consolewd for synology powerpc

[pablo]

thanks .. family is far more important than computers/work.

[jora]

hello together,

I think it's great as you tried. 

I wait full of hopeful for the solution.

I wish you all a nice weekend, and I will look here next week again.

Greetings from Joachim

[jora]

Hi all togehter,

I would politely ask, if anyone has found a solution for my problem.

[Weather Display]

I do not have my Mac Powerpc here at the moment
Yves, in France has it at the moment, working on getting things working correctly on that platform (thanks Yves!)
Once I get it back, then I will see about compiling a powerpc version of consolewd

[jora]

thank you for the quick answer.

Do you send me a message, when it is ready ?

[jora]

Hi all together,

now after a few weeks i would like to aks wether    
there are any news about the current state to report ?

Yours sincerely from Germany

Joachim

[Weather Display]

Hi
Yves is nearly finished with my Powerpc Mac, and will be hopefully sending it back to me soon

[Yves]

What flavour of Linux this box is running?
maybe niko would know.

[jora]

Hi all together,

that are good news. 

I could tell you a few things that i found out.

First Info is after the uname code i get this:
DiskStation> uname -a
Linux DiskStation 2.4.22-uc0 #722 Sat Sep 20 02:51:44 CST 2008 ppc GNU/Linux

and then I found this site:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DS101/DS106SeriesHardware


I hope i could help you a little bit with this few Informations.

[jora]

Hi,
Is there any news on consolewd for synology ppc ?

[Weather Display]

i have the consolewdarm compiled OK on my powerpc (osx 10.5) , and it runs...
is that what you are looking for?

[jora]

Thanks for your answer.

I have to try it.

Where can I download this version ?
If i have installed it on the synology i will answer you.

[Weather Display]

download
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/consolewdslugppc.dat (remove the .dat once downloaded)
and then
http://www.weather-display.com/downloadfiles/deploy.zip

with the last one,copy those library files to /usr/lib/, and copy that deploy folder to where you have downloaded the consolewdslugppc to

then use the config.txt from the normal linux consolewd to configure, and the .sh file from that version, to launch it (change the name in the .sh)

[jora]

firstly i have to thank for your Efforts.

But after installing and testing this Version, i am sorry to say that it is not running on my synology.
It reports some errors i could not understand.
For example, it says that this files are not found ???

It will probably be, that I must run a Windows server.

[Marmeladburk]

I have a QNap TS-101 which is very similar to the synology. It is the same processor architecture and runs linux. I am therefore very interested in this thread. It would be excellent if it was possible to make it run on this architecture in the same was as on the nslu2.

The files compiled for osx won't work since it is a completely different operating system. Maybe it is the right processor architecture but that won't help.

I'm not quite sure what compiler is used to compile wdconsole. Is it capable of cross compiling or does it have to run on the architecture it compiles for? If it cross compiles then maybe it can be compiled the same way the nslu2-version was compiled and just set the architecture output to ppc. Otherwise it might be possible to run a virtual machine with some linux installation on top of your osx and compile there. That might just do the trick.

I have tested the downloads by the way but they don't work. When running bash as a shell it simply refuses to execute the file. The ash shell that is default in the Qnap TS-101 is not that picky though. It tries to execute the file but it only results in garbage.