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« on: September 07, 2008, 13:24:19 PM » |
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Firstly, i only got the unit yesterday. I have NOT had time to read every guide and/or wiki available on this forum. I'm trying, and reading things as i find them so please... if i've missed something, just link me to it. I have an OEM (no brand) MGB100, firmware R4.00b0. I am having problems with the unit, and i think a firmware update will help. I found a thread here http://www.macsat.com/macsat/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,50/topic,685.0/ however i get an error telling me that firmware doesnt work (even after renaming the extension to .bin) Can someone please link me to the neccesary files to update the firmware on this unit, as well as some instructions on how to do so, if the GUI is insufficient. For reference sake, the problems i'm experiencing are that the unit will not stop giving out IP addresses, even when its set to DHCP client mode - this makes it useless for anything other than an AP connecting via ethernet, when i want it to use the other modes (it connects as a wireless repeater, but since its own DHCP never turns off the connection is useless) |
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« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2008, 15:58:06 PM » |
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as an update to anyone else attempting this, i needed the firmware from the 'new years thread' apparently the 'pearl' firmware is what i needed.
It seems you need this firmware first, and then to update it from there. I'll see how it goes and post back here (even if its just me talking to myself, i do so in the hope that other beginners will learn something out of it)
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« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2008, 04:15:47 AM » |
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another day, another update.
I cant seem to find a firmware to update to after the new years image. All the firmwares mention tons of things, but i have no idea what most of them are or do - i just want a more stable firmware for this device, preferably one with a working torrent client.
Can someone PLEASE help me.
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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2008, 18:41:45 PM » |
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Hi,
there shouldn't be any problem with uploading any upgrade file. Just rename from .upg to .bin
upgrades can only be flashed via GUI (webinterface)
latest is 080331, you can find in my repository, see footer.
torrent is working, but ..... maybe I release version with patched torrent ID sometime.
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« Last Edit: September 09, 2008, 18:48:44 PM by schufti »
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I won't answer posts or PMs about repair/recovery after bad flash until proven that the wiki was read and followed! find all my MGB100 files here, pass: mgb100 |
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« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2008, 01:41:50 AM » |
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thank you schufti.
It would be great if you could update the BT client!
Does the version you linked me to still have the segfaults with files >300MB?
The inbuilt BT client appears to have no options at all - no way to set what port it uses, no upload/download limits... is there anything that can be done about that?
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« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2008, 16:47:16 PM » |
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Hi,
if you usee the latest version and repartition your hd with the gui (to automatically enable swapping) it will even work on 9GB torrents; still problems might occur if the torrent consists of too many files.
if you use the -sq version, there is even more free RAM, but you will not be able to use the "autobootfs" feature.
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« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2008, 17:13:35 PM » |
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i dont know what bootfs is, does that even matter to me?
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« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2008, 11:28:29 AM » |
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no matter what i do, i cant seem to get 2GB+ files on there.
How should i format the drive to make that work?
fat32 has a 4GB limit which i'd prefer to bypass, and whatever default format the GUI uses wont let me pass 2GB.
(for reference, its a 60GB HDD in the unit)
and thanks schufti, for the help so far.
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« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2008, 22:28:22 PM » |
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Hi,
if you partition with the gui, it uses ext2 and that should have no (relevant) limit to filesize.
I (re)formated my hd (10GB) quite a lot during the development of my fw and tested a lot of file copying but never encountered such a problem, neither did I get feedback related to such problem.
If I can find some time this week I will rebuild my test box and look into it.
Can you partition and format the hd in your PC with linux?
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« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2008, 03:50:18 AM » |
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i dont have any linux OS's, can you reccomend me a bootable live CD, and/or a windows tool that works? (needs to be vista compatible, i dont use XP anymnore)
edit: it may actually be this PC thats causing the problems. Another system thats nearly identical (same OS, firewall and antivirus) can copy larger files with no problems... this one at one stage actually copied the files to a local drive instead of to the network one for no apparent reason. (it was caching them locally, whilst showing me that it was a network drive)
edit 2: i mapped the network share as a local drive and it claims its 14.8MB in size. i dont know whats causing this, as its happening on multiple PC's.
is it possible vista just cant read the EXT2 file system? i dont really want to go back to fat32, as that would limit me to <4GB files (i planned to store ISO files on here)
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« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2008, 20:01:06 PM » |
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Hi, oki doki. The name of your problem is called V I S T A. It is a very common (parasitic infestation on modern x86 hardware ....) problem with older SAMBA versions and VISTA that wrong free space is shown and problems with fieltransfer appear. As I don't use - and don't intend to - use VISTA, I am of little help to you. Maybe googling for "VISTA SAMBA problem" may find you some helpful info. If you are using VISTApro, there should be something like a nfs-client somewhere in "simple TCP/IP services" or else... I would suggest testingt the filetransfer via an "Virtual Windows XP" or virtual Linux (VM-Player for free, ready Linux VMs at http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/ ) or bootable Linux (Ubuntu or Knoppix). I don't think that the partition / format in he box is faulty... |
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« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2008, 06:19:02 AM » |
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i actually have a registry fix to lock the OS back down to an earlier version of samba, but that didnt seem to help.
I'll keep an eye out for anything i can find to fix this... seems like a real bitch that the unit cant handle NTFS properly.
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