back up now

Can you get to the web interface or ping it?  Was it set for dhcp or has static
ip.  If you have another linux box does it show up with "arp -a"?  Have you
reset it and now it is on a different subnet?  This page may help you
http://nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/TelnetIntoRedBoot .  I've had the same
situation in the past.

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "hoytduff" <hoyt@...> wrote:
>
> I have a NSLU2 that had Unslung installed on it. The flash drive is now
missing and most firmware's features won't work. I've read the docs and tried to
re-install the firmware, but the Linux upload application doesn't see the NSLU2
even though I can place the NSLU2 in the proper mode to be flashed (as
determined from the blinking LEDs).
>
> Any advice?
>

This is normal behaviour for bash.

Possibly use wildcards, e.g. instead of

  mv Whos Been Sleeping In My House S01E04  /tmp/media/usb/New_Downloads/pending/

maybe try mv Who*S01E04 /tmp/media/usb/New_Downloads/pending/

or rename the file replacing the spaces with underscores (as in New_Downloads)



--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, Ryan Fortress <spazlon@...> wrote:
>
> I am running Optware on a WDTV Live Plus. Everything is working great
> except for spaces.

I had a makefile that was used to create image for my application for freescale
powerpc processor.

In makefile we have

ADDED_C++FLAGS +=  -fno-builtin -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -ffixed-r29 -ffixed-r2
-ffixed-r14  -meabi -msoft-float

Now we are using mips64 processor and while compiling its giving the following
error :


cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-meabi"

Hi all, I'm passing along a segfault report to you for CUPS, running on a
TomatoUSB RT-N16 ...

here is the link to the report :
http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-336545/extra-newer-optware-ipk-s-not-in-the-ddwrt-i\
pkg-feed#post-1335351

but some of the details are (as posted by user Brettman) :

============================
Output when installing CUPS:

root@unknown:/tmp/home/root# ipkg install cups
Installing cups (1.4.6-1) to /opt/...
Downloading <link removed>/cups_1.4.6-1_mipsel.ipk
Configuring cups
Successfully terminated.
Output when starting CUPS:

root@unknown:/tmp/home/root# /opt/sbin/cupsd
Segmentation fault
Not very helpful, is it?

Output when starting CUPS with strace:

root@unknown:/tmp/home/root# strace /opt/sbin/cupsd
execve("/opt/sbin/cupsd", ["/opt/sbin/cupsd"], [/* 8 vars */]) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 20, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x2aaae000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Segmentation fault
The last entry in the messages log only shows my successful ssh connection and
/opt/var/log/cups/ is empty.

I did ipkg update and upgrade before uninstalling and reinstalling CUPS.

My router is an Asus RT-N16.

I hope this helps. There is also another thread on here from others having the
same problem as me at this thread: <link removed>/forum/t-292115. I'm not sure
if anyone actually has the ipkg CUPS working on their router.

=================================

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "oddballhero" <oddballhero@...> wrote:
>
> Can you get to the web interface or ping it?  Was it set for dhcp or has
static ip.  If you have another linux box does it show up with "arp -a"?  Have
you reset it and now it is on a different subnet?  This page may help you
http://nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/TelnetIntoRedBoot .  I've had the same
situation in the past.
>

I was able to reflash it, but ran into a snag with the Linux utility in that my
on-board eth0 is not functional and I needed to manually identify the network
device. Otherwise, no problems.

The current version of UNSLUNG is now installed and pyTivo is up and running. I
also purchased a second NSLU2 on eBay just to experiment with.

Thanks.

@ Eno and the other Optware folks :

is there a reason that dbus has PIE enabled at configuration time?

Some threads at DD-WRT suggest that with PIE disabled during compile time, it
allows both CUPS and avahi to work normally.   Also, it looks like newer
versions of dbus make PIE disabled the default, (rather than enabled by default)
- IIUC.

Could this dbus-issue be the fix for CUPS users on DD-WRT and TomatoUSB?



--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "davygravy_pi" <purdyd_at_wisheights@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi all, I'm passing along a segfault report to you for CUPS, running on a
TomatoUSB RT-N16 ...
>
> here is the link to the report :
http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-336545/extra-newer-optware-ipk-s-not-in-the-ddwrt-i\
pkg-feed#post-1335351
>
> but some of the details are (as posted by user Brettman) :
>
> ============================
> Output when installing CUPS:
>
> root@unknown:/tmp/home/root# ipkg install cups
> Installing cups (1.4.6-1) to /opt/...
> Downloading <link removed>/cups_1.4.6-1_mipsel.ipk
> Configuring cups
> Successfully terminated.
> Output when starting CUPS:
>
> root@unknown:/tmp/home/root# /opt/sbin/cupsd
> Segmentation fault
> Not very helpful, is it?
>
> Output when starting CUPS with strace:
>
> root@unknown:/tmp/home/root# strace /opt/sbin/cupsd
> execve("/opt/sbin/cupsd", ["/opt/sbin/cupsd"], [/* 8 vars */]) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 20, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x2aaae000
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> Segmentation fault
> The last entry in the messages log only shows my successful ssh connection and
/opt/var/log/cups/ is empty.
>
> I did ipkg update and upgrade before uninstalling and reinstalling CUPS.
>
> My router is an Asus RT-N16.
>
> I hope this helps. There is also another thread on here from others having the
same problem as me at this thread: <link removed>/forum/t-292115. I'm not sure
if anyone actually has the ipkg CUPS working on their router.
>
> =================================
>

Hallo,

I would like to use gnuplot on my QNAP-NAS 219P+. Unfortunally I get this
messages
when I execute the program on the shell:

[~] # gnuplot
gnuplot: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
[~] #

I've installed this version of gnuplot:

[~] # ipkg info gnuplot
Package: gnuplot
Version: 4.4.1-1
Depends: expat, libgd, libstdc++, ncurses, readline, zlib
Status: install user installed
Section: graphics
Architecture: arm
maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
MD5Sum: 0a8a7bcbf9f0c5de9358b7ed9de36e14
Size: 1027458
Filename: gnuplot_4.4.1-1_arm.ipk
Source: http://easynews.dl.sf.net/sourceforge/gnuplot/gnuplot-4.4.1.tar.gz
Description: Command-line driven interactive data and function plotting
utility

Successfully terminated.
[~] #

Does the package have got a failure or do I've to install an other package,
too?

Thank you in advance
Jürgen

Hello.

I just installed SlugOS on my NSLU2.  I (think I) followed the procedure in the
document http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InitialisingDisks

But when running 'top' or 'df -h' or 'mount' no entries show up with sda2 or
swap.

I tried running 'swapon -s' but I got an error saying 'invalid argument'.  I do
remember getting an error when I ran the command 'swapon /dev/sda2' something
about "busybox: /dev/sda2/ already configured or not available"

Questions:

1.  Any other commands I can use to verify swap partition is working?
2.  What steps should I redo?  Do I need to go back to fdisk and delete
/dev/sda(1-3) and start from scratch?
3.  I already moved my root file system from flash to sda1 will my slug reboot
without issue if I remove my USB pen drive?

TIA-

Alex-

Just adding some more details to my initial post:

The disk I am trying to partition/format is a 2GB USB Pen Drive.
sda1 /
sda2 <--swap
sda3 home

Does SLUGOSBE support swap on thumbdrive/memory stick?



--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "aswolff1971" <aleksei_wolff@...> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I just installed SlugOS on my NSLU2.  I (think I) followed the procedure in
the document http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InitialisingDisks
>
> But when running 'top' or 'df -h' or 'mount' no entries show up with sda2 or
swap.
>
> I tried running 'swapon -s' but I got an error saying 'invalid argument'.  I
do remember getting an error when I ran the command 'swapon /dev/sda2' something
about "busybox: /dev/sda2/ already configured or not available"
>
> Questions:
>
> 1.  Any other commands I can use to verify swap partition is working?
> 2.  What steps should I redo?  Do I need to go back to fdisk and delete
/dev/sda(1-3) and start from scratch?
> 3.  I already moved my root file system from flash to sda1 will my slug reboot
without issue if I remove my USB pen drive?
>
> TIA-
>
> Alex-
>

aswolff1971 wrote:
> Just adding some more details to my initial post:
>
> The disk I am trying to partition/format is a 2GB USB Pen Drive.
> sda1 /
> sda2 <--swap
> sda3 home
>
> Does SLUGOSBE support swap on thumbdrive/memory stick?
>

Yes, it certainly does.

You probably should follow the setup guide for SlugOS; the link you
posted in your original email is quite dated (so old that it refers to
"OpenSlug" still!):
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/InstallandTurnupABasicSlugOSSystem

Among other steps, this wiki article shows you how to create a swapfile
(which avoids the hassle of partitioning a thumb drive in the first place).

-Mike
>
>
> --- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "aswolff1971" <aleksei_wolff@...> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I just installed SlugOS on my NSLU2.  I (think I) followed the procedure in
the document http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InitialisingDisks
>>
>> But when running 'top' or 'df -h' or 'mount' no entries show up with sda2 or
swap.
>>
>> I tried running 'swapon -s' but I got an error saying 'invalid argument'.  I
do remember getting an error when I ran the command 'swapon /dev/sda2' something
about "busybox: /dev/sda2/ already configured or not available"
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1.  Any other commands I can use to verify swap partition is working?
>> 2.  What steps should I redo?  Do I need to go back to fdisk and delete
/dev/sda(1-3) and start from scratch?
>> 3.  I already moved my root file system from flash to sda1 will my slug
reboot without issue if I remove my USB pen drive?
>>
>> TIA-
>>
>> Alex-
>>
>>

Thank your for the link.  I followed the procedure in that document and did not
get any errors (in fact 99% of the screenshots matched).

But after running the following 4 commands and running a 'reboot' the system
hung with all 4 led lights on (amber, green, green, green) any suggestions?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=32
mkswap /swapfile
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
echo '/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0' >>/etc/fstab
swapon -a
free
reboot

>
> Yes, it certainly does.
>
> You probably should follow the setup guide for SlugOS; the link you
> posted in your original email is quite dated (so old that it refers to
> "OpenSlug" still!):
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/SlugOS/InstallandTurnupABasicSlugOSSystem
>
> Among other steps, this wiki article shows you how to create a swapfile
> (which avoids the hassle of partitioning a thumb drive in the first place).
>
> -Mike
> >
> >

Using SlugOS 5.3BE on 2GB memstick.

I noticed that /var/log is a link to /var/volatile
but does not have a message file.  I have an application that "should" be
sending log messages how can I get syslog working to display file?

Thanks.

Hello,

I'd like to announce a bug to the vlc package maintainer:

ipkg files vlc |grep libaccess_output.*so
/opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_rtmp_plugin.so
/opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_shout_plugin.so
/opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_http_plugin.so
/opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_udp_plugin.so
/opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_file_plugin.so
/opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_dummy_plugin.so

   vlc -l 2>/dev/null |grep access_output
    access_output_dummy   Dummy stream output
    access_output_rtmp    RTMP stream output
    access_output_udp     UDP stream output
    access_output_file    File stream output

I have to use the http output plugin, but it does not seem to get loaded
by VLC.

The package I used is "cs08q1armel/cross/unstable/vlc_0.9.9a-2_arm.ipk".

I could set up a dev box and fix it myself, but if someone can do it
faster and has more time than me please help.
Thanks !

--
Martino Dell'Ambrogio
Security Auditor
Web: http://www.tillo.ch/
Email: tillo@...

I am trying to update the package py-mercurial for cs08q1armel following the
instructions from http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/AddAPackageToOptware,
and i decided to try to build the package from the original .mk first but i hit
a bump with the setup of python2.5.

File
"/home/eldamar/tmp/optware/cs08q1armel/host/staging/opt/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py\
", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor
     import _sha256

Seems to be missing some file.

Cheers

Forgot to add the error message i received was: ImportError: No module named
_sha256

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "tillyy86" <samuel.tilly@...> wrote:
>
> I am trying to update the package py-mercurial for cs08q1armel following the
instructions from http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/AddAPackageToOptware,
and i decided to try to build the package from the original .mk first but i hit
a bump with the setup of python2.5.
>
> File
"/home/eldamar/tmp/optware/cs08q1armel/host/staging/opt/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py\
", line 63, in __get_builtin_constructor
>     import _sha256
>
> Seems to be missing some file.
>
> Cheers
>

Any chance someone can build openssl 0.9.8 and add this to the ipkg feeds.

I have been trying to build the latest version of rtmpdump and it won't work
with openssl 0.9.7m-5 which is the latest ipkg version.

Does anybody have an NSLU2 build environment in a VirtualBox image?

--
Hoyt

Thanks to strace, I found out that VLC was looking for a missing avahi
library.

The module list now includes access_output_http:

cvlc -l 2>/dev/null |grep access_output
   access_output_dummy   Dummy stream output
   access_output_rtmp    RTMP stream output
   access_output_udp     UDP stream output
   access_output_http    HTTP stream output
   access_output_file    File stream output

In the end I had to install vlc, dbus (VLC required library) and avahi
(access_output_http required library).

Martino Dell'Ambrogio
Security Auditor
Web: http://www.tillo.ch/
Email: tillo@...

On 01/09/2012 12:29 AM, Martino Dell'Ambrogio wrote:
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to announce a bug to the vlc package maintainer:
>
> ipkg files vlc |grep libaccess_output.*so
> /opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_rtmp_plugin.so
> /opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_shout_plugin.so
> /opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_http_plugin.so
> /opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_udp_plugin.so
> /opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_file_plugin.so
> /opt/lib/vlc/access_output/libaccess_output_dummy_plugin.so
>
> vlc -l 2>/dev/null |grep access_output
> access_output_dummy Dummy stream output
> access_output_rtmp RTMP stream output
> access_output_udp UDP stream output
> access_output_file File stream output
>
> I have to use the http output plugin, but it does not seem to get loaded
> by VLC.
>
> The package I used is "cs08q1armel/cross/unstable/vlc_0.9.9a-2_arm.ipk".
>
> I could set up a dev box and fix it myself, but if someone can do it
> faster and has more time than me please help.
> Thanks !
>
> --
> Martino Dell'Ambrogio
> Security Auditor
> Web: http://www.tillo.ch/
> Email: tillo@...

hello all,

I'm trying to install Asterisk on my unslung slug, but I get an error regarding
md5sum, and ipkg can't continue.  Anyone know how to get around this?  Thanks.

Hey guys,

I've recently fired up my Slug again, with the goal of using it to stream video
to my TV, use it as a seedbox, a print server and just as general network
storage (Samba). I thought my TV supported Samba but appearantly it only
supports DLNA. Since I always used Debian on the Slug, that's what I installed.
However, I'm having some trouble installing minidlna from the repositories
(insufficient memory I believe) and now I'm wondering if maybe I shouldn't use
Debian anyway. I'm also wondering if my Slug will be powerful enough to support
a DLNA server anyway.

Basically my question is what is the best way to achieve what I want (print
server, dlna server, file server and seedbox (rtorrent I suppose)). Should I
pick a different firmware perhaps? Are the other firmwares lighter then Debian?
Some pointers here and there would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Walter

Hi All,

I am running SlugOS 5.3BE and an application that reads data from a weather
station attached via USB.   When I try to start the application  I get the
following error in syslog:

Jan 21 12:24:01 kncwestj4 wviewd[1195]: <1327166641956> : USBHID:
hid_open failed!

I need some hints on how to troubleshoot this issue?  I am wondering if I am
missing any libraries?

Thanks.

Hello,

I've got apache2 running on unslung.  I'm trying to activate cgi's.  I added the
ScriptAlias line to httpd.conf, and apache finds the script file in cgi-bin, but
when I try to run the script, I get "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable".  I
think I've activated all the necessary modules. I thought maybe it might be
something to do with permissions, since apache2 seems to be very picky about
those, but I've tried changing the file owner to "nobody" and various permission
combos to no avail.

The message from apache says: "server is temporarily unable to service your
request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems."  It can't be that
apache on the slug is just incapable of running cgi's, could it?

Anyone have a pointer for me?

Thanks.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply. I got minidlna to work in the end. Before I had trouble
compiling with the Slug running out of memory in the process. I chose a
different approach to install minidlna, since the instructions in your link
didn't work for me (make wouldn't work because "No targets specified and no
makefile found. Stop."). I download the src tarball from sourceforge and
compiled that instead. Worked perfectly.

Minidlna streams 720p versions of the BBC Life series to my phone without
trouble. Unfortunately, my Samsung TV does not see the Slug's DLNA server in my
network. But that's not related to the slug ofcourse. Anyway, thanks for your
help!

- Walter

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, Peter Somogyi <smodge123@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Walter.
>
> You're in luck - I run my slug with Debian Squeeze (6.0.3) and miniDLNA on
> it, no problems.  My NSLU2 runs the factory memory, I haven't upped it like
> some tutorials show you how, however I did remove the factory limiting CPU
> frequency throttle that my earlier NSLU2 had (something to do with
> scratching out a really tiny chip on the circuit board).  My NSLU2 runs
> just fine: I also run rtorrent in the background with up to 10 files; I
> don't really run a file server but I do run samba and vsftpd; I don't run a
> print server.
>
> Before I tried Debian (initially lenny) I did try the other NSLU2 firmwares
> and wasn't happy with them: the installable modules seemed limiting and I
> don't remember if rtorrent was supported that well, which I really wanted!
>  Since Debian I've never looked back.
>
> Anyway back to miniDLNA: I haven't tried streaming any HD stuff (1080p) so
> I'm not sure how well it'd cope with that but for standard definition
> videos it works really well.  I just start miniDLNA and leave it running
> the whole time.  It picks up new media in the configured shared locations,
> although *sometimes* the odd file won't appear on the DLNA client even
> though I've checked the miniDLNA database and I can see it's registered in
> there.  (Not sure if it's a naming issue thing, it's not permission
> related...)
>
> As for clients, I've used miniDLNA through both the Xbox360 and a Sony
> BluRay player - my tv doesn't have direct network access.
>
> So as for how I set it up I actually found it pretty easy.  (That is,
> compared to fuppes which I also got working well, just found it to be a lot
> more mucking about).  Note that I did everything as the root user,
> including running miniDLNA, but I'm not sure if you really have to.
>
> Primarily I used this resource I found on the net:
>
http://andrewpeng.net/posts/2010/03/04522-installing-minidlna-on-ubuntu-powerpc.\
html
>
> Once it was downloaded, built and installed I edited the configuration that
> was created:
> *
> root@SLUG:~# nano /etc/minidlna.confmedia_dir=V,/somewhere
> media_dir=V,/somewhere-else
>
> # set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your clients
> friendly_name=SLUG
>
> Get minidlna to autostart:
> root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# cp linux/minidlna.init.d.script
> /etc/init.d/minidlna
> root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# chmod +x /etc/init.d/minidlna
> root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# updated-rc.d minidlna defaults
>
> Start minidlna manually:
> root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# minidlna &
> *
>
> I've also used it to stream photos and music but I gave up on that because
> my client's interface didn't make it easy to sift through heaps of files.
>  (And I also remember on initial startup and subsequent database rebuild,
> it would randomly fail on some specific photos that I could never figure
> out why and there was no real error message thrown up - the scanning
> process would just halt and I'd have to move the offending photo out of the
> shared location, delete the miniDLNA database and try again.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 19 January 2012 21:10, Walter <contact@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've recently fired up my Slug again, with the goal of using it to stream
> > video to my TV, use it as a seedbox, a print server and just as general
> > network storage (Samba). I thought my TV supported Samba but appearantly it
> > only supports DLNA. Since I always used Debian on the Slug, that's what I
> > installed. However, I'm having some trouble installing minidlna from the
> > repositories (insufficient memory I believe) and now I'm wondering if maybe
> > I shouldn't use Debian anyway. I'm also wondering if my Slug will be
> > powerful enough to support a DLNA server anyway.
> >
> > Basically my question is what is the best way to achieve what I want
> > (print server, dlna server, file server and seedbox (rtorrent I suppose)).
> > Should I pick a different firmware perhaps? Are the other firmwares lighter
> > then Debian? Some pointers here and there would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Walter
> >
> >
> >
>

Well.... What I didn't mention is that I was on my home wifi when streaming to
my phone :). Pretty standard router, so probably a maximum of 54 mbps.

--- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, "M.J. Johnson" <threeeyedtoad@...> wrote:
>
> I'm curious about this setup - I assume the Slug is merely acting as a sort
> of streamcast, and that no transcoding is going on (given the Slug's meager
> memory and processing power - particularly the lack of a FPU).
>
> If this assumption is correct, what is the encoder/file format of the
> source material you are streaming out to your phone?  Also, what kind of
> upstream bandwidth is necessary to make a solution like this work?  I
> assume you need a pretty big pipe coming out of your house/wherever the
> Slug lives.  (I barely have enough pipe to stream MP3s out of my home
> without stuttering, and those have to be orders of magnitude less Mbps.)
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Walter <contact@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. I got minidlna to work in the end. Before I had
> > trouble compiling with the Slug running out of memory in the process. I
> > chose a different approach to install minidlna, since the instructions in
> > your link didn't work for me (make wouldn't work because "No targets
> > specified and no makefile found. Stop."). I download the src tarball from
> > sourceforge and compiled that instead. Worked perfectly.
> >
> > Minidlna streams 720p versions of the BBC Life series to my phone without
> > trouble. Unfortunately, my Samsung TV does not see the Slug's DLNA server
> > in my network. But that's not related to the slug ofcourse. Anyway, thanks
> > for your help!
> >
> > - Walter
> >
> >
> > --- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, Peter Somogyi <smodge123@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Walter.
> > >
> > > You're in luck - I run my slug with Debian Squeeze (6.0.3) and miniDLNA
> > on
> > > it, no problems. My NSLU2 runs the factory memory, I haven't upped it
> > like
> > > some tutorials show you how, however I did remove the factory limiting
> > CPU
> > > frequency throttle that my earlier NSLU2 had (something to do with
> > > scratching out a really tiny chip on the circuit board). My NSLU2 runs
> > > just fine: I also run rtorrent in the background with up to 10 files; I
> > > don't really run a file server but I do run samba and vsftpd; I don't
> > run a
> > > print server.
> > >
> > > Before I tried Debian (initially lenny) I did try the other NSLU2
> > firmwares
> > > and wasn't happy with them: the installable modules seemed limiting and I
> > > don't remember if rtorrent was supported that well, which I really
> > wanted!
> > > Since Debian I've never looked back.
> > >
> > > Anyway back to miniDLNA: I haven't tried streaming any HD stuff (1080p)
> > so
> > > I'm not sure how well it'd cope with that but for standard definition
> > > videos it works really well. I just start miniDLNA and leave it running
> > > the whole time. It picks up new media in the configured shared locations,
> > > although *sometimes* the odd file won't appear on the DLNA client even
> > > though I've checked the miniDLNA database and I can see it's registered
> > in
> > > there. (Not sure if it's a naming issue thing, it's not permission
> > > related...)
> > >
> > > As for clients, I've used miniDLNA through both the Xbox360 and a Sony
> > > BluRay player - my tv doesn't have direct network access.
> > >
> > > So as for how I set it up I actually found it pretty easy. (That is,
> > > compared to fuppes which I also got working well, just found it to be a
> > lot
> > > more mucking about). Note that I did everything as the root user,
> > > including running miniDLNA, but I'm not sure if you really have to.
> > >
> > > Primarily I used this resource I found on the net:
> > >
> >
http://andrewpeng.net/posts/2010/03/04522-installing-minidlna-on-ubuntu-powerpc.\
html
> > >
> > > Once it was downloaded, built and installed I edited the configuration
> > that
> > > was created:
> > > *
> > > root@SLUG:~# nano /etc/minidlna.confmedia_dir=V,/somewhere
> >
> > > media_dir=V,/somewhere-else
> > >
> > > # set this if you want to customize the name that shows up on your
> > clients
> > > friendly_name=SLUG
> > >
> > > Get minidlna to autostart:
> > > root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# cp linux/minidlna.init.d.script
> > > /etc/init.d/minidlna
> > > root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# chmod +x /etc/init.d/minidlna
> > > root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# updated-rc.d minidlna defaults
> > >
> > > Start minidlna manually:
> > > root@SLUG:~/minidlna/src# minidlna &
> > > *
> > >
> > > I've also used it to stream photos and music but I gave up on that
> > because
> > > my client's interface didn't make it easy to sift through heaps of files.
> > > (And I also remember on initial startup and subsequent database rebuild,
> > > it would randomly fail on some specific photos that I could never figure
> > > out why and there was no real error message thrown up - the scanning
> > > process would just halt and I'd have to move the offending photo out of
> > the
> > > shared location, delete the miniDLNA database and try again.)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > > On 19 January 2012 21:10, Walter <contact@> wrote:
> > >
> > > > **
> >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > >
> > > > I've recently fired up my Slug again, with the goal of using it to
> > stream
> > > > video to my TV, use it as a seedbox, a print server and just as general
> > > > network storage (Samba). I thought my TV supported Samba but
> > appearantly it
> > > > only supports DLNA. Since I always used Debian on the Slug, that's
> > what I
> > > > installed. However, I'm having some trouble installing minidlna from
> > the
> > > > repositories (insufficient memory I believe) and now I'm wondering if
> > maybe
> > > > I shouldn't use Debian anyway. I'm also wondering if my Slug will be
> > > > powerful enough to support a DLNA server anyway.
> > > >
> > > > Basically my question is what is the best way to achieve what I want
> > > > (print server, dlna server, file server and seedbox (rtorrent I
> > suppose)).
> > > > Should I pick a different firmware perhaps? Are the other firmwares
> > lighter
> > > > then Debian? Some pointers here and there would be greatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > >
> > > > Walter
> > > >
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