Thanks

All good. SAMBA in and up :o)

Only 2 things remain……

The hard disc never ever spins down.

Has anyone done any work on this with Debian on a Mybook?

Also, apt-get says that the latest udev conflicts with this particular kernel. Any thoughts on how to proceed anyone?

Ta

Dan

Does the hard drive spin down and stay down after a time of no use? (I have modded my current standard 2.00.18 firmware with scripts for this).

Does the usb port on the unit still function?

Do the blue leds operate as before - i.e spinning effect when disc is being accessed?

After installation does the data partition get mounted automatically?

I will also have to learn how to configure samba from the terminal….Not too hard I imagine.

That's it for now.

:o))

1. vi /mnt/md1/etc/rcS.d/S11hack

#---CUT HERE-——
#!/bin/sh

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2
/usr/sbin/sshd &
exit 0

#-END HERE--

Made that executable (chmod +x /mnt/md1/etc/rcS.d/S11hack), plugged the drive back into the device, fired it up and I'm back in and diagnosing it at least. I'd be curious to know if someone found a real cure for this, rather than an ugly hacl. ;)

Also, thanks to everyone for all on the great work on this so far! Always nice to see Debian running on more devices. It's really starting to earn that "universal operating system" name. :D

I want to install your firmware, but the mybook does not connect to the network now. So I cannot use this now.

- I installed the firmware.
- Change root password and reconfigure sshd.
- I upgrade my system with —fix-missing options.
- I installed "locales" and I reconfigure this, too. (I change the locale to hu_HU.UTF8).
- Reboot mybook and it does not connect to the network.

Can you help me? What's wrong?

Thanks!

does anyone test it with the 1TB "white light" edition?

and sesond question: i suppose this firmware overwrites the wd-orginal completly?! is there any possibility to restore the original after lenny was installed?!

thx
Chris

maybe it's not that great, but i'll post it here just in case someone will will need it:

i was looking into /etc/rc0.d/S90halt (symlink to /etc/init.d/halt) and i found those lines:

 # Don't shut down drives if we're using RAID. hddown="-h" if grep -qs '^md.*active' /proc/mdstat then hddown="" fi 

so i modified

 # Don't shut down drives if we're using RAID. hddown="-h" # if grep -qs '^md.*active' /proc/mdstat # then # hddown="" # fi 

but it will work even just putting a -h on the second "hddown=".

now let's hope in a future working power button :)

bye.

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-169036/howto-install-ushare-for-mylenny-firmware

a little question: i just installed MyLenny on my "new" 500GB MyBook World (well, bought used from ebay, indeed). well, everything is working fine, at least for now, except for the poweroff.

i know that the power button doesn't work correctly without a proper module, but if i launch a halt/poweroff/shutdown from ssh it should go down, right? in my case it seems that the system is shutted down, but the hard disk keep spinning and if i press the power button it restart debian normally.

is it normal? any clue?

thank you in advance :)

P.S.: sorry for any grammal engrish errors.

 # export PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH # ipkg remove lighttpd # export PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH # apt-get update # apt-get install lighttpd # ln -s lighttpd /etc/init.d/lighttpd.sh # sh webserversetup.sh 

I haven't tried this, but it should be fine

then i cannot access the website after all

 # wget http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/local--files/mylenny-firmware/opt-lenny.v1.tar.gz # tar -xzvf opt-lenny.v1.tar.gz -C / 

Cheers,
Alex

fixed it

 root@mybook:~# apt-get update apt-get: /lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GLIBC_2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) root@mybook:~# 

:(

Do I need to modify u-boot.bin by myself ?

http://rapidshare.com/files/245951224/debfirmware.v1.1.fixed.sh

I upload all "MyLenny" firmware files here
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5caef65db4676113d5a101cf914073b47a802e7f33fdbd0d
If you can host them somewhere with a direct link, it would be great.

P.S. Naturally, I remove firmwares that are buggy, so now there's only one file in that folder.

Send it to me, or tell me how to download from you, and i'll upload the file..

Thanks,

Cheers,

Thanks a lot for this firmware…… i'll keep on working on it…..

In the /etc/udev/rules.d/ there is a file with a mac-address assigned to eth0 (I suppose yours).
Then, when i boot my disk, detects a new mac-address (mine), and creates a new eth1, which is my real interface.
But, /etc/network/interfaces doesn't have any DHCP configuration for eth1, just eth0.
That's why boots up, but doesn't have IP address.

I've modified these files, and will try as soon as posible….. I'll let you know….

Thanks again!

Come on people, lets help him fix the power button problem and we have a winner firmware here!

btw, I'm using blue rings, does leon support actually do anything, I've heard its a network co-processor thing

• My router supports "show attached devices", and the WD doesn't appear.
• I assign a fixed IP address to the WD mac-address, and the WD doesn't appear either.

That's why I ask about another different solution……

The fact is that seems the interface doesn't go up, but the rest is running (hard-drive 'sounds', blue rings light, …)

Have you try pushing reset button?

Thanks for everything!

after reading a lot for the last days, i tried…… and followed exactly the install procedure…..
Few minutes after launching the upgrade (/var/upgrade/upgrade1.sh) my putty lost connection, and from that moment, i can't connect mybook.
I have DCHP running in the router, but no IP appears…

I've also tried rebooting the device….. after some seconds, i can see the blue rings, but no connection at all….

Do you have any idea what can i do? Maybe reset button? Or open the box?

Thanks…

apt-get install samba

This is a full Debian operating system so if you want something just apt-get install it. There are thousands of packages for you to get. Google Debian and apt-get to find out more.

Boot time is a bit slower than the stock firmware boot time. Since it doesn't come with all the garbage Western Digital put in the stock firmware, you can maximise memory and CPU resources so transfer time is excellent. I can ftp at a maximum of 5MB/s with my mbwe. If you have one with a faster CPU you should get a higher maximum speed.

But the best part is its stability. It manages to stay alive even if I saturate it with more than 100 rtorrent connections. It has an easier time handling transmission though.

Thanks

I tested it on my 2TB two-disk box with both stock firmware and Debian Lenny installed.

Cheers,