Firmware v1.8.1.7 CR3 [Oleg]

[Oleg]

New firmware available for
WL500g
WL500gx
WLHDD
WL500b
WL500bv2
WL300g
Sources and other info available here.

Changes:

• Preliminarily WL-HDD support, www pages credits are going to Antiloop (ide partitions does not get mounted automatically, except when USB drive is attached; most of the wl500g functionality is included).Thanks to Antiloop for performing various ide related testing (16 test versions evaluated)
• Fixed firewall rules with virtual servers enabled
• Added 802.11g LRS mode
• Updated samba to 1.9.18p10 (latest from the old 1.9 series)
• Fixed 1.8.1.7-2a second NTP server field problem
• Changed makefiles, so firmware could be now recompiled with no root privileges, fixed various things to enable faster compiling and reliable packaging
• Added nls support for russian codepages 866 and 1251 (use nvram set usb_vfat_options=codepage=866,iocharset=cp1251 for correct filenames handling)
• Changed pppoe daemon behaviour - it's should now try reconnect as many times as needed
• Updated dnsmasq to 2.17, probably static leases (manual IP assignment) will work better
• Updated busybox to 1.00, added 2 new applets: fdisk and wget
• Added mke2fs and e2fsck programs from the e2fsprogs package
• Optimized stupid-ftpd performance for both upload and download

Root fs is no longer available as separate download - instructions for making root fs is updated.

Samba now supports real users with their passwords, documentation is yet to come.
My current files are follow (remember to add modified files to flashfs):

[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/passwd
root:$1$$LMuXuAPfSStW8rhnojbc41:0:0:root:/usr/local/root:/bin/sh
nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
oleg:x:100:100:oleg:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
nk:x:100:100:nk:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
 
[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/smbpasswd
# Samba SMB password file
root:0:6F9F65B23B4B48E7613E8293942509F0:7741DF71C7  48ABCC71C6C263B99C2B08:root:/usr/local/root:/bin/sh
oleg:100:9EE3D0611811EA5C417EAF50CEAC29C3:F3AC46A6  CB04CB32FE1C77A025CF6C53:oleg:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
nk:100:8A5D3EB54FF11B0DB79AE2610DF89D4C:9FDB1AFF30  84809671715D8AE948AA35:nk:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/smbusers
root = administrator
[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/smb.conf
[global]
        workgroup = WORKGROUP
        guest account = nobody
        security = user
        encrypt passwords = yes
        log level = 1
        max log size = 100
        username map = /etc/smbusers
        client code page = 866
        character set = 1251
[share]
        path = /tmp/harddisk
        writable = yes
[root$]
        path = /
        writable = yes
[root@wl500g etc]$

[CoreDump]

Changed pppoe daemon behaviour - it's should now try reconnect as many times as needed

Uh oh, i see a problem with that. Some people (like me) have the AP configured for their ISP (username, password, etc), but use another computer for the connection / routing from time to time.

If needed, one could hook the modem up to the AP and dial in manually from the web interface and was online without the hassle of searching the login information from the ISP.

In your last ROM, ppp just died and stated that the "cable was not connected". Is that still true for this release? Doesn't make much sense to have the deamon retry over and over again in this case.

Ideally, the web interface would have a "Turn off dialing" switch

BTW: Thanks for your great work on these ROMs!

[trixam]

Hi Oleg,

thanx for the great work !

can you tell me where i can find the Busybox 1.00 final full Version ?
And pls why is the root fs not longer available ? i'am start the
firmware from hdd, so i must first flash and the copy the firmware

best regards

- Trixam -

[Antiloop]

Hi Oleg,

thanx for the great work !

can you tell me where i can find the Busybox 1.00 final full Version ?
And pls why is the root fs not longer available ? i'am start the
firmware from hdd, so i must first flash and the copy the firmware

best regards

- Trixam -

please read oleg's post.. you can find there instruction where to find stuff to update rootfs..

and also I'm not in the mood to mirror 6 rootfs's for all different firmwares

[trixam]

please read oleg's post.. you can find there instruction where to find stuff to update rootfs..

and also I'm not in the mood to mirror 6 rootfs's for all different firmwares

Hi Antiloop,

i know how i can bulid a root fs but I would not like flash my wl500g for build
it.

Btw thanx to you for all the work and test on the forum.

best regards

- Trixam -

[Oleg]

i know how i can bulid a root fs but I would not like flash my wl500g for build
it.

Keep in mind, that even with rootfs you need to flash firmware to update the kernel (it's not stored in the root fs).

[lexi]

A note on rebuilding:

On my system a make in the cd wl500g-1.8.1.7-3 directory fails. The reason is, that the make utility simply ignors the target www. So the www folder in the gateway-dir is not created, and the copy of www/iBox_title_all_HDD.jpg fails.

I don't know why make ignors the www target, but as a workaround I added a target www2 to the Makefile:

www2:
        [ ! -d $(SRC)/www ] || [ -d $(TOP)/www ] || \
                tar -C $(SRC) -cf - www | tar -C $(TOP) -xf -
        [ ! -f www.diff ] || patch -d $(TOP) -p1 < www.diff

It's exactly the same code as in the % target.

Btw, my system is Gentoo Linux and the make is GNU make version 3.80...strange

[WlanMan]

Hi

It seems i found a bug in the Javascripts that controll the admin page. If you repeatedly switch between two sellections in some of the pulldown menus they get longer and longer (see Screenshot).

Also, It still dont shows the printer status in the Status page (Blank fields).

The rest is a great release, now have to test Samba

A question: Can you embed the NetIO binary in the next release, great for testing and only 25k or less.

Greets

[jbrbv]

Oleg,
Can you still have a look at the WPA-PSK/TKIP and WPA-PSK/TKIP+AES issue, as has been discussed in the 1.8.1.7-2 forum?
Thanks.

[yato]

Hi,
I upgraded firmware to 1.8.1.7-3 and I started to get very awfull messages in /var/log/smb - seems like shared memory is somewhat corrupt (?).
The smbd process seems to span more and more children processes.
The smb.conf was not changed from that which worked in 1.8.1.7-2a and previous.
Access to shared folder is working well, despite of errors, but it cease to function after some time.

Can anybody tell me how to correct this? Or samba itself is broken?

/etc/smb.conf

[global]
        netbios name = FW
        server string =
        workgroup = HOME
        local master = yes
        prefered master = yes
        os level = 255
        guest account = nobody
        security = share
        browseable = yes
        log level = 1
        max log size = 100
        encrypt passwords = no
        dns proxy = no
        wins support = yes
        preserve case = yes
        short preserve case = yes
[share]
        comment = Shared public folder
        path = /mnt/share
        writeable = yes
        guest ok = yes
        force user = nobody

/var/log/smb:

WARNING: clearing global IPC lock set by dead process 15406
ERROR shm_open : can't IPC_SET. Error was Bad address
2004/11/21 16:28:35 pc102 (192.168.11.102) connect to service share as user nobody (uid=99,gid=99) (pid 15807)
2004/11/21 16:28:35 pc102 (192.168.11.102) couldn't find service shar
2004/11/21 16:28:35 pc102 (192.168.11.102) couldn't find service shar
2004/11/21 16:29:09 pc102 (192.168.11.102) closed connection to service share
ERROR shm_validate_header : bad magic
ERROR shm_open : corrupt IPC area - remove it!
2004/11/21 16:29:13 pc102 (192.168.11.102) connect to service share as user nobody (uid=99,gid=99) (pid 15809)
2004/11/21 16:29:20 pc102 (192.168.11.102) couldn't find service shar
2004/11/21 16:29:30 pc102 (192.168.11.102) closed connection to service share
ERROR shm_validate_header : bad magic
ERROR shm_open : corrupt IPC area - remove it!
2004/11/21 16:30:57 pc102 (192.168.11.102) connect to service share as user nobody (uid=99,gid=99) (pid 15817)
2004/11/21 16:30:57 pc102 (192.168.11.102) couldn't find service shar
2004/11/21 17:15:36 pc102 (192.168.11.102) closed connection to service share
ERROR shm_validate_header : bad magic
ERROR shm_open : corrupt IPC area - remove it!
===============================================================
INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 16545 (1.9.18p10)
Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution
===============================================================
Last message was pSETDIR
===============================================================
Dumping core in /var/log/corefiles
write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = Connection reset by peer
Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting
WARNING: clearing global IPC lock set by dead process 16545
ERROR shm_open : can't IPC_SET. Error was Bad address
ERROR shm_validate_header : bad magic
ERROR shm_open : corrupt IPC area - remove it!
write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 5: ERRNO = Connection reset by peer
Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. Exiting

[hugo]

same here. Samba is probably compiled without IPC support. This is problematic for share folder browsing, but not for connecting and using your share.

[Oleg]

1.8.1.7-3 uses "newer" samba, and it has some problems. I've not time to check this yet.

[predatorx]

Maybe this is off-topic, but I can't find it.
How do I use my printer on the router from Linux?
Any help on that will be great!

[bramfm]

Yesterday I tried to flash version 1.8.1.7-3 but encountered many problems. One of the problems was that the admin / admin account did not work anymore; I had to add the admin user. After a full reset (holding the reset button for more than 15 seconds) I flashed it again, now I could log in into the web administration but the telnet console did not work anymore (admin admin). I had to add user admin again, then I was able to log in. However in the CLI i could not find the /mnt/usbfs anymore, while ftp did work to the usb stick. Did I missed something?

[Styno]

Yesterday I tried to flash version 1.8.1.7-3 but encountered many problems. One of the problems was that the admin / admin account did not work anymore; I had to add the admin user. After a full reset (holding the reset button for more than 15 seconds) I flashed it again, now I could log in into the web administration but the telnet console did not work anymore (admin admin). I had to add user admin again, then I was able to log in. However in the CLI i could not find the /mnt/usbfs anymore, while ftp did work to the usb stick. Did I missed something?

Yes, I think you missed something

I guess you upgraded from a 1.7.x.x version firmware to this one?! After flashing to the new 1.8.x.x. series firmware always reset to defaults. After that the admin password should just work fine.

The 1.8.x.x. series firmware differ quite a bit from the older ones: The USB storage device is mounted on /tmp/harddisk for example. You can mount it the old fashioned way too, but you'll have to configure that yourself (Oleg has described how-to do this somewhere else).