Wii Linux (XWhiite 0.2) with working WiFi tutorial

jeroen80 · Feb 9, 2012

Wireless is already working but the problem is rtorrent and other torrent client don't work
I tought this is related to the error that it cant found the modules.dep

BTW hope you understand my english

Coto · Feb 9, 2012

That would be PPC dependant. As long as rtorrent has a PPC build, it should work, also, check the open ports on the router.

PS: The Wii's being under heavy stress while running MINI Linux, I would suggest not leaving it on for that much time if you intend to use it per prolonged amounts of time.

jeroen80 · Feb 9, 2012

Actually the clients work but when i select a torrent (tried more than one torrent btw) it can't connect to trackers

Coto · Feb 10, 2012

then that would be app dependant. Check, again, whose ports the torrent app is using, and if you have those available (otherwise closed).

Coto · May 2, 2012

Sorry for double posting but, I just re-used xwhiite installation (bluetooth, wireless wlan, XFCE (cube driver)) all in one-go, to install farter's RGB drivers (colors now showing much richer), then upgraded to 2.6.32.43 kernel, and this is just sweet! I forgot how fun was to run linux on Wii..

-DarkAceZ- · May 2, 2012

Location: C# @ wii.. Yeah!
WiiLinux is awesome!! The only problem I ran into was trying to use it as a laptop... = Not going to work. What does Wii have, like 64MB of RAM? XD

Krestent · May 2, 2012

Does anyone have SSH running on this?

Coto · May 2, 2012

Me but i'm not going root while on internet xD

-DarkAceZ- said:
Location: C# @ wii.. Yeah!

WiiLinux is awesome!! The only problem I ran into was trying to use it as a laptop... = Not going to work. What does Wii have, like 64MB of RAM? XD

32MB(MEM2) + other kinds of ram (VRAM GDDR3,sound, etc)

edit: well, compared to dreamcast, Wii homebrew can do a lot more! xD

Anon10W1z · Jun 19, 2012

Can Windows XP do the linux steps?

Anon10W1z · Jun 20, 2012

Anyone?

-DarkAceZ- · Jun 20, 2012

I don't have any idea on what you're talking about

Shano56 · Jun 20, 2012

-DarkAceZ- said:
I don't have any idea on what you're talking about

He's talking about the installation process, obviously. The instructions are written for a linux OS..

cd /home/yourusername/Desktop

tar -C /media/filesystem/ -xjvf debian-etch-4.0+whiite-0.1+xwhiite-0.2.tar.bz2

Anon10W1z · Jun 20, 2012

Shano56 said:
-DarkAceZ- said:

I don't have any idea on what you're talking about

Click to expand...

He's talking about the installation process, obviously. The instructions are written for a linux OS..

cd /home/yourusername/Desktop

tar -C /media/filesystem/ -xjvf debian-etch-4.0+whiite-0.1+xwhiite-0.2.tar.bz2

So all you have to do is extract the whiite filesystem to /media/filesystem/ directory on your SD card?

midwest · Aug 23, 2012

Hello

I am having a problem getting apt-get to work
my internet is working through the usb adapter and I can ping my desktop
But when I run apt-get I get a bunch of "failed to fetch" errors

Are their servers down or is there some kind of repo list problem on my setup? I haven't touched anything since installing it

Thanks

Edit: Yeah this is frustrating. SSH is up and running fine. But no apt-get. I really don't want to have to manually untar a bunch of stuff. It finds the files and determines the dependencies but then starts spitting out 404 errors and nothing can be downloaded. It won't let me update or install individual apps
Here is the contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian etch main contrib

midwest · Aug 23, 2012

Ok fixed the problem
Basically what happened is that they stopped supporting debian 5

To fix it I had to do 2 things. replace the line in my sources.list file with

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib

Then I got a an error that I didn't have public keys
I fixed that by typing in

gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys xxxxxxxxxxxxx

and

gpg --armor --export xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | apt-key add -

The xxxxxx's represent the key value it says you need

It's working now. just upgraded and installing xfce4 right now

Coto · Sep 15, 2012

There's been some time since I last visited this thread. Yes, the kernel used is kinda outdated and requires updating keys so servers let you get stuff (mainly official servers).

I'll paste a TXT based on findings I found (most based on info through internet) long ago (on wii linux)

Code:

para wii:

modprobe b43 -- habilita wifi
usermod -G audio  -- habilita sonido

descomprimir el kernel mas moderno (root con modules.tar.bz2)
# tar -zxvf /tmp/nombredelprograma.tar.gz

# tar -jxvf /tmp/nombredelprograma.tar.bz2
/etc/apt/sources.list
sudo depmod -a para actualizar de kernel

cambiar a elf de farter
/etc/apt/sources.list

instalar sh:
./install.sh

su makefile

xwhiite usa lenny

apt-key update?
--


cd/etc/modules nano (agregar modprobe B43
--
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3C962022012520A0
resuelve problemas con la validacion de packages

otros servers

e.g. apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys XXXXXXX
e.g. apt-key adv --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys XXXXXXX
e.g. apt-key adv --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys XXXXXXX
--

agregar farter XFB en &#8216;/etc/X11/xorg.conf&#8217;

1	Section "Device"
2   		 Identifier	  "Configured Video Device"
3   		 Driver		  "fbdev"
4   		 Option		  "UseFBDev"			  "true"
5	EndSection

--

Instalar apt-get install gcc (compilador)

--

Instalar 3G en la wii:

http://n00bsys0p.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/linux-and-3g-not-as-tough-as-youd-expect/

lsusb		   (vendor - product)
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0421:0627

A problem which you may run in to is the OS picking up the dongle as a usb storage device,
as some of them contain the Windows drivers and programs on a flash ROM.
The commands I used to circumvent this hurdle were as follows:

dmesg

Which will output a whole bunch of really ominous looking junk.
You can ignore most of it (thank god!), and just look for the phrase usb-storage.
If it says it has ignored it, you are fine, but if it states that usb-storage has been registered
then you&#8217;ll have to remove it. Do this through the following commands:

rmmod options
rmmod usb-storage
modprobe usbserial

The next step for me was to add the dongle&#8217;s settings to my modprobe.conf. This is located in /etc in Slackware.
Add the following line to the end:

options usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1003

--
instalar install o install.sh
sudo ./install
--
modprobe.conf (modprobe levanta modulos en hardware)
ruta: /etc/module (nano)
agregar modprobe b43 (wlan card)
--
home/wii/Desktop
uname -r obtiene version del kernel
cp para copiar archivos
mv para mover

borrar
rm archivo
borrar carpeta recursiva
rm -r carpeta

modprobe b43 inicializa el wifi

--

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/folder para montar unidades

USB disk quedan como SDA1/etc

para desmontar!
umount /dev/sda1
--

instalar debian installer + openwwf (wireless) drivers linux.

Formato SD (hdd) para debian:

particiones:

1 FAT (64MB) , 2 EXT2(1.6 GB) , 3 SWAP(128MB)

--


instalar lenny (xwhiite con entorno grafico)

luego instalar el ultimo kernel

luego cambiar al bootmii de farter

--


al iniciar con el ppc de xhiite:

instalar cube
declararlo en X11

GPU driver folder (lenny)

/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers

-

lenny default kernel folder: (xwhiite default)

/lib/modules/2.6.32-isobel-wii/

-

farter lenny default kernel folder:

/lib/modules/2.6.32.43/

*i need to rewrite /lib/firmware directory to do the kernel update. (from 2.6.32 isobel to farter lenny)

profit

copia recursiva (directorios y todo su interior)
cp -r

borrado recursivo (idem)
rm -r

problemas con el input device en xorg.conf

ps: if possible update wireless drivers

ps2: use farter's linux. it's better, more stable and has a nicer looking vga-driver

fishears · Jun 11, 2013

I know its a long shot but does anyone have a working link for the xwhiite 0.2 referred to in the first post? I stupidly deleted mine some time ago...
Thanks guys

fishears · Jun 13, 2013

NVM - I've got Ubuntu running now.

DevilKIN · Jul 1, 2013

http://hbcapps.com/debian-etch-4.0+whiite-0.1+xwhiite-0.2.tar.bz2

File link is dead!!! T.T

fishears · Jul 1, 2013

DevilKIN said:
http://hbcapps.com/debian-etch-4.0 whiite-0.1 xwhiite-0.2.tar.bz2

File link is dead!!! T.T

Yep.
I suggest you go for the whiite linux installer. Very easy to use and it will give you Debian 4 with XFCE all ready to roll. I'm running Debian 6 now but that's another story...

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