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Recently I installed linux on my asustor NAS on an m.2 (Rocky 8, Asustor AS6704T). lcm worked perfect for managing the display, but there is also a green LED that continuously blinks now. Normally it would just blink until ADM started at which time I guess it would take over and then use the LED for various outputs. This is not the disk activity LED (on the front bottom left) but below the blue power LED on the front top left.

Any idea how I could go about finding out if this is controlled via the same serial interface and how to control it?

dmesg shows two serial interfaces:
[ 1.050440] 00:03: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[ 1.071230] 00:04: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A

/dev/ttyS1 appears to be the tty for managing the LCD so I don't know if it is possible that ttyS0 is for the LED(s)?

Hey @mafredri

any clue how to receive events of the USB_COPY_BUTTON?

Cheers

Hi Mafredi, @mafredri

I've got an otherwise fully functional asustor 604t, I set out to install debian on it. But I can't enter bios or get it to boot from my USB, I've tried smashing ESC, F2, DEL during boot. But I get no HDMI output, i've tried numerous hdmi cables and two monitors. It just boots straight to ADM. I have removed my 4 spinning rusts and I'm only using an 2.5inch SSD at the moment, with a fresh ADM OS on it.

Any suggestions, am I missing something obvious

PS. Jag blir galen haha

Hi @mafredri

Great job!
Any progress on the LCD display so far?

Hola, curious if based on your experience you think an alternate os like FreeNAS/Unraid/OMV could be installed on a AS4004T - It doesn't have an internal flash boot drive, uses AArch64 Processor, and as far as I know, the 2GB RAM is not upgradable.

I recently acquired an AS5304T - not sure if your workaround works for this series as well, but I can't see why not. It's just a PC in a different shell.

In any case, I have no problems with handling Linux, but in boot.md you write:

Beware, you will not be able to inspect the boot process without connecting to the serial port on the motherboard!

Can you elaborate a bit on how you did this? On the AS5304T there are two headers (soldered), one 4-pin header labeled SIO UART and another 8-pin header with no other label than J# (which seems to be the generic name for headers on the motherboard, J1, J2, etc.).

What did you use to connect and which header on the motherboard? Are there any identifying labels?