Comments on: Update – Debian on Agestar Firmware

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.
mailto expressioned gmail.com

By: eXpressionist

eXpressionist — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:27:10 +0000

@yohanes

It’s you who make a star-xxx.bin? I found bootpImage.8132, it works on my device (loads debian from usb flash). But when I enter cat /proc/mtd I see
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 003f0000 00010000 “ALL”
mtd1: 00040000 00010000 “ARMBOOT”
mtd2: 00100000 00010000 “Linux Kernel”
mtd3: 002a0000 00010000 “MTD Disk1″
mtd4: 00010000 00010000 “MTD Disk2″

But I need
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00040000 00010000 “Bootloader”
mtd1: 007a0000 00010000 “HI,Kernel & Ramdisk”
mtd2: 00010000 00010000 “configure”
mtd3: 005c0000 00010000 “squashfs”
mtd4: 00800000 00010000 “STR8131 SPI”

Can you help me? I need just replace mtd3 in device with my original file, which I can put on the usb stick.

By: eXpressionist

eXpressionist — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:17:03 +0000

@yohanes

I read this, communicate with Rostislav. Trying everything except of LPT programmator – it’s so difficult for me to unsolder flash (btw, I don’t have a good solder).

By: yohanes

yohanes — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:34:20 +0000

@eXpressionist

NSB3AST uses STR8132

read this

http://groups.google.com/group/dealextreme-nas-/web/unbrick-agestar-nsb3ast

and read the groups in general

By: eXpressionist

eXpressionist — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:24:57 +0000

Hey there. I killed my Agestar NSB3AST with uploading mtdblock3.bin
Serial connection works, but device hangs on “booting the kernel”.
I was trying to tftp original firmware (without first 256k), everything the same. Then I downloaded star-20092008.bin, cut 128k, and still nothing happens (just “booting the kernel” and then hangs).
Any ideas?