you get the sources they will work. most official releases were for the most part at one time snapshots and official releases certainly continue to have some bugs and may themselves be unreliable.

@Victor-Iriciuc Victor, glad you found the ticket system. and you are correct to post here in the forum to discuss the current status of your issue. i was just saying that to get official help you need to enter your device in the system. be sure to list url's of any threads you tried to get help in. the onion admins can then read up on the status of any help that was discussed and hopefully make additional comments and/or suggestions.

Okay. Thank you for the replay. I really missed that. I still don't understand what is the difference between system and run LED on other LEDE based systems. But this was a great help anyways. Thanks.

SPI problem quite critical. https://onion.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/24000014450-spi-issue-resolution

@Denis-Ilie-Ablachim Hi , Did you manage to solve this problem? Regards

In case anyone stumbled upon this issue or something related to this. Since I do not have a linux machine, I decided to spin up a cheap 1cpu, 512MB ram, $5 digital ocean droplet to setup my toolchain and compile some code for the onion. The above issue occurred on a fresh ubuntu 16 and ubuntu 17 droplet. A friend did some googling and pointed out that these type of issues could be memory related and he was spot on. After setting up 2GB swap space using this guide: Adding Space on Ubuntu the compile has completed successfully on both Ubuntu 16 and 17. Hope this helps someone experiencing this frustration. Cheers.

I am also interested in installing rndis. In the repository there are older versions of the kernel modules for the current kernel but they didn't work for me yet, some of them loaded correctly but something always fails so far. You can try to install them with - - force-depends. I also tried to compile my own firmware but since that is just lede without the onion customizations this is not really what I want to use. Maybe the current packages where built for the firmware version 163? It seems that there where 161-163 versions available but they where very unstable. Maybe they deleted them but the compiled packages staid in their repository? If I have more time I will try again to get the older packages from the repositories working. You can open the onion core repository in a browser to see the different versions from the packages and then search for them with ctrl+f. The installated opkg version doesn't seem to support installing different versions. As a hint: opkg install with url did also not work for me, Wget + opkg install package.ipk did work and most modules even loaded. I got the virtual CD drive listed in dmesg after installing some kernel modules which wasn't the case before but I didn't get rndis to work. I even tried to upgrade everything including the kernel but that resulted in more Lede stuff, the onion repositories where replaced by Lede repositories and the banner also was the Lede one (I only used omega repositories). I also got even more depency errors. The Kernel didn't seem to be upgradable since it stayed at the old version.

This is the console output with the kernel panic. https://pastebin.com/j1UgiNCL

@Alex-Wells said in Building Staging Drivers (FBTFT) [RESOLVED]: Now my only problem is that the MT7628 SPI driver won't accept transfers larger than 16 bytes at a time, but that's an issue for another day Have a look here, @wdu has a modified version of the SPI driver eliminating some of the bugs in the original.