Easy/possible to install driver for RNX-AC600UB in Pogoplug?

Joey,

Give it another shot?

Edit the file ~/.vnc/xstartup to have these lines.

startxfce4 &
xsetroot -solid grey
/etc/X11/Xsession

Note that this file is executed automatically by xrpd when you connect with RDC client from Windows. On RDC dialog, choose the first option sesmanXvnc and log in as root user.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2015 12:43AM by bodhi.

I'm afraid not, but here's the screenshot of WinSCP if it helps.

If it's a swap issue, I still not only lack a working swap file, the desktop Mint install ran out of partitions for one as well. Not a good swap week here lol

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Not swap issue. Swap only helps it run OK, but should not prevent xfce to start.

One more thing to check: after you tried to connect with RDC and it could not start, what is the content of your xsession-errors? please post output of:

cat ~/.xsession-errors

If we don't see anything big in the xsession-errors, I'm out of ideas.

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root@DebianPlug:~# cat ~/.xsession-errors
Xsession: X session started for  at Tue May  5 11:47:32 EDT 2015
xrdb: Connection refused
xrdb: Can't open display ':11.0'
xhost:  unable to open display ":11.0"
/usr/bin/x-session-manager: X server already running on display :11.0
xrdb: Connection refused
xrdb: Can't open display ':11.0'
ssh-agent is already running

** (xfce4-session:2313): ERROR **: Cannot open display:
Trace/breakpoint trap
root@DebianPlug:~#

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2015 10:52AM by JoeyPogoPlugE02.

the only thing I discern up there, is something is already running. Thought to try Webmin and copy running processes:

ID  ↓ 	Owner    	Size    	Command   
1 	root 	2148 kB 	init [2]
2 	root 	0 kB 	[kthreadd]
3 	root 	0 kB 	[ksoftirqd/0]
5 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/0:0H]
7 	root 	0 kB 	[rcu_preempt]
8 	root 	0 kB 	[rcu_sched]
9 	root 	0 kB 	[rcu_bh]
10 	root 	0 kB 	[migration/0]
11 	root 	0 kB 	[migration/1]
12 	root 	0 kB 	[ksoftirqd/1]
14 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/1:0H]
15 	root 	0 kB 	[khelper]
16 	root 	0 kB 	[kdevtmpfs]
17 	root 	0 kB 	[netns]
18 	root 	0 kB 	[writeback]
19 	root 	0 kB 	[crypto]
20 	root 	0 kB 	[bioset]
21 	root 	0 kB 	[kblockd]
22 	root 	0 kB 	[ata_sff]
23 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/0:1]
24 	root 	0 kB 	[cfg80211]
25 	root 	0 kB 	[rpciod]
26 	root 	0 kB 	[kswapd0]
27 	root 	0 kB 	[fsnotify_mark]
28 	root 	0 kB 	[nfsiod]
37 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/1:1]
38 	root 	0 kB 	[scsi_eh_0]
39 	root 	0 kB 	[scsi_tmf_0]
46 	root 	0 kB 	[ipv6_addrconf]
47 	root 	0 kB 	[deferwq]
68 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/1:2]
108 	root 	0 kB 	[scsi_eh_1]
109 	root 	0 kB 	[scsi_tmf_1]
110 	root 	0 kB 	[usb-storage]
116 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/0:1H]
121 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/1:1H]
122 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/0:2]
131 	root 	0 kB 	[kjournald]
267 	root 	2800 kB 	udevd --daemon
352 	root 	2796 kB 	udevd --daemon
354 	root 	2796 kB 	udevd --daemon
1541 	root 	4912 kB 	dhclient -v -pf /run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases et ...
1597 	root 	5920 kB 	/sbin/wpa_supplicant -s -B -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid -i wlan0 -D nl80 ...
1617 	root 	4908 kB 	dhclient -v -pf /run/dhclient.wlan0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.wlan0.leases ...
1714 	root 	2352 kB 	/sbin/rpcbind -w
1746 	statd 	2672 kB 	/sbin/rpc.statd
1758 	root 	2940 kB 	/usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd
1903 	root 	2440 kB 	/sbin/syslogd -C128
1907 	root 	2312 kB 	/sbin/klogd
1933 	messagebus 	3180 kB 	/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
2070 	avahi 	3376 kB 	avahi-daemon: running [DebianPlug.local]
2074 	avahi 	3376 kB 	avahi-daemon: chroot helper
2108 	root 	9948 kB 	/usr/sbin/nmbd -D
2114 	root 	6244 kB 	/usr/sbin/sshd
2143 	xrdp 	23488 kB 	/usr/sbin/xrdp
2164 	root 	19192 kB 	/usr/sbin/smbd -D
2166 	root 	14084 kB 	/usr/sbin/xrdp-sesman
2201 	root 	19708 kB 	/usr/sbin/smbd -D
2207 	root 	19776 kB 	/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
2218 	root 	2064 kB 	/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 linux
2301 	root 	3180 kB 	/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 10 --print-address 12 --session
2308 	root 	6208 kB 	/usr/lib/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
2343 	root 	9288 kB 	sshd: root@pts/0
2345 	root 	3264 kB 	-bash
2380 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/u4:0]
2468 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/u4:1]
2526 	root 	0 kB 	[kworker/u4:2]
2739 	root 	22092 kB 	/usr/share/webmin/proc/index_size.cgi
2748 	root 	1748 kB 	sh -c ps --cols 2048 -eo user:80,ruser:80,group:80,rgroup:80,pid,ppid,pgid,pcpu, ...
2749 	root 	2936 kB 	ps --cols 2048 -eo user:80,ruser:80,group:80,rgroup:80,pid,ppid,pgid,pcpu,vsz,ni ...

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2015 11:54AM by JoeyPogoPlugE02.

try this

mv ~/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc ~/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc.old

do

apt-get update; apt-get upgade; apt-get install -f

reboot and try again

if that doesnt work..... google is your friend

Gravelrash the first command gave the results below, but it otherwise updated afterwards. Same exact result logging in.

root@DebianPlug:~# mv ~/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc ~/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc.old
mv: cannot stat '/root/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc': No such file or directory
root@DebianPlug:~#

No such file or directory. ??? Windows would do that if you're locked out of a directory by another process.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2015 03:35PM by JoeyPogoPlugE02.

JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote:
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>

> 
> root@DebianPlug:~# cat ~/.xsession-errors
> Xsession: X session started for  at Tue May  5
> 11:47:32 EDT 2015
> xrdb: Connection refused
> xrdb: Can't open display ':11.0'
> xhost:  unable to open display ":11.0"
> /usr/bin/x-session-manager: X server already
> running on display :11.0
> xrdb: Connection refused
> xrdb: Can't open display ':11.0'
> ssh-agent is already running
> 
> ** (xfce4-session:2313): ERROR **: Cannot open
> display:
> Trace/breakpoint trap
> root@DebianPlug:~#
> 
>

This log is old. This must have recorded the events when you tried to run xstartup at command line previously.

Try connecting with RDC again, after it crash/or give you blank screen,... exit RDC completely on the PC end, go to the Pogo and capture the xsession-errors content. Please post it here.

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That's what I did earlier, went through the xrdp modules one by one. Remote desktop was initiated by x64 Windows, but below are results from Windows 7 x86 laptop. Again through the xdrp choices one by one:

root@DebianPlug:~# cat ~/.xsession-errors
Xsession: X session started for  at Tue May  5 11:47:32 EDT 2015
xrdb: Connection refused
xrdb: Can't open display ':11.0'
xhost:  unable to open display ":11.0"
/usr/bin/x-session-manager: X server already running on display :11.0
xrdb: Connection refused
xrdb: Can't open display ':11.0'
ssh-agent is already running

** (xfce4-session:2313): ERROR **: Cannot open display:
Trace/breakpoint trap
root@DebianPlug:~#

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/05/2015 05:38PM by JoeyPogoPlugE02.

@Joey

you could always purge the x* installation you have and try this one; obviously omitting the arduino stuff

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,19514,19545#msg-19545 : courtesy of monkmandolins

-edited- okay okay, I got into Webmin and looked at the packages listed for all things x, and indeed it's time to move on, start over with the other Pogo. Begrudgingly I might just register it with the Pogo people and like it.

In a way it;s a shame Damn Small Linux won't run on Pogoplugs, as it's not bad at all on a 366MHz 128MB RAM Thin Client. Little usable Firefox, tiny everything. So I'll go clean the wireless out of the still-sealed PogoPro and prepare for a solid install, solid backup too.

Hey did I thank every helper here? Sorry I got lost in wireless potential and a GUI I'm more curious to see in action than need to use. But with more solid backups in the near future I can experiment with confidence.

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/07/2015 11:16AM by JoeyPogoPlugE02.

Don't feel bad, VNC can be difficult to set up on a conventional PC (i.e. with real video display) so any complications added to it by not having a real video output to begin with are forgivable. If it helps to clarify, you need to setup a "virtual display" as in without a physical output on the Pogoplug side which you will then use a VNC program to display that GUI on your workstation. Just think of VNC as SSH'ing to a gui instead of the command line. Both of them are virtual terminals with one being text, the other one graphic. The setup is the key.

You'll probably be successful the next go around if you wait a little while and after you have a little more Linux experience. I can tell you from my experience, if you are struggling with wireless than your skills aren't quite there yet. That's not meant to be offensive, I'm just telling you my experience at trying the same thing as you at about the same staged skills you appear to have.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/07/2015 01:46PM by LeggoMyEggo.

Naw, no offense taken. In fact thanks a million Leggo not only for sharing your quite-inspiring creative skills but all the helps otherwise.
As for my coding sciLLz, this phase helped me understand what areas I need to brush up on, and what areas to totally leave alone. So with University out (as in, save a good book from the landfill) I'm on the lookout for Linux books, some cheat sheets, get some study area away from summer bugs and think a while... how's your OpenWRT router working? I didn't screw mine up yet lol Pretty cool.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/07/2015 04:27PM by JoeyPogoPlugE02.

> Don't feel bad, VNC can be difficult to set up on
> a conventional PC (i.e. with real video display)
> so any complications added to it by not having a
> real video output to begin with are forgivable.

True. So from Windows PC, the easiest way to connect to a Linux box is RDC. But on the Linux side, all the components must be set up correctly. Wish I could find my notes. But given the difficulty Joey ran into, when I have time I might repeat the process on a fresh rootfs to see where the gotchas are regarding desktop installation.

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JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote:
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> how's your OpenWRT
> router working? I didn't screw mine up yet lol

I'm clueless when it comes to OpenWRT. Still try to get it to work, still fail each time. Just like it was with Ubuntu, and before that Debian and before that Fedora and originally Centos. So the older I am in dog years, the harder it is for me to learn new tricks. It's the reality of getting old(er).

@Joey,

I've realized after after searching and browsing my old notes that this is definitely way complicated for noobs to get this working: there are many implied steps you would have to spend many hours googling, searching forum for them.

Stay tune for a simple "desktop installation" instruction!

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This tutorial just worked for me on Pro: VNC on Headless Debian



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/07/2015 09:02PM by LeggoMyEggo.

Here it is:

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,21784

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@ bodhi: COOL!
@ Leggo: COOL!

Yeah for the weekend I'll probably cool my jets a bit, clear the head. Check out tutorials. True I'm not familiar with LXDE but first glance it's very nice.

lxde.org/

There's been a lot of aha! moments since coming here, I never realized the breakdown of what goes into a GUI. Between LDXE and XFCE (desktop) I could be happy for a long time. Functional is beautiful me thinks. I was going to bring it up elsewhere, but as long as we're talking about GUIs, on the Mint Desktop scene I've decided on XFCE, and maybe LDXE would compliment that on the Pogos & Thin Clients.

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I was able to compile rtl8812au on my GoFlexHome. I changed Makefile PLATFORM like this i386=n and ARM_Rpi=y as mentioned back on page 1 of the post. I was able to build it with a bunch of warnings but no errors. it worked when i did insmod 8812au.ko and it seems so far to be working fine. my question is ARM_Rpi the correct platform to us or should I select a different one and if so which one?

Thanks



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/24/2015 01:52AM by maihoaomv.

maihoaomv Wrote:
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> I was able to compile rtl8812au on my GoFlexHome.
> I changed Makefile PLATFORM like this i386=n and
> ARM_Rpi=y as mentioned back on page 1 of the post.
> I was able to build it with a bunch of warnings
> but no errors. it worked when i did insmod
> 8812au.ko and it seems so far to be working fine.
> my question is ARM_Rpi the correct platform to us
> or should I select a different one and if so which
> one?
>
> Thanks

What are the possible platform parameters? Rpi has different instruction set, not Armv5, so best to choose the correct one.

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Thank you bodhi for getting back to me so quickly.
Ops, I guess I should have included the various platforms. I don't know a lot about the differences between the kirkwood and the broadcom but my understanding is the kirkwood is soft float (emulated) and rpi is hard float (hardware).

I really hadn't expected the module I compiled to work at all but despite the warnings it worked very well and iwconfig indicated a connection speed of 150Mb/s (N which is probably tops for my dinky lan) mostly due I suspect to the fact the dongle has a high gain antenna. However I got a ton of errors when I booted it this morning. But at least I know now the dongle can be made to work with the goflex.
Thanks


root@GoFlexHome:~/src/rtl8812au-master# cat Makefile |grep PLATFORM
CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ANDROID_X86 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_JB_X86 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_S3C2K4 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_PXA2XX = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_S3C6K4 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI = y
CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_RMI = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_RTD2880B = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_AR9132 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_RTK_DMP = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_PLM = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_MSTAR389 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_MT53XX = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_MX51_241H = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_FS_MX61 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATJ227X = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_TEGRA3_CARDHU = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_TEGRA4_DALMORE = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TCC8900 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TCC8920 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TCC8920_JB42 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RK2818 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_URBETTER = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TI_PANDA = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_JZ4760 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_DMP_PHILIPS = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_TI_DM365 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_MSTAR_TITANIA12 = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_SZEBOOK = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_SUNxI = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_SUN6I = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATM702X = n
CONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATV5201 = n
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_I386_PC), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATM702X), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ANDROID -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATM702X
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_TI_AM3517), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ANDROID -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_SHUTTLE
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MSTAR_TITANIA12), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_MSTAR_TITANIA12
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ANDROID_X86), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_JB_X86), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_PXA2XX), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_S3C2K4), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_S3C6K4), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RPI), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_RTD2880B), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_BIG_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_RTD2880B
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_RMI), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_PLM), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MSTAR389), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_MSTAR389
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_AR9132), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_DMP_PHILIPS), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DRTK_DMP_PLATFORM
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_RTK_DMP), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DRTK_DMP_PLATFORM
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MT53XX), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_MT53XX
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_MX51_241H), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_WISTRON_PLATFORM
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_FS_MX61), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATJ227X), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATJ227X
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_TI_DM365), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_TI_DM365
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_TEGRA3_CARDHU), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_TEGRA4_DALMORE), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TCC8900), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TCC8920), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TCC8920_JB42), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_RK2818), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ANDROID -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ROCKCHIPS -DCONFIG_MINIMAL_MEMORY_USAGE
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_URBETTER), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_TI_PANDA), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MIPS_JZ4760), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_SZEBOOK), y)
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_MN10300), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_MN10300
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_SUNxI), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_SUNxI
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_SUN6I), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ARM_SUN6I
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATV5201), y)
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DCONFIG_PLATFORM_ACTIONS_ATV5201
root@GoFlexHome:~/src/rtl8812au-master#

@maihoamv,

I did not see any familiar config listed (I have not looked closely). However, in general, it's needed to be little endian and arch needed to be ARM.

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