Re: jp1082 USB to Ethernet

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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No, there is no cross-compiler available.

On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 11:19 +0100, John Leake wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> Thank you for your reply.  Surely there is a cross compiler to run on x686 ?
> John
> On 11/08/14 10:31, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > you would either need an ARM build machine and do just the same like you
> > did on x86. However, building IPFire will take a while. Days instead of
> > hours.
> >
> > If you don't have a powerful ARM machine (the Raspberry Pi is not an
> > option at all) you can emulate one on x86. This is even slower even on
> > powerful x86 machines, but it works.
> >
> > I recommend Debian for that as it comes with a statically linked version
> > of qemu for ARM. Commands are much like when doing a native build, you
> > will just need to add the target architecture like this:
> >
> > ./make.sh clean
> > ./make.sh --target=armv5tel gettoolchain
> > ./make.sh --target=armv5tel downloadsrc
> > ./make.sh --target=armv5tel build
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > -Michael
> >
> > On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 00:34 +0100, John Leake wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> I have installed ipfire on my pi and all is ok except the very low cost
> >> jp1082 USB to Ethernet adapters are not recognised.
> >>
> >> I would like to build the jp drivers and include them in a pi ipfire SD
> >> image.
> >>
> >> I have forked the ipfire-2.x repo and successfully built the default
> >> image as a test (it took 3 hour(s) 52 minute(s) 55 second(s))!
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me how to build the pi image ?
> >>
> >> Ozpoz
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