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| svdbergh 2005-08-12, 8:46 pm |
| Hi all,
I've been looking for other references to obtaining root access and
modifying the firmware of this NAS product. This thread seems to be
the only one talking about this...
Now Synology has posted the source of their firmware in agreement with
the GPL licence on their website. I downloaded the massive archive,
but since I'm not much of a Linux wizz, I can't really make heads or
tails of it. I am interested to learn though.
Could someone tell me where to look for info or a tutorial to help me
understand how to start using/modifying this source code ? I've tried
searching with Google, but I can't find a good reference...
Furthermore, Synology's new DS-101g+ seems very related to the DS-101
standard version and has a webserver built in... I wonder if the
DS-101 can be pursuaded to accept the firmware of the newer model...
Thanks in advance for any info !
Sven
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| > svdberghwrote:
> [...]
> Furthermore, Synology's new DS-101g+ seems very related to the
DS-101 standard version and has a webserver built in... I wonder if
the DS-101 can be pursuaded to accept the firmware of the newer
model...
> [...]
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Not at all! DS-101 is Intel ixp420 based, while DS-101g+ is Freescale
MPC8241 based, i.e. the first is ARM and the second PowerPC.
Interesting is that firmware for download available for DS-101 already
does have some bits related to PowerPC. For example you see there
loading of proprietary Intel ethernet driver in case of Arm and
loading of Marvel Yukon driver in case of PPC.
Also DS-101 seems to use RedBoot, so I would really expect this to be
very similar to reference intel ixdp42x design. BTW: I have very
similar toy here in excelent and _cheap_ Linksys NSLU2. I would
expect to be very similar, except software...
I'm also looking forward to seeing more information about 101g+, since
I'd like to get some "evaluation board" for PowerPC here, and using
some NAS and a bit hack it seems to be the most cheap solution --
I've already did the same for Arm/XScale and bought NSLU2.
Cheers,
Karel
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| > kcgwrote:
[quote:f38bb42cc3="svdbergh"]
> [...]
> Also DS-101 seems to use RedBoot, so I would really expect this to
be very similar to reference intel ixdp42x design. BTW: I have very
similar toy here in excelent and _cheap_ Linksys NSLU2. I would
expect to be very similar, except software...
> [...]
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BTW: Can anybody here try to telnet to DS-101 RedBoot? I'm curious if
this is possible to use this trick:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/TelnetIntoRedBoot
Thanks,
Karel
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