'make busybox-menuconfig' does not download busybox package, while 'make linux26-menuconfig' and 'make uclibc-menuconfig' do. Workaround is to call 'make busybox' (which fails since no crosscompiler is available yet) and repeat 'make busybox-menuconfig'. $ make busybox-menuconfig >>> busybox 1.18.4 Extracting bzcat: Can't open input file /home/dimka/buildroot/router-irz-wimax-fw/dl/busybox-1.18.4.tar.bz2: No such file or directory. tar: Это не похоже на tar-архив tar: Завершение работы с состоянием неисправности с из-за возникших ошибок make: *** [/home/dimka/buildroot/router-irz-wimax-fw/output/build/busybox-1.18.4/.stamp_extracted] Ошибка 2 (Sorry for russian text)
Fixed it in git by depending on busybox-patch, thanks.