New 1.0.4.6 based custom firmware

[kfurge]

Regarding the APM modes in the Toshiba HDD:

The "click" you hear after 5 minutes is the drive entering low power idle mode. The platter is still spinning at near full speed, but the heads are parked. That's the click you hear. The drive can recover from this mode very quickly since it only needs to unpark the heads, and relock the platter servo.

After an hour, the platter will slow down to about 40% speed. It's very difficult to hear the drive spin in this mode, but you still can if you listen carefully. Since the heads are already parked, this mode is sliently entered. The drive runs very cool in this mode, but spin-up is faster.

The equations are indeed confusing, but to engage both Y1 and Y2, you need to set Y1 first. If you only set Y2, Y1 will be set to the default value of 120 seconds. Either Y1 or Y2 are set depending on the range of the value being written. Writes between 80h-BFh (128d-191d) set Y1 and 01h-7Fh (1d-127d) set Y2. It requires two writes to set both.

So according to the datasheet,

Y1=(x-80h)*5+120 = (x-128d)*5+120 = (164-128)*5+120 = 300 sec
Y2=(x-40h)*60+600 = (x-64d)*60+600 = (114-64)*60+600 = 3600 sec

One final thing, make sure you don't call "hdparm -S". Also, I use the latest hdparm ipkg, not the one already installed on the router (note the full path to /opt/sbin/hdparm) though I don't think it's required.

- K.C.

[dolphine]

Y1=(x-80h)*5+120 = (x-128d)*5+120 = (164-128)*5+120 = 300 sec
Y2=(x-40h)*60+600 = (x-64d)*60+600 = (114-64)*60+600 = 3600 sec

One final thing, make sure you don't call "hdparm -S". Also, I use the latest hdparm ipkg, not the one already installed on the router (note the full path to /opt/sbin/hdparm) though I don't think it's required.

- K.C.

Thanks a lot!

I was confused by the result of hdparm -I ... and -C which just says suspend :-(

[markc]

I notice when trying to install openssh, sudo and even dropbear, as the root user, that the package install scripts complain about...

mkdir: Cannot create directory `/root': Operation not permitted

The ipkg-web package complains about...

ipkg: extract_archive: /home/: Operation not permitted

I tried using the ipkg -d and -dest args to force the installation inside the writtable /opt area but being an ipkg and optware novice this didn't seem to work. Anyone have some suggestions how to work around this problem ?

[kfurge]

I notice when trying to install openssh, sudo and even dropbear, as the root user, that the package install scripts complain about...

Hmmm... I don't remember seeing this when I installed my packages a few months back. Maybe something has changed.

I'll make a note to add a symlink from /root into /tmp in my next image so it can be customized.

- K.C.

[markc]

How about adding mkdir root and home to rootprep.sh and then we could mount -o bind them, like /opt, so they can become real dirs on the hard drive ? Or at least for only /home and add a link from /root to what could become /home/root on the hard drive. With a real /home we could have multiple persistent user accounts on the hard drive in some kind of standard place. Perhaps some fancy linking could make them usable from the various web/ftp/cifs servers.

On a similar related note, would you, or anyone out there, be interested in cooperating with the ASUS code pushed into a subversion repository, and also using a wiki for notes ?

I suspect if a few of us could coop on the same codebase then we could accelerate development. I've managed to build the ASUS codebase and I hope to try it out today. I think at least 2 other users have built the codebase too so there could be 1/2 folks that could build the firmware and test the results.

[markc]

Here's an example error I've bumped into with a few packages...

# ipkg configure
Configuring procps
+update-alternatives --install /opt/bin/kill kill /opt/bin/procps-kill 80
syntax error
+update-alternatives --install /opt/bin/uptime uptime /opt/bin/procps-uptime 80
syntax error
postinst script returned status 255
ERROR: procps.postinst returned 255
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 255.

Trying the update-alternatives command on it's own gives...

# update-alternatives --install /opt/bin/uptime uptime /opt/bin/procps
syntax error

A simple workaround to make sure the packages are otherwise successfully installed is to comment out the updates-alternative lines in the /opt/lib/ipkg/info/*.postinst files.

#!/bin/sh
set -x
#update-alternatives --install /opt/bin/kill kill /opt/bin/procps-kill 80
#update-alternatives --install /opt/bin/uptime uptime /opt/bin/procps-uptime 80

FWIW

[oleo]

Maybe someone will find this script handz for installing fundamental packages:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Optware pre-installation script, Leon Kos 2006
#
 
REPOSITORY=http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable
TMP=/tmp
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin

install_package()
{
    PACKAGE=$1
    echo "Installing package ${PACKAGE} ..."
    wget -O ${TMP}/${PACKAGE} ${REPOSITORY}/${PACKAGE}
    cd  ${TMP} 
    tar xzf ${TMP}/${PACKAGE} 
    tar xzf ${TMP}/control.tar.gz
    cd /
    if [ -f ${TMP}/preinst ] ; then
	sh ${TMP}/preinst
	rm -f ${TMP}/preints
    fi
    tar xzf ${TMP}/data.tar.gz
    if [ -f ${TMP}/postinst ] ; then
	sh ${TMP}/postinst
	rm -f ${TMP}/postinst
    fi
    rm -f ${TMP}/data.tar.gz
    rm -f ${TMP}/control.tar.gz
    rm -f ${TMP}/control
    rm -f ${TMP}/${PACKAGE}
}

_install_package uclibc-opt_0.9.28-12_mipsel.ipk
_install_package ipkg-opt_0.99.163-9_mipsel.ipk
/opt/sbin/ldconfig
/opt/bin/ipkg update
/opt/bin/ipkg install -force-reinstall uclibc-opt
/opt/bin/ipkg install -force-reinstall ipkg-opt

[arnear]

is it possible to install the linux version of hamachi on the WL700ge?

[kfurge]

How about adding mkdir root and home to rootprep.sh and then we could mount -o bind them, like /opt, so they can become real dirs on the hard drive ?

That's what I ended up doing.

On a similar related note, would you, or anyone out there, be interested in cooperating with the ASUS code pushed into a subversion repository, and also using a wiki for notes ?

I've been working towards a similar goal since my list of diffs against the original source is starting to pile up. I've pruned the source tree to about 180M and have eliminated some of the time consuming redundancy in the makefile. I'm well down the path of putting the entire tree into version control on my local machine, but it's been absolute torture getting the build to succeed with the source files read-only. I now have it building, but I'm very nervous about the resulting binary. Confirming nothing is broken will be difficult...

If you've got a good place to host the source, I'd be more than happy to post it up there.

- K.C.

[jeromv]

Kfurge i have made the quick installation guide website and i have posted it for you at this adress :
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=7701&page=2
Regards
Jerome

[kfurge]

Kfurge i have made the quick installation guide website and i have posted it for you at this adress :
http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=7701&page=2
Regards
Jerome

Thank you. I expect to have another binary at the end of February. One of my co-workers recently bought a 700gE and has graciously offered to let me use it for a little while to confirm some of the more risky elements of this image.

I'd like to use your guide as the basis for the installation section for the new image.

- K.C.

[Amlet1]

I install
Installing the new firmware image
Step #5, Making a better system
11.Disable telnet by removing it from rc.local to completely eliminate any chance of root logins

mkdir -p /opt/etc/dropbear
dropbear -t dss -f /opt/etc/dropbear_dss_host_key
dropbear -t rsa -f /opt/etc/dropbear_ rsa_ host_key

add to rc.local
# Start dropbear ssh server
if [ -x /opt/etc/init.d/S51dropbear ]; then
/opt/etc/init.d/S51dropbear
fi
fi

I not disable Telnet.

From the reboot router always till boot in led ready not blinking.
From the hard reset router work

Router work if Manager-Workgroup member-password mode-User Based Share Access (UBSA) disabled.

How i can use this UBSA mode now?

respect all

[jeromv]

Thank you. I expect to have another binary at the end of February. One of my co-workers recently bought a 700gE and has graciously offered to let me use it for a little while to confirm some of the more risky elements of this image.

I'd like to use your guide as the basis for the installation section for the new image.

- K.C.

OK Good luke for the new binary.
If you want help for your next binary tutorial page you can contact me.
I will help you with pleasure !
What the next binary will do better?
Jerome

[gratitude182]

@Amlet1

i had got the same problem... my problems where solved with one of these solutions (with telnet onto the router):

http://www.wl500g.info/showthread.ph...highlight=ubsa

http://www.wl500g.info/showthread.ph...highlight=ubsa

maybe that helps!

grat182

[Amlet1]

Big Thanks