Anyone running Debian on a Linksys NSLU2?

[gn2]

I get the error message "ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.3 port 22: No route to host". 192.168.0.3 is the static IP address I gave it. And it hasn't got the default IP address because that doesn't report back anything at all.

Have you tried 192.168.1.77 ?

[IgnacioMiller]

I run Debian on my NSLU2!!!

[popch]

Try the following commands

ping 192.168.0.3

Should tell you if your slug is there and responding. Press control-c when you have received several replies.

arp

This takes a while to respond (several seconds until first reaction). When entered without any arguments it should answer the IP and MAC addresses of all devices connected to your LAN segment.

route

Displays the routing table. Since ssh says that there was no route to the slug, it seems worthwile to check this one.

[xoai]

I set up Debian, nginx, PHP and MySQL on a VPS and the whole system just takes around 22-28mb memory. I think nginx is better than Apache and Lighttpd in this case. I am going to buy a NSLU2. It's really impressed

[AndyCooll]

Thanks guys for your replies. Here are my results:

root@snoopy:~/share/software/nslu2# ping 192.168.0.3
PING 192.168.0.3 (192.168.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=7 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=9 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=10 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=11 Destination Host Unreachable

--- 192.168.0.3 ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 0 received, +9 errors, 100% packet loss, time 11009ms
, pipe 3
root@snoopy:~/share/software/nslu2# arp
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
192.168.0.3                      (incomplete)                              eth0
192.168.0.1              ether   00:11:50:4E:31:6A   C                     eth0
root@snoopy:~/share/software/nslu2# route
Kernel IP routeing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eth0

As I mentioned I can flash the nslu2 with the original Linksys firmware and within minutes its working fine again. I can then type 192.168.0.3 in to a web-browser and everythings works. I just can't seem to get it up and running with Debian ...



PS. I seem to hit the same block with a manual install. AFAI I'm following Martin Michlmayr's original instructions. In effect I'm using Upslug2 and doing the same type of flash process for Debian that I do when installing the original Linksys firmware. Am I missing something obvious?

[popch]

From the results above you can clearly see that there is no response from 192.168.0.3. You can also see that there has not recently been any device on the LAN using that address.

In short: the slug does not think it has the address 192.168.0.3. I have no idea what address it might have when running Debian.

Perhaps you should consult the documentation which you used for installing Debian on your slug. On the other hand, you could use an IP scanner and have it search for the slug's address.

Sorry, I can not recommend an IP scan program as I have no experience in using one of those. The last time I needed that done, I had my son do it for me on his Windows box, because that was much faster.

[gn2]

Have you looked here: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Debian/TroubleShooting ?

[AndyCooll]

Yay!!! Finally got the little blighter working.

Not really sure why it suddenly started working.. I re-read the Troubleshooting FAQ (thanks gn2, yes I'd read it, but I read it again anyway). In the default Linksys config I already had IP address, netmask, default gateway etc set up. I added the DNS Server too. I then tried (yet again) the manual configuration and yet again it failed. So I gave it one last try with the new Debian installer. And this time I had an SSH connection!

The install then went smoothly and I can now connect to it fine.

One minor thing. It's working fine, but blinking orange/green all the time. Is this correct?

[23meg]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm probably buying two.

Does anyone have experience with running rtorrent or Transmission (CLI version) on it? I wonder if they'll perform reliably.

[macogw]

At LUG today a guy was talking about Asterisk. He said NSLU2's are actually pretty crappy when it comes to serving the "network storage" purpose, but they're great to use as your Asterisk server, once you flash them with OpenWRT.