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DSM-G600: Revision 8

Collection of some hints about Debian installation on my D-Link DSM-G600:

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^ firmware (kernel+busybox)

It will fix various problems, including, but not limited to, problems with web interface in firefox.

http://download.dsmg600.info/people/sala/fwimage-04-sala-20070128

I tried to build firmware from source, but had various problems with building gcc. Thet are mostly related to gdb, but after a few random patches it passed compilation (but is broken, because I just commented offending lines).

^^ usbfs

I also want usbfs which generate compilation errors because of missing files in `include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h`

.pre
#define USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT _IO('U', 22)
#define USBDEVFS_CONNECT _IO('U', 23)
.pre

I copied them from current 2.6 kernel and this made it compile.

^ Debian installation

Based on "instructions on wiki"<http://dsmg600.info/howto:chroot_debian> and "post on forum"<http://forum.dsmg600.info/t17-Debian-howto.html>

.pre
cd /mnt/HD_a2
export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=`pwd`/usr/lib/debootstrap
export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/HD_a2/bin:/mnt/HD_a2/sbin
./usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch powerpc etch /mnt/HD_a2/debian http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/HD_a2/debian/etc/resolv.conf
# prepare chroot jail
mount -t proc proc /mnt/HD_a2/debian/proc
cd /mnt/HD_a2/
./chroot /mnt/HD_a2/debian /bin/bash
# install additional packages
apt-get update
apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales
passwd root
apt-get install dropbear hotplug
.pre

^ USB printer

Kernel module for USB printers for 2.4.21-pre4 kernel: {file: printer.o}

After installation of `cupsys` and `foomatic` all went smoothly, USB printer ("Samsung ML-2510"<http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Samsung-ML-2510>) was found and configured automatically. There are a few more details in "this forum thread"<http://forum.dsmg600.info/t105-Printing.html>.