Adventures with vocore
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:20 pm
Hello,
Just got started with the vocore yesterday. Its a cool little device.
Anyways, so my adventure began with the desire to be able to plug in a USB thumbdrive to be able to load or host some programs.
Plugging one in seemingly did nothing.
Tried following the instructions I have found on the forum in various locations, on the openwrt pages etc.
Was getting an error about prequisites not met (sorry i forget the actual message).. Anyways one post suggested re-building the firmware.
(so i have a vm building the firmware.. been doing somthing for at least an hour now... )
then i saw this post
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=380&p=1296&hilit=storage&sid=e1332424e4867ec66478a3a3435b185f#p1296
So i ran these commands..
cd /tmp
wget http://noblepepper.com/wp/wp-content/Vo ... pgrade.bin
sysupgrade openwrt-ramips-rt305x-vocore-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
and the thing rebooted, but then took a while before it came back up. I thought i bricked it.
Eventually, i was able to get it back up. But now the link lights on my ethernet connection don't actually light up anymore.
...
anyways, does anyone have any insight as to
A. get things back to normal if i've screwed it all up, and
B get the original plan to work, with the USB as a storage device.
I normally consider myself to be pretty tech savvy, and am looking at this device as a home for a project that I got working on a raspberry pi.
But this has been frankly a humbling experience trying to figure this out. Havn't played with openwrt before, or creating firmware etc.
As I read through the forum, I can't help be get the impression that many simple errors that are encountered by noobs would be something easily fixed by a person with more experience.
Any suggested resources that you could point me to, to give me a bit more of an overview of some parts of the process would be fantastic.
Thanks in Advance
Brandon
Just got started with the vocore yesterday. Its a cool little device.
Anyways, so my adventure began with the desire to be able to plug in a USB thumbdrive to be able to load or host some programs.
Plugging one in seemingly did nothing.
Tried following the instructions I have found on the forum in various locations, on the openwrt pages etc.
Was getting an error about prequisites not met (sorry i forget the actual message).. Anyways one post suggested re-building the firmware.
(so i have a vm building the firmware.. been doing somthing for at least an hour now... )
then i saw this post
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=380&p=1296&hilit=storage&sid=e1332424e4867ec66478a3a3435b185f#p1296
So i ran these commands..
cd /tmp
wget http://noblepepper.com/wp/wp-content/Vo ... pgrade.bin
sysupgrade openwrt-ramips-rt305x-vocore-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
and the thing rebooted, but then took a while before it came back up. I thought i bricked it.
Eventually, i was able to get it back up. But now the link lights on my ethernet connection don't actually light up anymore.
...
anyways, does anyone have any insight as to
A. get things back to normal if i've screwed it all up, and
B get the original plan to work, with the USB as a storage device.
I normally consider myself to be pretty tech savvy, and am looking at this device as a home for a project that I got working on a raspberry pi.
But this has been frankly a humbling experience trying to figure this out. Havn't played with openwrt before, or creating firmware etc.
As I read through the forum, I can't help be get the impression that many simple errors that are encountered by noobs would be something easily fixed by a person with more experience.
Any suggested resources that you could point me to, to give me a bit more of an overview of some parts of the process would be fantastic.
Thanks in Advance
Brandon