mail_e36 | # 1 | 2010-05-14, 15:23 | Report

Hello friends,

I have a question regarding Titan's Custom Kernel which I installed via the package manager (http://wiki.maemo.org/Kernel_Power)

I am not interested in overclocking, but I am interested in the additional features this custom kernel provides, some of which are listed below. My question is, what additional commands or tools can I now run given that I have all of the below features:

"IPv6, packet filtering, QoS, NAT, tunneling, kernel configuration, Wifi mesh networking, builtin ext3 for booting from other media, ext4, XFS, reiserfs, NTFS read support, ISO9660, UDF, CIFS, automounter, squashfs, unionfs, device mapper and dm-loop, cryptography, cryptoloop, EFI partitions, UTF8 codepages, mouse+joystick input, PPP, PPTP, serial support, USB/IP and generic USB device drivers, battery info, overclocking and kexec support."

I have tried the Wi-Fi mesh networking, which works great, I know what IPv6 is (didn't know it could be used on the N900), tried the WLAN monitor mode, but many of rest the above features baffle me. I am new to Linux, but seasoned in IT.

Please provide some input, thank you.

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Joorin | # 2 | 2010-05-14, 15:38 | Report

If you're new to Linux but "seasoned in IT", it should be easy to Google the things you don't know about.

But, to mention two, PPP and PPTP will let you use VPN connections where Windows Server machines act as server. This is very handy. Compiled in ext3 support is good too.

Pretoriano | # 3 | 2010-05-14, 15:54 | Report

how do you do wifi mesh?

rambo | # 4 | 2010-05-15, 09:38 | Report

You need a mesh routing daemon (I think, haven't really looked into the details), check out for example Robin.

Edit: and for some other networking features (NAT, QoS etc) you need iptables (NAT and firewalling) and iproute2 (just about everything networking related). To learn more about the power of iproute2 (and kernel with the proper advanced networking features enabled) check out lartc.

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mail_e36 | # 5 | 2010-05-17, 00:16 | Report

thanks for your response, I will look into this.

cheve | # 6 | 2011-01-24, 03:45 | Report

hi,

noob question. I have power46 installed. When I type at x-term:

cat /proc/filesystems

I do not see ISO9660 in the list.

Does this mean that I will not be able to access/mount a USB CD or DVD drive(with the h.e.n. host mode)?

I am trying to follow the instruction in http://www.linuxconfig.org/HowTo_mount_cdrom_in_linux

Cheers,

storkus | # 7 | 2011-01-24, 04:31 | Report

@cheve: Weird. I haven't played with the N900's kernel much (either the stock or power46), but looking in /lib/modules/current shows "isofs.ko", which may be it--I'd have to look on my PC running Slackware, which I don't have in front of me here at work at the moment.

@mail_e36: around 75% of what you wrote are filesystems and features related to them. Since the Linux kernel supports the vast majority of filesystems out there in one way or another and UNIX is file-based, this should be no surprise. The only other one you should really wonder about is "kexec" which involves booting another kernel without shutting down the machine; I haven't played with it myself. As Joorin said, Google, Freshmeat, Linux Questions, etc are your friends here, and there are FAR MORE out there that Titan didn't include simply because it just won't reasonably fit in the N900 memory space and/or is very unlikely to be used from even an "internet tablet" such as high-reliability/availability cluster filesystems, rare drivers, etc.

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kingoddball | # 8 | 2011-01-24, 04:58 | Report

H-E-N Installs missing modules, as well.

cheve | # 9 | 2011-01-24, 17:50 | Report

@storkus, thank you, much appreciate that you would take the time. look forward to your comments

retsaw | # 10 | 2011-01-24, 18:32 | Report

What this means is that the module for that filesystem hasn't been loaded, it should be loaded automatically when you try to mount that filesystem (I think, I haven't tried it on the N900 yet). You can always do "modprobe isofs" (as root) to load it manually, if necessary.