Talk:Enabling Login

Please provide feedback of your upgrade and patch experiences here .....

First patch attempt Followed the readme docs - obtained all the necessary files, got the 5 magic numbers! I'm utterly confused about what to do with Cygwin (which I've installed). Need some detailed advice on this. Thanks.

Trumpton Cygwin provides some essential libraries that are used by the patchserver. Once installed, you should be able to open up a command shell (Start/Run 'cmd'), change directory to where you unpacked patchserv.exe (using cd), and run 'patchserv test.tar.bz2

PeterPan: I just install the cygwin envirement, run the patchserver und transfers the 'test.tar.bz2' Test patchfile to my IPdio. That seems to work. But I have not heart enough, to transfer the real patchfile 'Devel-00-01b-login_http.tar.bz2' because my IPdio is only 2 days old. I am not a Linux expert (I am a Windows developer) So what about the install-me script? Who will run it?

Unknown: I installed cygwin - wow! that ate up my disk space. Can you tell me what I can safely delete from Cygwin (if anything) and still get patchserver to run?

Can you give explicit telnet commands to enter to login and run the savespace. A definitive example would be useful (eg. open , etc). What is the server name to open? for example. Or is it the radio's IP address?

In your warning section, you mention you've trialed on a few radios. Can you list the radios which you've successfully tried? This may either encourage or scare the faint-hearted!

PeterPan: I think you only need the cygwin1.dll. To connect to the radio via telnet. You must start telnet in a cmd shell. Than type open and then type the IP-Address of your radio. For example open 192.168.0.10 or you type in telnet 192.168.0.10

Trumpton Peterpan - When you do an install, the main radio application launches a script, which moves the radio from runlevel 2 to runlevel 3 (effectively shutting down the radio application). The script then downloads the patchfile, unpacks it to /tmp/something, and then looks for /tmp/something/install-me scripts, which it automatically runs as root.

The login_http patchfile install-me script does a disk check, copies a new busybox application (busybox.new) to /bin, and creates the links for telnetd and httpd. It also copies the init scripts for the two servers, and finally creates some dummy webserver files. the one thing it does not do is tamper with the original busybox program - we provide a script called 'savespace' which will remove the original program, rename the new one, and correct all of the links, but at present, this is left for you to run once you have logged in. So you see, we have taken the 'chicken' route in patching the radio, and have not deleted any existing files.

Unknown - I think Peterpan is right, all you need is the cygwin1.dll. I would have bundled it with the application, however, the cygwin Ts&Cs forbid it. The Savespace script will save 600Kb of diskspace on your radio, nothing on your PC.

It is our intention that in the end, this is the only program you will have to install this way. Future patches will be done using the installed webserver. Presently, however, the webserver is only a stub, so the early takers will probably have to re-patch in order to benifit from the full features.

This method has been run by me on a Logik IR100 and a Logic IRMA1. There are many people who have patched their radios, but have done it manually (without the advantage of the patchserver); and most of them have installed an ssh shell, which takes a little more disk space, does not have the advantage of the additional webserver, and is slightly larger when running in memory.

PeterPan: thank you for your explanation Trumpton. I just did the patch and get telnet and http connection to my IPdio. Great! I got the following error message when I run the savespace script.

mount: mounting /dev/root on / failed: Device or resource busy

What does that mean? If I check with mount, it seems that all filesystem has rw access. Is that correct?

Trumpton This is not a problem! If you type 'ls /bin/busybox*' you should see a single busybox program (i.e. no busybox.new), which shows that the script ran OK. You just need to type 'sync;telinit 6' which will flush disk buffers, and force the radio to reset (may take 30 seconds for the watchdog to actually do the reset).

PeterPan: My Radio is dead :-( After I replugged it to the power, the device did not boot anymore. I send it back to my dealer. Do you have any idea, about the cause?