[Arm-netbook] Request SD card image

[cnxsoft]

On 23/04/2012 09:48, cnxsoft wrote:
>> I get similar messages but when I configured the wireless network,
>> it all seems to work fine. This was doing it all manually, running
>> wpa_supplicant etc from the command-line.
>>
>> One issue I do get is that unprivileged users can't do any network
>> related stuff. A quick search indicates that this is perhaps related to
>> an Android kernel option. Apparently adding users to an aid_inet should
>> fix this but it doesn't seem to.
>>
>> What kernel is this 3.0.8+ one that we have? I had tried building the
>> lichee/v2.6.36 and despite coping the fw_bcm4329.bin file from the
>> allwinner/v2.6.26 branch, I got errors related to that module. I was
>> using arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5 from emdebian. It'd
>> be really good to have a copy of the config file used to build it to
>> (or compile it with support for /proc/config.gz).
>>
>> Has anyone managed to mount the Android internal nand discs from Ubuntu
>> or Debian? Looking in /dev/block, there are some loop and ram devices
>> which I can't mount. /proc/meminfo reports only 313940kB RAM: any idea
>> where the rest of it is: ram discs, video memory?
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>>
> I've got the same issue with Ubuntu 12.04. It can load the wifi driver 
> but running ifconfig it won't show an IP as a normal user, but as root 
> it's OK. I can ping as root, but not with ubuntu user:
>
> sudo ping yahoo.com
> PING yahoo.com (98.139.183.24) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_req=1 
> ttl=39 time=515 ms
> 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_req=2 
> ttl=39 time=437 ms
>
> ping yahoo.com
> ping: unknown host yahoo.com
>
> My guess is that there is only about 300 MB memory available to Linux, 
> because some memory must be reserved for the GPU (especially for video 
> decoding). It is the same with the Android firmware.
A solution and workaround is provided @ 
https://blog.tuinslak.org/socket-permission-denied

The solution is to disable CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK in .config

A work around it to add ubuntu user to aid_net group:

sudo groupadd -g 3003 aid_inet
sudo usermod -a -G aid_inet ubuntu