[ARMedslack] Fwd: Re: iOmega iConnect
Dave Dowell
dowelld at netscape.net
Thu Oct 13 17:10:07 UTC 2011
Hi Greg,
I finally got the time to sit down and play with this, and you're right.
I can't get it to install over a network at all. No matter what I do.
Even my original instructions don't seem to work. In the end (and after
spending several hours trying) I've given up, and started from scratch.
See here. http://www.dowelld.net I know those files work I've now
installed done NFS installs with them several times.
I'll do another post with the patch file and instructions for
recompiling on the installed system to get the network working, as soon
as I've had a chance to test my original patch files out and actually
created a working kernel and initrd image.
Thanks
Dave
On 25/09/2011 21:27, Greg Lim wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I finally got around to unboxing my iConnect. I can boot into the
> ArmedSlack installer, but I have no ethernet. I'm guessing that I have
> the wrong arcNumber.
>
> Can you tell us what the correct arcNumber is for the iConnect running
> on the ArmedSlack 13.37 kernel so that ethernet works?
>
> Here's what I've tried:
> 2870 - doesn't boot. added by someone Matrin Michlmayr on May 2010.
> 1682 - boots. no ethernet once booted into the install system, but
> ifconfig appears to show the correct ethernet addresses of both the
> wireless and 1GB-wired interfaces.
> 2097 - sheevaplug - interface missing. can't bring up
> 2678 - sheevaplug - esata - interface missing. can't bring up
>
> -Greg Lim
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Dave Dowell <dowelld at netscape.net
> <mailto:dowelld at netscape.net>> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> OK I've started putting some information about this up now.
>
> http://www.dowelld.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3
> <http://www.dowelld.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3>
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [ARMedslack] iOmega iConnect
> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:49:04 +0100
> From: Dave Dowell <dowelld at netscape.net>
> <mailto:dowelld at netscape.net>
> To: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org
> <mailto:armedslack at lists.armedslack.org>
>
>
>
> I was right about the kernel code for making the leds work, I have
> managed to get it working. It creates an object for each led in
> /sys/class/leds and each led contains a brightness object which
> can be manipulated to change turn the leds on and off... now I
> just have to work out how to automate that with udev. The same
> code also includes the objects for the onboard button, but I'll be
> buggered if I know where to start with that one yet. I can see it
> has been found and that the interrupts are being detected when
> it's pressed though :-)
>
> I'll knock up a page with some information / downloadable files
> and put up for this, once I've moved this all forward a bit.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
> On 01/07/2011 20:19, Greg Lim wrote:
>> 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
>> <mailto: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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