[ARMedslack] iOmega iConnect

Greg Lim sunsmoke at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 19:19:46 UTC 2011


Dave, this is great work. You've inspired me to purchase one of these.

-Greg Lim

Sent from my VT102

On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Dave Dowell <dowelld at netscape.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've installed ARMedslack onto one of these now.
> http://go.iomega.com/en/products/network-storage-desktop/wireless-data-station/network-hard-drive-iconnect/
> 
> Specification
> Desktop, compact form factor
> Marvell 6281 CPU at 1.0GHz with 256MB RAM
> 1 x RJ45 10/100/1000Mbps (GbE) Ethernet port 
> LAN standards: IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u
> Wireless (802.11b/g/n)
> 4 x USB 2.0 ports (to connect external HDD, printers)
> AC Voltage 100-240 VAC
> Power consumption – 5 Watts
> Documentation localized for 18 languages, including; English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, and Russian
> It doesn't mention the onboard flash memory there, but it also has 512MB of flash built in.
> 
> It's a Marvell Orion board inside, complete with the header for a TTL to USB serial console.
> The console can be rigged like this http://doip.org/iconnect_console
> 
> I've recompiled the kernel to include the following options: (Could these be added into the standard ARMedslack kernel config please ?)
> > CONFIG_RT2800PCI=m
> > CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT33XX=y
> > CONFIG_RT2800PCI_RT35XX=y
> 
> However it probably only requires the first of them. This has made the onboard Ralink wireless adapter available.
> 
> I'm trying to hack the mapower architecture code changes into the kernel code to get the pretty LEDs working, but have had varying degrees of success with that so far, I think I've got the code in and working, however I've yet to figure out how to control the LEDs. So I'm hacking away at the default (flash) image (debian 5) to try and figure out how they've done it. It looks like they're controlling it with a closed source binary atm.
> 
> The Sheeva Plug install instructions work for the install.
> 
> Anyway, other than that it works well, and it's a cheap device :-)
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
> 
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