CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R3-20130412-1.img
This thread is a continuation of the Plastic Box Which Plays Noises thread, which was the name of the first Fedora 18 based software image for the Wandboard, the predecessor to what is now the Community Squeeze OS (CSOS) image.
The image should be downloaded and put onto the SDCARD with dd from a Linux machine or using win32diskimager from Windows. The Wandboard Quick Start Guide can be used as a guide to getting started, just remember that you need to account for the fact that you will be using our CSOS R3 image, rather than their recommended image.
Another image that needs testing. This includes the systemd 201-2 update, latest LMS 7.8 1365679703 trunk, (squeezeboxserver service disabled by default), and latest version 31 Web-GUI.
The systemd update resolves at least two of the hangs I have seen, the systemd spewing 1000's of "time change" messages to the serial console issue and the hang in the shutdown process if you have a cifs (Windows) share mounted. I must have rebooted 30 or so times today, on ethernet, on wi-fi, with nfs shares mounted, with cifs shares mounted. A couple of times I've experienced a slow shutdown sequence with services, (usually rsyslog, the system logger), seemingly taking ages to finish writing to the sdcard and close, (observed from the serial console), but it hasn't hung once.
It uses the two partition layout, (50M ext2 boot partition 1 / ext4 rootfs partition 2), the same as the R2 image. But new to this image, the kernel is installed from an rpm package, (kernel-wand-3.0.35-cm25), which means that there is a simple upgrade path via yum for future kernel updates. It also uses the /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt, (ie. it's populated, rather than the empty file in R2), for kernel boot command line, so from a development point of view, it is easier to edit a text file and reboot rather than having to recompile uboot or mess around on the serial console. (Users should not edit the contents of the file unless you know what you are doing or you will more than likely end up with a system that won't boot.)
Would appreciate it if the usual suspects, (Terry, Michael, .....), could dd the R3 image to a spare card and try it.
(Note. The hiFace kernel module, snd-usb-hiface.ko, is included with the kernel package. I think I asked already if anyone had a hiFace to be able to say this is working with the Wandboard? EDIT 20130413: Now confirmed as working by Andrew!)
CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R3-20130412-1.img.7z
As with the previous images, the unpacked size is 3904897024 bytes, so you'll need a >= 4GB sdcard to write it to.
For first time users: Download the compressed image. Extract it from the 7-Zip archive. Write it, (using dd or equivalent), to a >= 4GB sdcard. Plug the sdcard into the slot on the Wandboard CPU board. (Important, that you plug it into the sdcard slot on the CPU board. It won't boot from the 2nd sdcard slot on the carrier board!) Plug in an ethernet cable and apply power to the device. Wait 30 seconds. Log into your router, which has hopefully allocated an IP Address to the Wandboard ethernet interface from its pool of dhcp addresses, (the device should have sent a clientId of 'Wandboard' to your router when it requested an address, making it easy to find the allocated IP, if your router shows that info), and use that IP Address to access the CSOS Web-GUI running on the device, http://wandboard_ip_address:8080/. From the Web-GUI you can configure the wi-fi interface, (set network name / pre-shared key), if you wish to use a wireless connection, or re-configure the Squeezelite Player to use a different audio output device. (The default is to use the sgtl5000 line-out.)
This thread is a continuation of the Plastic Box Which Plays Noises thread, which was the name of the first Fedora 18 based software image for the Wandboard, the predecessor to what is now the Community Squeeze OS (CSOS) image.
The image should be downloaded and put onto the SDCARD with dd from a Linux machine or using win32diskimager from Windows. The Wandboard Quick Start Guide can be used as a guide to getting started, just remember that you need to account for the fact that you will be using our CSOS R3 image, rather than their recommended image.
Another image that needs testing. This includes the systemd 201-2 update, latest LMS 7.8 1365679703 trunk, (squeezeboxserver service disabled by default), and latest version 31 Web-GUI.
The systemd update resolves at least two of the hangs I have seen, the systemd spewing 1000's of "time change" messages to the serial console issue and the hang in the shutdown process if you have a cifs (Windows) share mounted. I must have rebooted 30 or so times today, on ethernet, on wi-fi, with nfs shares mounted, with cifs shares mounted. A couple of times I've experienced a slow shutdown sequence with services, (usually rsyslog, the system logger), seemingly taking ages to finish writing to the sdcard and close, (observed from the serial console), but it hasn't hung once.
It uses the two partition layout, (50M ext2 boot partition 1 / ext4 rootfs partition 2), the same as the R2 image. But new to this image, the kernel is installed from an rpm package, (kernel-wand-3.0.35-cm25), which means that there is a simple upgrade path via yum for future kernel updates. It also uses the /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt, (ie. it's populated, rather than the empty file in R2), for kernel boot command line, so from a development point of view, it is easier to edit a text file and reboot rather than having to recompile uboot or mess around on the serial console. (Users should not edit the contents of the file unless you know what you are doing or you will more than likely end up with a system that won't boot.)
Would appreciate it if the usual suspects, (Terry, Michael, .....), could dd the R3 image to a spare card and try it.
(Note. The hiFace kernel module, snd-usb-hiface.ko, is included with the kernel package. I think I asked already if anyone had a hiFace to be able to say this is working with the Wandboard? EDIT 20130413: Now confirmed as working by Andrew!)
CSOS-Wandboard-Dual-R3-20130412-1.img.7z
As with the previous images, the unpacked size is 3904897024 bytes, so you'll need a >= 4GB sdcard to write it to.
For first time users: Download the compressed image. Extract it from the 7-Zip archive. Write it, (using dd or equivalent), to a >= 4GB sdcard. Plug the sdcard into the slot on the Wandboard CPU board. (Important, that you plug it into the sdcard slot on the CPU board. It won't boot from the 2nd sdcard slot on the carrier board!) Plug in an ethernet cable and apply power to the device. Wait 30 seconds. Log into your router, which has hopefully allocated an IP Address to the Wandboard ethernet interface from its pool of dhcp addresses, (the device should have sent a clientId of 'Wandboard' to your router when it requested an address, making it easy to find the allocated IP, if your router shows that info), and use that IP Address to access the CSOS Web-GUI running on the device, http://wandboard_ip_address:8080/. From the Web-GUI you can configure the wi-fi interface, (set network name / pre-shared key), if you wish to use a wireless connection, or re-configure the Squeezelite Player to use a different audio output device. (The default is to use the sgtl5000 line-out.)
