Conduit Access Point mLinux/node.js upgrades?

[rgnews@nisient.com]

Hello,
We have just started development on a new Conduit AP which was shipped with mLinux 3.3.13. We are keen to see if we can update to 4 although as the download is several GB and there’s no USB port on the device we’re looking for guidance as to how best to achieve this, as there’s only ~120MB of space in /var/volatile
Similarly, there appears only to be node.js 0.10.44 available as an opkg install, which is very, very old (even NPM doesn’t exist). Even remaining on 3.3.13 we need to be able to update the node.js version to something much more recent (version 6+). Wondering again what would be the best way to achieve this.
Thanks
Rob

[rgnews@nisient.com]

ok, answer part of this myself (for others if needed).

Found the ~30MB upgrade image in http://multitech.net/mlinux/images/mtcap/4.0.1/

then it’s simply copy to /var/volatile, and /usr/sbin/mlinux-firmware-upgrade /var/volatile/mlinux-mtcap-image-mtcap-upgrade-withboot.bin

[rgnews@nisient.com]

ok, answer my own second point (should go digging first me thinks).

V8 dropped support for ARMv5 aligned with node.js v0.10, so that’s why (later versions can’t be compiled to run on the Conduit hardware)

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