[HowTo] Install and configure Oleg's firmware

[wengi]

Hi all,

been away some time.
Are your questions still unanswered?
Give me an update on your issues and we can discuss it.

wengi

[kerberos]

Is this tutorial worked for rt-n16 ?

Thanks in advance.

[wengi]

In general: YES

wengi

[mihaidenis]

I just update my firmware to 1.9.2.7-d-r2381 on a wl500gpv2.
Then reinstall all from scratch (base on your tutorial=except samba)on a usb stick 16 Gb.
Everything run ok.
Just one thing.
Transmission is not starting automatically upon a reboot.
If i paste on putty:

chmod 755 /opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission-daemon
/opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission-daemon start

then is starting fine.
I double check transmission(in fact all start-up scripts) according to your tutorial and all are fine.
Any idea?
Thanks for your great tutorial Wengi.

Unsolved pls give me a starting point..........

[wengi]

Hi,

could you please provide the following after a restart (without starting transmission manually):

ps axf
ls -la /opt/etc/init.d
cat /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung
cat /opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission-daemon

wengi

[mihaidenis]

Hi,

could you please provide the following after a restart (without starting transmission manually):

ps axf
ls -la /opt/etc/init.d
cat /opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung
cat /opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission-daemon

wengi

Yes,sorry for delay.
Here it is:

[wengi]

The files are fine so far.
This seems to be a timing problem.
Could you - for testing - remark the level1.gz download part in S90transmission?
Maybe this has something to do with a small / late responding internet connection.

wengi

[mihaidenis]

The files are fine so far.
This seems to be a timing problem.
Could you - for testing - remark the level1.gz download part in S90transmission?
Maybe this has something to do with a small / late responding internet connection.

wengi

I try what U suggested and still nothing.
Also i notice that cron is not started (ps axf processes).
It seems that everything related to location /opt/etc/init.d/
are not starting automatically.
Any way thanks Wengi for your quick answer and for your time
spending here helping others.
Unfortunately i had no time to spend now for debugging.
So i will start manually as i did it already.
Once again thanks Wengi.

[wengi]

Hi,

if rc.unslung is not started at all (and you are right) please check your /usr/local/sbin/post-mount.

content should be

#! /bin/sh

/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung start

wengi

[redpacman]

Thanks for the wonderful How-to wengi.
......I had my wl-hdd setup fine following your instruction, now using Transmission as my low-power downloader.
......I recently rescued an old 2.5' 60g ide hard drive. The drive has been partially damaged due to loss of power during writing.
......As the hard drive is having bad blocks spreading across 42%~53% of the surface, i did a remap and partitioned the space between 40%~55% as a single hidden partition.
......By doing so, i should be able to avoid accessing the bad blocks preventing further degrading of the hard drive.
......Now i want to use the rescued hard drive on the wl-hdd. According to the How-to, i should setup the hard drive with 3 partitions, but since the usable space on my 60g hard drive was separated into two parts that are not neighboring, i don't know how to do the partition in order to make use of all the space.
......Please help me with the partition setup: does it mean i can only use one of the two parts or is there a way to fully utilize all the space?
......if there is a way to both parts what should i do to make transmission function?

[wengi]

Hi redpacman,

first of all: I recommend NOT using the drive because normaly these damage sectors become more with time. Never store important data on such a device!

ok, this said:

You can simply use a setup with two data partitions.
You can use a partition "part4" named "data2".

Your fstab should look like this

#device                 Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/discs/disc0/part1  none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/discs/disc0/part2  /opt            ext3    rw,noatime      1       1
/dev/discs/disc0/part3  /tmp/harddisk   ext3    rw,noatime      1       1
/dev/discs/disc0/part4  /tmp/harddisk2   ext3    rw,noatime      1       1

Note that /tmp/harddisk2 must exist.
As far as i know there is no LVM for the router so i do not know a way to merge this two partition to one "Volume".

wengi

[Arbadelli]

Hi,

i've installed this long time ago, but now, i take a look, if i can put on a mediaserver on de WL500gp with Oleg's firmware.

But first i have some questions:

1 - can i update the firmware, without copien all my media files to another pc.
2 - can i install mediatomb with all files on the hdd?

thanks in advance

I want to use Mediatomb, but maybe you have better mediaservers?
I want to use it with my AC Ryan Mediaplayer

[wengi]

Hi,

- yes, you can update firmware without copying all the files. Have a look at chapter 18!
- yes, you can install mediatomb with all teh files on the hdd.

But just to be sure: you have which old firmware and want to update to which new firmware?

I have no idea which mediaserver is the best because i retired my WL-HDD many month ago. Never used a mediaserver.

wengi

[Arbadelli]

But just to be sure: you have which old firmware and want to update to which new firmware?

wengi

I logged in on my Asus and i have

Product ID WL500gp
Firmware version 1.9.2.7
Firmeare release 1.9.2.7-d-r1000

greets

[wengi]

Hi,

this is already the enthusiast firmware. An early one.
There have been some changes but you should be fine.

Do the upgrade.

wengi