Comments on: Update – Debian on Agestar Firmware

By: fekusz26

fekusz26 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:55:39 +0000

Hello!
I have an Agestar NSB3AS. I’d like to install Debian on it, but my firmware doesn’t accepts the star.bin through the web interface. I tried to downgrade the firmware to V04R11, but neither it works. It seems that the oldest version it accepts is V01R07…
Can I flash somehow from telnet (using dd from the original firmware)?

By: wild banan

wild banan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:02:55 +0000

Hello! Could you try it on “AgeStar LB3-G”?

By: Isara

Isara — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:10:43 +0000

I can run debian on this box by folllow upgrade without serial instruction and work for while. I download zImage-20092008, the file size was around 4 M for upgrade this box again with this command

dd if=zImage-20092008 of=/dev/mtdblock1

It show that the process was successful and I reboot the system, system was not boot into debian and it seem to be not boot from my hdd. I am not sure what i do wrong. Is it brick or not? How can it get it unbrick?

Thank for your help.

Isara

By: установка батарей отопления в квартире

установка батарей отопления в квартире — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:35:17 +0000

здорово здорово

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:31:12 +0000

Hi everybody,

I updated the firmware of my STR9104 chipset NAS (http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/35-inch-hdd-nas-with-print-server-and-bit-torrent/) a few times and all goes well, but with this Debian firmware it seems to break.

The network port never ask for IP so I cannot do anything.

It doesn’t have a serial port; only one USB for an external HD and other USB for the printer.

Any idea of how to solve the problem? The only solution is to change the firmware? grrr…..

Also I tries to use the Hardware Reset button but nothing happend.

Thanks in advance,
Diego

By: dznews.org

dznews.org — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:57:56 +0000

Some English translation of @Sallaxer FAQ NSB3AS / NSB3AST (how to flash custom firmware)

http://code.google.com/p/nsb3ast/wiki/howto

By: Turrican

Turrican — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:53:14 +0000

thanks for the clarification, I’ll give Debian a shot

-=t=-

By: eXpressionist

eXpressionist — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:05:06 +0000

@ Turrican

SnakeOS directly incompatible with NCB3AST (STR9100). It even incompatible with NSB3AST (STR8132, just the same like in Dealextreme-nas).
For your device Debian – best choice. But you can find a way to compile programs for this chip and put them in through unsquashfs/squashfs, then dd in mtdblock3.bin. See links in Sallaxer’s comment.

By: Turrican

Turrican — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:36:43 +0000

@yohanes

Have you tried putting Snake OS on the ncb3ast? If so, how did you do it? It wont let you install via the web interface

Thanks
-=t=-

By: eXpressionist

eXpressionist — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:13:54 +0000

btw, if someone have an account on cnusers.org – please help me to download some sources for STR8132.
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