Quickguide installing custom firmware?

[kfurge]

libz.so is in the zlib package. Note the "z" is in front.

- K.C.

[bklyn550]

Has anyone gotten a better BT client working also what the best way to get the custom firmware going?

I do not know linux so therefore it is a bit tough for me. Whats the best way to do it along with the list of files i need?

[hal2k1]

Has anyone gotten a better BT client working also what the best way to get the custom firmware going?

I do not know linux so therefore it is a bit tough for me. Whats the best way to do it along with the list of files i need?

I am working on getting py-bittorrent working. This package is in oleg's optware repository, but it doesn't install properly.

rtorrent is perhaps a better option, and this package is included in other optware repositories (for other targets) but not oleg's or ddwrt's optware repository.

I have only limited knowledge. Enough so that I can have a go at installing and trying out packages, but I do not know how to make pacakges of my own from source.

Sorry.

Currently, driving the custom firmware has to be done from the command line, via a console. If you have had no experience with the Linux command line, this can be quite daunting.

So far, with kfurge's custom firmware, one can get an adequate downloader and bittorrent client happening, but as I say ... so far you have to drive these via the Linux command line.

If I can get python running, this situation may be able to be improved.

[hal2k1]

I still haven't got python running as yet, due to missing libraries. At the moment, I am stuck on:

/opt/bin/python2.4: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.6'

I have noticed this page: http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/ctcs.html

... and that package seems to promise a web interface GUI for enhanced-ctorrent.

I noticed also that the package ctcs is included in the optware repositories, so I tried to install ctcs, and I got this:

$ ipkg install ctcs
Installing ctcs (1.2-6) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ctcs_1.2-6_mipsel.ipk
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 1.
Collected errors:
ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for ctcs:
         perl

So, it depends on perl. Hoping that this was a "too many nested dependencies" issue, I tried to install perl, and I got this:

$ ipkg install perl
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 4.
Collected errors:
Cannot find package perl.
Check the spelling or perhaps run 'ipkg update'

It looks more and more like in order to be useful, the repositories need to be expanded a bit. I would be prepared to have a go at cross-compiling some package (such as perl) if I had any idea how to set up a build environment for the WL700ge optware target.

I normally run Debian Linux on my PC, so a cross-compilation under gcc should be possible to do. I would also need to be able to package the output files.

Can anyone point me to some URLs for any help here?

[bklyn550]

You guys are awesome. I can definately run things from a command line if necessary but I wish there was one concise guide to doing it as far as all the steps.

How do the downloads get going from command line? or is there a desktop program like download master?

[n00ben]

How do the downloads get going from command line? or is there a desktop program like download master?

K.C's guide is pretty straightforward, combine that with the tutorial section of this forum and you have pretty much all you need.

you can download from http and ftp with 'wget', and torrents with transmission and enhanced-ctorrent.

also check your other post.....

/regards
Henrik

[hal2k1]

You guys are awesome. I can definately run things from a command line if necessary but I wish there was one concise guide to doing it as far as all the steps.

How do the downloads get going from command line? or is there a desktop program like download master?

There are two posts that address your question, I hope:

http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=43194&postcount=108

http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=44027&postcount=1

Both of those posts are attempts to describe what you must do (more or less step by step) to achieve the equivalent of "Download Master" from the command line.

Use 'enhanced-ctorrent' for Bittorrent downloads, and use 'wget' for file downloads via http and ftp. Using these two commands on the command line, in conjunction with screen, isn't all that difficult and certainly should be easy enough for anyone who managed to get through the kfurge instructions to install the customised firmware in the first place.

[hal2k1]

libz.so is in the zlib package. Note the "z" is in front.

- K.C.

OK, thanks. Installing zlib package (and thus getting the libz.so library installed) now gives this result:

$ bittorrent-console
/opt/bin/python2.4: can't load library 'libstdc++.so.6'

From this, I make an observation, and I have a question that arises out of the lack of documentation for ipkg.

The observation is that the dependency resolution of ipkg seems to be exceedingly poor.

The question is, how can I find out the name of a package that includes a given library (such as libstdc++.so.6 above)?

I tried the whatprovides sub-command, and I got this:

$ ipkg whatprovides libstdc++.so.6
Successfully terminated.
Collected errors:
What provides libstdc++.so.6

... which wasn't a great deal of help.