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IB-4220-B: Upgrade to OpenWRT: Where to start?

opt12

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lunedì, 22 gennaio 2024, 11:40

IB-4220-B: Upgrade to OpenWRT: Where to start?

Hi everybody!
Greez from a total noob.
I just stumbled into my old IB-4220-B this weekend and I was wondering whether I can get new life into that device. Luckily I found this wonderful forum and recognized, that it seems to be possible to upgrade the box with some OpenWRT image to get a decent OS on it.
Unfortunately, I can't really get a hold on the steps to perform and I didn't really understand whether a recent OpenWRT-version would run or whether it's necessary to use some older version (which would of course still be a giant leap forward wrt. the last official Raidsonic firmware).


Which version of OpenWRT works on the IB4220-B?

Can I use the web-based firmware update?
What Image do I have to use?
==> Any help is very much appreciated. (Also in German, if that's more convenient for You great people out there.)
Cheers,Felix

Current situation:
  • I have the IB and it still works:
  1. I can log in using the Web-Interface (yes I recognized my password)
    [img]https://nas-forum.org/index.php?page=Attachment&attachmentID=325&h=7fd5ccdcb6af20ccc9d54535da27ce6126858235[/img]
  2. I can access it using Samba v1
  3. i can login to SSH using some old obscure key-exchange algos
  4. The spindown of the disks works by means of a USB stick on the rear side. (However, I have no idea what I did to achive that 15 years ago)
  • In the web-interface all the entries for user managment are gone. I can only manage the users by means of SSH.
  • I cannot unraid my disks. They are currently coupled in RAID1 (mirrored).
  • I don't manage to get access to the telnet console on startup. Neither by trying to establish a manual telnet connection nor by means of the FlashTool from the database.

What I'd like to get:
  • Install some modern OS like OpenWRT
  • unraid my disks and either use JBOD or just two independent disks
  • understand how to do this.
  • Just use the Box again
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SmartSmurf

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martedì, 13 febbraio 2024, 10:43

Hi opt12,
I run the latest kernel 6.1 on my NAS4220. Since I did not want to mess around with the original Redboot flash layout I decided to implement some patches. You find them in the repo below.

Would be great if you want to give it a try.

1.) clone the repo

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git clone https://github.com/Smartsmurf/openwrt-ib4220.git
cd openwrt-ib4220


2.) update feeds

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./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a


3.) copy config-default to .config

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cp config-default to .config

4.) make menuconfig
-> select packages

5.) make

finally you find the update under

./bin/targets/gemini/generic

and you find all the nice packages under
./bin/packages/arm_fa526

To install the packages I recommend to insert USB flash drive (4 GB are more than sufficient) and configure this as overlay. All installations will be put on the drive since flash memory is spare. Then configure the software sources to point to the arm_fa526 (or copy it locally on the HDD somewhere).The main benefit is that my fork is flash layout compatible with the original Raidsonic firmware. So when you want to revert you can just install the original FW.


Good luck SM
PS: the default root password is "welcome" (without quotes), but you can put any hash you want into the template "target/linux/gemini/base-files/etc/passwd"

Questo post è stato modificato 3 volta(e), ultima modifica di "SmartSmurf" (13/02/2024, 11:02)

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