WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off of the 1.01.02 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. This firmware is an option for those whos hardware is stable with Zoranders ext3-boot, or those who don’t do much firmware programming to take advantage of ext3-boot. Once again, ext3-boot is for (sorta) pro’s and testers whereas WDLXTV is for everyday use.
Small update here to fix a couple things.
0.2.1
* actually fixed hostname issue
* osd tweaks (welcome screen & setup->about) to display IP & hostname
* updated cd.eject to handle usb bus resets a bit better
* updated crazymount
* fixed net.agent to read net.config for custom network settings
* xmount will now dump message to /tmp/messages.log upon failure
* new WDLXTV welcome logo by Pennhaven
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By popular demand I’ll go through all the steps to get a bittorrent client running on the WDTV. My client of choice is rtorrent so that is what I’m going to cover. rtorrent is an extremely fast and lightweight client so it suits the wdtv perfectly. You’ll be downloading torrents in no time flat.
In order to take advantage of this tutorial you must either be running WDLXTV or Zoranders ext3-boot. You must also have my Optware for WDTV package installed, that stuff is covered elsewhere. I’ll be including every necessary step here, so you might be able to skip around if you already have some of this done.
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WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off of the 1.01.02 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. This firmware is an option for those whos hardware is stable with Zoranders ext3-boot, or those who don’t do much firmware programming to take advantage of ext3-boot. Once again, ext3-boot is for (sorta) pro’s and testers whereas WDLXTV is for everyday use.
Changelog:
0.2
* cleaned up init
* fixed hostname issues
* corrected passwd issue with /etc/shadow for ssh server
* added /root/.ssh/authorized_keys -> /conf/authorized_keys for passwordless ssh (using ssh-keygen)
* redid OSD overlay formatting, can selectively replace any OSD file via an app.bin pack (tutorial to come)
* app.bin packs can contain kernel modules & modules.dep now
* changed WDTV logo to Pennhaven's HD-X logo (thx!)
* changed background to http://oliuss.deviantart.com/art/Hardwood-Night-88299626
* added pre-loading of core-extras.app.bin, for boot time xfs & reiserfs with hotplugging
0.1 - initial release
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Heres another app.bin pack for use in WDLXTV, my custom WDTV firmware. The following pack contains an SSH server, for a more secure remote connection than telnet.
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This is a Netherlands/Dutch (NLS) codepage package for WDLXTV, that was assembled by Zorander for ext3-boot. It is of little use to me as an english-only enduser, but I imagine some Dutch folk out there would appreciate it a lot.
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Here is an essential app.bin pack for use in my WDLXTV custom WDTV firmware. The following pack contains the fsck_hfs for HFS/HFS+ users, modules to support XFS and ReiserFS filesystems, and several other filesystem binaries that didn’t fit in WDLXTV.
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Here is the first app.bin pack for use in my WDLXTV custom WDTV firmware. The following pack contains the necessary binary to automagically mount any advertising UPnP shares.
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WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off of the 1.01.02 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. This firmware is an option for those whos hardware is stable with Zoranders ext3-boot, or those who don’t do much firmware programming to take advantage of ext3-boot. Once again, ext3-boot is for (sorta) pro’s and testers whereas WDLXTV is for everyday use.
Features included in WDLXTV:
- external dvd drive capability with cd-manager-0.7
- ext2 & ext3 filesystem support
- ext2 & ext3 hotplugging
- mounting of WDTV Optware package (if available) at boot
- mounting of app bin packs (if available) at boot
- mounting of OSD overlay (if available) at boot
- limited USB Ethernet support (if your ethernet adapter works in ext3-boot it should work here)
- IP via DHCP (by default, configurable)
- Telnet server
- pure-ftp server
- configurable to automount NFS shares
Much thanks to Zorander whose great efforts into ext3-boot have helped immensely.
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Today I’ll walk through getting perl & SlimRat installed on your WDTV. SlimRat is a command line and GUI utility for downloading files from Rapidshare on Linux.
In order to take advantage of this tutorial you must either be running WDLXTV or Zoranders ext3-boot. You must also have my Optware for WDTV package installed, that stuff is covered elsewhere. I’ll be including every necessary step here, so you might be able to skip around if you already have some of this done.
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I have updated my Optware for WDTV opt.bin image, but not much has changed so no need to get super excited. This time around I used ipkg to install the prerequisite packages. Two new packages have been added to the prerequisite list now too: readline & uClibc-opt. Some applications will appreciate having uClibc around now, aka they’ll run correctly. Thanks to Brian Zhou @ nslu2-linux.orgfor assembling the few libs needed to get that in order!
You don’t need to download this if you already have optware running, just execute:
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