How to install firmware via ftp, cli and telnet?

[jackheart]

I have puppy Wary 5.5 on an very old laptop, a Compaq Armada M300 cir. 1998. I need to perform a convoluted firmware downgrade on a network device and need to access it via serial, ftp, and telnet. If I can do it all on this laptop, it would make things easier. With other popular distros I can just do:

#ftp (ip)

I think I need to perform the ftp action via the ftp cli, not an ftp gui like gftp, or at least I have not figured that out yet. I could not find 'ftp' in ppm. My repository settings might not be right also. Would appreciate any leads and can answer any questions. Thanks!

[musher0]

Hello, jackheart.

You could try ftpget and its twin ftpput, which are components of busybox.
They are invoked as

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busybox ftpget

or

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busybox ftpput

with the settings you need. (Please see attached illustration.)

IHTH

[smokey01]

You could try this http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/

[musher0]

Hello again, jackheart.

Almost forgot: Midnight Commander has an ftp function.

Here's a video about using the ftp in midnight commander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqPihYkxBdk

Here's a simple written tutorial about it:
http://www.trembath.co.za/mctutorial.html#anchor12

I made a recent version of mc available here a couple of months ago.

Alternatively, a few ftp cli apps are recommended here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/12774/r ... tp-clients
on the ubuntu forum.

IHTH

[jd7654]

With other popular distros I can just do:
#ftp (ip)

Puppy is unlike other (full) Linux distros in that it is partly busybox based and doesn't have the complete suite of GNU utilities like ftp.

If you just want the original ftp you can easily compile from the GNU inetutils source:
https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/

Not aware of a .pet for inetutils or ftp, but someone might be able to provide one if you can't compile it yourself.

[musher0]

Hello, jd7654, jackheart and all.

Please find attached a compilation of the latest GNU ftp (from ineutils-1.9.4),
from the GNU source jd7654 mentioned in his post.

Now this has been compiled on the latest PuppyStretch which has a ldd/glibc
of 2.24, so it may not work on jakeheart's Wary 5.5. Unfortunately, I do not
have Wary 5.5 on this computer.

Please test. Feedback is always appreciated.

BFN.

[jafadmin]

For firmware upgrading, tftp (trivial FTP) is commonly used. It is in most puppies as it is in busybox.