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DNS-320

This page will share some more information about the ShareCenter Pulse (DNS-320).
Take a look at the DNS-320-Page on NAS-Tweaks for further Pictures.

Note: This page is in progress, as of today (November 22nd 2010) the device is still pretty new.

Note: Last edited on May 22th 2011 by Tibor KATONA

Hardware

Additional to the product specifications.Front view of the DNS-320

CPU 800 MHz Marvell 88F6281 (Kirkwood)
RAM 128 MB
USB 1 USB2.0 Port (front)
LAN Marvell 88E1118R-NNC1
Cooling Speed controlled 40mm fan ? (verifying)
Kernel 2.6.22.18
Samba 3.2.8
C library gcc-4.2-glibc-2.5


/proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 791.34
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant     : 0x2
CPU part        : 0x131
CPU revision    : 1
Cache type      : write-back
Cache clean     : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown  : format C
Cache format    : Harvard
I size          : 16384
I assoc         : 4
I line length   : 32
I sets          : 128
D size          : 16384
D assoc         : 4
D line length   : 32
D sets          : 128

Hardware        : Feroceon-KW
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000


Serial PIN Layout

BusyBox break-in code is still 5784468

Jumper: JP3
TX [5]
GND [4]
VD33 [3]

RX [1]

Setting up ffp

There is a complete Tutorial on the Installation of ffp available on NAS-Tweaks: Installation of fun_plug 0.5. If you want to do everything yourself instead, just follow the instructions below.

To get the fonz fun_plug running some small changes to the available ffp fun_plug file are needed.

Search and replace all entries of /mnt/HD_a2/ with /mnt/HD/HD_a2/.

Then follow the normal instructions of how to install ffp.

shadowandy has provided modified ffp package for DNS-320 here

Another article in German on installing fun_plug 0.5 can be found here

Once installed and running you might want to set-up ssh and change the root password. (for example this)

But to need to change store-passwd.sh also because that is functioning differently on our device. It can be found at /ffp/sbin/store-passwd.sh

And make it look like this:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Copying files to /usr/local/config/..."
cp -f /etc/passwd /usr/local/config/.
cp -f /etc/group /usr/local/config/.
cp -f /etc/shadow /usr/local/config/.
cp -f /etc/samba/smbpasswd /usr/local/config/.

Changing the port of Web Configuration Utility


Contributed by Anand Kothapeta on 5/20/2011.

I was running two NAS servers (one D-Link DNS-320 and my old PC with FreeNAS) and a web server on a different PC. These are all behind my router. My router and FreeNAS allows me to change the default port for the web configuration utilities. So, I can change them from port 80 and port forward them, and can access the web configuration utilities from internet. However I always have an issue with DNS-320, since it doesn't allow me to change the port and it conflicts with web server. There are some articles on how to change it by running lighttpd. However, I found out that DNS-320 also uses the lighttpd to run the webconfig utility. Also those articles change the port to 81 (not much flexibility). I finally figured out a way to change the port to whatever I wish it to be. Here are the steps. You need to first install the ffp using above articles and links.

1) telnet/ssh login to the DNS-320 box. (see ffp tutorials) and run the following command

cp /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf /ffp/lighttpd_portmod.conf


2) Now edit the /ffp/lighttpd_portmod.conf file and change the following line to lets say 8888 and save the file.

server.port = 8888


3) edit the fun_plug script and add the following lines between fun_plug.local and FFP_RC if conditions.

# run fun_plug.local, if present
if [ -x /ffp/etc/fun_plug.local ]; then
    echo "* Running /ffp/etc/fun_plug.local ..."
    /ffp/etc/fun_plug.local
fi

#*** start Mods for different http port for webadmin tool
echo "killing  lighttpd-angel"
kill -9 `pidof lighttpd-angel`
echo "killing  lighttpd"
kill -9 `pidof lighttpd`

echo "Restart  lighttpd-angel with different port"
/usr/sbin/lighttpd-angel -D -m /usr/local/lib -f /ffp/lighttpd_portmod.conf &
#*** end Mods different http port

# run commands
if [ -x $FFP_RC ]; then
    echo "* Running $FFP_RC ..."
    $FFP_RC
    echo "*  OK"
else
    echo "$FFP_RC: Not found or not executable"
fi


4) Now reboot it.

5) Look at ffp.log to make sure you see the following lines.

killing  lighttpd-angel
killing  lighttpd
Restart  lighttpd-angel with different port


6) Now open the browser and try http://<ipaddress>:8888/ should take you to the web config tool.

7) Now you can port forward 8888 in your router, and port forward 80 to web server.


Setting up Debian in chrooted enviroment

D-Link has recently put a prebuilt Debian Squeeze package on their ftp site. The package size is approximately 150 MB. Read the instruction inside.

Source code for firmware

Dlink have release source code for firmware 1.0 on their ftp site. The source code size is approximate 25 MB

U-BOOT Configuration

You can access the boot console (for trying to run your own kernel) via a netconsole, the boot settings are:

bootargs=root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0,115200 :::DB88FXX81:egiga0:none
bootcmd=nand read.e 0xa00000 0x100000 0x300000;nand read.e 0xf00000 0x600000 0x300000;bootm 0xa00000 0xf00000
bootdelay=1
baudrate=115200
loads_echo=0
ipaddr=2.76.88.201
serverip=2.76.88.2
rootpath=/mnt/ARM_FS/
netmask=255.255.255.0

Building a Custom Firwmware ("ROM")

D-Link provides a complete build environment on its ftp server that lets you create your own firmware images easily. Untar it and run

 source build_fw 

this will result in a file “DNS320-firmware” in the merge folder, which can be flashed to the unit via the webinterface (firmware update). Right now the build_fw script does not do a full rebuild of the complete firmware, it rather puts together precompiled binaries that come with the built environment. Here is an attempt at rebuilding the build script. This blog post describes how to assemble a firmware image for the DNS-323 and will probably helpful for the DNS-320 as well.

Use this custom build_fw to make a custom settings for the kernel

# Dlink build envorment it only works on x86 arch (32Bits) 

if [ ! -d "arm-none-linux-gnueabi-6xxx" ]; then
   # directory did not exists unpack it
   tar zxvf arm-none-linux-gnueabi-6xxx.tgz
fi

WORKDIR=$(pwd)
export WORKDIR
PATH=${WORKDIR}/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-6xxx/bin:$PATH
export PATH
CC=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc
export CC
export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-
CXX=${CROSS_COMPILE}g++
export CXX
RANLIB=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib
export RANLIB
LD=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld
export LD
STRIP=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-strip
export STRIP

# gl setup path to mkimage
if [ ! -d "ramdisk" ]; then
  tar -xzf ramdisk.tgz
fi
PATH=${WORKDIR}/ramdisk:$PATH

# gl extract kernel
if [ ! -d "linux-2.5.22.18" ]; then
  tar -xzf linux-2.6.22.18.tgz
fi

# config our kernel and build it
cd ./linux-2.6.22.18
sh cv.sh
make clean
make menuconfig
make
make modules
make uImage
cd ../

# Dlink run merge now
if [ ! -d "merge" ]; then
 tar zxvf merge.tgz
fi

if [ ! -f "merge/uImage.org" ]; then
  mv merge/uImage merge/uImage.org
fi

if [ -f "merge/uImage" ]; then
 rm merge/uImage
fi

cp linux-2.6.22.18/arch/arm/boot/uImage merge/uImage

cd merge
sudo cp ../ramdisk/uRamdisk .
./merge

Other info

The following thread handles some DNS-320 initial conversation, request there if you want some specific info here, or add yourself.

Fan Speed settings

With ffp is enabled, login to the box via telnet and run FT_testing

ex:

/ # FT_testing -H
Fan and Temperature Testing Tools
Usage
FT_testing      -H      ...Help message
FT_testing      -T      ...Get Temperature
FT_testing      -F      ...Set Fan in Full Speed
FT_testing      -L      ...Set Fan in Low Speed
FT_testing      -S      ...Set Fan Stop
FT_testing      -A      ...Print Receive UART Packet.
FT_testing      -G      ...Get Fan Status.
FT_testing      -P      ...Power off system.
FT_testing      -R      ...Reboot system.

if you need the fan is always off, type:

ps uax |grep fan_control

and kill this process

or

killall fan_control

, and run

FT_testing -S

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