There was a reason Al Gore not only invented global warming, but the internet- and it doesn’t ONLY have to do with greed!

This. This is why the Internet exists.

I don’t have much to offer today- the weather has been awful, and I haven’t got much accomplished. So, have a tip for obtaining a list of local Linux device names which I did to simplify my own life:

%ip link | awk '/^[0-9]/ {print $2}'

This will give you a list of your network devices from Linux’ iproute2, in a similar fashion:

lo:
enp0s25:
wlp2s0:
virbr0:
virbr0-nic:

I use this with simple logic to obtain a local device name when I’ve done a Linux installation through a virtual terminal which replaces the current system (generally through QEMU), and the device names are not static, or even similar. There are ways around this, but considering I only need to use this once per system, it’s a welcome addition to my daily “spin up” regiment.

While trying to find an LEDE (OpenWRT) 802.11ac supported device, I stumbled upon the FS-WR106. After a bit of back and forth with their representative, I ended up acquiring one unit for testing.

It came preloaded with OpenWRT 14.07, which is old. They were kind enough to send me a build based around 15.05 (not 15.05.1), and it’s stable, but it’s a no-frills build with no enhancements- other than a slightly modified graphic for the router’s name- MediaTek OpenWRT.

As of yesterday, Jiawei Wang’s build for the ZBT-WE1326 were pulled into LEDE’s trunk. Yesterday.

There are minor bugs with this build- the GPIO pins are unknown for the LEDs, and the power light is not controllable at this time.

However, it’s not the right image. The ZBT-WG3526 (16MB) squashfs layout is what is current on this device:

[    2.230000] spi-mt7621 1e000b00.spi: sys_freq: 50000000
[    2.230000] m25p80 spi32766.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes)
[    2.240000] m25p80 spi32766.0: using chunked io
[    2.240000] 4 ofpart partitions found on MTD device spi32766.0
[    2.250000] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "spi32766.0":
[    2.260000] 0x000000000000-0x000000030000 : "u-boot"
[    2.260000] 0x000000030000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot-env"
[    2.270000] 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "factory"
[    2.270000] 0x000000050000-0x000002000000 : "firmware"
[    2.280000] mtd: partition "firmware" extends beyond the end of device "spi3
2766.0" -- size truncated to 0xfb0000
[    2.320000] 2 uimage-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[    2.330000] 0x000000050000-0x00000017e12e : "kernel"
[    2.330000] 0x00000017e12e-0x000001000000 : "rootfs"
[    2.340000] mtd: device 5 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    2.340000] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[    2.350000] 0x0000006a0000-0x000001000000 : "rootfs_data"
[    2.360000] netif_napi_add() called with weight 128 on device eth%d
[    2.370000] change HW-TRAP to 0x17ccf

Also, I’m still having a wireless issue with this LEDE build, even though it claims I am in -HEAD, rather than 17.01.1. Need to do more research on this:

[   11.640000] firmware init done
[   11.810000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   11.810000] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 496 at compat-wireless-2017-01-31/net/wireless/core.c:763 wiphy_register+0x58/0x6c4 [cfg80211]()
[   11.820000] Modules linked in: mt7603e(+) ledtrig_usbport mt76 mac80211 cfg80211 compat ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_log_ipv6 nf_log_common ip6table_mangle ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables mmc_block mtk_sd mmc_core leds_gpio xhci_mtk xhci_plat_hcd xhci_pci xhci_hcd ahci libahci libata sd_mod scsi_mod gpio_button_hotplug usbcore nls_base usb_common
[   11.850000] CPU: 3 PID: 496 Comm: kmodloader Not tainted 4.4.61 #0
[   11.860000] Stack : 00000000 00000000 804c6862 00000036 00000000 00000000 80470000 804e0000
[   11.860000] 	  8fd023ec 8046dc83 803e8be4 00000003 000001f0 804c367c 00000003 8f7f4b78
[   11.860000] 	  8f7f52c8 80063fb8 80470000 804e0000 804721c8 804721cc 803ed50c 8f72fa34
[   11.860000] 	  00000003 80061d04 00000003 8f7f4b78 8f7f52c8 00000000 00000000 0072fa34
[   11.860000] 	  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   11.860000] 	  ...
[   11.900000] Call Trace:
[   11.900000] [<80016844>] show_stack+0x50/0x84

Ah well.. back to the drawing board. I’ll mess with this later.

Primary roll is ready to go? Yep!

A handful of printers are ready to go, and will have more done as the weekend progresses. There are also a handful of Core2-i3 grade PCs that need repurposing, but those take less actual effort- and a bit more time to get current.

I know- my blogging “every day” has fallen to the wayside- yet again. I find it difficult to find things to share when not that much seems to be happening. That, and I got over the “social media” phase long ago- and the blog took a tumble BEFORE that.

Anyhow, for the last couple days, I’ve been busy:

Rather busy! These are all going to need to be cleaned and likely given new rollers, but the whole lot was quite affordable (much more so than the truck rental). They’re almost all lasers, and a couple are even COLOR laser printers!

Hope to get these handled and sold ASAP!