Comments on: Hot air

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:06:32 +0000

I don’t think that lenny is supported any more – in fact I don’t think you need a custom kernel any more. I upgraded my install to Squeeze and turned off Martin’s repo.

-c

By: ga6iem

ga6iem — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:24:58 +0000

Nas:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://people.debian.org lenny Release.gpg [198B]
Hit http://people.debian.org lenny Release
Fetched 1B in 1s (1B/s)
Failed to fetch http://people.debian.org/~tbm/orion/dists/lenny/Release Unable to find expected entry main/binary-arm/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
Reading package lists… Done
W: Couldn’t stat source package list http://people.debian.org lenny/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian.org_%7etbm_orion_dists_lenny_main_binary-arm_Packages) – stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:39:20 +0000

Hey Manuel,

Did you have to configure anything to get them working, or did they work out of the box with the 2.6.30-rc6 kernel? I’m running Martin’s 2.6.29-2-orion5x kernel atm as it’s the latest in his repo.

Cheers,
Chris

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:56:08 +0000

Well I got the buttons and leds working with the kernel 2.6.30-rc6 (incl. patches from erik benada) build by Martin Michlmayr. Crypto-Support would be nice, too, I think But we need to wait for that (>= 2.6.31), maybe.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:42:44 +0000

Ahh, ok. Thanks for the info. I don’t mind the buttons not working. My main issue is the fan – which works, and I’d like it to crypt faster. It has an chip inside to do it, but AFAIK it’s not supported in the kernel yet, hence my blog about SSH algorithms. Once that works.. it’ll be a killer little box. For now I use arcfour over SSH or CIFS.

-c

By: Manuel

Manuel — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:28:01 +0000

As far as know Erik Benada and Martin Michlmayr are working together to wipe out the GPIO issues. Erik Benada has already aplied many patches and is porting the GPIO-thing to GPIOlib … But it seems that the last kernel I got from Martin does not include all patches BUT I am still trying it out, flashed it yesterday

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:04:29 +0000

Hi Manuel,

I shutdown the device and wait for the drives to spin down (listen for the “clunk”) and then I know I can safely turn it off I’ll try lm_sensors.. please let me know if you get anywhere with the other bits!

Cheers,
Chris

By: Manuel

Manuel — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:01:14 +0000

I am using Debian Lenny with the latest experimental kernel of Martin Michlmayr (2.6.30-rc5 Debian Kernel+Initrd). You might use the fans using ‘apt-get install lm_sensors’. Currently I trying to make use of the powerbutton, resetbutton and the leds. I even don’t know how to poweroff the device. But I think that only a matter of time… Debian works very well so far

By: Faster than a speeding, ahh.. speeding thing? at the blog of Chris

Faster than a speeding, ahh.. speeding thing? at the blog of Chris — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:06:54 +0000

[...] Since getting Debian up and running on my D-Link DNS-323 NAS, I’ve blogged about the slowness of secure copy to the device. This is due to the CPU maxing out when de-crypting. Peter Lieverdink suggested I might get better performance using a different algorithm such as blowfish. [...]

By: Cafuego

Cafuego — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:08:18 +0000

You might be able to get better speeds with scp if you specify a different cipher. I.e.: blowfish might be faster than the default aes128-cbc.

Once you find the fastest one, just set that in ~/.ssh/config. I’m pretty sure in older versions of ssh the cipher ‘none’ turned encryption off, but that option seems to be gone.