Archive for 'NAS'

OpenWrt Gemini 0.2

29 March 2008

Paolo Scaffardi just released version 0.2 of his OpenWrt port for SL3516 based devices. The main change from the 0.1 release is that he switched to the OpenWrt trunk as base. The great benefit of this decision is that there are a lot more packages available (over 940 new packages). The pre-compiled firmware images worked […]

Webif^2 tutorial part 02

22 March 2008

Last time we created a simple “hello world” page. Not very useful. For our NAS box we need a way to input/select configuration data. Web interfaces implement user input using HTML forms. Webif^2 provides some features to make it easier to work with them.
The following example allows us to enter the name (text) and job […]

Webif^2 tutorial part 01

21 March 2008

This article tries to explain how you can extend Webif^2 with your own functionality. I am myself new to Webif^2. The reason i am writing this article is to get acquainted enough with the code so i can decide if i would like to use it to create some NAS specific functionality.
Webif^2 runs on […]

Webif^2 on a NAS box

21 March 2008

Webif^2 aka. X-Wrt is a kick ass web interface used on OpenWrt systems. I really like it but as the main focus of OpenWrt is routers and related devices it is missing a lot of functionality which would be needed for a NAS box. Still its a good starting point. It has all the basic […]

Up and running!

13 March 2008

I managed to build and install the 0.1 release of OpenWrt for SL3516 based devices. It needed some small tweaks to make it compile but nothing too serious. The only pitfall was that you need to change the gcc version from 4.2 (pre-selected) to 4.1.2. If you don’t do this there will be no […]

Crippled Redboot

12 March 2008

From working with evaluation boards for the intel ixp4xx and ixp24xx i have some previous experience with Redboot and i always liked its power and flexibility. Given this i really don’t like the Redboot found on the NAS-4220 (and other SL351x based systems). It has been stripped of a lot of functionality i came to […]

dm_crypt on the NAS-4220

11 March 2008

According to Harald Welte who had a look at the GPL sources released by RaidSonic, the hardware crypto acceleration is not integrated with dm_crypt. It supports only the older and now deprecated crypto loop system. That is bad news. Getting this done might prove to be some work.

OpenWrt for SL3516 based devices

11 March 2008

I was not the only one who thought that OpenWrt might be a good choice to create a better firmware image for the NAS-4220. This guy has already started a port based on the Kamikaze branch (OpenWrt stable). The project is in an early stage but i will give it a spin anyway.

OpenWrt

10 March 2008

I’ve been wondering which system to use for building a custom firmware for the NAS-4220. I’ve worked with ptxdist and buildroot in the past so i was inclined to simply use buildroot. On the other hand i have heard a lot of good stuff about the OpenWrt project. It was originally started to provide custom […]

Sausalito

10 March 2008

The NAS-4220 is using internally something called Sausalito. Spending some time with google reveals that this is a web-based (only?) system management system originally developed for the Cobalt RaQ. After Sun terminated the Cobalt Raq product line the software was put out under the BSD license.
The developer documentation can be found here. Beware, lots of […]

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