1.8.1.7-1 custom firmware available for testing

[WlanMan]

Hi

• The Status dialog of the Printer is emtpy, no "disconnected" anymore.
  I will try later what he does if i connect one.
• Also, the nem Uptime field is not realy nice, better would be splitting it into a time and an uptime field.
• And a standart way to dissable asus printing and not-used jetdirekt printing queres (lpt) to gain more free ram is a good idea i think
• Could ip_conntrack_max be raised to 4096 by default ?

Greets

[Antiloop]

I can`t login with my old password and the username admin or root!

Can somebody say me how I can login into the admininterface

reset to factory defaults first, after that turn of your wl500g and turn it on

then login to http://192.168.1.1/ and use 'admin' as password AND name

[Holli]

Hmm nothing!

I try to reset the AP and install the 1.8.x firmware again.

[Oleg]

Where do I add it, since I tried some places in the Makefile, but it doesn't quite work...

Well, latest Makefile is attached to this message.

[Holli]

I have now reset the AP and I can login!
But then I change some things in the administration (I think the last where the de/activation of the Firewall for the WAN Port) and now I can`t login into the Webinterface, SSH/Telnet. The AP doesen`t ping. Only the routing for LAN/WAN, and the DHCP works.
And when I reset nothing change!

[monnier]

UPDATE: I've updated wl500g page with new instructions

That page says "Root fs is now ext3". What does that mean?

Also can you say a few words about the customizability of this firmware compared to the previous one (IIRC, it uses a single libc which should save us at least a couple hundred KB).

[Oleg]

That page says "Root fs is now ext3". What does that mean?

You know, router can bootup from external usb drive with my firmware. Previously external filesystem was required to be ext2 formatted, starting with 1.8.1.7-1 ext3 used instead.

Also can you say a few words about the customizability of this firmware compared to the previous one (IIRC, it uses a single libc which should save us at least a couple hundred KB).

It's harder to alter boot process, cause it's no longer script driven, but yes, it's build with uclibc only, so there is still free space in the flash (~400k).

[hugo]

Oleg,

Sorry if you consider this as cross posting, as I explained the idea in the wl hdd forum.

Do you think it would be possible to add to the firmware the ide folder from the 2.4.20/kernel/drivers subfolder of a WL HDD firmware?
Would it allow us to do some instmod on the files to mount hard drive controler support for wl-hdd using your firmware?

In case you don't have them at hand, I'm just posting the ide folder content here. Did I overlook something in my reasoning?

[xlephant]

2. I can't seem to disable the firewall on the router. Every time I try to disable it, the router will become unstable and becomes nonresponsive (like I can no longer log onto the router web interface) very quickly after every reboot of the router (I would have to reboot the router through manually unplugging the power cord). On top of that, even when I can access the router's web interface, the router cannot get a pppoe connection, even if I press the connect button, nothing will happen. As a consequence, I've left the router's firewall on.

same at my device. maybe it is a bug.

[Oleg]

Do you think it would be possible to add to the firmware the ide folder from the 2.4.20/kernel/drivers subfolder of a WL HDD firmware?
Would it allow us to do some instmod on the files to mount hard drive controler support for wl-hdd using your firmware?

No binaries are included to the firmware at the moment. These modules should be recompiled from scratch and be carefully tested BEFORE inclusion to firmware.
I've no wl-hdd hardware, so I'm unable to play with them. You may want to flash wl500g firmware and play with it yourself.
Also, at the moment wl300/500 firmware sources does not contain wl-hdd submodel, so it's needed to alter Makefiles adding wl-hdd and adjusting existing thing to exclude ide drivers from other firmwares. I do not want include ide modules to the wl500g flash due to size limitations.

[Oleg]

Hi
Could ip_conntrack_max be raised to 4096 by default ?

Added an option to 1.8.1.7-2 web iface for this setting.

[kjetil]

Hello.

Thanks Oleg for making the only firmware in 1.8.xx that works with WPA-PSK in WDS mode!

But I have a problem with this one that I haven't experienced on other firmwares.

When I haven't used my computer for a while in wireless mode, My ASUS router will not give me DHCP adress. It find my ASUS, but won't get an DHCP.
I tried to set a manual IP adress just for testing if this was the DHCP server in my ASUS was in a hang, but I could not contact my ASUS even then.
I also have a computer connected to the LAN port, and this one works fine. No problem getting DHCP and no problem connecting to internet.

When I reboot my ASUS through the web interface everything is ok.

kjetil

[xlephant]

hi oleg,

what about wondershaper? is there something wrong?
did you already read my msg on this thread:

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=752&page=3&pp=15

thx a lot

[Oleg]

hi oleg,

what about wondershaper? is there something wrong?
did you already read my msg on this thread:

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=752&page=3&pp=15

thx a lot

Answered in the original thread.

[Oleg]

I tried to set a manual IP adress just for testing if this was the DHCP server in my ASUS was in a hang, but I could not contact my ASUS even then.

This is not a DHCP problem, looks like WPA problem. Try switching to WEP only.