fishyrich
2006-03-13, 17:53
Hi,
I am setting up slimserver v6.2.1 on my Linkstation 250 MIPS, and I am getting a bit stuck.
I have been following the excellent instructions on http://fieldnetworks.com/slim/linkstation.html but am still having some difficulty.
So far I have replaced the firmware with the Openlink version from http://linkstationwiki.org/Projects/OpenLink
This enabled me to telnet into the linkstation and gain root access (BTW when I telnet to the linkstation I am immediately root, without having entered a password - how can I re-enable password access for root telnet?!)
I didn't at first change Perl, as my linkstation came with Perl 5.8.7.
I unpacked the tar ball of slimserver 6.2.1 into /mnt/hda/slimserver, and tried to run it using the command ./slimserver.pl --daemon --prefsfile /mnt/hda/slimserver/etc/slimserver.pref --cachedir /mnt/hda/slimserver/etc
but got this error message:
The following modules failed to load: DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compress::Zlib
To download and compile them, please run: …/SlimServer_v6.0.2/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl
I poked around on this slimdevices forum and the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkStation_General/ forum and found one message suggesting that slimserver 6.2.1 was incompatible with Perl 5.8.7. I was pointed to http://fieldnetworks.com/ to download Perl 5.8.5. I intalled this, replacing the softlink from /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.5. However now I get a different error message!
./slimserver.pl: require: command not found
./slimserver.pl: use: command not found
./slimserver.pl: use: command not found
./slimserver.pl: package: command not found
./slimserver.pl: line 25: syntax error near une
./slimserver.pl: line 25: `our %Config = ('
Following further searches, I gather that this error might be because the version of perl I downloaded is for the PPC Linkstation rather than the MIPS Linkstation. I was directed back to http://linkstationwiki.org/Articles/MIPSelSlimServer which recognises the first problem I had, and suggests how to install the missing perl modules.
This is as far as I have got.... unfortunately I don't understand the instructions on http://linkstationwiki.org/Articles/MIPSelSlimServer !!
I would be grateful for some simple instructions, or a specific download that I need!
Many thanks
I am setting up slimserver v6.2.1 on my Linkstation 250 MIPS, and I am getting a bit stuck.
I have been following the excellent instructions on http://fieldnetworks.com/slim/linkstation.html but am still having some difficulty.
So far I have replaced the firmware with the Openlink version from http://linkstationwiki.org/Projects/OpenLink
This enabled me to telnet into the linkstation and gain root access (BTW when I telnet to the linkstation I am immediately root, without having entered a password - how can I re-enable password access for root telnet?!)
I didn't at first change Perl, as my linkstation came with Perl 5.8.7.
I unpacked the tar ball of slimserver 6.2.1 into /mnt/hda/slimserver, and tried to run it using the command ./slimserver.pl --daemon --prefsfile /mnt/hda/slimserver/etc/slimserver.pref --cachedir /mnt/hda/slimserver/etc
but got this error message:
The following modules failed to load: DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compress::Zlib
To download and compile them, please run: …/SlimServer_v6.0.2/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl
I poked around on this slimdevices forum and the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LinkStation_General/ forum and found one message suggesting that slimserver 6.2.1 was incompatible with Perl 5.8.7. I was pointed to http://fieldnetworks.com/ to download Perl 5.8.5. I intalled this, replacing the softlink from /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.5. However now I get a different error message!
./slimserver.pl: require: command not found
./slimserver.pl: use: command not found
./slimserver.pl: use: command not found
./slimserver.pl: package: command not found
./slimserver.pl: line 25: syntax error near une
./slimserver.pl: line 25: `our %Config = ('
Following further searches, I gather that this error might be because the version of perl I downloaded is for the PPC Linkstation rather than the MIPS Linkstation. I was directed back to http://linkstationwiki.org/Articles/MIPSelSlimServer which recognises the first problem I had, and suggests how to install the missing perl modules.
This is as far as I have got.... unfortunately I don't understand the instructions on http://linkstationwiki.org/Articles/MIPSelSlimServer !!
I would be grateful for some simple instructions, or a specific download that I need!
Many thanks