alpha rt-n firmware releases

[wpte]

I already had a post with firmware releases from http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/
but I tought that a new thread would be easier to find
You can look through the changes in svn via this link: http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/sour.../branches/rt-n

Also there is a download source from the Russian forum: ftp://core.dumped.ru/rt-n/
it contains both firmware (RT-N16 and RT-N12) and additional modules

so the list (which is updating):
[B]From now on I can host the firmware on my website again.
All the RT-N models: http://wpte.kicks-ass.net/downloads/...s/1.9.2.7-rtn/ also the wl models are available here with kernel 2.6
The old kernel 2.4 wl models: http://wpte.kicks-ass.net/downloads/...lys/1.9.2.7-d/


I don't build as regular as the nightly builds on ftp://core.dumped.ru/rt-n/ so keep in mind that you could download from there as well (with probably newer versions)
or try my test nightly builds: http://wpte.kicks-ass.net/downloads/...ware/Nightlys/ (I'm not promising I can build every night tho)






basic things you need to know about this firmware:

• This firmware is still in alpha state, so it's experimental
• it's pretty stable so far for me
• wireless works in r1200 and higher for non-encrypted, WEP and WPA-AES encryption. WPA2 works since r1484
• Back up your flasfs image before flashing the firmware. This will be ereased while flashing (in newer versions not likely, but still, it's always good to have a backup). After the flashing is complete you may restore the saved flashfs and everything should work again.
• setting files from other router models can not be uploaded directly to the rt-n16, it's better to manually set up the webconfig
• harddisks are not listed as /dev/discs/disc0... instead they are listed with character in alphabetic order: /dev/discs/disca. so mind that when setting up fstab
• webcams don't work yet
• printers should work from r1393

problems you've found can be posted in the general firmware thread: http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=18004
please post only real problems like "my router restarts every 5 minutes" or something like that
Ofcourse mind the simple rules of describing a problem like that, to make it easier for the developers to fix it

• Describe the problem clearly
• Tell how you could possibly reproduce the same problems again.
• If you've found a way to fix the problem, please write how

general problems like "hey my harddrive doesn't mount" or "hey what settings should I use?" can be posted here

that was all I guess

[bef]

Would you recommend using a swap-partition? I think the 128 megs of ram should be enough or is there any advantage of having additional space for swapping?

[wpte]

Would you recommend using a swap-partition? I think the 128 megs of ram should be enough or is there any advantage of having additional space for swapping?

Yes, swap is advised, since during something like file transfers the cache can become quite big. And with a little swap extra you'll be sure everything stays stable
I haven't seen it go higher than 2MB tho, but I had some crashes without swap on dd-wrt, so that's why I use swap now

[bef]

In this case, i'll use the swap. Thanks

[wpte]

firmware list updated with r1256
in the rt-n merge, I think "accidently" (not sure might be testing/fixing) the printing spooling service was included.

I excluded LPRNG in this build since it would give compiler errors

[maurer]

what are the speeds on wireless N ( with wpa-aes) ?
what about samba / ftp -> up/ down speeds ?
wired speeds ?

[s1za]

Hi,

I've been using a self-compiled version of Oleg 1.9.2.7-10 (2008-03-30) on a 500GP with RAID1 (based on this tread http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=15550 comments and modules md.o and raid1.o) with two 1Tb Iomega disks on RAID1.

I've just bought a RT-N16 and I want to re-build the system. This new router uses kernel 2.6. Can someone help me getting the right modules and tell me how to compile everything.

For what I notice the wiki on http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/wiki...CustomFirmware is only for Kernel 2.4

Thank's in advance

[wpte]

it's pretty much the same as for kernel 2.4
setting everything up for the wl500 series as in the how-to is pretty much the same, you just need these extra things:

you need kernel 2.6.22.19
just link it to "linux-2.6" in the /broadcom/src/linux dir.
then just checkout the svn rt-n branch into the dir... lets say /broadcom/src/rt-n

do "make kernel" and "make" in the rt-n dir
then cd into /broadcom/src/gateway dir and do "make" and "make install"

after that you can just grab the .trx from /broadcom/src/gateway/mipsel-uclibc

I hope that's a bit clear


ofcourse you can download my builds as well, then you just need to compile the kernel modules I guess

[RdBw]

Thank's for great FW. I think it's a best of all. Before I was using Tomato from Teddy bear, but p2p download was allways too slow. Now, with this FW, DL is allways at full speed. Thank's again and keep on good work.

[RdBw]

Can anyone confirmed, that WPA2 does not working yet. Because I think it is working for me correctly or it is some mistake.

[wpte]

To come back on the WiFi problem I had...
it seems that with a few new versions flashed the wifi didn't go down.
Perhaps it was just a bad flash
Moreover, I don't want to go back to the old wifi settings since some (embedded) devices won't work with that

but maybe a bit vivid imaginative explanation: after flashing new firmware the router stops responding a lot of the times and the wifi led starts blinking. this puts the wifi card in a sort of state causing it to crash after a specific time
I just find it weird that it happens now and then after a flash.

Anyway, does someone know how to make the harddrives to spin down? hdparm doesn't seem to work and my old scsi script doesn't work for the RT-N (hence it doesn't have any)

[lly]

To come back on the WiFi problem I had...

WiFi driver wasn't changed at all, only parameters in r1480...

Anyway, does someone know how to make the harddrives to spin down? hdparm doesn't seem to work and my old scsi script doesn't work for the RT-N (hence it doesn't have any)

Have you try scsi start/stop utilities from project downloads page?

[wpte]

WiFi driver wasn't changed at all, only parameters in r1480...

I know, I'm not saying the driver changed

Have you try scsi start/stop utilities from project downloads page?

I used those utilities on my WL-500W yes, but on my RT-N16 my drives don't show up as scsi drives.

normally I'd use the utilities in that famous spindown bash script that can be found on the forums, by using this entry /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
but I don't even have the directory /dev/scsi

or should I just use /dev/discs/disca/disc or something?

[Bohlendach]

Anyway, does someone know how to make the harddrives to spin down? hdparm doesn't seem to work and my old scsi script doesn't work for the RT-N (hence it doesn't have any)

I would like to know too

Have you try scsi start/stop utilities from project downloads page?

How do I install the scsi start/stop utilities when

on my RT-N16 my drives don't show up as scsi drives.

and

2.6 kernel uses /dev/sd[a-z] entry for drives and /dev/sd[a-z][0-9][0-9] dor patritions, and /dev/discs/disca/disc is just a symlink to /dev/sda for now

Thanking you in advance.

By the way I am a Linux noob

[wpte]

Can anyone confirmed, that WPA2 does not working yet. Because I think it is working for me correctly or it is some mistake.

Are you sure?
with inssider you can find out if it really broadcasts at WPA2
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider