PS2 Development Scene i still healthy here in 2016 as we continue to see

improvements and new releases. This time around we have Ps2Linux v3.8
from Maximus32 . with plenty of improvements in various area's. Checkout all the
details and get the pengiun up and running on your PS2 Console. View all the
details of this release from the developer below:

- STLcardsWS

The release is ready, at last :-).

New kernel features:

- one network driver for FAT and SLIM, stable
- ethernet MAC address spoofing
- ethernet speed increased
- new fast HDD DMA driver
- 2.6.35.4 upgraded to 2.6.35.14
- 2.6 kernel has same features as 3.8
- ps2dev interface working on both kernels
- sps2mod working on both kernels

New usb stick features:

- sps2mod modules included, use "sps2_load" to load them
- sps2dev demo's included (dma_triangle, spky_bumpmap, sps2_triangle, tshower
and vspeed)
- some applications to do some tests like hdparm, iperf and bonnie++.
Feature requests welcome:
- Changes to the kernel config (like adding usb drivers or file systems)
- Changes to buildroot (like applications, services)

Install:
- Copy the rootfs on a usb stick of at least 512MB: "gzip -cd ps2linux3.8_v0.2.img.gz
| sudo dd of=<your_device> bs=1M"

Run:
- 1: start kernelloader.elf from the first partition of the usb stick
- 2: select "Load Config from USB"
- 3: start by selecting "Boot Current Config"
- 4: once booted, login using username "root" and password "ps2"

Download links:
ps2linux3.8_v0.1.img.gz
ps2linux3.8_v0.2.img.gz

I wanted to put this information in the first post of the topic but it looks like I cannot
edit the first post.

What would be nice now is to create something usefull with linux on the ps2. Like a
samba/ftp server to access the memory cards / hdd? I've also been looking at
gentoo becouse they have a mipsel3-uclibc distribution. That seems to be working
but I cannot get it fully functional. Perhaps someone is interested to make this
work? Then we can install/compile packages from the gentoo repository.

Anyway, have fun and let me know what you think.

EDIT:
The image is made to boot from /dev/sda, normally that's the usb stick. But when
you have a FAT PS2 with a hard drive, the HDD will be /dev/sda, and the usb stick
will be /dev/sdb. Please change the kernel command line (in kernelloader or
inconfig.txt on the first partition), and also /etc/fstab (on the third partition)
accordingly.