Monday, January 19 2009
in the early evening I got back my Samsung LCD TV, actually a brand
new one since the one I originally bought had broken HDMI inputs. This
was the reason why non of our MacBooks and PCs were recognized by the TV,
see here. The TV I got today just works, instant picture when connecting
my MacBook using a DVI-to-HDMI adapter selecting multiple resolutions.
Now I can safely say this was a really good buy.
I don't know why there is no official dm_crypt/cryptsetup support on OpenWrt because if you search the web
you will find many people trying to run cryptsetup on OpenWrt. Here is how I made it work (packages
to download in the middle of this post).
Getting cryptsetup (userspace part of dm_crypt) to work on OpenWrt
requires a whole bunch of tools and libraries these are: libuuid (part of e2fsprogs), libpopt, gettext,
libdevmapper (part of lvm2). After one has build all those tools and libs cryptsetup builds nicely and
just works.
Also every time you run cryptsetup you will get a warning about the missing udevsettle binary but
this is not a problem it works anyway. To save you from the hassle of getting
cryptsetup to work all by yourself you can download the packages that are not part of OpenWrt
from me here: dmcrypt-tools-openwrt.tgz (contains cryptsetup, lvm2, popt and gettext). I know gettext is available in some OpenWrt branches but
not in trunk. Just unpack the archive in your OpenWrt package directory, run make menuconfig
and select cryptsetup before building it by running make.
Now it would be nice to get cryptsetup into the OpenWrt SVN so that it will just be there in the future.
Why would I run cryptsetup on OpenWrt? Over the weekend I decided that I don't want to run a full blown
Linux distribution on my NAS/backup
box and rather run a small system. I chose OpenWrt because I'm familiar with it since I spent
quite some time hacking on my NAS-4220b before deciding to go x86 for my NAS project.