firmware of Wl-hdd on yakumo wireless Storage 60

[20fifi05]

Hi, first at all: asus firmware runs on Yakumo, because it´s the same! Initially you can not upgrade via Yakumo´s setuppage!

It´s a little bit tricky to install - you have to know how. And that´s my way (there was one weekend of trying):

- download last original ASUS firmware from internet, not the other versions from oleg
- assign a fixed IP Adress for Yakumo Wireless Storage 60 in Setuppage, such as 192.168.001.015
- put Yakumo Wireless Storage 60 on LAN (by cable!, wireless doesn´t work)
- press the button on back of device at least 5 seconds until the power lamp turns of, after some seconds all lamps are off: the device is off
- pull the power cable
- press and hold the button an put the power cable in, wait some seconds until the power lamp start to blink, release the button
- device is now in "update"-mode
- start the software "firmware restoration" from Yakumo utility directory
- insert the path to the downloaded asus firmware
- press upload -> the upload should be start
- after this procedure you and rebooting your device you can go the the setup page and you will see the asus wl-hdd setup
- from this point you can install all other firmware versions including the ons from oleg via the setup page
- if you like to use the drive with twonky: it runs, no problem

Any questions?

flupps

I have two questions:
1) why change IP adress?
2) when the update is done the IP adress must to be change again?
many thanks.

[flupps]

I have two questions:
1) why change IP adress?
2) when the update is done the IP adress must to be change again?
many thanks.

You have not to change the IP adress, you have to set a fix IP adress! After boot process the Yakumo can´t get a adress from server, so it must have an own adress.

flupps

[starbright]

Can confirm that it works. Could flash Olegs FW on Yakumo (via flashing it to ASUS).

I could also install ipkg, nano and hdparm (with is essential for me). But saving
/usr/local/sbin to flashfs (so does all the chances are kept after reboot) obviously failed.
I don't get an error message while
flashfs save
flashfs commit
flashfs enable

but after reboot all is lost. Can someone help me with that? Any workaround possible? Please help!

Another issue: Why does the realtime clock doesn't work anymore. It's not a killer feature for me, but nice to have.

[Fazoletti]

Can also confirm that it works on the yakumo wl storage.
I've no problems to save the files on /usr/local/sbin to flashfs
Could it be that your files are bigger than 64kb?
That's the limit of the flashfs, i think.

[starbright]

It works now. Don't know the reasons - after the 4rd try it keeps the content.
So I am happy now.
There are only 2 things I need to know.
1) How to set the RTC (without the original FW)
2) How to (auto) mount a USB disk.
Sooner or later I hope to get this too.

[launt]

One important step missing in this discussion so far is to temporarily disable the firewall on the pc.

I spent the whole afternoon yesterday following the steps without success. After reading this thread http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=1329 I realise I was too focused on following the steps closely and forgot to consider disabling the firewall.