Hi mediamind Yes you should be able to use a second USB stick as a client. Just thinking out loud here, not sure what the best choice as chipset would be, I'd definitely go with 802.11n to minimize lag/latency. You'll have to set up a new section in /etc/network/interfaces that passes along the passphrase to you wireless network. Definitely post back with your results, as someone wby davygravy - Debian
Finally found the sweet spot - the right settings so that my AP's performance is at least close to that of my Asus RT-N16 ... phew. I've changed the How-To to reflect my findings and fixes for some problems w/ speed and performance. One thing that I've found in particular is that one really needs to check real-world transfer rates, in addition to the rates that are given byby davygravy - Debian
@ Kalli Pidgeon: your question got me thinking... and I dug into some things with more scrutiny and skepticism... and it seems to have paid off (and it retaught me the lesson of not assuming things that are posted as fact on the web, even though they may sound authoritative...). I've checked over my AP's performance with iperf [ a nice tutorial here: http://openmaniak.com/iperf.phby davygravy - Debian
Clay Pidgeon (Kalli?), I get the following: WN821n V3 : 144Mbps WN822n V2 : 144Mbps NetGear WNA1100 : 74Mbps on a (psuedo) Mac Airbook with a wireless PCIe card ... My iPhone gets about 40-50Mbps... hth, Davyby davygravy - Debian
This is probably the due to a missing configuration file for the uboot-utils - they need to know the layout and location for your mtdx 'sby davygravy - Debian
pazos, I agree w/ bodhi ... looks nice ... I realize/appreciate how much work this kind of thing is... as I made this [ https://sites.google.com/a/tds.net/unlock-your-verizon-westell-7501-wireless-g-router/ ] for a now unavailable g-router from Verizon... had to hatch up a new webif for the printer stuff ...by davygravy - Debian
I did this w/ the Dockstar that I have, with a 500GB attached FreeAgent Go USB drive, and the TP-Link WN822N... the result is a very nice open-source-ish, with a very tiny physical footprint; In terms of function, it is a Time Capsule/Wireless-NAS device & printserver, with good Apple, Windows and Linux support. Its wireless signal (at first look) seems to be about 85%-95% of the sigby davygravy - Debian
No idea... maybe someone over that the ArchLinuxArm http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/ forum may know...by davygravy - Debian
Eventually, there should be a writeup for it here :http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Main_Page (don't know if anyone has posted a Debianizer howto for that particular model, but all of the previous Buffalo NAS's were fine for Debian, Gentoo or whatever)by davygravy - Debian
Done. Boots, raises br0, starts hostapd, adds in necessary route for br0 to have access to internet. WPA-PSK works fine, speeds are the maximum our laptops can reach... I'm satisfied with it. Once I get some time over the next week or 2 I'll clean up any cruft, and post reproducible steps for it. I'd eventually like to attach a USB-sata2.5inch disk to it instead of theby davygravy - Debian
kk ... that is very useful ... I'll try it this weekend... thank you, pazos and yes, could you please post your /etc/network/interfaces ? and what commands do you use to raise the bridge? I have a script that I'd post here, but I'm going out the door to work and can't right now... EDIT: @ pazos: Good news for me... I decided to disregard what the documenby davygravy - Debian
I've decided to go w/ a 2nd ethernet port ... OK, I guess I have to surrender to hostapd, br0 and whatever else is conspiring against me. After 2 days of tinkering I cannot find a way to raise br0 (the bridge interface) and tap into it for ssh access (or other access) to the AP. The AP works great - on par w/ my RT-N16 router, in terms of connection strength, stability, etc... but I caby davygravy - Debian
bummer... hmmm... cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 root@AirDebian:~# iptables -vnL --line-numbers Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 38 packets, 3381 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destinationby davygravy - Debian
OK, made some progress ... I can now connect to the AP w/ any wireless client, ssh into the AP ... and see other devices on the AP ... just can't "get out" of the AP's subnet to the rest of my network or to the internet... EDIT: Now have solved a DNS problem and can wirelessly ssh into my AP via either interface's IP, and can access the internet from there (from theby davygravy - Debian
???? :^/ I'm puzzled, since the routing tables shown on my AirBook do not significantly differ, whether I'm connected via an Asus RT-N16 router, or my Pogoplug AccessPoint... I booted my Airbook into Ubuntu and ran Network Utils ... here is Linux-style routing table (rather than the BSD-ish Darwin/OS X output I first put up) - connected to the PogoPlug Access Point Destinaby davygravy - Debian
On my Mac, I see this from the Network Utility: (this is from the BSD-ish Darwin toolset, not from Linux) Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire 127 localhost UCS 0 0 lo0 localhost localhost UH 7 816 lo0 169.254 link#4by davygravy - Debian
0. Purpose, features and assumptions: This writeup shows how I got my Pogoplug and a TP-Link TL-WN821N V3 (or TP-Link TL-WN822n V2) to work together as a 802.11n Wireless Access Point. The steps here are reproducible (they have been tested several times), and this unit works well enough for me to use daily at my workplace as my wireless AP, day-in, day-out. Features: full 802.11n speeds (bby davygravy - Debian
Benoitb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm using a ralink with the rt2x00 driver, all > stock Squeeze. I can use it in master mode with > hostapd and I use it to provide an open AP on my > network with mac address filtering. > > I plug the wifi dongle only when I want to play > online with my Nintendo DS, the DHCP server has anby davygravy - Debian
It is my understanding that the B0x and Pxx models are all OXNAS-based, rather than Kirkwood-based. The Kirkwood SoC is prolly what you want if you are going to do anything w/ the bootloader... Too bad ... Bensbargain.net has this item _incorrectly_ listed as the E02 unit... it seems. http://bensbargains.net/deal/pogoplug-pogoe02-system-network-storage-30-at-ebay-226758/ bummer...by davygravy - Debian
Which unit is this? It mentions "Classic" ... That seems vague... EO2, P21 ? Anyone know?by davygravy - Debian
Once you have Debian installed on the Dockstar, you really just need to think "Debian". (at some point, the question becomes "what _can't_ one build w/ Debian?") Come to think of it, I may try to create an AP based on Debian that I can use at my workplace. I already have an old wireless G router there, but maybe a cheap $3 wireless-n usb adapter could turn my unusedby davygravy - Debian
http://bit.ly/sfpIJ7 although I can tell you that from experience, a dist upgrade is not always perfect ... and you may want to add the word "dockstar" to that search... seriously, good luck... ymmv PS. as far as I know, there is no IRC channel for this forum...by davygravy - Debian
I've used the Squeeze installer twice... but the thread you should look at is : http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,4244 It works... see the posts by shyd .... http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,4244,4587#msg-4587 in particular.by davygravy - Debian
Hmmmm... the Pogoplug Pro has the OXNAS cpu, rather than Kirkwood, right?by davygravy - Debian
I'm thinking that ext2 is better to use on a USB flash drive... I have an SATA drive attached via USB ... so that's why I chose ext3 .... ext3 has journaling enabled... but the way writes are done, it can wear a USB flash drive out more quickly... YMMVby davygravy - Debian
hmmmm... I'll admit that I saw the title of your post, Vlad, and just skimmed the contents... saw """ CUPS """ and wondered if something was hackable for p910nd, which I use.... I'll have to google it... anyway thanks for the writeup, the references, and the idea-passed-on...by davygravy - Debian
varkey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, just switch to ext3 and all these problems > will be automatically solved. > > To convert to ext3, connect the hard disk to > another linux system or the rescue system. Then > > tune2fs -j /dev/sda1 > > After that edit the fstab file to mount it as > ext3. One additional stepby davygravy - Debian
I'm not sure I understand where you are at now w/ this process... but couldn't you just locate the binaries (ARM binaries from crosscompilation), copy them into a dir, tar that, copy to your to your dockstar, untar & copy them into the appropriate dir, chmod them to be executable ... OTOH, I've compiled plenty of stuff on my Pogoplug and Dockstar... using Debian's toolsby davygravy - Debian
OK, its looking just a bit more mature now... in the "Technical" section, there is the beginning of a writeup... a lot of details to be fleshed out and described... but the basics are all there, along with the sources of hardware for the 1-wire stuff...by davygravy - Debian
I don't know for sure what the problem is that you are experiencing... it may well be that there is a bad block... dunno... But I can tell you for sure that shyd's (ie. jeff's fixed script) does work with a USB hard drive... that's what my PogoWeather is running on, a USB -connected 2.5 inch SATA hard drive... If you want to know what chipset it is, you can see that onby davygravy - Debian