Hi Manuel, Did you have a chance to perform these tests?
* Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> [2011-05-05 20:35]: > Regarding the DNS-323 firmware issue we discussed a few months ago > (that revision changed from 3 to 4): Manuel Roeder agreed to do some > tests on his B1 DNS-323. > > * Manuel Roeder <manuel_roe...@gmx.de> [2011-05-05 12:46]: > > Testing is no Problem, I even got a serial Port to check what went wrong. > > Please send the images and/or link and I will give it a try. > > Just to summarize the problem again: Debian (or rather, > dns323-firmware-tools) currently uses a revision 3 in the image. > However, the firmware on C1 DNS-323 machines uses a revision 4 and > rejects images with a revision of 3. The question is whether revision > 4 images are accepted by the current and old DNS-323 firmware images > on A1 and B1 machines (testing one is enough since they use the same > firmware). If so, we can move our image to revision 4 and it will > work on all DNS-323 devices. > > Dominic Evans found the following revisions to be used in the DNS-323 > firmware: > > dns323_firmware_103: 00 > dns323_firmware_104: 01 > dns323_firmware_105: 03 > dns323_firmware_106: 04 > dns323_firmware_107: 04 > dns323_firmware_108: 04 > dns323_firmware_109: 04 > > So imho it would be good to test version 1.03, 1.04, 1.05 and 1.08 > (1.09 is apparently not available for B1 devices). Manuel, can you > download 1.03, 1.04, 1.05 and 1.08 from > http://www.dlink.co.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Product_C&childpagename=DLinkEurope-GB/DLTechProduct&cid=1197319419183&p=1197318962293&packedargs=QuickLinksParentID%3D1197319419183%26locale%3D1195806691854%26packedargs%3Df9ffeaf4e83ab6d0166b8cc93b23ebbc3d83540f46ceb58f26706558f9479c4ec3df1411a95e2d40b8161bf516969212f4b253493c501653965d4b39148b4c34&pagename=DLinkEurope-GB/DLWrapper > and then check if it's possible to upgrade to this firmware image: > > http://people.debian.org/~tbm/tmp/dns-323/netboot.img > (This is a Debian installer image with revision 4) > > In other words, install the 1.03 DNS-323 firmware and try to upgrade > to the Debian installer image mentioned above. Then try the same with > 1.04, etc. > > For my own curiosity, it would also be interesting to see if the > revision 3 firmware of the installer is accepted by 1.08: > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-armel/current/images/orion5x/network-console/d-link/dns-323/netboot.img > > According to Dominic's, 1.08 uses rev 4 and should therefore reject > the Debian installer image but nobody has reported this problem yet > (therefore, I'm curious whether this is really the case or not). > > In all cases, you just need to check if the DNS-323 firmware accepts > the Debian image. You don't actually need to run Debian installer. > Also, maybe it's a good idea to temporarily remove your hard drive so > the DNS-323 firmware won't destroy your existing Debian installation. > > Thanks for your help. > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
