Thanks chimbo, that's nice to know. I've been surfing left and right on MLdonkey's website, and all I could gather was that MLdonkey does not develop its own GUI, so you'd have to install Sancho or somethin'. It looks to me that these guys do make a difference b/w a GUI and a WebUI, hence I may have been searching for the wrong string...

Otherwise, I don't suppose that you have any useful advice on how to use JKR's mldonkey file, do you? I got as far as unzipping the archive in Airlive's Public folder, though I still have to figure out how to start mldonkey. Typing mlnet (which is the only non-empty mldonkey file I could find) gives the following error message:


Among others, I'd be very interested to find out how to access mldonkey's WebUI. (The http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page has, so far, turned out to be supremely useless.)

Many thanks for the tip.

Here is a short guide on how to install mldonkey.

Your box must be equipped with one of JKR's firmwares.
First you should have a solid base in your box.
My base already contains mc (the filemanager 'midnight commander') and many more usefull tools (all supplied by JKR).
Please use PuTTY to telnet to your box if using WIN to have mouse support in mc.
You can download my base from here

http://rapidshare.com/files/111788923/C.zip.html

Unzip it to your box (\\192.168.xxx.xxx\Storage\C or \\192.168.xxx.xxx\Public or /mnt/C depending on how your box is configured and what system you are using to do the unzip).
You now have the file C.tar at this place.
Download this file  from JKR's addons

http://mgb111.pradnik.net/addons/mldonkey-2.9.4-multi.tar

Copy it to the same location.

Login to your box as root using telnet (password is 'admin' or 'airlive' by default).
Backup all valuable data, if any, in /mnt/C/sys/ and /mnt/C/root (this of course can also be done before).
Type in the following commands:


The last command closes the connection and your box reboots.

Login to your box again as root using telnet.
Edit '/mnt/C/root/.mldonkey/downloads.ini' to add your pc (or all machines in your subnet) to the list of allowed gui clients.
You can use 'e3' wchich is a simple wordstar like editor (or mc or vi or ...).


These lines work in my installation


All 192.168.178.xxx and 192.168.123.xxx adresses and the box itself are allowed.

Now you can start mldonkey


Wait a minute or three until the message 'core started' appears on screen.


Now you should be able to use your webbrowser to connect to mldonkey using an URL like this

http://192.168.xxx.xxx:4080/

Hope I didn't forget anything

chimbo


ps. All this is running also on my mgb100 box. If anyone wants to know more, simply ask

pps. I forgot to mention that swapping must be active on your box. Check with


when logged in.

@Chimbo great guide  y thanks for sharing your Knowledge,  have you any guide to run this add-on  http://mgb111.pradnik.net/addons/apache-1.3.41-php-gdlib-mysql.tar.gz  or what recommend to use.

Thanks in advance,

A solid base is something you can build on. In this case a sys directory containing all needed libraries and init files and (very important especially in your case) a root directory (home dir for user root) with appropriate rights.

Unzipping in WIN is done as user 'nobody' which is quite different from doing that as root.

chimbo

And 'untaring' in WIN is almost impossible because WIN does not know about 'symlinks'

Hi Chimbo, Kalin's right, MLdonkey is not very popular with relevant trackers. Besides, it's a configuration nightmare--I spent most day today attempting to find out how to change the friggin' download ("incoming") folder, and I still couldn't figure it out. The WebUI sucks as well.

All in all, can you suggest some other BT client that would work on the Airlive (or whatever) please? Even better, can I/we get you (or JKR) to please compile Deluge for the Airlive? Or at least KTorrent? 

Otherwise, I am in further need of:

(1) a file manager that allows for fast file transfers between the Airlive HDD and the USB port (the speeds I get with mc are quite lame--believe it or not, at this point it's faster to do transfers via network than directly!)

(2) a (simple) web server (...as far as I can recall, configuring Apache requires a time commitment way beyond what I am willing to invest)

(3) an SSH server

Would you recommend any of the files in JKR's repository for the above tasks?

Thanks

P.S. I see he just posted a newer version of mc ... Could that be faster?

Hi - I have a MGB 111 PE-4088 from pearl and i wanted to update it with following firmware

mgb111-update-400b2.c008m3

in web-gui i recive an error that refers to the name - so i renamed it to mgb111.bin -> but with this i got an other error

on my box now is the firmware 20080121_NetworkStorage_R400b2.BIN

and i can update it with the firmware from chimbo -> upgrade_b2_080307.bin

but i want to test that from jkr - can somebody perhaps help me?

thanks

Have you checked your CPU/memory usage? I have tried both of JKR's files and it seems really demanding. I know that mlnet uses a lot of resources but not sure if there's something wrong in the configuration or something:

%CPU   %MEM  COMMAND
92.1      69.4    mlnet

%CPU    %MEM   COMMAND
16.4      72.5      mlnet

 %CPU   %MEM   COMMAND
 76.7     71.4      mlnet

It does not look OK to me...