[Commotion-dev] commotion on tp-mr3020 and other low resource devices via extroot

[Chris Ritzo]

Thanks Nicolás. I have not tried just unpacking the rootfs.tar.gz onto
the USB. For some reason I was thinking that the kernel on the flash
needed to match the kernel on the USB extroot file system.

I haven't had overheating issues yet, though admittedly I haven't done
as extensive performance testing as you and your friend. Maybe adding a
fan using the I2C bus hack on the openwrt wiki would help this.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020?s[]=tp&s[]=mr3020#hardware.hacks

I haven't tried any of these hacks yet, but it sounds like others have.

best, Chris

On Mon 20 Jan 2014 07:26:04 PM EST, Nicolás Reynolds wrote:
> Chris Ritzo <critzo at opentechinstitute.org> writes:
>
>> Thanks Ben & Paul!
>>
>> Ben - I'm attempting to build a factory image with that kernel now.
>>
>> Paul- yes, I have USB extroot working, but without extensive testing.
>> I've documented my work here:
>> https://wiki.commotionwireless.net/doku.php?id=usb_extroot_installation
>> feel free to try this out on your devices to confirm.
>
> you can also unpack the rootfs.tar.gz file on the usb drive :)
>
> doesn't it overheat for you?  we've done tests with a friend and the
> plastic microsd adapter we were using was blasted by the heat.
>
> our scripts are here, they should work with attitude adjustment.  the
> important things are bin/mkmallacritica and the files/ dir.
>
> https://github.com/fauno/MallaCritica 
>
>
>
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