The default firmware comes with too many modules being loaded. I want to get rid of some of them, like mmc, sound, video, bluetooth etc. How can I disable them from boot loading?
Removing the symbolic link from /etc/modules-boot.d doesn't seem to change anything...
It has been an year since I've done the same move. And the reason behind was because I wanted to have my own built kernel AND some good wifi drivers. So Linkit comes with pre-compiled wifi drivers, so you can build your own image. Omega2 does not, unless you want to use the open source drivers, which, at that point in time, it was really crappy. And I guess it's still is.
I was asking this question few months ago. I was desperately needed a good wifi driver with my own kernel build. When I was dealing with this problem, the mac80211 wasn't just slow, it was also dropping connections and crashing the OS.
I've spent a LOT of time dealing with this issue, and in the end I managed to take LinkIt Smart OpenWRT image, configure it to my needs and deploy it on Omega2. It was a real hassle, because there are some hw differences and they're using an old kernel version (3.xx) with pre-compiled Ralink wifi binaries.
It seems to me that there are two different proprietary drivers. I can deduce this from two different types of configuration that I've encountered, with Omega and with LinkIt Smart. I'm personally interested in having a reliable AP and Sta at the same time. The driver from LinkIt can support AP, Sta and AP+Sta. Haven't found anything related to ad-hoc mode...
I'm directly interested solving this problem. However, the open source driver may take a while until it gets fully reliable. I would still focus on integrating the proprietary driver.
The interesting part is that the Linkit Smart OpenWrt image does include the proprietary wifi binary. I'm trying now to build a stripped image and have it put in Omega2. There are still some build errors (like renaming the wifi binary from *.44 to *.45 as the kernel version goes).