Hi Lucas,
> first mail, please be gentle. I wish to create a new rootfs for
my ARM920T
> microcontroller based device using BUILDROOT. The device has a serial port
> attached huawei 3G modem that could theoretically be used with stock
> chap/ppp. I do vividly remember though my aggreviance with this before
> finding wvdial, a simple, easy-to-use package to configure, initialize,
> start, and monitor the pppd. Unfortunately, wvdial just can not be added to
> my buidroot created rootFS. My question to the listmembers is twofold:
> 1) am I right to assume that ofono is more than capable replacing my old
> friend vwdial as shown here:
>
http://ofono.org/wiki/how-work-newly-bought-3g-key
Yes, but make sure to use udev instead of mdev (AFAIR mdev is the
default in buildroot).
you just need libudev actually, but it does depend on udev.
Other problem is that buildroot uses uClibc. Denis, do you know if
there's any problem in building oFono with uClibc?
There might be small problems, but none that can not be fixed. To be
fair, I have not yet tried to get it all compiled with uClibc.
If there is, you'd need to provide your own toolchain (take one
from
CodeSourcery).
> 2) if so, is there a makefile I could use to add ofono to my otherwise
> functional buildroot conf?
oFono uses autotools for building. If you are using the git
repository, you need to run './bootstrap && ./configure' first. Then
you'll have a Makefile.
If you use a packaged tarball, then only ./configure is sufficient.
However this question might be more targeted to a buildroot specific .mk
file and no, we do not have that.
Regards
Marcel