I installed a Debian system on my Buffalo LS-WXL two years ago. Recently, I want to play with some Nodejs, the LS-WXL will be my server, but the Linux kernel on it was too old (2.6.32). So I decided to upgrade it first. Obviously, compile a new kernel was my first thought. However, when I compiled the first one, there was a few patches, which I don’t think I can find new ones for the new kernel version. I searched and searched, came across this thread, it says:
Support for the LS-XHL and LS-CHLv2 was added in the official Debian packets. Just install linux-image-kirkwood and flash-kernel from wheezy-backports and reboot.
Similar devices, this method might works on LS-WXL as well. I tried and failed on “Unsupported platform”. Early, I found this github repo: https://github.com/rogers0/OpenLinkstation It supposed to be able to convert stock Linux system into a Debian system. There are bash scripts I can use as a instruction. The magic begins:
- Edit /etc/flash-kernel/db
Machine: Buffalo LS-WXL Kernel-Flavors: kirkwood Machine-Id: 527 DTB-Id: kirkwood-lswxl.dtb DTB-Append: yes U-Boot-Kernel-Address: 0x00008000 U-Boot-Initrd-Address: 0x0 Boot-Kernel-Path: /boot/uImage.buffalo Boot-Initrd-Path: /boot/initrd.buffalo Boot-DTB-Path: /boot/dtb Required-Packages: u-boot-tools Bootloader-Sets-Incorrect-Root: yes
I edited a little to match what’s on my machine. Boot-DTB-Path is where a dtb file will be generated
Copy kirkwood-lswxl.dtb and kirkwood-lswxl.dts from 1_debootstrap/dtb/ to /etc/flash-kernel/dtb/
Run:
update-initramfs -uk allReboot and Good luck!