Firmware v1.9.2.7 CR6, updated to CR6a ... now CR6b [Oleg]

[yeager]

cpu probe
prom init
cpu report
CPU revision is: 00024000
Loading BCM4710 MMU routines.
Primary instruction cache 8kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Primary data cache 4kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Linux version 2.4.20 (root@omnibook) (gcc version 3.2.3 with Broadcom modifications) #9 Thu May 26 23:29:45 MSD 2005
Setting the PFC value as 0x15
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 01000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM4710 rev 0 at 125 MHz
!unable to setup serial console!
Calibrating delay loop... 82.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 13868k/16384k available (1767k kernel code, 2516k reserved, 248k data, 72k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
PPP BSD Compression module registered
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.1 at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: Swapping erase regions for broken CFI table.
number of CFI chips: 1
Flash device: 0x400000 at 0x1fc00000
Physically mapped flash: squashfs filesystem found at block 942
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x003e0000 : "linux"
0x000eba00-0x003e0000 : "rootfs"
0x003f0000-0x00400000 : "nvram"
0x003e0000-0x003f0000 : "config"
sflash: chipcommon not found
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (128 buckets, 1024 max) - 344 bytes per conntrack
ip_conntrack_pptp version 1.9 loaded
ip_nat_pptp version 1.5 loaded
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_time loading
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.7 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
FAT: bogus logical sector size 13056
FAT: bogus logical sector size 13056
NTFS: Unable to set blocksize 512.
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0
eth1: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4301 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.23.0
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth0) entering listening state
br0: port 1(eth1) entering listening state
br0: port 2(eth0) entering learning state
br0: port 1(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb8004000, IRQ 2
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:04.0, PCI device 14e4:4715
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:04.0-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4e8/0x100) is not claimed by any active driver.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
usb.c: registered new driver audio
audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.0-1 address 2
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
br0: no IPv6 routers present
hub.c: Cannot enable port 1 of hub 1, disabling port.
hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad?
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout

[ankn99]

Hi, it looks like you got some problems with your USB-Stick.

Like you can see at the end of you Kernel Messgaes, the driver has problems to recognize your stick.
Did you tried it at another Linux System ??

Do there the same and post the dmesg output. May be the Kernel-Developers changed something (and they possibly did) in the younger Kernel Versions.

Greetings from Berlin
Andy

cpu probe
prom init
cpu report
CPU revision is: 00024000
Loading BCM4710 MMU routines.
Primary instruction cache 8kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Primary data cache 4kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Linux version 2.4.20 (root@omnibook) (gcc version 3.2.3 with Broadcom modifications) #9 Thu May 26 23:29:45 MSD 2005
Setting the PFC value as 0x15
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 01000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM4710 rev 0 at 125 MHz
!unable to setup serial console!
Calibrating delay loop... 82.94 BogoMIPS
Memory: 13868k/16384k available (1767k kernel code, 2516k reserved, 248k data, 72k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
PPP BSD Compression module registered
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.1 at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: Swapping erase regions for broken CFI table.
number of CFI chips: 1
Flash device: 0x400000 at 0x1fc00000
Physically mapped flash: squashfs filesystem found at block 942
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x003e0000 : "linux"
0x000eba00-0x003e0000 : "rootfs"
0x003f0000-0x00400000 : "nvram"
0x003e0000-0x003f0000 : "config"
sflash: chipcommon not found
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (128 buckets, 1024 max) - 344 bytes per conntrack
ip_conntrack_pptp version 1.9 loaded
ip_nat_pptp version 1.5 loaded
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_time loading
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.7 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
FAT: bogus logical sector size 13056
FAT: bogus logical sector size 13056
NTFS: Unable to set blocksize 512.
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0
eth1: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.7.0
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4301 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.23.0
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth0) entering listening state
br0: port 1(eth1) entering listening state
br0: port 2(eth0) entering learning state
br0: port 1(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xb8004000, IRQ 2
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:04.0, PCI device 14e4:4715
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:04.0-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4e8/0x100) is not claimed by any active driver.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
usb.c: registered new driver audio
audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.0-1 address 2
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
br0: no IPv6 routers present
hub.c: Cannot enable port 1 of hub 1, disabling port.
hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad?
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout

[piri]

hey,

is there a chance that a HFS+ formatted hdd is supported by upcoming oleg's firmwares ... i've read somewhere in the forum that it's currently not supported and that hdds shall be formatted with ext3 or fat32, but as far as i know the kernel 2.4.x supports HFS+ ....is there a reason why it's not implemented?
or can I add HFS+ support by myself? if yes, how?

cheers, thomas.

ps: searching the forum with =< 3 chars (like hfs, mac, osx etc.) gives a zero search result in the forum.... so maybe there is already an answer, but i was unable to find it

[ankn99]

I think the best way to get HFS+ is to compile it by your self by setting the right Kernel Parameter.

Why it's not implemented, well I think ext3 and fat32 is the usual standard, that almost everybody has. If every Filesystem should be implemented ......

I think you should better by a small tidy PC for this, the flash rom at this devices are not that big to keep every feature in it.

To get to your question about a chance, I don't think so. Since most of us are PC-Users:

Linux can read and write FAT32
Windoose can at least read with an extra driver ext32
So for those who know what Linux is will probably format with ext32, the others will use fat32 to switch the USB-Drive between Windows and the WL*** device.


greetings from Berlin

hey,

is there a chance that a HFS+ formatted hdd is supported by upcoming oleg's firmwares ... i've read somewhere in the forum that it's currently not supported and that hdds shall be formatted with ext3 or fat32, but as far as i know the kernel 2.4.x supports HFS+ ....is there a reason why it's not implemented?
or can I add HFS+ support by myself? if yes, how?

cheers, thomas.

ps: searching the forum with =< 3 chars (like hfs, mac, osx etc.) gives a zero search result in the forum.... so maybe there is already an answer, but i was unable to find it

[alien433]

what is a flashfs file.

and i missing the option url filter what i need that is why i dont need this firmware. Or is it possible that i can put url filter in by flashfs.

I wait for a reply (oleg?)

[piri]

thanks for your reply!

I think the best way to get HFS+ is to compile it by your self by setting the right Kernel Parameter.

do you have a how-to how-to do that? :-)

Why it's not implemented, well I think ext3 and fat32 is the usual standard, that almost everybody has. If every Filesystem should be implemented ......

I think you should better by a small tidy PC for this, the flash rom at this devices are not that big to keep every feature in it.

hmmm, to tell a mac user that he shall buy a pc ....

Linux can read and write FAT32
Windoose can at least read with an extra driver ext32
So for those who know what Linux is will probably format with ext32, the others will use fat32 to switch the USB-Drive between Windows and the WL*** device.

well, osx can read/write ext32, fat32 and hfs/hfs+ .... but I really don't think that because "most" people are using intel, oleg will not incorporate hfs+ support in his firmwares.... this must be a technical issue....

cheers, thomas.

[Oleg]

wl500g is running linux, so using ext3 as most logical approach. Other filesystems (fat32/ntfs) are used for compatibility with original firmwares only. No other filesystems would be supported, as there are not enough space available in the built-in flash to support everything.

[iog]

I have been chasing a solution to my Bigpond dropout problem for months. Every 28 minutes, there are time-outs on email send/receive and browsing and complete dropouts on VPN (client end via router with either ethernet or wireless) or VoiP. Casual users might not notice these problems. Every new FW I hope it is fixed. Asus 1.9.2.7 did not drop out but lost connection completely every couple of days and had to be manually reconnected. Since then, all FW versions have not needed to be reconnected manually, but all have had the same dropout problem (every 28 minutes). This includes Oleg's 1.9.2.7-4 (installed 21 March 05), Asus 1.9.4.0, 1.9.4.6, 1.9.5.0 and Oleg's 1.9.2.7-6b (using FW restoration tool; what a hassle!). Please help! Surely I am not the only one with this problem. Or have all Bigpond users given up on the Asus routers or Bigpond (I don't have the latter option). Surely there is a solution to this.

[nonnux]

Hello, i am new to this fórum.

i own a WL-500g, and i made this firmware update for first time. everything installed correctly.

the reason for the update was only this SNMP support, and is not working

i am using MRTG with this command:

perl cfgmaker public@10.0.0.1 asus.cfg
----
SNMP Error:
no response received

i didn't found any information about how to activate SNMP, or define the comunity and port.

thanx in advance, and sorry my bad english

excelent work Oleg! great firmware, fórum and support

[nonnux]

i didn't found any information about how to activate SNMP, or define the comunity and port.

just after posting this i found on the admin area that SNMP was inactive.

IP Config > SNMP > Enable SNMP

(on this menu we can also name the comunity!)

sorry for posting garbage, maybe my error could help someone

[Peter2]

Hi, I try to upgrade from 1.9.2.7-3b to 1.9.2.7-6b and for some reason I am unable to finish installation. Luckily I can restart the 500g by cycling the power but it is strange or am I forgetting something ?
So I was lucky/forgetting something, just resetted all parameters and I was able to upload the software.

[sleuther]

Hi Peter,

I was faced a similiar problem. One and only one of several WL500g routers, could not be updated to every version of Olegs software. Unfortunately I never found the reason! Several 1.9.2.7- version ended after upload and reset in a continous reset loop. You can notice a short "flicker" of the power lead every 10 to 15 sec. and the WLAN LED was never activated! I stick up with this problem. The last know version updating and running was 1.9.2.7-5 all ...-6(a,b) did not update to this router. May be that's useful to you to save your time. By the way this behaviour started earlier. Perhaps you search this forum by my user name....

Sigurd