(Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) Sorry about the late reply to this mail. I've been busy helping with the D-I release first and after that concentrated first on getting my TS-109 running (helped by Martin privately on IRC). On Sunday 09 March 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > - Set the MAC address: the QNAP devices have a bogus MAC address > in the u-boot config and the real MAC address is stored in a > file on a flash partition with ext2. I understand from Martin that the current status is to see if a kernel patch that reads the address will be acceptable to upstream. > > - Set some initramfs-tools settings: I think that the default > of MODULES=most is not appropriate for NAS devices. We should > probably use MODULES=dep on the QNAP; we need a way to easily > change setting based on the device you're running. Frans, can > you look into this? Turns out this is already possible without modifying the i-t conffile by dropping a file with MODULES=dep and suitable comments into /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d. This will overrule the default in the main conffile. One issue is that this could be confusing to users as they'll still see MODULES=most in the main conffile. It's documented in the man page, but maybe a note should be added in the conffile too that its settings can be overruled. > - Package piccontrol: this is used to control the LED and fan. > See http://qnap.nas-central.org/index.php/PIC_Control_Software Initial version available at http://people.debian.org/~fjp/piccontrol/. Although it does work, the tool still looks very much in alfa state. I will write a separate mail to the author with some questions/suggestions. Depending on the answers, the udeb may need a wrapper script for changing leds and sounding the buzzer. A review of my packaging would be appreciated. Cheers, FJP
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