Hacking Wii Linux now with WIFI!

[fishears]

Thank you. "Where's the kernel command line?" is the next question, since we're not using grub or lilo I'm clueless. Also, why isn't anyone else having the same problem?


Just download the kernel patch and open it with a text editor.

Find this:
CODE+ÂÂÂÂmodel = "NintendoWii";
+ÂÂÂÂcompatible = "nintendo,wii";
+ÂÂÂÂ#address-cells = ;
+ÂÂÂÂ#size-cells = ;
+
+ÂÂÂÂchosen {
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ/* ramdisk */
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ/* bootargs = "nobats root=/dev/ram0 video=gcnfb ip=on force_keyboard_port=4"; */
+
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ/* nfsroot */
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ/* bootargs = "nobats root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.001.253:/nfsroot/cube ip=on video=gcnfb:tv=NTSC force_keyboard_port=4"; */
+
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ/* root filesystem on 2nd partition of SD card, whiite styleÂÂ*/
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂbootargs = "nobats root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait force_keyboard_port=4 video=gcnfb:60Hz,tv=NTSC placeholder_for_additional_kernel_options_targetted_at_hexedit_lovers";
+ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂlinux,stdout-path = &USBGECKO0;
+ÂÂÂÂ};

And change the bootargs

yeah, i saw that but my root IS mmcblk0p2!!! and that's the default already

 

[piratesmack]

yes i agree,

yeh yesterday i got everything working. then i tried to install swfdec but it tells me always that my flash version is too old, on almost every site(youtube etc.)...

i haven´t found gnash for PPC though , it wasn´t in my aptitude .

do you use another server or did you compile gnash yourself ...
-19,758cm
i read it has different options to compile , with opengl, cairo and a third option that i forgott.

Something you can try for youtube videos is firefox with greasemonkey + hqtube and the mplayer mozilla plugin.

Not sure how slow it'd be on the wii, though

 

[Ossot]

I don't know what miight is, but i'm assuming it's some random linux distro. Which means it's all GNU/GPL'd. Just give the man credit, you don't have to ask permission.

AFAIK all that means is that muzer is obliged to make available any GPL'd source he made use of in Miight but not any modifications he made to that GPL'd material. In any event, it's just good form to ask - I'm sure muzer isn't a bad guy & I'd be pissed if someone leaked something I wasn't ready to release...

Ya, tbh I have no clue the details of what's going on here. I just didn't want Guy A to have tweaked some linux distro to be really great for the community and never release it because Guy B has dropped off the face of the earth and didn't give him unneeded permission. Etiquette aside, as I fully agree asking/telling doesn't hurt. But ya.. you know what they say about asuming. Didn't realize it was deeper than all that.

 

[ozguy]

Can this work with Puppy Linux?
http://www.puppylinux.org

 

[piratesmack]

Can this work with Puppy Linux?
http://www.puppylinux.org

It'd need to be recompiled for powerpc and probably stripped down a little.
If I had a powerpc machine, I'd do it. Puppy is my 2nd favorite distro.

 

[ozguy]

Ah, ya. I thought someone had a PPC version of Puppy but I see it is still in progress.

Maybe YellowDog would work better as a starting point then:
http://us.fixstars.com/products/ydl/

 

[computerboy]

Thank you. "Where's the kernel command line?" is the next question, since we're not using grub or lilo I'm clueless. Also, why isn't anyone else having the same problem?

i dont know either ...

i grabbed my tarball from here http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9777 (the first link works)

but as i stated it won´t help you much because it only renders a few lines horizontal when started from mini , and then you can´t see the desktop.

sucks ...

Well did you try to change the xorg.conf ? i just changed it to use ntsc_60 and used mikep3-zImage-2.6.30.mini.576i(PAL).elf and you get the whole screen.

awesome man it worked !

to computerboy

in the xorg.conf when you scroll down you´ll see 2 lines with pal_50 and ntsc_60 at the beginning of each line and a few numbers following ...

that´s not to edit !!!

just scroll down a little more(only a few lines ) and you see pal_50 exchange that with ntsc_60 save and restart ...

you need root status:

rightclick>apps>shell>bash>type: su>enter>type: whiite(youcan´t see it , its still typed)>enter>type: mc>enter> use the programm like a explorer

go to \etc\X11 and there you find the xorg.config

Thx, but I'm no n00b. I've already worked with linux before so I know the basics

Off-topic: to anybody who likes FPSs play Battlefield Heroes it's 100% free and awesome!!

 

[computerboy]

It's really not that difficult (well if you actually use Linux).
You can just extract any of these (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Linux) distros to the root of your ext3 partition. How you create the partitions and so is explained here http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:whiite-linux it's always the same except of the fs package you use then you copy this (http://sharebee.com/ea20b8c8) files on the SD Card these are the libs and the wifi firmware.
For the firmware follow this http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:Wifi_Confi..._firmware_files I don't understand how to "install" .fw files could someone help me please (don't forget the configuration) and the rest of the files are all installed with dpkg -i How can I get it to access the SD card to install the .deb packages? and then restart if everything is right you should see a message that wlan was activated while starting linux.

PS: Well i would just wait until everything is really finished

Sorry for the double post but would like an answer please cause otherwise I would have wasted a 4 hours installing, configuring, googling, reading for nothing


Thanks in advance
c0mputeRb0y

 

[computerboy]

F*****g internet sorry

EDIT: post count = 666 this is the reason why my other post doubled

 

[fishears]

It's really not that difficult (well if you actually use Linux).
You can just extract any of these (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Linux) distros to the root of your ext3 partition. How you create the partitions and so is explained here http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:whiite-linux it's always the same except of the fs package you use then you copy this (http://sharebee.com/ea20b8c8) files on the SD Card these are the libs and the wifi firmware.
For the firmware follow this http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:Wifi_Confi..._firmware_files I don't understand how to "install" .fw files could someone help me please (don't forget the configuration) and the rest of the files are all installed with dpkg -i How can I get it to access the SD card to install the .deb packages? and then restart if everything is right you should see a message that wlan was activated while starting linux.

PS: Well i would just wait until everything is really finished

Sorry for the double post but would like an answer please cause otherwise I would have wasted a 4 hours installing, configuring, googling, reading for nothing


Thanks in advance
c0mputeRb0y

not sure about this distro but sometimes you copy the .fw file to /lib/firmware.........
I'd put the .deb files onto the linux FS somewhere then you'll see them

 

[WiiThoko]

Does anyone have a complete package with everything you need? I can't get this to work at all...>_< The most I can get is a command line. (I haven't used linux before, so I have no idea what to do)

 

[Screemer]

kLiNiKaL is putting one together.

btw. for all the pp who want to use linux mainly for websurfing and flash, there is a hb webbrowser in developement called wiixlore. might be interesting for some of you. it's said to have a newer flash implementation as opera-wii has. don't know if it's already working or how it is implemented.

http://code.google.com/p/wiixplore/

 

[kLiNiKaL]

yeah i'm working on my system at the moment.. i've put it away for the night, and will continue to work on it tomorrow afternoon.

got a few errors which i've pretty much solved but i'm too tired to continue tonight and i'm testing something out for Hibern. as soon as i put the finishing touches i'll package it up and upload it.

i'll have to remove the swap file i've placed on a usb pen drive, i could probably leave it in but im 99% certain that because of the different uuid of the devices (yours will be different from mine) that it wont work anyway but i'll include some type of readme anyway on how to get it going if you wanna add a external swap..i've checked with htop and other's (i've got conky running now, which was a pain in the ass to get compiled) and it does seem to make some sort of difference, however not really noticeable.

if anyone has a PPC Mac running Linux i would like to hear from you also

 

[goku21temp]

It's really not that difficult (well if you actually use Linux).
You can just extract any of these (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Linux) distros to the root of your ext3 partition. How you create the partitions and so is explained here http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:whiite-linux it's always the same except of the fs package you use then you copy this (http://sharebee.com/ea20b8c8) files on the SD Card these are the libs and the wifi firmware.
For the firmware follow this http://www.gc-linux.org/wiki/WL:Wifi_Confi..._firmware_files I don't understand how to "install" .fw files could someone help me please (don't forget the configuration) and the rest of the files are all installed with dpkg -i How can I get it to access the SD card to install the .deb packages? and then restart if everything is right you should see a message that wlan was activated while starting linux.

PS: Well i would just wait until everything is really finished

Sorry for the double post but would like an answer please cause otherwise I would have wasted a 4 hours installing, configuring, googling, reading for nothing


Thanks in advance
c0mputeRb0y

you can put the debs on a usb stick and then "mount /dev/sda1 mnt/neuer ordner". den ordner musst du noch vorher erstellen. die fw einfach nach /bin/firmware entpacken.

 

[ozguy]

Best thing is I now have a good use for the 50Gb partition I had the foresight to create when I first set up my external HD for the Wii.

 

[skedone]

any news yet klinikal

 

[9th_Sage]

I'd be playing with this but my USB Keyboard doesn't appear to work with it.

 

[fishears]

kLiNiKaL???

 

[Fakie!]

up!

 

[ozguy]

Good news.

Got it working with my USB hard drive as the root partition.
As noted on the Mike website you can use a hex editor to change boot options. I was able to change the root device to sda2 (2nd partition on my hd, formatted as EXT3) and successfully booted to the GUI.

I used the Puppy Linux 4.0 Live CD on my PC to create the EXT3 partition on my USB hard drive and untar the Mike distro files to it.

Used mini in BootMii to load the elf.
Got a few failures initializing hardware during the boot, and had to unplug my keyboard and mouse and then plug them back in before they would respond, but other than that it worked fine.

Now I need to know how to install the .deb files so I can configure the Wi-Fi.