New oleg firmware version

[Lesiuk]

I see.

You are one of developers.
Can you write list of changes in english?

translate.google.com and yahoo babelfish have problems with some words.

Is it stable?

I want help. How can i help you?

best regards
Damian Lesiuk

[lly]

Can you write list of changes in english?

Short version is ready on http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/wiki/NEWS
Long Changelog.txt exist in russian only.

Is it stable?

I prefer to call it 'Experimental', since I cannot provide support like Oleg. i.e. it stable for me, but has some untested places and bugs ( all sofware has bugs ).

How can i help you?

We needs an iptables guru to test this part of firmware. People, who can write detailed tutorials(FAQ) also welcome. And, of course, web interface is very old (as in Oleg firmware), but this requires skill in programming due to ASUS design of internal http server.

[wirespot]

but this requires skill in programming due to ASUS design of internal http server.

Yeah, BTW, can anything be done about that server? Like replace it with something that can use another programming language?

Although I don't exactly see what that alternative language could be, since all interpreted languages are resource hogs as far as the 500gP is concerned...

What are the limitations of the internal http server?

[lly]

Yeah, BTW, can anything be done about that server?

People wants to see new Web-UI, like is in latest ASUS firmwares. Since this UI uses non-standart calls in http server, migration of web-pages only, is impossible.

[Lesiuk]

I compiled newest version of your firmware from sources.

I upload it via web interface.
After that power led turn down, after 5 minutes i restart ruter.

Router run without any problems.

/usr/local/sbin/post-*,/etc/fstab,/etc/ipkg.conf have their old content, all the settings are old so if I did not install the new firmware. How can I check if the firmware has changed on later?

I used before your firmware but compiled 24 January 2009.

best regards
Damian Lesiuk

[al37919]

cat /.version

it will work if you put a new firmware over Oleg's one
otherwise, e.g.:

ls -al /bin/busybox

and look on the date of the file

[Lesiuk]

Thanks.

With that fix (http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/source/detail?r=89) websites work very fast!


There is no compiled version on website but i compiled it for wl 500gp v1 and this is link to .trx: http://freefilehosting.net/download/450jf

I test it 5 hours and it works very nice.

[mistraller]

Is it still needed to recompile firmware to make use of both serial ports of the asus wl500g deluxe with the new firmware? I only found a 5 year old thread about recompiling the kernel, but I have never recompiled a kernel before, so I would like to know if this is necessary, and how I should accomplish this.

[wpte]

I got a lot of these when using openvpn:

Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<80300000>] mount_block_root+0x2a8/0x338
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<c0274090>] tun_chr_aio_write+0x1c8/0x2e4 [tun]
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<80003204>] stack_done+0x20/0x40
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<80300000>] mount_block_root+0x2a8/0x338
Mar 21 11:48:41 kernel: WARNING: at net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:351 vlan_dev_hard_header()

I got r2845 installed

[lly]

I got a lot of these when using openvpn:

I got r2845 installed

Please try r2837, will bug appear? If yes, try to turn off fastnat by

nvram set misc_fastnat_x=0

[wpte]

Please try r2837, will bug appear? If yes, try to turn off fastnat by

nvram set misc_fastnat_x=0

I can't flash firmware atm since the router will crash after firmware flash & shutdown.
Anyway, I thought fastnat was disabled by default, I turned it off and rebooted which solved the problem
All my internet is tunneling through openvpn again

[theMIROn]

I got a lot of these when using openvpn:

Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<80300000>] mount_block_root+0x2a8/0x338
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<c0274090>] tun_chr_aio_write+0x1c8/0x2e4 [tun]
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<80003204>] stack_done+0x20/0x40
Mar 21 11:48:40 kernel: [<80300000>] mount_block_root+0x2a8/0x338
Mar 21 11:48:41 kernel: WARNING: at net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:351 vlan_dev_hard_header()

I got r2845 installed

can you please confirm openvpn bug is here or not after r2894

[wpte]

can you please confirm openvpn bug is here or not after r2894

with fastnat turned on?
because at the moment it's turned off, causing no errors whatsoever

[al37919]

He is not one of developers --- he did it all! At the moment contributions of others are really small. On the other hand this firmware seems to be already pretty stable. Personally I run it already for more than a month, and I don't see any failures. However, additional testing is certainly pretty welcome.

This new firmware itself, its sources, modules, and new toolchain are available here: http://wl500g.googlecode.com/ The firmware's sources are available there as svn-repository as well.

Brief English changelog is here: http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/wiki/NEWS The full one is attached to the first message in the Russian thread.

[Lesiuk]

Good Job!!! I'll try it tomorrow.

It looks very nice.

I can write tutorials with screenshots for begginers. Maybe i try later write simple web interface something like asus (asp -> vbscript)

The most important for me is QoS.
Wshaper do not work best.
I put torrent trafic in lowest class and no effect. (web pages load very slow)
QoS in OpenWRT works perfect, may be a good idea to do the same here.

Maybe you could try to do something with it?

I would be very grateful

best regards
Damian Lesiuk