On Wednesday 11 August 2010 12:47:43 Tim wrote: [...]
After restarting the network the console says: "segmentation fault" and freezes. When doing "reboot" instead the device also freezes and the power-led keeps flashing. I also tried only changing the config in /etc/config/wireless and restarted the device, with the same effect.
In order to make sure the error isn't related to any errors while compiling the image, I compiled an Image without the batman-adv package. After that I was able to configure the router as usual without any freezes.
Thanks for the steps to reproduce. That should help a little bit.
I don't have hardware here at the moment to test it. So cannot tell what the problem may be. Maybe another person has some free time to test it and check for a possible problem (but I don't think that anyone active has a WRT54GL).
what you could try is to setup the stuff by yourself using http://open-mesh.net/wiki/batman-adv-quick-start-guide and test which command may cause the problem (when it is batman-adv related).
As I already mentioned I'm not very used to Linux, so I have not yet found a way to connect to the router with serial console without building an JTAG-Cable. Is that right?
No, JTAG and serial port are completely unrelated: http://nuwiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Linksys/WRT54GL#seria...
But yes, you must build something. But it is highly recommended to have some serial console on embedded devices anyway.
Best regards, Sven