That´s a very good distro but it has some serious issues when you run the apt-get application...by mugre1975 - Wii Linux
So... Me again... I was interested in working with a bigger image file so this is what I did to resize it, I: * Formatted a pen drive to an ext2 filesystem * Copied linuxdsk.img onto it using a Ubuntu linux PC * Booted EWL on my Wii * Plugged in my pen drive and mount it (/media/usb) And from then on cd /media/usb dd if=/dev/zero of=linuxds2.img seek=2500999999 bs=1 count=1 (this linby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
OK I already overwritten the upgraded file with the original one, so this is what I'll do, I'll check /etc/rc.local for the command line you tell me that should be there before and after the upgrade. I'll perform again the upgrade as root and see whether that line is changed or not, if it is, I'll set it back the way it was and will try a reboot. If none of this works Iby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
All I did back then was recompile the kernel using the current config file I had and changing this line: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y That did the trick and the USB DVD was fully operational from then on, of course I had the original kernel and Mike's patch to do it, If yours is a modified kernel (which I presume it is), then recompiling it with this option changed should work as well, I could giby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Amazing job, congrats I've got two questions: 1) I remember Whiite Lenny did not support external USB DVD drives, so I had to recopile the kernel in order to be able to use it, does this version support it? If not, would it be possible to recompile it in order to do so? 2) If there's a swap partition on the SD card, will this version use it? Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
I should let you figure this one out by yourself (you should be checking the forum BEFORE asking this kind of stuff) but nevertheless, check out this post: Cheersby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
Do you have anything else plugged in besides the USB keyboard? That might be the problem, try unplugging everything off and leaving just the keyboard on. Cheersby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
Perhaps this is a noob question but I have to do it anyway, when you say: QuoteIt is able to display information about boot1 & 2, NAND filesystem, permissions, ecc, hmac, SFFS, detect causes of many different types of bricks (opera, 003, unbootable IOS). With this program, you are almost guaranteed that a nand.bin is safe to install on a Wii. How can I tell whether it's safe or not to iby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
It seems like you didn't perform the installation right, perhaps you should go over the whole process again Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
How are you running it? To get the best network adapter compatibility you need to run it from or as bootmii, when executed from the Homebrew Channel the wifi adapter might not be detected. Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Which version of Wii Linux are you running? Whiite has its own network configuration tool which sometimes doesn't work because the wireless lan interface is detected as wlan2 or some other name instead of wlan0. It happened to me, and what I did was set up the wireless lan using the network configuration tool and then I edited the configuration file and replaced wlan0 with wlan2 (which wasby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Exactly as stated by supermegamanxl, wifi works great when booting from (or as) bootmii. I personally run it through Priiloader (replacing the bootmii file with the .elf boot file to run whiite). Once inside Whiite you have to run the ez-wifi-config tool to configure your wifi connection. Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Try using WiiXplorer, I haven't seen it on the Wiki so it might not be supported by Wiibrew (if that's the case, sorry). Google it Cheersby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
Read this post: Cheersby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
Much appreciated! Question: This emulator is not supposed to support NTFS devices, could this issue be fixed recompiling it to do so or is it a programming issue? Thanksby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
Pretty much, although you have to dig into some linux knowledge, specially because there's no other way to prepare the filesystem than inside a linux machine. Nothing Google can't handle :)by mugre1975 - Wii Linux
I use Whiite and it works greatby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
My final purpose was to achieve DVD Playback through an external DVD player (I'm MILES away from there yet, but at least the drive is properly recognized, I'm still having issues with xine-ui). The kernel files provided by the GC-Linux team don't support external USB DVD units, that's why I had to recompile it. Yet, I'm pretty sure it does support USB flash drives asby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Who knows? I did several installations of Wii Linux: Whiite 4.0, Whiite 5.0, X-Whiite, some of them worked, some other didn't, and sometimes a version that did not work, worked perfectly the second time I performed the install. I've no clue as to why this happens since I'm kinda a newbie to the linux world. Still I have a modified Kernel which supports external USB drives (recompby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
OK, here's a guess When loading from HBC you use only one file which "decides" which of Mike's Kernel is suitable for your Wii IOS auto mikep5-zImage-2.6.32.ios.elf If you want to boot it from Bootmii you need to know which one of ther kernels is suitable for you, and the only way to do that is to try them all: mini 480i PAL (60Hz) mikep5-zImage-2.6.32.mini.480i(PAL60).elfby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
I did de Linux part using Ubuntu Live CD, try using an ext2 partition instead of an ext3 Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Fluxbox works great, I posted a tutorial here: Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Check out the ext3 partition flags to see if it is: * Active * Boot Other solution, try using an ext2 partition (worked for me) Regarding the browser, Firefox is too heavy to load on wii hardware, try Icewasel, is lighter and works as well. Of course you'll be able to use apt-get to install it (and to update your system and whatever else you want to install) Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Can't help you on that one, I've no idea. Sorryby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
I managed to start X on boot, without user and password check though. What I think I did back then was: Edit rc.local file You need to add the following line in your /etc/rc.local file, before the line exit 0. su - (username) -c startx Save and quit the file. That’s it. You are done. Now restart your system you will be magically taken right into your fluxbox without you doing anyby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
I've used CustomizeMii a lot, so I'll try to add some tips that worked for me in case somebody is interested in trying them... QuoteSifJar Next, you need to click the "Forwarder" button, and then choose "Simple Forwarder" (advanced forwarder is understandably more complicated), and type in the name of folder within "apps" that the boot.dol is found in (e.g. "homebrew_browser") Havby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
As far as I know the only Linux distributions that exists as of today can be found here: Have in mind that an Ubuntu distro for Wii should be a light version with no desktop or at least a light one (forget about Gnome), because its hardware is not powerful enough to support it. Cheersby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Easy Bad thing about all linux stuff for us begginers (I also don't know squat about coding) is that if you screw up one letter, one single caption in any of the lines the thing won't work. Most likely you're mistyping the file's name, which is case sensitive and should be call for exactly as described in the tutorial. If you found it once and were able to edit it, then yby mugre1975 - Wii Linux
Actually, many of them do support the hub as well as the mouse an keyboard. It's very useful for Wii Linux, Commodore an DOS emulators, anyhow that was not the problem, it seems the Samsung external DVD Recorder is incompatible with both new versions of Genplus GX and DosBox. Furthermore since my Wii came with a D3-2 drive is either use an external HDD or an external DVD to play your backuby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications
Turns out you were right on the money! I currently have a USB hub, a mouse, a keyboard, and a Samsung DVD Player/Recorder, plugged to my Wii. I tried unplugging everything and the emulator worked, then I plugged the DVD and CRASH, there we go again. Finally I tried just with the hub, mouse and keyboard and it worked fine again. So that's the end of it, thanks Cheersby mugre1975 - Homebrew Applications