ALL6500 with Firmware 2.1.07

[wengi]

Hi,

i received my Allnet 6500 (which is an OEM N2100) today.
There is firmware 2.1.07 running on it.

Any information about this firmware?

wengi

EDIT: And by the way: How will i be able to make my Allnet a Thecus???

[dbridges]

wengi said:

EDIT: And by the way: How will i be able to make my Allnet a Thecus???

From you other posts i can assume that you've seen the wiki article onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/N2100_ALLNET_to_Thecus

For 2.1.07 though i'm going to have to make a new conversion firmware which i have just done and it's available on the wiki.

[wengi]

Thank you for the file.
I will report if it is working.
In other words: You will hear me crying if it doesn't ;D

wengi

[wengi]

Me again.

I tried to update the Allnet.
The n2100convert.2.1.07.bin worked fine.
After this, without reboot, i tried to downgrade to n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin from Thecus. I had the hope that it would allow a downgrade. I was wrong.
A message is telling me that my installed firmware 2.1.07 can not be downgraded to 2.1.06.
I think i will have to wait until a 2.1.07 or higher is released by thecus.

My All6500 is ok after a reboot. So it doesn't seem to harm if you install the converter fw without upgrading afterwards.

wengi

[dbridges]

wengi said:

Me again.

I tried to update the Allnet.
The n2100convert.2.1.07.bin worked fine.
After this, without reboot, i tried to downgrade to n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin from Thecus. I had the hope that it would allow a downgrade. I was wrong.
A message is telling me that my installed firmware 2.1.07 can not be downgraded to 2.1.06.
I think i will have to wait until a 2.1.07 or higher is released by thecus.

My All6500 is ok after a reboot. So it doesn't seem to harm if you install the converter fw without upgrading afterwards.

wengi

All is not lost. There are still numerous ways to do the conversion.

As for the allnet being 2.1.07 I can only assume that they did it as a way to hinder the conversion to the thecus.

From here my preferred way to do the conversion would be to alter the thecus 2.1.06 firmware to be 2.1.07 and then load that.

You'll need a linux environment. One which boots from CD should be sufficient (as long as it has the des program). I use my Thecus.

Firstly start off with the 2.1.06 firmware.
N2100:/raid/David/firmware# ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918720 Jun 19 15:22 n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin

Unencrypt it.
N2100:/raid/David/firmware# /usr/bin/des -k "n2100" -D "n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin" "n2100upgrade.2.1.06.tar.gz"

N2100:/raid/David/firmware# ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918720 Jun 19 15:22 n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918715 Jul 3 08:09 n2100upgrade.2.1.06.tar.gz

Extract it from the tgz
N2100:/raid/David/firmware# tar -xzvf n2100upgrade.2.1.06.tar.gz
upgrade/
upgrade/rc
upgrade/diff
upgrade/ca-bundle.crt
upgrade/conf.db
upgrade/cfg_nic1
upgrade/zImage.md5
upgrade/pre_message
upgrade/up.sh
upgrade/roaming
upgrade/ramdisk.arm.md5
upgrade/scsi.agent
upgrade/redboot.bin.md5
upgrade/ramdisk.arm
upgrade/server.crt
upgrade/server.key
upgrade/httpd.conf
upgrade/passwd
upgrade/ssl.conf
upgrade/version
upgrade/up2.sh
upgrade/rc.factory
upgrade/zImage
upgrade/manifest.txt
upgrade/php.ini
upgrade/crond.conf
upgrade/rc.samba
upgrade/conf.db.awk
upgrade/redboot.bin

Edit it's version file from 2.1.06 to 2.1.07
N2100:/raid/David/firmware# vi upgrade/version
2.1.07
~
~

N2100:/raid/David/firmware# ls -ltr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 20:22 upgrade/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918720 Jun 19 15:22 n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918715 Jul 3 08:09 n2100upgrade.2.1.06.tar.gz

Recreate the 2.1.07 tgz
N2100:/raid/David/firmware# tar -czvf n2100upgrade.2.1.07.tar.gz upgrade
upgrade/
upgrade/rc
upgrade/diff
upgrade/ca-bundle.crt
upgrade/conf.db
upgrade/cfg_nic1
upgrade/zImage.md5
upgrade/pre_message
upgrade/up.sh
upgrade/roaming
upgrade/ramdisk.arm.md5
upgrade/scsi.agent
upgrade/redboot.bin.md5
upgrade/ramdisk.arm
upgrade/usb.agent
upgrade/server.crt
upgrade/server.key
upgrade/httpd.conf
upgrade/passwd
upgrade/ssl.conf
upgrade/net.agent
upgrade/version
upgrade/up2.sh
upgrade/rc.factory
upgrade/zImage
upgrade/manifest.txt
upgrade/php.ini
upgrade/crond.conf
upgrade/rc.samba
upgrade/conf.db.awk
upgrade/redboot.bin

N2100:/raid/David/firmware# ls -ltr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 20:22 upgrade/
d-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918720 Jun 19 15:22 n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918715 Jul 3 08:09 n2100upgrade.2.1.06.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14928288 Jul 3 08:13 n2100upgrade.2.1.07.tar.gz

Encrypt it.
N2100:/raid/David/firmware# /usr/bin/des -k "n2100" -E "n2100upgrade.2.1.07.tar.gz" "n2100upgrade.2.1.07.bin"

N2100:/raid/David/firmware# ls -ltr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 30 20:22 upgrade/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918720 Jun 19 15:22 n2100_FW.2.1.06.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14918715 Jul 3 08:09 n2100upgrade.2.1.06.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14928288 Jul 3 08:13 n2100upgrade.2.1.07.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14928296 Jul 3 08:15 n2100upgrade.2.1.07.bin
N2100:/raid/David/firmware#

Or you could check your PM's

[wengi]

Hi dbridges,

You made my day!
The upgrade was half successful.
The Allnet now is a Thecus 2100 ;D ;D ;D

The Allnet 2.1.07 did not have module support.
Now the Thecus 2.1.06 has module support.

The only thing i am wondering about: the web interface is still in Allnet design. Shouldn't this have been changed with the firmware upgrade?
The system description is still "ALL6500 IP Storage Server" but "Status - About" gives me Thecus as manufacturer (which was Allnet before) and 2.1.06 as firmware.

I am going to install the ssh module and will see if there is a way to switch the webinterface.

Thanks for your support

wengi

EDIT
The webinterface IS Thecus design. This seemed to be a cache problem because i do all this firmware upgrades through a ssl tunnel (N2100 is at home, i am not).
But system description is still "ALL6500 IP Storage Server".
What ist the original Thecus system description? How to modify it?

EDIT2
ssh up and running. ;D

[dbridges]

The original system description (status>>info) is "N2100 IP Storage Server" and you edit it where it is and click apply.

With SSH you've now got room to explore.

For exploring i like to add a samba share to root / but dont edit any executables through it because it alters their permissions and you end up having to recover it using redboot

[wengi]

dbridges said:

The original system description (status>>info) is "N2100 IP Storage Server" and you edit it where it is and click apply.

d**n! I must be blind. I did not recognize that this is editable...

but i still have one question:
The mediabolic meda server was shipped with my Allnet.
Can i use this bin from CD with the Thecus firmware or do i need to have an "original" mediabolic.bin?
Until now i have no idea if i am going to use it, but just to be sure...

Thanks for all your help.

wengi

[dbridges]

wengi said:

The mediabolic meda server was shipped with my Allnet.
Can i use this bin from CD with the Thecus firmware or do i need to have an "original" mediabolic.bin?
Until now i have no idea if i am going to use it, but just to be sure...

Thanks for all your help.

wengi

I'm happy that it's worked out for you.

As for mediabolic.bin I have no idea as i've never even seen an allnet or a manual or CD for it.

I would assume that as a bin it works like a firmware update rather than a module. It may need a tweak similar to the one that I did for the thecus firmware.

If you need a hand figuring it out let me know via PM.

[wengi]

Ok. i will have a look at it.
I already extracted the firmware just to see whats in it.
I will extract the media server package and have a look for allnet brandings.

Thanks so much for your help.

wengi

[wengi]

Some info about the media server:

#tar -xzvf Media_Server_ALL6500_v10.tar.gz

./
./upgrade/
./upgrade/up.sh
./upgrade/mediaserver/
./upgrade/mediaserver/md1
./upgrade/mediaserver/mediaserver
./upgrade/version

#cat version
3.0.100


# cat up.sh

#!/bin/sh
cd /tmp/upgrade

echo "Busy 2" > /proc/thecus_io
if [ ! -d "/raid/sys" ]; then
echo "Upgrade DLNA fail!" > message
echo "Upgrade DLNA fail!" > debug
exit 1
fi
cp -rf mediaserver /raid/sys/
sync
echo "success" > message
echo "success" >> debug

echo "Buzzer 0" > /proc/thecus_io
sleep 3
echo "Buzzer 1" > /proc/thecus_io

exit 0

It doesn't seem to be branded in any way.
wengi

[dbridges]

wengi said:

It doesn't seem to be branded in any way.
wengi

Well that answers that Enjoy your new Thecus n2100

[ahaswell]

ok ive successfully extracted my mediabolic bin file as above and i have an upgrade folder with a few files in it. Im no expert but can anyone advise if and how i could now install it on my n2100 which im running full install of debian on, not the thecus firmware,

thanks

Andy

[user0815]

Hello,

i have the same problem as wengi, could someone help me?

Maybe dbridges?


Would be great.