Hacking Linux help, please?

[Ninja_Carver]

Im more curious about all usb ports being available at this point, thought only the back two were usable in wii mode.

 

[Ray Lewis]

Eric Holder's answers to Congressional hearing questions

 

[Maxternal]

Im more curious about all usb ports being available at this point, thought only the back two were usable in wii mode.

Wait, I thought all of them were available in vWii mode ... at least to disk games

I which ones were available or not and whether or not plug and play was available was a problem with the cIOS conflicting with USB loading and emuNAND but I thought disk games had access to all of them.

EDIT : try some homebrew that only uses IOS58 like WiiMC and see if it will recognize a USB drive with music or something on other USB ports.

 

[Ninja_Carver]

keyboard WAS in, no workie... researching... meantime..

 

[Ninja_Carver]

Notice BCM20702 detected by kernel during syslog (scrolled video slowly). I believe this is one of the WiiU Bluetooth adapters.

 

[Ray Lewis]

Ignore me for your own good

 

[Ninja_Carver]

yes it is, some kernels include it. In fact, I think all Wii stuff has drivers. Wii U is different. But we are not there yet. I heard Ubuntu has ppc and smp but only saw amd64 or i386 install options (from my USB Linux tool I linked to).

im not booting this from USB, im booting it from SD card directly from bootmii

 

[Ray Lewis]

im not booting this from USB, im booting it from SD card directly from bootmii

Wait, regular Wii or vWii? Thought bootmii was not working? What did I miss?

Edit, saw video, launched from hbc, okay, lol

 

[Ninja_Carver]

this is on the VWII! I want to say bootmii success, now to tweak kernel?

 

[the_randomizer]

this is on the VWII! I want to say bootmii success, now to tweak kernel?

But didn't Boomii yield a black screen during everyone's tests? Could this be what we were waiting for?

 

[Ninja_Carver]

i can tell you with absolute certainty that using bootmii on vWii I was able to boot whiite-linux kernel, 2.6.32? anyhow I pasted my dmesg output here. See's 307MB RAM. Some various hardware. kernel can be recompiled, we have source. Author even states this kernel was cross-compiled on an x86. However, that's dev territory. HOpefully some others can chime in and help me out with the keyboard error. SSH would be great, I'll give you guys accounts so you can remote in

http://pastebin.com/XGwATszn

 

[Ray Lewis]

Epic fail; me

 

[Maxternal]

Well, the mini kernel version of linux would replace the ppcboot.elf file (the one in the bootmii folder but I think you wold have to rename it and add it to existing bootmii instalation, replacing the existing file) if it was the ppcboot.elf file that actually crashed on our tests then it's quite possible that when replacing it with the linux version it would work.

There was another kernel version in the download that I saw, too. It was the IOS version (boot.elf)

if you ran it from the icon in HBC, it's the IOS version.
If you ran it from the "launch bootmii" option in the HBC home menu, it's the mini version.

 

[Ninja_Carver]

Well, the mini kernel version of linux would replace the ppcboot.elf file (the one in the bootmii folder but I think you wold have to rename it and add it to existing bootmii instalation, replacing the existing file) if it was the ppcboot.elf file that actually crashed on our tests then it's quite possible that when replacing it with the linux version it would work.

There was another kernel version in the download that I saw, too. It was the IOS version (boot.elf)

if you ran it from the icon in HBC, it's the IOS version.
If you ran it from the "launch bootmii" option in the HBC home menu, it's the mini version.

ah. this is IOS version then.


edit: actually, i dont know. look at the howto here:
http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:whiite-linux#Kernel_image_launch_.28BootMii_direct_booting.29

Installation of the kernel image (BootMii direct booting)


ive completed the steps below this section... BootMii direct booting,

 

[Ray Lewis]

Useless

 

[the_randomizer]

So, are we SOL now that we did what we weren't supposed to (i.e, messing with the Bootmii iOS on vWii mode?)

 

[Ray Lewis]

So, are we SOL now that we did what we weren't supposed to (i.e, messing with the Bootmii iOS on vWii mode?)

No, are you bricked? So not SOL.

 

[the_randomizer]

No, are you bricked? So not SOL.

No, and I'm glad I didn't Just making sure we weren't in the wrong for messing with iOSes. Maxternal wouldn't have known if we never tested, so he knows what to do for next time; I trust him and ninja_carver and whoever else is working on it.

 

[Ray Lewis]

Don't quote others

 

[obcd]

The usb ports might be connected to a usb hub chip, and the linux kernel has support for hubs.
This could explain why it works on all usb ports out of the box.
If I try to keep up with this Thread, I notice a couple of problems at the moment.

1. Having debugging output. On the wii, we had an usb gecko. Some stuff was patched so that even a normal running ios spit out
some debug information. Debug information is very essentual, as without it, you walk in the dark when things don't work anymore.

2. Getting arm code running. This is basically what launching bootmii is doing. To my knowledge, it used an exploit in the wii that was patched for the wiiu. This could explain why it's not working anymore. Giantpune created a program that could run bootmii without the need to have it installed as an ios or as boot2. (Casper) It's also not working anymore on the wiiu.
If we could get that running, we could backup the wii nand. It would at least give a way to rescue a wiiu with a corrupted vwii system. (Deadly Foez isn't out of bussiness yet I assume.) It wouldn't suprise me that there is a way to reflash the wii nand from wiiu mode, but as long as no wiiu exploit or homebrew exists, this method is out of reach.

3. If we could get bootmii running, neek would probably run as well. This would give us a way to experiment with less possibility to corrupt the vwii nand contents.

4. Tueidj has a way to produce debugging over wifi for devolution. As devolution isn't based upon existing code, it might be something that could be used in an early stage development on wiiu as well. Maybe he is willing to share that piece of code if we ask him politely.

5. Crediar seems to know a way to run neek on wiiu vwii, but he doesn't release much without funding nowadays...