iSCSI with fvdw

[hardy74]

Is it possible to enable iSCSI within the fwdv firmware for the Network space 2? As it does not appear to be supported as-is. If yes, what would be the steps?

[fvdw]

iScsi-target is enabled en compiled in the kernel we use on the nwsp2 of the nwsp2. So the kernel should support it

Unfortunate I do not have any experience with this so i can not advise you how to get it working :dontknow

[hardy74]

Great. I will check things out and report back, perhaps someone else will be interested also.

[fvdw]

ok :thumbup let us know the results

I double checked if the support is compiled in the kernel, and it is
copy from relevant part of kernel configuration file (kernel 2.5.39.4 #51 of nwsp2)

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#
# SCSI device support
#
CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y
# CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_TGT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NETLINK is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y


[hardy74]

Got the 11+13 firmwares installed and updated, in about 4 hours, of which 2 hours went to backing up and 1 hour trying to get back into bios after the installation - too fancy wireless keyboard.

So fairly neat installation. Everything works, can ssh in. Device now boots and finds network settings much faster. Options in the web interface look outstanding, although the web interface doesn't work with Chrome (even after the Safari patch). The DLNA servers are a bit overwhelming - first trying the MiniDLNA. The helps are amazing, in a hobby project.

On the iSCSI: late here so my brain is shutting down and I cannot figure out which Linux fvdw is. uname -a produces nothing useful and cannot figure it out from /proc or /etc either. So what is it? Some cut down fork of Debian?

No package manager... no gcc... hmm... I'd probably need a bit of instruction how and where to start. This is what I'd like to install: http://stgt.sourceforge.net/. Probably needs to be done from source?

It's an "iSCSI target", e.g. a daemon. Windows 7 and 8 both have a built-in client for it. ISCSI allows to mount network paths into the local Windows filesystem. Would allow many cool things: for instance the Windows 8 photos|videos|music apps to work with NAS data (the only way to get that done), and indexing the network paths into the Windows search index. Currently something like a million people are googling for solutions for those problems, after MS published an OS without such support for NAS devices (unless it has their Home Server OS). As well as other stuff.

So getting this working would be way cool.

[Jocko]

So fairly neat installation. Everything works, can ssh in. Device now boots and finds network settings much faster. Options in the web interface look outstanding, although the web interface doesn't work with Chrome (even after the Safari patch). The DLNA servers are a bit overwhelming - first trying the MiniDLNA. The helps are amazing, in a hobby project.

Hi hardy74

It's strange Chrome browser doesn't work with you after installing the safari patch. :scratch

I just again test it with another computer : win7 (first test with XP sp3). I used the version 23.0.1271.64 m.

See my capture screen.

Chromebrowser.jpg

What menus don't work ? The patch resolves some issues with the following menus : Webdav, media servers and torrent servers. Chrome and Safari don't handle in the same way the declared variables (js) between several iframes (all seem be in the same level).

So may be a cache issue. Try manually empty the browser cache.

Glad to heard you like the GUI improvements... :-D :-D

[fvdw]

On the iSCSI: late here so my brain is shutting down and I cannot figure out which Linux fvdw is. uname -a produces nothing useful and cannot figure it out from /proc or /etc either. So what is it? Some cut down fork of Debian?

uname -a gives this output on my nwsp2.....

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root@nwsp2-3:/ # uname -a
Linux nwsp2-3.local 2.6.39.4 #51 PREEMPT Tue Jul 17 15:57:29 GMT+1 2012 armv5tel unknown unknown GNU/Linux
root@nwsp2-3:/ #


Its also shown in the information menu of fvdw-sl-13-0

The kernel is compiled using the Linux "vanilla" source code with some patching of the setup files for this device

[hardy74]

I have Chrome 23, on Windows 8. The attachment shows how it is: web administration cannot be used at all. What ever you click it just gives an empty page. The "executing command" text never goes away.

Works perfectly on IE10 though.

[Jocko]

Ok,

I think the guilty is Win8 and when you make a google search you find several pages about js errors with this OS.

Now, I have no device with windows 8 (Too bad changes in my opinion :whistle. You don't want to use a computer only like a media device...). So if fvdw hasn't a computer with win8, fix this bug will be difficult... :scratch

Did you install the developer tools ? and are there some error message in the js console ?

[fvdw]

nope no windows8 on this site and also not on short notice..