> There's an 8pin header but I don't know whether it's JTAG or not... most newer kirkwoods have a nice feature, they can load an u-boot over serial connection, no need to JTAG. see this thread http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,7852,7852 Can you test if your box can kwboot a sheevaplug u-boot? (must use the command line ending with -p with the images we have) > Is iby bobafetthotmail - Debian
haha, you're ingenuous. Add rootdelay=10 in the kernel boot command line, it's the "bootargs" line that is used when you boot debian. That tells the kernel to wait for up to 10 seconds or so for rootfs. It's common here and needed for most usb drives, because of reasons you noticed. EDIT: Leggo ninja'd me. Damn elves.by bobafetthotmail - Debian
the dockstar's page is what helped me setup the uboot envs, as there is a tutorial about installing openwrt CC in the dockstar https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/seagate/dockstar? and above I posted the info I used to actually build the ubifs image from plain files in a folder using my own device's nand information to set it up correctly. For more through info, it's better if you wby bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
port multipliers are a bit overkill for a kirkwood imho. Also have bad feelings about sata port multipliers in general.by bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
>hostapd package and its support for the chip / the kernel support for the attached switch chip. the switch should be supported https://lwn.net/Articles/611998/ the big unknown is how good are the wifi drivers for it now.by bobafetthotmail - Debian
If you feel more adventurous, on openwrt wiki there is a hardware hack, the guy soldered a couple cables to route the 12volt power from the device's power connector (which is at 12 volts) to the sata port's 12 volt power lines https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/seagate/goflexnet#photos The power adapter itself has to support the increased power draw of the bigger drives (stock one might beby bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
> I wonder how all the pieces would work together for hostapd, iptables and such to get routing and AP functions working. Well, openwrt is using the same software every other distro is using already, they aren't Cisco's IOS. Tutorials about turning a x86 box into a firewall/router are abundant, and due to the wonders of opensource, we can use them to configure ARM/MIPS/whateverby bobafetthotmail - Debian
openwrt runs on it, they claim "full support" although 5Ghz channel selection is limited. see here for full specs https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/ea4500 you can probably get the dtb from them.by bobafetthotmail - Debian
mh, if you go webinterface route, first thing to do after you log in is disable its DHCP server, set a static IP that does not conflict with your router, then go in DNS settings and write the address of your router (the gateway) in its "custom DNS" field. This way it can reach the internet.by bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
following this. It would be cool to get Debian on a proper router too.by bobafetthotmail - Debian
This is easier, so I can tell it now, for the tutorial about flashing in nand I need moar time. Since the t5325 should have a marvell eth, you should not need to recompile anything Also since the t5325 has a "SSD" (actually a crappy USB flash drive on a sata port), you cannot use ubifs but must use normal filesystems as the controller generates a FTL (flash translation layer, or somby bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
Uhm, they say MPEG-TS interface, not acceleration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_serial_interface It seems an interface used to send streams around to other board components like a decoder or a transmitter or something.by bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
+1 for this. I'm also volunteering for at least the devices I own. (zyxel NASes and that hp thin client) I'm sick of having to look in 4 different places for ttl pinouts, hardware stats, and to have to use google for all times I needed the emergency u-boot for serial-booting my nsa325v2. :) >Somehow, the wiki should contain the first post from many threads, but more interlinby bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
Quick update, it's ALIVEEEE. (forgot to include realtek driver tho so ethernet isn't working, but from serial I see it's working) Will post some u-boot tips and configs tomorrow. I was thinking about opening a thread in openwrt forums for the actual tutorial, since this is not the right place for openwrt discussion.by bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
> Usually, ubifs will be big for kirkwood plugs. Lots of them has ony 128MB. I'm optimistic, 128 MB is a lot for a OpenWrt system. I mean... really a lot. This is the package list of stuff for the UBIFS image for my nsa310 (not yet tested, so I may still be terribly wrong). All filesystems supported, a bunch of basic router things, wireless drivers for usb keys, samba, nfs, fullby bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
a quick followup: I'm currently compiling a few kirkwood test builds from Openwrt-trunk (current sources in git), but there is also an easy-to-use makefile-based assembler system called ImageBuilder that assembles a bunch of flashable images from pre-compiled packages in a whitelist. https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/kirkwood/generic/ The trick is that the only way to decby bobafetthotmail - Off-Topic
I flashed mine from debian. I kwbooted the newer uboot first (:P), but you can set the stock uboot to boot into debian too. > i get the usual fw_setenv error if i try to do this from the prepped environment of a bootable usb when in bodhi's debian - i.e. cant read the information etc. from inside debian you must open /etc/fw_env.config and write /dev/mtd2 0x00000 0x10000 0x10by bobafetthotmail - Debian
the eth controller (behind the eth port) is a marvell one, this guy here Marvell-88E3016 http://www.marvell.com/transceivers/assets/Marvell-88E3016-Fast-Ethernet.pdf will see if I can swap it with a gigabit one. hoping I can find a pin-compatible one. It seems they are pin-upgradable to gigabit http://www.marvell.com/transceivers/assets/Marvell-Alaska-88E3015-16-18-PHY.pdf " In additiby bobafetthotmail - Debian
Btw, I've seen a cpu frequency env in stock uboot. Does that mean we can bump the frequency to 1.6 Ghz like the nsa325?by bobafetthotmail - Debian
just flashed the uboot and envs and stuff on my thinclient n. 1. During pre-flashing checks I saw this line [ 1.745538] m25p80 spi0.0: found sst25vf080b, expected m25p80 But then the chip was initialized correctly anyway [ 1.751336] m25p80 spi0.0: sst25vf080b (1024 Kbytes) [ 1.756396] 5 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device spi0.0 [ 1.762342] Creating 5 MTD paby bobafetthotmail - Debian
>Try power off first (unplug the power cord). Start kwboot and then turn on power. It does not work. The u-boot ninja mode is interfering. Fixed by changing an HP env to disable that WOL ninja crap, see the edit. Now I can kwboot fine, and the first thing I'm going to do is nuke the current u-boot as it has already annoyed me A LOT.by bobafetthotmail - Debian
@ Gravelrash: I just flashed your backup firmware. It keeps setting the GotoWoL status to "on", so the dumb thing keeps rebooting into WoL aka "ninja mode" even if you power off from the GUI. I think that there is some wrong setting in the firmware, but without admin access I can't go further. What's the admin password of your backup? (I'll keep the secretby bobafetthotmail - Debian
>This is not so nice. They keep writing to this sector. planned obsolescence. How unexpected from HP. >got the following interesting output when loading kwboot, from my ssh monitoring console you mean that is over the network? It looks like garbled serial/TTL to me.by bobafetthotmail - Debian
That perl script is a bit ancient, but sounds interesting (and better than acpid, anyway). Thanks for sharing.by bobafetthotmail - Debian
I finally got the cables. I see the party isn't over yet, can I come in? It seems these boxes try to use WoL and/or some kind of auto-resume from powerloss and they do so in a way that prevents kwboot. Shutting them down by pulling the power cord have them autoboot or switch into that mode afterwards. If I power this box down with the power button I get this on TTL: (note that thisby bobafetthotmail - Debian
> Thats what they used... however to access it you will need to remove the graphics chip.... ?? no wait. there are 2 pcie controllers in the Kirkwood SoC, one goes to the GPU and that is what the hacker linked above used to get a pcie card in. I was hoping that HP engineers used the second pcie for the ethernet controller (since because they are insane and could not just use one of theby bobafetthotmail - Debian
my serial cable should arrive before end of the week. > > This is a pretty good box if you can get it for > <= > > 30 USD used. I've got a couple units +shipping for 30 euros total. They can be had cheep. Probably because being ARM (and HP) they are the low of the low end. > 10/100 Ethernet -1 I'm dreaming of hacking it away and exposing its pcie lby bobafetthotmail - Debian
> Nice :) where is this from? so you soldered the SATA port? the guy hacking the second Sata port had to desolder a ssd controller to free up the second sata (easier than it looks like). It seems this box has a "SSD controller" soldered to one of the 2 sata lines, it controls the onboard 512MB of flash (the capacity stated in that boot log seems to confirm that). I wonder whby bobafetthotmail - Debian
>I'll test these things, and report. Thanks. >It's true that Debian with new kernel runnning is good enough for a lot of users. He was talking of a u-boot feature that allows it to fetch uImage and stuff then boot from the network. I should have been more clear, I only wanted to say that it's not useful for us as Debian (the "firmware") is probably mby bobafetthotmail - Debian
Oh awesome!!!! kwboot is supported. Very good. I like unbrickable boxes. >I also saw that uboot seems to support a sort of netbooting like ipxe does, is that right? yes http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=327 It's useful for development purposes (if you make a firmware for your device) but it's not going to be much use for us as the "firmware" here is Debian ARM and thaby bobafetthotmail - Debian