DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Nice work, both of you.

If you are interested, I have a workable U-Boot based on the latest sources (only missing support for the flash chip, unfortunately). It even includes network support, which should make testing new versions of kernels and ramdisks a LOT more pleasant.

I'm trying to build support for the DNS323 into OpenWRT, which I believe should provide a lot of the functionality that you are creating for Alt-F already. For example, take a look at LUCI, and the various modules for configuring e.g. Samba.

nogi wrote:

RoganDawes wrote:

Nice work, both of you..

Give credit where credit is due.
I am just a simple user who is trying to use Alt-F with my OpenSuse 64bit.

:-)

nogi wrote:

RoganDawes wrote:

If you are interested, I have a workable U-Boot based on the latest sources (only missing support for the flash chip, unfortunately). It even includes network support, which should make testing new versions of kernels and ramdisks a LOT more pleasant..

You are talking about kernel 2.6.3[45] with the latest aufs and lzma patches, aren't  you?
Do I have to have a serial connection? ( which I do not have because I can not get hold of the needed plug an I'm Very reluctant to directly solder wires to the B1 board)

Or how else do you get it running? Copy to /root and reboot?

Yes, unfortunately, you do need to have a serial connection. Where are you based? I didn't find it all that difficult to get the connector. I got mine from RS Electronics (online) which has branches in a number of countries.

nogi wrote:

RoganDawes wrote:

I'm trying to build support for the DNS323 into OpenWRT, which I believe should provide a lot of the functionality that you are creating for Alt-F already. For example, take a look at LUCI, and the various modules for configuring e.g. Samba.

I thought OpenWRT is for (WLan) routers olny?

Norbert

OpenWRT was originally built for routers, but there is nothing that prevents you from using it on other devices too. In essence, all it really is is a build environment, which includes a LOT of additional packages. Keep in mind that a lot of routers these days include storage facilities via USB, and so OpenWRT has evolved to support things like Samba, print servers, etc, etc.

For example, I am currently using the USB port on my OpenWRT router to support a Samsung SCX-4300 MultiFunction Printer/Scanner/Copier, providing a network print server, as well as SANE support for the scanner to clients on the network. Not really what you would expect a router to be doing, but it was all (relatively) easy with OpenWRT. The pacages were all built, but I did need to edit a few config files, since there was no specific LuCI plugin for saned.

So, I think that OpenWRT would make a very nice, mature, platform for the DNS323 as well.

jcard wrote:

nogi wrote:

As my host system is a 64 bit system and that this could cause problems,I compiled the dns323-fw.c as 32 bit program, instead.

Thanks for the report.
Can you please try the attached patch, compile dns323-fw.c as a 64 bit program and try it?

Works perfectly!. Thanks!

NoGi

Alex Edelev wrote:

Thank you for execelent work!
How can I set proxy settings  for wget (http_proxy variable) to download ffp or ipkg?
May be you will add this to web interface?

Alex

Good point. I will add that configuration for 0.1B4

Meanwhile, you can try to edit /usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh and add at the top
1

export http_proxy=your_proxy_server

or if you need to specify a proxy server port, 2

export http_proxy=your_proxy_server:your_proxy_port

or if you need to authenticate to the proxy server 3

export http_proxy=your_proxy_username:your_proxy_password@your_proxy_server:your_proxy_port

If you need to authenticate to the proxy server and 3 above doesn't work, use 1 or 2 and create /etc/wgetrc and add yours credentials:

proxy=on
proxy-user=your_proxy_username
proxy-password=your_proxy_password

In the box, you can use the "vim" and (micro) "emacs"  editors. If you don't know how to use them, you have to use a unix compatible ms-windows editor, like notepad++.

The above solution is untested, as I'm away from my box (for the next two or three weeks)

Please report back if it did/did not work.

Thanks,
Joao

Alex Edelev wrote:

I add  "export http_proxy=your_proxy_server" line at the top of /usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh
It works until I reboot DNS323. After reboot the changes in /usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh are lost.
For any case I press "SaveSettings" button in "Settings Management" page but it does not help.
How can I save changes in any file that is not stored on hard disks (/mnt/sda2 or /mnt/sdb2)?
For example, in /etc/wgetrc?

Alex

The solution I post is a temporary hack, and will not survive a reboot.
The "save settings" only saves on flash a selected set of configuration files.

Until 0.1B4 you have to live with it as it is now.
You can't even edit /mnt/sda2/alt-f/usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh because it does not exists, it is uncompressed "on-the-fly".

However, AFTER you install the first Alt-F package (the ipkg package), existing files living under /Alt-F/ overlay any files found under /
So, copy /usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh to /Alt-F/usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh and edit it. The changes will stay on disk (on the partition where you installed the Alt-F packages) and will survive a reboot:

if aufs.sh -n; then
   mkdir -p /Alt-F/usr/www/cgi-bin/
   cp /usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh /Alt-F/usr/www/cgi-bin/
   aufs.sh -r
fi

and edit /usr/www/cgi-bin/common.sh (yes, no typo)

Again, untested. Tell us if it worked.

Last edited by jcard (2010-08-04 22:03:28)

RoganDawes wrote:

I got mine from RS Electronics (online) which has branches in a number of countries.

Have you got part ID or direct link perhaps?

Thanks

I can not reinstall ipkg because http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1555717/DNS-323 … kgs/stable is not available (error 404).

Last edited by Alex Edelev (2010-08-18 16:09:16)

Thanks for all your hard work jcard. Would you say that with you beta3 firmware flashed into the box will have more free memory compare to the stock firmware?

Last edited by DarKnight (2010-09-11 06:19:58)

Alex Edelev wrote:

I can not reinstall ipkg because http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1555717/DNS-323 … kgs/stable is not available (error 404).

If you tried that on a browser, you should append  index.html to the URL.
Try

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1555717/DNS-323 … index.html

(ipkg does not expect the index.html part)

DarKnight wrote:

Thanks for all your hard work jcard. Would you say that with you beta3 firmware flashed into the box will have more free memory compare to the stock firmware?

Yes, I think so.
Alt-F uses squashfs with lzma to compress the /usr hierarchy and decompress it on the fly, on demand; the uncompressed /usr tree is about 17MB, and squashfs-lzma compresses it to only 5.7MB, a 11MB saving.
The sock firmware also uses squashfs, but compressed with gz, less efficient.
Also, the http web server only runs on demand on Alt-F, while in the stock firmware it is always running (I think to remember that it uses 4MB, not sure); the same for ftp, ssh,...

Unfortunately the back-ported squashfs-lzma patch makes the 2.6.35.4 kernel unstable, and Alt-F-0.1B5 (wait one/two more week(s) for it) will not be shipped with it.
We have to wait until Phillip Lougher, the squashfs author, manage to merge it into the main kernel.

Thanks for the quick reply Jcard.

I must be doing something wrong with the .tar as I can see it has all those components in the file from my ubuntu machine, but when I copy them over and run the script then it doesn't seem to pull all of them out.  I'm just copying over using the smb network connection, anything special I should do there?  I presume there can't be different permissions for the files inside the tar.

Anyway, now I've been a muppet and tried to get it going as an ffp .sh in the ffp/start directory, this was dumb as now it doens't reboot, so can't log on any more, that was smart

I guess my only option is to take out the hard disk, plug it in to some desktop / usb enclosure and remove the script, then it should boot normally again.

Once I get that sorted I concentrate on ensuring the .tar is extracting properly, perhaps do it by hand to make sure its working first.

Looking forward to the new version too, was wondering if you were leaving it as doesn't seem to be any commits on the alt-f code site.

Thanks again.

Hamish

Haha, sorry to jump the gun folks.   Tried another reboot and the magical 'once' only setting has worked a treat.  Back into standard firmware.  Also noted that this time the .tar has extracted all the files. 

Have tried running from the terminal, but it just turns off ssh (kicks me off) and then no other difference I can see.

I'll play around a bit more and see if I can work it out   First the kids need to get off to bed though.....harder to work out!