Re: Debian on HP mv2120: important upgrade note

2020-06-14 Thread Rob J. Epping
did you check Martin Michlmayr's site before upgrading? Especially [1] and [2] [1] [2] On June 15, 2020 4:14:05 AM UTC, derek norsworthy wrote: >Debian 9 wont detect ethernet on mv

Re: QNAP

2019-09-10 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi Phil, On September 10, 2019 8:33:09 PM UTC, Phil wrote: >Hello, > >I tried the Script from this website http://www.cyrius.com/debian/... >to >install debian on my system. It says I should contact this adress >because my NAS is unknwon I have the QNAP TS-439 Pro, It has nearly the > >same

Re: guruplug doesn't boot after upgrade kernel

2019-04-11 Thread Rob J. Epping
On April 11, 2019 3:06:20 PM UTC, Lieven Baes wrote: >On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 4:13 PM Martin Michlmayr >wrote: > [snip] >[0.008443] Console: colour dummy device 80x30 >[0.013038] console [tty0] enabled console is opened on dummy "screen" device >[0.016581] bootconsole [earlycon0]

Re: QNAP TS-21x system temperature

2019-01-07 Thread Rob J. Epping
On January 7, 2019 8:44:55 PM UTC, "namo...@gmx.net" wrote: >Hi Debian ARM List Hi Roman, >I'm running debian stretch on my QNAP TS-210. >Under QNAP firmware I was able to get the system temperature using this > >command: ># cat /proc/tsinfo/systemp > >Where (filename) can I read out the system

Re: Fwd: Looking for a small NAS that runs Debian well

2017-12-13 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi Rogério, On 12/13/17 02:35, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > I would like to find a substitute to my KuroBox Pro, which is an armel-based > NAS. Here is its summary: > > * An Orion processor running at 400MHz > * 128MB of RAM > * a slot for one 3.5" SATA HDD > * gigabit ethernet > * 2

Re: issues during Debian installation process

2017-09-02 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, I see the messages: > BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c0933c20 idx:1 val:1 > Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x7f5f97d8 These error messages have been reported before on Debian-arm for devices with specific hardware. No resolution other than to install Kirkwood kernel f

Re: "external abort on linefetch (0x814)" on Kirkwood 6282 SoC

2017-07-29 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi Andrew and list, On 28-07-17 18:33, Andrew Lunn wrote: > So far, i've not been able to reproduce this. I have 6282 based QNAP > NAS box, with a single disk. Since this is a kernel hacking box, i > tftpboot and don't use an initrd. I've been using the > mvebu_v5_defconfig kernel configuration an

Re: QNAP TS-419P Stretch ATA errors

2017-07-07 Thread Rob J. Epping
On 27 June 2017 07:52:34 CEST, Timo Jyrinki wrote: >2017-04-20 9:14 GMT+03:00 Rob J. Epping >: >> On April 19, 2017 7:47:49 PM GMT+02:00, John Horan > wrote: >>>I upgraded my storage to stretch the other day, and the device >started >>>freezing. So I hooked

Re: Errors and crash while (re-)installing Debian on TS-421

2017-07-07 Thread Rob J. Epping
A quick me too. My TS-221 has very similar issues To me it seems the change from kirkwood to Marvell flavour triggered this for the 6282 SOC. My TS-219 with a 6281 SOC has no issues with recent stretch kernels. GRTNX, RobJE On July

Re: QNAP TS-419P Stretch ATA errors

2017-04-19 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi John, On April 19, 2017 7:47:49 PM GMT+02:00, John Horan wrote: >I upgraded my storage to stretch the other day, and the device started >freezing. So I hooked up a serial console and saw the lots of ata >errors > [snip errors] > >I'm going to try going back to jessie, to see if its a hardware

Re: Unknown QNAP Model

2016-12-21 Thread Rob J. Epping
Looks like this was also discussed back in April, see [1] [1] Device hardware specs look interesting (2-core A15), but mainline kernel support was the issue back then. Not sure if that situation has improved. I would also like to see D

Re: error since moving to marvell kernel - BUG: Bad rss-counter state

2016-10-23 Thread Rob J. Epping
Quick update. After tip from ukleinek in #debian-arm irc I swapped disks between TS-221 and TS-219. Loaded kernel en initrd from usb device to overcome luks wait. result: kernel + initrd + disk running fine in TS-219 has below errors in TS-221. ukleinek and I also found that both flavors use DTB

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2015-10-12 Thread Rob J. Epping
On October 12, 2015 4:29:51 PM GMT+02:00, JM wrote: >On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 04:37:52PM +0200, JM wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:24:17PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> >> Hi ki

Re: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

2015-09-14 Thread Rob J. Epping
On September 14, 2015 12:45:03 PM GMT+02:00, JM wrote: >On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Steve McIntyre >wrote: >> >> Summary: if people care about armel for Stretch, they should make >> noise NOW and convince people it's needed and can/should be supported >> in future. >> > >I'm running Debian o

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-12 Thread Rob J. Epping
On 11-9-2015 9:51, JM wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Rob J. Epping wrote: > >> I hacked flash-kernel to use flashcp from mtd-utils. Where using cat >> triggers ATA timeout and reset, using flashcp worked flawlessly. >> >> >> GRTNX, >> Ro

Re: flash-kernel puts QNAP on its knees

2015-09-06 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, On 08/21/2015 02:11 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 09:39 +0200, JM wrote: This is just a hunch, but perhaps a part of the problem is because flash-kernel simply cats the image to mtdblock, which is not the recommended way to deal with flash storage [1]. I'm afraid I disagr

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take < 1min to gather)

2014-07-09 Thread Rob J. Epping
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > Hello, > > TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based > QNAP systems as "./kirkwood-qnap --info" and report the results in this > thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP device (as precisely as > you can). The

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take < 1min to gather)

2014-06-17 Thread Rob J. Epping
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > Hello, > > TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based > QNAP systems as "./kirkwood-qnap --info" and report the results in this > thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP device (as precisely as > you can). The

howto unbrick QNAP TS-219P

2013-05-20 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi I've been impatient enough to brick my TS-219P by bubt-ing (the TS has a serial console) the u-boot with a version I compiled from the QNAP sources (version 3.5.3; buildlog available). Now u-boot either hangs after -- begin snippet Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage. Mem mal

Re: Case for ARM-based system and single 3.5" hard disk?

2013-03-13 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Frank Tarczynski writes: >> I'm looking to build a small NAS box, sort of like the WD Mybook, but with >> more capabilities. Does anyone know of a small case that will hold an ARM >> based board and a single 3.5" SAT

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi Paul, Interesting question. I'm also interested in what devices come out of this discussion. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these de

Re: qcontrol development

2011-03-06 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi Bas, On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Bas Delfos wrote: [SNIP] > The only thing is fan control, I would like to have it controlled > automatically. The reason is that my QNAP lives on the upper level of > the house, the temperature of the level can rise a lot in the summer. > To controle the Q

QNAP TS-219P upgrade from lenny to squeeze

2011-01-22 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi list, Today I decided to upgrade my TS-219P to squeeze. This went reasonably well. I had a struggle with insserv, rsyslogd and initscripts, but that is not arm related I guess. An other problem I had was that my device would not boot anymore after removal of linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-kirkwood.

Re: Bug #522583: fping broken on some arm systems?

2010-11-19 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, >> epp...@qnap:~$ dpkg -s fping | grep Version >> Version: 2.4b2-to-ipv6-15 > > Please note that you initially reported this with -16, and the other > report happened with -16.1. I believe -16 fixed much in this area, > so reports about -15 aren't unfortunately very useful. > > As I said earli

Re: Bug #522583: fping broken on some arm systems?

2010-11-18 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi > Could a few armel users please install fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1 from > squeeze or sid (it's also installable on a plain lenny system) and report > back (either privately to me or to 522...@bugs.debian.org) if they see > things like As initial reporter of 522583 I tested again on my QNAP TS-2

where to get JST PHR-4

2010-07-02 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, A collegue and I are trying to get a serial console on our TS-219P's. We already have level-shifters and are now searching for a place to get JST PHR-4 connectors. It looks like these are the same connectors as were used (a decade ago) to connect CD-rom drive audio to the soundcard. But those

Re: apex-nslu2 error

2009-09-17 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Gordon Farquharson [2009-09-17 08:14]: >> Thanks for the information. I think I know what is going on. egrep is >> not finding a match (i.e. all lines contain "*=") and so is returning 1 > > I ran some tests too and I don't think e

where to get kernel and support files

2009-08-15 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi list, When I had my TS-209 I used the kernels Martin provides because he adds DMA-patches which make the system faster (THNX Martin!). Now I upgraded to a TS-219P for which Martin provides kernels, but there are also kernels provided on backports.org. Same for the flash-kernel package although

Re: Re: ts209ii to ts219p hw upgrade w/ present hd config

2009-08-06 Thread Rob J. Epping
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:31 PM, John Holland wrote: >> * John Holland [2009-08-05 21:35]: >> > Martin, would it be possible to include a backport of squeeze's >> > flash-kernel package in your repository? >> >> Will do. > > Wow, you're quick, thanx. An other solution would be this... epp...@qna

[TS-219P] stuck with wrong mtd2

2009-08-01 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi All, Like some other on this list I also wanted to upgrade from a TS-209 pro II to a TS-219P. Using Martins upgrade instructions I flashed the new device with an unpatched mtd2. After inserting my disks and booting I found the device did not finish booting. This is where I found out that I sho