Hi,

Has anyone updated the DST info on their Linkstation? I checked
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/, but this doesn't appear to be current.

	 --Marc

Hi,

I'm toying around with the idea to put the OpenLink firmware on my LS.
Just wondering, if OpenLink supports user passwords longer than 8
characters (the most annoying limitation in the original firmware)?

Thanks
  - O

Hey all,

I reset and then reflashed my LS pro and now my shares are no where to
be found.  The drive still says the data is there (50% full) but I
have no idea how to find them and then reset them up.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "rmn1644" <rmn1644@...> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I reset and then reflashed my LS pro and now my shares are no where to
> be found.  The drive still says the data is there (50% full) but I
> have no idea how to find them and then reset them up.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks!
>

Sound like your data is still on the internal disk ( /mnt/disk1 ) ,
but that no share are set up.

if you had shares, have you tried remaking them ?

Sounds like a Samba problem !!

all the best Peter

Hi,

	 Still no response. What can we do to modify our Linkstation
(v.1) to take into account the new Daylight Savings rules?

	 --Marc

Update to freelink (Debian 3.1) :)

TheWitness
  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Marc Bizer <hms92@...>
> Hi,
>
>  Still no response. What can we do to modify our Linkstation
> (v.1) to take into account the new Daylight Savings rules?
>
>  --Marc

Update to freelink (Debian 3.1) :)

TheWitness
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Marc Bizer <hms92@...>
> Hi,
>
> Still no response. What can we do to modify our Linkstation
> (v.1) to take into account the new Daylight Savings rules?
>
> --Marc

---

Subject: [LinkStation_General] DST changes

From: Marc Bizer <hms92@...>

Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:49:49 +0000

To: LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com

To: LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com

Hi,

Still no response. What can we do to modify our Linkstation
(v.1) to take into account the new Daylight Savings rules?

--Marc

On 2/22/07 at 8:18 PM -0700, Tony Morehen wrote:
>I assume that you are using Openlink or Freelink.  I'm using the
>latest Openlink.

I'm using the version of Linux that shipped with the Linkstation.
Does it matter?

	 --Marc

Marc Bizer wrote:
     >On 2/22/07 at 8:18 PM -0700, Tony Morehen wrote:
     >>I assume that you are using Openlink or Freelink.  I'm using the
     >>latest Openlink.
     >
     >I'm using the version of Linux that shipped with the Linkstation.
     >Does it matter?
     >
     > --Marc

No, not really, Marc.  It should work with pretty much any version
of Linux.

Check the file /etc/localtime -- mine is a symbolic link to

	 /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT

I think yours will be the same according to the headers in your mail.

Oh, Tony's URL wasn't quite correct -- use ...2007a.... not 2007b

	 -Rusty-
--
    _____        Rusty Haddock  =  KD4WLZ  =  rusty@...
|\/   o \   o  **Out yonder in the Van Alstyne (TX) Metropolitan Area**
|   (  -<  O o     Every day I think people can't get more stupid.
|/\__V__/               Every day I'm proven horribly wrong.

Marc,

I suggest that you open a ticket with BuffaloTech.  I suspect that, in order to
correct for this, they will release a new firmware version.  In order to do
this, they have to obtain an updated embedded Linux from their supplier before
they can package such a thing.  I would think that they will be too cheap to do
this though, but we'll see.

TheWitness

  -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Marc Bizer <hms92@...>
> On 2/22/07 at 8:18 PM -0700, Tony Morehen wrote:
> >I assume that you are using Openlink or Freelink.  I'm using the
> >latest Openlink.
>
> I'm using the version of Linux that shipped with the Linkstation.
> Does it matter?
>
>  --Marc

On 2/23/07 at 11:32 AM +0000, larryjadams@... wrote:
>Marc,
>
>I suggest that you open a ticket with BuffaloTech.  I suspect that,
>in order to correct for this, they will release a new firmware
>version.  In order to do this, they have to obtain an updated
>embedded Linux from their supplier before they can package such a
>thing.  I would think that they will be too cheap to do this though,
>but we'll see.

I can't use their firmware updates, because I have installed Netatalk
2 and made some other modifications :-(

	 --Marc

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:05:32PM +0100, Michael Weiser wrote:

> > In all cases the power led keeps blinking rapidly, commands sent to the
> > AVR are ignored and the machine reboots after a few minutes. Also the
> > minimal console using the power button doesn't work. Otherwise
> Addendum: When loading a 2.6.20 ppc-based kernel using loader.o, the avr
> can be initialised manually using echo -n "[[[[" >/dev/ttyS1 and the
> like. The problem seems to be uboot-specific, not hardware-related.

Private mail from linuxnotincluded gives the answer:

---
What appears to happen to your setup is that the AVR receives the reboot
command from the kernel before passing the control to u-boot. Once the
reboot command is issued to the AVR, there is no going back. The AVR
_will_ reboot the LinkStation. The power LED blinking fast is what shows
that the AVR is in this state.

The problem with uloader is that it attempts to leave as much as
possible from the shutdown to happen in order for the disks to be shut
down properly but before the reboot string is sent to the AVR. Depending
on the original kernel, the assumptions made by uloader may be
incorrect.

I will have to look again at the sources about the UART initialisation
but, as I said before, the AVR will ignore any commands once it receives
the reboot command. This is why the minimal console doesn't work. The
buttons are read by the AVR which passes the information to u-boot (or
to the kernel).

This doesn't happen when u-boot is in flash because u-boot takes over
the LinkStation when the AVR has been re-armed and ready to accept
commands.

If the AVR is your only problem and everything else works for you, then
the risk of flashing u-boot is small. Lots of people have done it and I
haven't heard of any problems. Unfortunately, there are no absolute
guarantees. Even if you u-boot build is fine, there is always the risk
of power loss during the flash and there have been reports of defective
flash chips, fortunately not in the u-boot area.

If you take the chance and something goes wrong, you can still find
somebody in your area willing to fix your box for you. You can post the
question in the Linstationwiki forums and see if there is anyone in your
area.
---

So I patched uloader:

--- uloader_mod.c.orig  2006-08-26 15:07:23.000000000 +0200
+++ uloader_mod.c       2007-02-22 00:18:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@

    if((err = read_file(uboot, &uboot_buf)))
      goto out;
-  register_reboot_notifier(&uloader_notifier);
+  //register_reboot_notifier(&uloader_notifier);
+  load_uboot(va2pa(load_uboot), va2pa(uboot_buf), laddr);
    return 0;
  out:
    free_saved_pages();

and tried again. The RAM build worked nicely then, so I was comfortable
flashing the flash build. I've got the box running now with Guennadi's
powerpc-based 2.6.20 kernel and everything seems to be just fine.
--
Micha
Don't panic!

The firmware update went well untill the reboot of the server. Now I
can ping the server but I can´t browse it. It seems like the update
went wrong and there is no OS running on the Linkstation. If I use
the Linkstation IP Setup Utility it says I´m running version 4.00??

How do I get my Linkstation back in business???


Best regards

Ulrik


--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "cherrytreeproduction"
<cherrytreeproduction@...> wrote:
>
> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "ulrikskrydstrup"
> <ulrikskrydstrup@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can anyone help me finding the firmware version 1.45 or older for
me
> > Linkstation HS-D300GL. I need run a firmware that support telnet
for
> > installing a Slimserver software for my new Squeezebox device.
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Ulrik Skrydstrup
> >
>
> you are messing up firmwares from the LS1 and the LS HS.
>
> look at www.linkstationwiki.net
>
> if the built-in upnp-server is not important for you (as it isn`t
that
> good anyway...there are better replacements like twonkyvision) then
> you should convert your HS to a HG and install Openlink 0.51b
> http://downloads.linkstationwiki.net/openlink/hg-openlink-051b.zip
>
> download a HS-stock-firmware..for example this one:
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0025690/development/hs-
glan_149_telnet.zip
>
> do not flash this firmware....it is the one thing you
requested...but
> believe me i think you will run into issues when trying to run
slimserver.
>
> unzip both firmwares-packages....copy the firmware-updater.exe from
> the hs-package to the hg-openlink package....and then update the
> firmware there by executing it.
>
> afterwards you have a full hg-openlink...installation of slimserver
> should be straightforward then.
>
> -- mindbender
> www.linkstationwiki.net
>

I was told that the LinkStation Pro has a DynDns client. But I sure
don't see it in the menu. Am I going to have to freelink to accomplish
this, or is there some way within the existing OS?  I've got plenty of
Linux experience, but this is my first LinkStation. Help!

I think you heard wrong, the Pro model has no such functionality.

usually NAS'es do not due to the fact that its most easily
accomplished in a router.

I believe the the new Linkstation Live will have a sort of dyndns
functionality, probably built on uPnP, allowing access to the device
from www.buffalonas.com, but I talked to one person who says that
there is no such functionality <i>yet</i>
cue the suspenseful music.

As for getting it on the LSpro,  Freelink would be your best bet.

-goat


--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kasoff"
<nicholas@...> wrote:
>
> I was told that the LinkStation Pro has a DynDns client. But I sure
> don't see it in the menu. Am I going to have to freelink to accomplish
> this, or is there some way within the existing OS?  I've got plenty of
> Linux experience, but this is my first LinkStation. Help!
>

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "musikgoat"
<musikgoat@...> wrote:
[...]
> As for getting it on the LSpro,  Freelink would be your best bet.

For the LSpro,there is also GenLink available now (being Gentoo it's
virtually unlimited extensible, so it's also a matter of taste, or
distribution one is used to), and ddclient has been proven to work
with DynDNS using the web page IP querying method, and adding ssl=true
(or similar, I found this info on the DynDNS page when helping a
Genlink user troubleshoot ddclient).
Lucian

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "musikgoat"
<musikgoat@...> wrote:
[...]
> As for getting it on the LSpro,  Freelink would be your best bet.
For the LSpro,there is also GenLink available now (being Gentoo it's
virtually unlimited extensible, so it's also a matter of taste, or
distribution one is used to), and ddclient has been proven to work
with DynDNS using the web page IP querying method, and adding ssl=true
(or similar, I found this info on the DynDNS page when helping a
Genlink user troubleshoot ddclient).

Lucian

http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/

this dyndns-client is written in perl...and perl is even on the stock
system.

you need to enable telnet of your LS Pro with acp_commander, connect
via telnet, follow the installation here:
http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/#install

that should be all to get it working.

-- mindbender
www.linkstationwiki.net

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kasoff"
<nicholas@...> wrote:
>
> I was told that the LinkStation Pro has a DynDns client. But I sure
> don't see it in the menu. Am I going to have to freelink to accomplish
> this, or is there some way within the existing OS?  I've got plenty of
> Linux experience, but this is my first LinkStation. Help!
>

Ok ... I enabled Telnet with acp_commander, installed ddclient, and
create the config file. Now I'm getting this when I run it:

root@LS-GLFA5:/usr/sbin# ./ddclient
Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/a
rmv5tejl-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/a
rmv5tejl-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_pe
rl .) at ./ddclient line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./ddclient line 13.

Am I doing something wrong, or does the LS Pro have crippled PERL?



--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "cherrytreeproduction"
<cherrytreeproduction@...> wrote:
>
> http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/
>
> this dyndns-client is written in perl...and perl is even on the stock
> system.
>
> you need to enable telnet of your LS Pro with acp_commander, connect
> via telnet, follow the installation here:
> http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/#install
>
> that should be all to get it working.
>
> -- mindbender
> www.linkstationwiki.net
>
> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kasoff"
> <nicholas@> wrote:
> >
> > I was told that the LinkStation Pro has a DynDns client. But I sure
> > don't see it in the menu. Am I going to have to freelink to accomplish
> > this, or is there some way within the existing OS?  I've got plenty of
> > Linux experience, but this is my first LinkStation. Help!
> >
>

I sort of answered my own question here ... in comparing
/usr/local/lib/perl5 on the Linkstation to the corresponding folder on
my Fedora server, it is just a very small subset of Perl. And, through
experimenting, I've also determined that I can't just copy the Perl
folder from my Linux box, because there are some portions that are
CPU-specific. So ... I'm still not there.

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kasoff"
<nicholas@...> wrote:
>
> Ok ... I enabled Telnet with acp_commander, installed ddclient, and
> create the config file. Now I'm getting this when I run it:
>
> root@LS-GLFA5:/usr/sbin# ./ddclient
> Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/a
> rmv5tejl-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/a
> rmv5tejl-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_pe
> rl .) at ./ddclient line 13.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./ddclient line 13.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or does the LS Pro have crippled PERL?

you should be able to install the missing modules via CPAN

-- mindbender
www.linkstationwiki.net

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kasoff"
<nicholas@...> wrote:
>
> I sort of answered my own question here ... in comparing
> /usr/local/lib/perl5 on the Linkstation to the corresponding folder on
> my Fedora server, it is just a very small subset of Perl. And, through
> experimenting, I've also determined that I can't just copy the Perl
> folder from my Linux box, because there are some portions that are
> CPU-specific. So ... I'm still not there.
>
> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kasoff"
> <nicholas@> wrote:
> >
> > Ok ... I enabled Telnet with acp_commander, installed ddclient, and
> > create the config file. Now I'm getting this when I run it:
> >
> > root@LS-GLFA5:/usr/sbin# ./ddclient
> > Can't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/a
> > rmv5tejl-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/a
> > rmv5tejl-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_pe
> > rl .) at ./ddclient line 13.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./ddclient line 13.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong, or does the LS Pro have crippled PERL?
>

Forgive my ignorance ... but which distro do I need to use?

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "cherrytreeproduction"
<cherrytreeproduction@...> wrote:
>
> you should be able to install the missing modules via CPAN

i suppose you can even use the stock firmware.

http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html

question is if you really need some other perl modules...

if ddclient needs some specific modules then it should be inside the
ddclient docs.

-- mindbender


--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Kasoff"
<nicholas@...> wrote:
>
> Forgive my ignorance ... but which distro do I need to use?
>
> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "cherrytreeproduction"
> <cherrytreeproduction@> wrote:
> >
> > you should be able to install the missing modules via CPAN
>

I am a total noob to hacking my linkstation.  I mostly just hate the
fact that I can't set a home directory in the ftp server, but don't
need to do much else.  Can someone point me in the direction of a step
by step for my LSPro 320?


Thanks.

- Mike

On another note.  Anyone have problems with out of the box FTP
stalling out on users?

Since the LS-Pro is once again a completely different animal from
other previous LS'es, this one being based on an ARM processor, None
of the easy-do-install solutions like Openlink and Freelink will
work for it yet.

So you have to follow much the same courses that we all took in the
early days of hacking our older boxes years ago.

There are two ways to go, one is to simply modify and add features
to the original OS, which is what eventually gave us Openlink, or
the second direction is to abandon the original OS that is hard to
customize, and install a full featured Linux OS like Debian or
Gentoo.

From the Linkstation Wiki:

http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php?title=Information/LSPROOverview

I see that our Japanese friend has once again given us a
Debian-Linux for the LS-Pro, Gentoo-Linux is here too.  It also
looks like there have been some password hacking going on with the
original OS as well.  In my opinion, the LS should NOT be your first
exposure to the inner workings of Linux however.

To just change the root of the FTP server, it seems to me that you
could pull the drive out of the LS and install it such that you can
access it from a Linux workstation, find the configuration file for
the FTP server (or probably the template of the one the web
interface will attempt to write over it with) and make the change
there.  This is likely to be harder than it sounds however.
Previous hacking of LS'es resulted in doing things like fixing
the "Magic Number" on the file system, and breaking some of the
built in security measures on the Web interface.

Anyway, I would try to join in on the hacking attempts going on at
the LinkStation Wiki, which is the best forum for the Linkstation
these days.

Lots of Luck

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Mittelman"
<mmittelman@...> wrote:
>
> I am a total noob to hacking my linkstation.  I mostly just hate
the
> fact that I can't set a home directory in the ftp server, but
don't
> need to do much else.  Can someone point me in the direction of a
step
> by step for my LSPro 320?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Mike
>
> On another note.  Anyone have problems with out of the box FTP
> stalling out on users?
>

i recommend to install jtymods firmware. it is pre-openlink. and we
have a 95 % working native toolchain.

-- mindbender
www.linkstationwiki.net

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "James Stewart"
<wartstew@...> wrote:
>
> Since the LS-Pro is once again a completely different animal from
> other previous LS'es, this one being based on an ARM processor, None
> of the easy-do-install solutions like Openlink and Freelink will
> work for it yet.
>
> So you have to follow much the same courses that we all took in the
> early days of hacking our older boxes years ago.
>
> There are two ways to go, one is to simply modify and add features
> to the original OS, which is what eventually gave us Openlink, or
> the second direction is to abandon the original OS that is hard to
> customize, and install a full featured Linux OS like Debian or
> Gentoo.
>
> From the Linkstation Wiki:
>
> http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php?title=Information/LSPROOverview
>
> I see that our Japanese friend has once again given us a
> Debian-Linux for the LS-Pro, Gentoo-Linux is here too.  It also
> looks like there have been some password hacking going on with the
> original OS as well.  In my opinion, the LS should NOT be your first
> exposure to the inner workings of Linux however.
>
> To just change the root of the FTP server, it seems to me that you
> could pull the drive out of the LS and install it such that you can
> access it from a Linux workstation, find the configuration file for
> the FTP server (or probably the template of the one the web
> interface will attempt to write over it with) and make the change
> there.  This is likely to be harder than it sounds however.
> Previous hacking of LS'es resulted in doing things like fixing
> the "Magic Number" on the file system, and breaking some of the
> built in security measures on the Web interface.
>
> Anyway, I would try to join in on the hacking attempts going on at
> the LinkStation Wiki, which is the best forum for the Linkstation
> these days.
>
> Lots of Luck
>
> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Mittelman"
> <mmittelman@> wrote:
> >
> > I am a total noob to hacking my linkstation.  I mostly just hate
> the
> > fact that I can't set a home directory in the ftp server, but
> don't
> > need to do much else.  Can someone point me in the direction of a
> step
> > by step for my LSPro 320?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> > On another note.  Anyone have problems with out of the box FTP
> > stalling out on users?
> >
>

I want to set up a website so i can share photos, document, etc with
friends and family around the world. If it is not possible, advise me
what i can set up with it to use the files i have on it. I have a old
system i can use as well as the linkstation. Thank you

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "thuggest_1" <thuggest_1@...> wrote:
>
> I want to set up a website so i can share photos, document, etc with
> friends and family around the world. If it is not possible, advise me
> what i can set up with it to use the files i have on it. I have a old
> system i can use as well as the linkstation. Thank you

Check out the thttpd, lighttpd, apache, and photo articles at

http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php?title=Category:All_Pages

-Andre

Thx. It really helped