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Re: GTI Mirabox and Netgear RN120/RN104 (Armada 370) Installation & Kernel Upgrade (Linux-6.5.7) - 1 year ago

Hi bodhi, Where do I find the new DTB with the audio controller nodes removed? Regards, Trond Melen

by tme - Debian

Re: GTI Mirabox and Netgear RN120/RN104 (Armada 370) Installation & Kernel Upgrade (Linux-6.5.7) - 1 year ago

Hi bodhi, Following your directions in the first post of this thread, I have successfully installed Linux kernel version 6.7.5 on one of my Netgear RN102 file servers (mainly used as a dlna server). The root file system is on an SSD connected to the rear eSata port. This new kernel works as expected. Thanks! The lagging system clock issue (https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,133814) still r

by tme - Debian

Re: How to create and use a Swap file - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, QuoteIt should be 4x RAM (at the minimum) with BFQ IO scheduler. Good tip! Fixed: $ diff /etc/dphys-swapfile.orig /etc/dphys-swapfile 20c20 < #CONF_SWAPFACTOR=2 --- > CONF_SWAPFACTOR=4 $ /sbin/swapon NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO /var/swap file 1.9G 256K -2 Regards, Trond Melen

by tme - Debian

Re: How to create and use a Swap file - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, I would recommend the package 'dphys-swapfile' rather than manually creating a swap file. By default it creates '/var/swap' twice the size of the onboard memory and enables swapping and paging to it. The 'dphys-swapfile' package is very small (~20 kB). One advantage is that swap size increases if extra memory is added. Another is that '/etc/rc.lo

by tme - Debian

Re: GTI Mirabox and Netgear RN120/RN104 (Armada 370) Installation & Kernel Upgrade (Linux-6.5.7) - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, QuoteBummer! wish we have another RN102 user to compare notes. We can't eliminate HW problem easily without another box. I'm operating two RN102s and one RN104. They all behave the same. Since, according to you, the Mirabox does not have this issue, I'm pretty sure the cause is related to the difference between the Marvell 88F6707 (Mirabox SoC) and Marvell 88F6710

by tme - Debian

Re: GTI Mirabox and Netgear RN120/RN104 (Armada 370) Installation & Kernel Upgrade (Linux-6.5.7) - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, Some months ago, I tried, without success, to do a dist-upgrade of one of my Netgear RN102 boxes from Debian 11.7 to 12. Several things failed, but I have forgotten the details. The box has since been off, until I did this fresh install yesterday. Using your latest tar-balls, I successfully installed Debian 12.4 and Linux kernel 6.5.7 on the RN102. It now seems to run smoothly, bu

by tme - Debian

Re: Debian on Netgear RN102 - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, I'm glad to hear you found this trick useful! - Trond Melen

by tme - Debian

Re: GTI Mirabox and Netgear RN120/RN104 (Armada 370) Installation & Kernel Upgrade (Linux-6.1.8) - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, I have successfully installed Linux kernel version 6.4.11 on two Netgear RN102 file servers and one RN104. The root file system is on an SSD connected to the rear eSata port on all three servers. This new kernel works as expected. Thanks! The lagging system clock issue (https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,133814) remains. There are two minor typos in the instructions from 22 Au

by tme - Debian

Re: GTI Mirabox and Netgear RN120/RN104 (Armada 370) Installation & Kernel Upgrade (Linux-6.1.8) - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi Quotebodhi Kernel 6.4.11-mvebu-tld-1 package has been uploaded. See 1st post for download link. If you create a release for Netgear RN102 and RN104 too, I'll be eager to check it out. Regards, Trond Melen

by tme - Debian

Re: Wifi dongle front usb Netgear Stora - 2 years ago

Hi wdq, The tutorial bodhi refers to is about a USB-to-Ethernet dongle, while you have a USB-to-WiFi dongle, so there will be some differences. For one, unless you want your Stora to act as a router, you probably want it to be a DHCP client rather than a DHCP server. To me it seems you already got that part right. Your issue seem to be related to the authentication of the Stora by the route

by tme - Debian

Re: Time is lagging substantially on Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 and RN104 - 2 years ago

Hi rayknight, Quote Perhaps you should try the kernel images hosted at Natisbad (where support for the device was first introduced) to see if the issue has been present from the introduction of support for this device. Great suggestion! I downloaded the Linux kernel version 4.4.1 'uImage' and the Debian installer 'uInitrd' for "Efikamx mx5" from Natisbad to

by tme - Debian

Re: Time is lagging substantially on Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 and RN104 - 2 years ago

Thanks bodhi, for providing these outdated kernels for testing. On Netgear RN102, the lagging issue is present in both Linux 4.20.6 and 5.8.5. This is from the serial console with kernel 4.20.6 and Debian 10.0. The delay between the two 'date' commands was 60 s: debian login: root Password: Last login: Thu Sep 5 01:58:44 PDT 2019 from 192.168.0.100 on pts/0 Linux debian 4.

by tme - Debian

Re: Time is lagging substantially on Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 and RN104 - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, I would like to check if the time lagging issue has been around for a long time, or if has been introduced more recently. Without success, I tried to boot the kernel in 'Debian-5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2'. I assume it lacks support for 370xp? As you know, the file ' Linux-5.8.5-mvebu-370xp-tld-1-bodhi.tar.bz2' has been purged from your dropbox. Is t

by tme - Debian

Re: Use front USB connector as Ethernet service port with DHCP - 2 years ago

Hi Gravelrash, Quote This is an awesome tip!!! Thanks! I'm not sure exactly what kind of debugging you want. If the box you want to debug is on a network you cannot access outside the machine room, I suggest you connect the Ethernet cable to a wireless router. As long as you're within the reach of the wireless router, you may access it through the WiFi interface on your PC. If

by tme - Debian

Re: Time is lagging substantially on Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 and RN104 - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, Quote Not sure why the timer@20300 was spesificed in the Mirabox, there is no need for it, this could be old code for the L2 cache frequency. I installed the device tree compiler on a Netgear RN102 with you latest kernel and root file system and converted its dtb-file to dts format. There where 23 warnings: $ sudo apt-get install device-tree-compiler $ sudo dtc -I dtb -O dts

by tme - Debian

Re: Use front USB connector as Ethernet service port with DHCP - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, Quote One thing I'd question: is the name enx* always the pattern, or a different adapter will give you a different name pattern? As stated above, USB-to-Ethernet adapters seems to always be named 'enx0123456789ab' by the Linux kernel where '01:23:45:67:89:ab' is their MAC addresses. This is also the case for the USB 3.0 gigabit adapter (picture attached)

by tme - Debian

Re: Time is lagging substantially on Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 and RN104 - 2 years ago

Thanks for the boot log bodhi, As expected, booting my RN102 with a device tree for Mirabox fails, but only after 4.7 seconds: [ 4.693689][ T1] mdio_bus d0072004.mdio-mii: MDIO device at address 1 is missing. The full boot log is attached. Before that, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the RN102 and Mirabox boot log messages with just two exceptions: [ 0.000000][

by tme - Debian

Re: Time is lagging substantially on Netgear ReadyNAS RN102 and RN104 - 2 years ago

Thanks bodhi, for powering up your Mirabox and for running the 'urandom' test! To me it seems that the RN102 CPU and its free running timer run at the same speed as on the Mirabox. My hypothesis now is that the RN102 system clock is updated by timer interrupts from the free running timer (Timer 0) at regular intervals, and that about 1 out of 12 interrupts are missed, alternativel

by tme - Debian

Re: Netgear Stora box for free - 2 years ago

Hi JoeyPogoPlugE02, It's good to hear that the box arrived safely! If you connect the box to a router with DHCP and plug-and-play, you should be able to reach it with 'ssh': $ ssh root@debian or $ ssh root@debian.local Or you may use 'putty' from a MS Window PC. Have fun! Regards, Trond Melen

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Re: Use front USB connector as Ethernet service port with DHCP - 2 years ago

Hi bodhi, The two adapters in the picture are fairly different, but they are both named 'enx0123456789ab' by the kernel where '01:23:45:67:89:ab' is their MAC addresses. I assume it's universal until someone reports something else. I have a third one in order (about $8 from China) so I can report about one more in, say, 3 weeks. Regards, Trond Melen

by tme - Debian

Use front USB connector as Ethernet service port with DHCP - 2 years ago

With multiple boxes around, it may be hard to remember the hostname or IP address of each box, and be certain which box one is connected to. One solution is to connect directly with a cable to the box's front USB connector. This post describes how to set up the box such that plugging a USB-to-Ethernet adapter into the front USB port and connecting it to a PC with an Ethernet cable gives

by tme - Debian

Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 3 years ago

I was curious about whether there were further escape sequence codes than just '+' and '-' (back light on and off). Yes, there are: tme@rn104:/tmp$ wget https://github.com/torvalds/linux/raw/master/drivers/auxdisplay/charlcd.c tme@rn104:/tmp$ grep "case.**/" charlcd.c case 'D': /* Display ON */ case 'd': /* Display OFF */ case 'C&

by tme - Displays

Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 3 years ago

Yes, '/dev/lcd' is the correct device, and yes, the hardware interface is direct GPIO. QuoteArnaud Ebalard The LCD module consumes 8 GPIO of the SoC. In order to get additional GPIOs to connect to front buttons and LEDs, NETGEAR has added on the main board an iomuxer connected to the I2C bus, namely a NXP PCA9554. It provides eight additional GPIOs. I assume 'lcd4linux'

by tme - Displays

Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 3 years ago

Hi Mijzelf, From the pictures mentioned the number of pins on the display's header connectors is 4+13=17, but the wire count of the connected flat cable is only 2+10=12. It may be very well GPIO. Regards, Trond Melen

by tme - Displays

Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 3 years ago

Hi again, I followed you links and tried the BWCT display configuration, also without success: root@rn104:~# ls -AlF /dev/lcd* crw-rw---- 1 root lp 10, 156 Feb 11 12:04 /dev/lcd root@rn104:~# head -8 /etc/lcd4linux.conf Display BWCT-16x2 { Driver 'BWCT' Size '16x2' Contrast 220 asc255bug 1 Icons 1 # Port 'libusb' } root@rn10

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Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 3 years ago

Thanks, Mijzelf, for your advice! I modifyed 'Port' to '/dev/lcd' for all the three displays in 'lcd4linux.conf' and tested. The error message 'No such device or address' switched to 'Operation not permitted'. So still no success: root@drodle:~# lcd4linux -Fv LCD4Linux 0.11.0-SVN-1193 starting Error connecting to the dbus session bus: Una

by tme - Displays

Re: GTI Mirabox and Netgear RN120/RN104 (Armada 370) Installation & Kernel Upgrade (Linux-6.1.8) - 3 years ago

Hi bodhi, My Netgear RN104 has been upgraded to your latest Linux kernel 6.1.8 for Armada 370XP. No issues. Boot log attached. Thanks! I can't find anything about it in the boot log, but the 16 by 2 character LCD display is now supported. It says "Linux-6.1.8-mveb" for about 3 seconds early in the boot process. Then it turns dark until it says "Power off." for about

by tme - Debian

Re: Build-in 2 by 16 character front display on Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 - 3 years ago

bodhi has kindly added the driver for the 16 by 2 character LCD display on the front of the Netgear RN104 in his latest Armada 370XP kernel: root@rn104:~# egrep 'AUXDISPLAY|44780' /boot/config-6.1.8-mvebu-370xp-tld-1 CONFIG_AUXDISPLAY=y CONFIG_HD44780_COMMON=y CONFIG_HD44780=y I can't find anything about the driver in the boot log, but the display is supported. It says &qu

by tme - Displays

Re: Netgear Stora box for free - 3 years ago

Attached an image of 2 industrial grade memory sticks. Low capacity, but they endure daily loss of power for ~5 years or more.

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Re: Netgear Stora box for free - 3 years ago

Your welcome, JoeyPogoPlugE02! International postal service price table here. Up to 3 kg is NOK 472. Sadly, that's about 50% more than $30. I've been ignorant to the Vita wild herring, but I'll give it a try. Thanks for the tip! :-) Regards, Trond Melen

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