Arsenio Nest - il covo di Arsenio http://www.arsenio.net/blog Hacking, linux, opensource & technology Sun, 18 May 2008 19:45:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en A new torrent web gui for Tinky! http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/01/25/a-new-torrent-web-gui-for-tinky/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/01/25/a-new-torrent-web-gui-for-tinky/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:06:14 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/01/25/a-new-torrent-web-gui-for-tinky/ Yesterday night i finished porting Enhanced CTorrent and DCTCS (Yet anOther Dummy CTCS, an Enhanced CTorrent web frontend) to Tinky (our DUAL HDD NAS alternative firmware).

I just added to the Tinky-LS ipkg repository.

So, if you haven’t done it yet, add the repository to your Tinky configuration (see how here), and update the list of available packages doing a simple ‘ipkg-cl update‘.

Enjoy it and give me some feedback!

]]> http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/01/25/a-new-torrent-web-gui-for-tinky/feed/ Unbrick your NAS using JTAG method! http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/05/18/unbrick-your-nas-using-jtag-method/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/05/18/unbrick-your-nas-using-jtag-method/#comments Sun, 18 May 2008 19:45:11 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/05/18/unbrick-your-nas-using-jtag-method/ After some week of coding, great HwGURU and Rambo guys of nas-2000 forum, released a newer version of NAS FlashTool that do support the Gemini platform, too. I have helped them testing their software on my bricked NAS, and on the working one. Now, i have unbricked all these in some minute.

Compared to DUAL HDD IDE NAS, enabling JTAG and DEBUG mode on the GIGANAS is simpler because you only have to short pin1-17 after you turn on the NAS. No soldering required.

If you are interested, read the yet updated NAS unbricking guide.

]]> http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/05/18/unbrick-your-nas-using-jtag-method/feed/ More than 944 new packages for the new OpenWRT for Gemini platform http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/28/more-than-944-new-packages-for-the-new-openwrt-for-gemini-platform/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/28/more-than-944-new-packages-for-the-new-openwrt-for-gemini-platform/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:50:06 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/28/more-than-944-new-packages-for-the-new-openwrt-for-gemini-platform/ After many weeks of hard work, here it is the new snapshot of OpenWRT Kamikaze trunk for the Gemini platform.

This release includes all 944 buildable packages (you can read here the complete list of available ipkg packages).

These are download links:

Since i had no time to edit the wiki accordling, to install the new release you have to follow previous version installation instructions.

Please read the ChangeLog into the target/linux/gemini folder before any question.

All feedbacks are welcome on our forum.

]]> http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/28/more-than-944-new-packages-for-the-new-openwrt-for-gemini-platform/feed/ OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.09 for Gemini platform! http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/10/openwrt-kamikaze-709-for-gemini-platform/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/10/openwrt-kamikaze-709-for-gemini-platform/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:30:54 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/10/openwrt-kamikaze-709-for-gemini-platform/ I am proud to announce my first release of OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.09 port for the StorLink Gemini platform.  Read more here.

]]> http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/03/10/openwrt-kamikaze-709-for-gemini-platform/feed/ How many StorLink-based NASes out there? http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/how-many-storlink-nas-out-there/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/how-many-storlink-nas-out-there/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:10:21 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/how-many-storlink-nas-out-there/ Surfing the web i found many StorLink-based NASes. I knew MRT Communications and RaidSonic used the StorLink processor. Now i found Freecom, too, with its Network Drive Pro, based on the StorLink GEMINI platform (the same as GIGABIT NAS). Good new: its firmware is not based on Sausalito, but on SnapGear linux distribution.

There’s a good community around that - named OpenFSG - that obtained complete firmware sources. I’ve tried them and i was surprised to see the built fine at first try. And built kernel and firmware image works fine on my GIGA NAS. But that firmware needs the first hard disk as rootfilesystem, and should be not custom-partitioned (like i need). So, i’ve to work on that to let this image work on a JFFS2 flash image.

As SamTruman told, there are two more NASes out there: Netgear ReadyNAS Duo and Thecus N299. I will investigate on them, ASAP.

About my project: i’m porting OpenWRT to the Gemini and Centroid platforms, to let us replace official firmwares with this great project firmware. I really need to have a flash-based image with many optional packages that can be installed using the web GUI.

So, if you are interested… simply stay tuned!

]]> http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/how-many-storlink-nas-out-there/feed/ Bootloader dump for bricked NASes! http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/8/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/8/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:56:37 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/8/ Hi there!
Due to many help requests, i put the dump of my DUAL HDD NAS bootloader here.Enjoy it!

But remember, if you used Tinky-LS you should not have bricked your NAS simply because my image DONT include the bootloader like Tinky did before. So the only bad thing you could have done is have rebooted the NAS before the flash programming has completed. If so, your NAS could not complete the boot process, but the bootloader should always be there and accessible using the telnet method. Have you correctly tried it before trying anything else?
Good luck!

]]> http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/10/8/feed/ Tinky-LS for GIGA Nas is out! http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/02/tinky-ls-for-giga-nas-is-out/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/02/tinky-ls-for-giga-nas-is-out/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:28:17 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/02/tinky-ls-for-giga-nas-is-out/ I know about many GIGA Nas users who bricked their Nas trying to upgrade the firmware to Tinky or Tinky-LS. That’s why included kernel is not compatible with the GIGA Nas one. So, you have to remove the kernel from the update firmware package. I did it for you. You can download it from here.

But be aware: it seems that GIGA Nas cannot be unbricked using the embedded bootloader telnet server, because - simply speaking - it hasn’t it. The only way to reload the right kernel image on its partition is building a 3.3V TTL serial adapter and using the bootloader console to do that.

Now you can enjoy Tinky-Ls without any pain!

]]> http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/02/02/tinky-ls-for-giga-nas-is-out/feed/ A new look for Arsenio http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/01/23/al-via-il-nuovo-blog/ http://www.arsenio.net/blog/2008/01/23/al-via-il-nuovo-blog/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:15:41 +0000 admin http://www.arsenio.net/wordpress/?p=3 Arsenio.Net, dopo 8 anni di vita, cambia finalmente faccia!

Da semplice dominio di presenza, piuttosto anonimo, ora si è trasformato in un blog. Questo vuol essere un po’ come un diario dove annotare le mie riflessioni e condividere con altri le mie passioni.

Ah, quasi dimenticavo: d’ora in poi alcuni post - soprattutto quelli tecnici riguardanti i miei esperimenti di hacking - saranno in lingua inglese per facilitarne l’utilizzo alla vasta platea del web.

Che altro dire… stay tuned!

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