WiiToo!
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| WiiToo! | |
| General | |
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| Author(s) | Vquicksilver |
| Type | Operating system |
| Version | 20 October 2009 |
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WiiToo! is a minimal precompiled stage4 made to let you run Gentoo on your Wii using MIKE and Mini. It provides all the basic software required to compile and install new programs on it, and some other software ready to be used. The kernel used is plain vanilla-sources & Wii-Linux patches, so expect WiFi working out of the box.
Features
- Ready to use, uncompress, copy, configure and run
- Highly configurable, like Gentoo
- USB keyboard isn't a requirement, simply configure your network and use SSH
- Can use all the hardware that Wii-Linux is able to use:
Hardware Status Non-accelerated 2D video hardware Correct RGB framebuffer support requires a special SDL library port Audio hardware Works SDHC and Non-SDHC SD cards in SD mode Works via the front SD card slot Serial interface (SI) Nintendo GameCube controllers, and WaveBird wireless controllers works MEM2 memory as normal RAM Works, requires a module to be loaded Internal USB Bluetooth dongle Works Nintendo Wii Remote and related expansion accessories Works Sensor Bar Works USB 1.x and 2.0 devices Works, 1.x devices can have some problems Internal wireless network card Works, can maintain rates up to 200KB SRAM/RTC Works Nintendo GameCube memory cards Doesn't work Internal DVD drive Doesn't work
Requirements
For running it you will need:
- SD Card, like any other you can use with your wii, 1GB or more is required
- USB keyboard & TV or simply a local network connection, to be able to login in the system, input commands, etc
Installation
From a Linux
Making partitions on your SD card
The recommended partitioning scheme it's the whiite-linux scheme, else you will have to edit /etc/fstab and the boot parameters on the kernel image with a hexeditor.
Backup all the data on the SD card, before starting, or you will lose it.
Now put your SD card on the reader, find the corresponding device file on /dev, mine is /dev/mmcblk0, (Tip: See dmesg output if you are on linux) and umount any partition that can be mounted (Check with df). Now use fdisk to create a primary fat16 partition (this will be our boot partition), 30M should be enough for WiiToo! kernel images + bootmi, but if you are going to use another homebrew apps, or to store data from your Wii, make it bigger. Finally create the partition for the root filesystem (the bigger the better :D), exit fdisk, and unplug the SD card.
Becoming super user
$ su
an alternative is using sudo, you must put sudo at the start of the commands that start with #, the commands that start with $ can be run as a normal user.
Creating the filesystems
# /sbin/mkfs.vfat -n boot /dev/mmcblk0p1
# /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -L whiite /dev/mmcblk0p2
Creating mountpoints and mounting the filesystems
# mkdir /mnt/wiiroot /mnt/wiiboot
# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/wiiboot
# mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt/wiiroot
Installing WiiToo! on SD card
To uncompress you need xz-utils:
$ xz -d /path/to/wiitoo.tar.xz
# tar xpf /path/to/wiitoo.tar -C /mnt/wiiroot/
From a Windows
Maybe you can try with cygwin, or using a GNU/Linux livecd like sysrescuecd.
Final steps
Finally we configure some openrc settings, and the network.
Configuring openrc
Openrc is the init system used in Gentoo, we have to setup clock and other settings.
To setup the clock create /mnt/wiiroot/etc/timezone and set the path relative to your timezone for example:
America/New_York
You can view all available timezones exploring /mnt/wiiroot/usr/share/zoneinfo.
Configuring the network
WiiToo! includes all the software needed to make your wifi connection work on the first boot without the need to install any more software, it includes the firmware necessary to make the internal wifi card work out of the box, but you have to configure wpa_supplicant to fit your network needs.
To configure wpa_supplicant you have to edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, you can get lots of documentation about how to do it on google, anyway here you can see a WPA-PSK example:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
country=ES
network={
ssid="ExampleSSID"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="YouWillNeverKnowTheSecretThatIdontShow"
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40
priority=5
}
Then configure /etc/conf.d/net to use dhcp:
config_wlan0=( "dhcp" )
or a static ip:
config_wlan0="192.168.1.37 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.1.255" routes_wlan0="default via 192.168.1.100"
Booting the system
Install bootmi beta3 or higher
Choose your kernel image
You must choose your kernel image according to your TV (PAL/NTSC/480/576), WiiToo! provides 5 kernel images that can be found on /boot/ on the root partition.
When you have the correct kernel image just copy it to your boot partition on the SD card and use bootmii to load it. You must see something like this if you have the TV on:
Logging to your system
You can logging to your system with SSH:
ssh -l wii ip.address.ofyour.wii
or simply you can use a USB keyboard.
The predefined user for your system is Wii with password Wii, and to log as root your name is root and password root. Change your passwords after logging to do it, read the next section.
Configuring your system
After booting your system, you can configure some settings:
Changing your root password
You MUST change your root password if you want a secure system, to change it just run:
# passwd root
and follow the instructions.
Changing the Wii user password or adding a new user
Just run:
$ passwd wii
if you prefer to add a new user you can do:
# userdel wii
to erase the wii default user and then:
# useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash john
# passwd john
to add a user called john.
glibc locales
With this setting you can control the language of your system, charsets etc... don't touch it if you don't know what you are doing. To edit locales you can run:
# nano -w /etc/locale.gen
and when it's done run:
# locale-gen
Hostname
The default system hostname is "Wii", you can change it just doing:
# nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname
and put an original name like "Hermenegildo" :D.
keymaps
Gentoo uses /etc/conf.d/keymaps to handle keyboard configuration. Edit it to configure your keyboard.
# nano -w /etc/conf.d/keymaps
Credits
Thanks to all the people that have contributed in any way to this project, special thanks to Gentoo, Team Twiizers, and isobel without them this wouldn't be possible.