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Axon microserver
InterplayMedium Hardware |
Installation on OpenWRT ASUS WL-HDD with OpenWRT Kamikaze firmware (kernel 2.4) was used as an example. You may run Axon micro-server on your router without losing the basic functionality. Here is step-by-step instructions.
It should work fine for the majority of OpenWRT based routers.
If you already have preinstalled OpenWRT on your device with additional CF-drive or other media, just skip the first part and go to the point 10. 1. Download the firmware and flash utility Please choose suitable version of OpenWRT by following this list of supported devices. I have Asus WL-HDD, so I chose OpenWRT Kamikaze for WL-HDD. OpenWRT already has a fresh Backfire version. Theoretically, it should work fine, but, since I didn't try it yet, I focused on Kamikaze in this tutorial. And the last thing you need is a flashing utility. 2. Reflash your device Different routers have different methods to get into "reflash mode". Please google it or find suitable instructions on [OpenWRT wiki]. In case of WL-HDD, I have to
3. Change the password and setup network concerning your local conditions your device should have 192.168.1.1 IP address after reflashing by default. Try to open it in a browser and, in case of success, change the password to activate SSH access. Use http interface. It should be trivial. Just keep in mind that LAN (Local area network) usually has fixed IP (something like 192.168.0.1 or 10.0.0.1 and mask 255.255.255.0) and offers DHCP lease to others (work as Access point). WAN is a Wide area network. It usually hooks on Internet connection and has just DHCP discover settings and no fixed IP address. Double check router network settings before applying them to avoid a possibility to loose connection (you will have to re-flash device in this case and start again). For more sophisticated settings, look at this instructions. 4. Install file system kernel modules ssh to it
update the packages DB
This is a well known bug with a file-system loading order on Kamikaze (at least with my firmware). You need to change the order of modules loading like that:
and reboot
5. HDD Installing and initializing install fdisk
at this moment you should have your disk logically available on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ (or something like that). Check it out and mark your new drive up
Most of people use CF card or other chip-based memory media. This sort of media have limited reading/writing cycles (the number of cycles is huge but it's much less than that of classical HDD), so I wouldn't recommend to make swap on it (and I wouldn't recommend to do it for any kind of chip-based media except SSD). However, If you use micro-drive HDD or something like SSD, it's definitely better to make swap on it. So, in case of swap, you need to define one small partition (100 MB will be more than enough) and mark it as "swap", the second partition will be defined as the main partition (use all the space left). Otherwise, just create a single partition. 6. Creating the file-system
This is the same situation: it's not recommended to create a journalling file-system for this type of media. so, this is a non-journalling version
don't' forget to change /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 path into yours make a mount point
in case of using swap, you need to install swap utils and initialize it opkg install swap-utils mkswap /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 7. Add new HDD mount script in /etc/init.d/ to make it start on boot stage NB. Now you need to create and edit a new script file. The majority of tutorials refers to vim editor, which is pre-installed on the majority of Linux distros, but if you are doing this at the first time, it could be much easier to use something more intuitive, for example mcedit, which is a part of Midnight Commander package. You may install it with opkg install mc command. create the file
and copy this code in it
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
START=15
start() {
# swapon /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
e2fsck -p /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
mount -o noatime /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /mnt/ide/
}
save it, make it executable and reboot chmod +x /etc/init.d/idemount /etc/init.d/idemount enable reboot after reboot check the drive presence
8. Reconfigure opkg and create symlink automation script edit opkg configs sed -i 's/dest root \//dest root \/\ndest ide \/mnt\/ide/g' /etc/opkg.conf sed -i 's/overlay_root \/jffs/overlay_root \/mnt\/ide/g' /etc/opkg.conf create a script "/bin/link-ide-items" for automatic file linkage in mounted directories
#!/bin/sh
SPATH=$1
DPATH=$2
ls $SPATH | while read LINE; do
SRC=$SPATH$LINE;
DST=$DPATH$LINE;
test -e "$DST";
if [ $? = 1 ]; then
ln -s $SRC $DST;
echo link file $SRC to $DST;
fi
done
exit 0
make it executable
create a common linking script /bin/linkif #!/bin/sh link-ide-items /mnt/ide/usr/lib/ /usr/lib/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/usr/bin/ /usr/bin/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/lib/ /lib/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/sbin/ /sbin/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/etc/ /etc/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/etc/init.d/ /etc/init.d/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/usr/sbin/ /usr/sbin/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/etc/modules.d/ /etc/modules.d/ link-ide-items /mnt/ide/lib/modules/2.4.35.4/ /lib/modules/2.4.35.4/ make it executable and run it chmod +x /bin/linkif linkif from this moment you can install everything on HDD. Just use "-dest ide" option for that and run "linkif" after installation. 9. Add the router's IP to "/etc/hosts.local" to make it assessable in web-browsers via "http://axon" run ifconfig
add this IP into the /etc/hosts.local (change <your IP> into your IP)
10. Download and untar AXON package cd /mnt/ide/ wget http://repository.interplaymedium.org/AXON-microserver/OpenWRT/Axon,07.11.2010.OpenWRT.tar.gz tar -xz -f Axon,07.11.2010.OpenWRT.tar.gz it should create "/mnt/ide/axon" directory and unpack everything there NB! there are not so many differences between OpenWRT and Debian versions, they differ just in a number of device paths changes. It's explained in details in "Axon configuration" letter. 11. Allow to execute lua scripts from other directories (not only cgi-bin)
12. Make both http interfaces (OpenWRT and AXON) accessible replace httpd root directories (your package must be in /mnt/ide/axon/ directory, change it, if necessary)
create custom autorun script /etc/init.d/axon to keep the original OpenWRT interface on port 81, and add "linkif" there just in case, if you ever forget to start linking script after installation of something
#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
START=90
start() {
httpd -p 81 -h /www
linkif
}
make it executable chmod +x /etc/init.d/axon /etc/init.d/axon enable from this moment (after reboot) AXON interface will be available on "http://axon" and OpenWRT on "http://axon:81" addresses 13. Install software required by AXON micro-server default configuration USB sound kernel modules opkg update opkg -dest ide install kmod-usb-ohci kmod-sound-core kmod-usb-audio linkif madplay music player opkg -dest ide install madplay linkif Input system modules (for RFID reader). Download it, untar and copy into the /mnt/ide/lib/modules/2.4.35.4/ cd /mnt/ide/ wget http://repository.interplaymedium.org/AXON-microserver/OpenWRT/kmod-input-kamikaze-8.09rc1.tar.gz tar -xz -f /mnt/ide/kmod-input-kamikaze-8.09rc1.tar.gz mv kmod-input-kamikaze-8.09rc1/* /mnt/ide/lib/modules/2.4.35.4/ rm kmod-input-kamikaze-8.09rc1 linkif you may remove kmod-input-kamikaze-8.09rc1.tar.gz after this procedure create modules loader echo "input" > /etc/modules.d/90-input; echo "hid" > /etc/modules.d/90-input; echo "evdev" > /etc/modules.d/90-input install modules for serial communication with FTDI chip (Arduino, for example)
install and setup FTP server (optional) opkg -dest ide install vsftpd linkif echo "local_root=/mnt/ide" >> /etc/vsftpd.conf /etc/init.d/vsftpd start /etc/init.d/vsftpd enable and reboot
after this procedure try to connect via ftp using SSH login and password. If everything is fine, you may copy your music on the board via FTP NB. alternatively you can try to install "samba" and make it accessable in your local network That's it. The only thing left - is to configure the AXON micro-server and enjoy it. |