Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:15:03 -0500

Chuck,

> got the supplicant installed. will have to take
> some time to figure it out.

I've posted the link for WPAsuplicant example above:

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,42599,71254#msg-71254

> I made a tar file of
> pro hard drive but ran into problem. seems it does
> not like to copy samba files.
>
> is the cp command better to backup hd or remove
> samba and tar again.

Some of the Samba temp files cannot be copied by tar, but it is OK.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:44:49 -0500

got the supplicant installed. will have to take some time to figure it out. I made a tar file of pro hard drive but ran into problem. seems it does not like to copy samba files.

is the cp command better to backup hd or remove samba and tar again.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 23:38:49 -0500

Chuck,

Do you mean you can't install it?

~# apt-cache show wpasupplicant

Package: wpasupplicant
Source: wpa
Version: 2:2.4-1+deb9u1
Installed-Size: 2164
Maintainer: Debian wpasupplicant Maintainers 
Architecture: armel
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libpcsclite1 (>= 1.0.0), libreadline7 (>= 6.0), libssl1.0.2 (>= 1.0.2d), lsb-base, adduser
Suggests: wpagui, libengine-pkcs11-openssl
Breaks: initscripts (<< 2.88dsf-13.3)
Description-en: client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)
 WPA and WPA2 are methods for securing wireless networks, the former
 using IEEE 802.1X, and the latter using IEEE 802.11i. This software
 provides key negotiation with the WPA Authenticator, and controls
 association with IEEE 802.11i networks.
Description-md5: db096b22f8ec5f5c7a8ec614d12ca20a
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/
Tag: admin::configuring, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
 interface::daemon, interface::shell, network::client,
 network::configuration, protocol::ssl, role::program,
 security::cryptography, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::configuring
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wpa/wpasupplicant_2.4-1+deb9u1_armel.deb
Size: 813978
MD5sum: 6a467eac4a072b25ef8c802feebb4dfe
SHA256: e8750803723730bac5d2fec53df4bd0dae77fba943cd5f62aff67b3249776160

~# apt-get install wpasupplicant

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 23:37:05 -0500

I can't seem to find the WPA Supplicant.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:57:10 -0500

wlp0s0: flags=4098  mtu 1500
        ether 48:5d:60:4a:f2:49  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

That's your wireless interface! so you can proceed to WPA supplicant set up and see if you can connect (unplug the ethernet cable to make sure).

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:50:29 -0500

here is the ifconfig output.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:02:30 -0500

Chuck,

[    1.818785] rt2800pci 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
[    1.825203] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 3090, rev 3213 detected
[    1.836392] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 0005 detected
[    1.843760] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'

Cool!

See if the wireless lan shows up on the list.

ifconfig -a

>
> Can you have hardwired and wireless both in the
> interfaces file? I am running static address on my
> network from pro.

Yes you can. But you will need to set up the IP route to make it work independently properly. I don't have that info right now. Will post the info if I still have it in my notes.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:47:38 -0500

I did apt-get wireless-tools. I made some progress but need guidance. Don't think drivers are loading but hardware is detected, right?

Can you have hardwired and wireless both in the interfaces file? I am running static address on my network from pro.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:47:52 -0500

Hi Chuck,

> It appears this is not going to be as easy as I
> thought. That got the driver installed but I
> don't know how to get hardware activated.

Yes. It is a little bit more involved. We are running a basic rootfs (as a learning vehicle). In a heavy rootfs that you install on a typical Linux laptop, it is already done out of the box.

You dmesg should show if the FW blob was loaded during boot. And then after that, just a matter of setting up the WPA suplicant stanza in your /etc/network/interfaces like every other distro.

So post your dmesg so we can see if the FW blob was loaded. It should be similar to this (note the rt2860.bin was the blob name back in the days, it might be different now)

[  118.526458] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt2860.bin'
[  118.551815] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.34

Also see a working example here:

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,16044,21662#msg-21662

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 22:21:58 -0500

It appears this is not going to be as easy as I thought. That got the driver installed but I don't know how to get hardware activated.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 01:07:37 -0500

Hi Chuck,

Adjust your apt source.list

~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src  http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free

deb  http://http.debian.net/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free

And

apt-get update
apt-get install firmware-misc-nonfree

EDIT: removed armhf, as it is not needed for normal case.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:11:15 -0500

can someone tell me to get firmware-ralink? My Debian apt-get can not find it.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:56:09 -0500

Chuck,

> Thank Bodhi, that worked great. I was reading the
> 4.4.54 rootfs and it says something about wifi in
> the Pro. Does that wifi driver only work in
> 3.17.x?

I've removed my Wifi card to test other mPCIe stuff and never put it back but I think it works in the latest kernel too.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:38:54 -0500

Thank Bodhi, that worked great. I was reading the 4.4.54 rootfs and it says something about wifi in the Pro. Does that wifi driver only work in 3.17.x?

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:33:49 -0500

Chuck,

> I tried to follow the instructions in
> the thread earlier with out success.
> I don't understand all that fancy foot work with
> the " . & " on the end. any apps that make it
> simple?

You meant the insruction in this post?

https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096,24034#msg-24034

Quote

This is how I created the rootfs tarball that was uploaded here.

Assuming you've taken the rootfs offline and mount it on another Linux box. It is mounted at /media/sdb1, and your main disk on that Linux box is mounted at /media/sda1.

cd to the rootfs top level directory and create a tarball, and name it my-rootfs, or whatever name is appropriate! It will take a long time, so run it as background task and measure the time. When it is done, you'll get the time statistics as an indication the task was completed and can see how long did it take as bonus:

Log in as root. Everything you'll do from this point has to be under root user account. Backing up by creating the rootfs tarball (my-rootfs.tar.bz2).

cd /media/sdb1
time tar -cjf /media/sda1/my-rootfs.tar.bz2 . &

To restore it later when needed, use the same command that I have in the instruction in the first post. For example:

cd /media/sdb1
tar -xjf /media/sda1/my-rootfs.tar.bz2

In the command below, . means current directory, & means run it in the background.

time tar -cjf /media/sda1/my-rootfs.tar.bz2  . &

This is the Linux way to: create a tarball, name it my-rootfs.tar.bz2, put it in /media/sda1/ drive. The tarball archives everything in the current directory and below. Run it in the backgorund so I can do other things while waiting. When it is done, report the time it took to the current console where I run it.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:45:55 -0500

Much better now. I am trying to backup my 80 GB pogo pro HD to as small a file as possible to archive it. I tried to follow the instructions in the thread earlier with out success.
I don't understand all that fancy foot work with the " . & " on the end. any apps that make it simple?

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 20:39:22 -0500

Chuck99 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> May I take out the next line too. preboot_nc?

Sure.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:20:09 -0500

May I take out the next line too. preboot_nc?

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:13:18 -0500

preboot=run preboot_nc

Was for activating netconsole. Since you have serial console and can recover easily, you don't need netconsole.

In Debian, clear the preboot env.

fw_setenv preboot

It should boot faster, since u-boot will not be trying to find the netconsole server during boot.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:06:52 -0500

Here it is. Thanks

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sun, 21 Oct 2018 17:11:38 -0500

Chuck,

>
> Can I get rid if the ethact= to get rid of the
> long boot time. w?4040000 ?

That will disable network. What is your current envs? perhaps netconsole was set up and u-boot tries to find the network so it takes a long time?

Please post envs listing.

printenv

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 22:20:38 -0500

I did it with Debian 4.4.54. Works fine.
When it failed it was with the recovery SATA drive after doing the first boot update.

Can I get rid if the ethact= to get rid of the long boot time. w?4040000 ?

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 22:01:24 -0500

Chuck,

> Do you want me to try with the recovery data boot
> up or my normal USB system?

Normal USB rootfs.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:42:52 -0500

Do you want me to try with the recovery data boot up or my normal USB system?

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:05:56 -0500

Hi Chuck,

Can you set ethaddr now in Debian with fw_setenv? for example, set it to a local MAC address, and set it back.

fw_printenv ethaddr   ### original ethaddr

fw_setenv ethaddr 72:96:41:7c:5f:93

then set it back to the orginal.

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 17:04:15 -0500

Chuck,

> Thank you Bodhi, It's fixed. Boots from USB using
> same install from other V3 in my shop. Had only
> one problem during flashing. Fw_setenv ethaddr
> would not allow flashing so I reset with magic
> sata hard drive off and stopped at countdown.
> setenv ethaddr and it worked. back to working.

Excellent! thanks for reminding me about that ethaddr. I've made sure all boxes can set ethaddr in Debian, but I recall this might be one that slips through the crack somehow.

> Feels good to accomplish something at 72 years old
> and memory failure

You are still pretty sharp, memory is something we can't do anything about :)

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:45:11 -0500

Thank you Bodhi, It's fixed. Boots from USB using same install from other V3 in my shop. Had only one problem during flashing. Fw_setenv ethaddr would not allow flashing so I reset with magic sata hard drive off and stopped at countdown. setenv ethaddr and it worked. back to working. Feels good to accomplish something at 72 years old and memory failure. 73, Chuck99

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:55:12 -0500

I just had to tar -xf the file. thanks

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

Chuck99 — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:17:03 -0500

Download U-Boot image at Dropbox:

uboot.2015.10-tld-2.ox820.bodhi.tar

Using wget get from dropbox. file that transfers is 218c0bz.

root@BadV3:~# wget https://bitly.com/2l8cObz

Re: Unbrick a Pogoplug Pro (v3/OXNAS?)

bodhi — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 05:11:43 -0500

I don't remember anything about 218c0bz! what is it? is that a short link to some tarball?