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mangoo: Your approach to debian looks very interesting, since I am currently building my WL-500gx with OpenWrt Kamikaze 2.6 kernel, and there are some problems with it...
Does debian on a 2.6 kernel support the bcm43xx driver? Is it working?
Compared to OpenWrt: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=7842
If everything is stable with debian, I'd switch immediatly :-)
Actually, I started that thread...Quote:
Originally Posted by MMCM
Kernel panics on wl-500g deluxe, and does not panic on wl-500g premium.
I know that :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by mangoo
But what's the difference (that matters) between the gx and gp?
Hi
I want to run debian on wl-500gP.
I followed this instructions http://wpkg.org/index.php/Running_De...WL-500G_deluxe
but after I flash "openwrt-brcm-2.6-jffs2-128k.trx" image to my box I cant telnet to my router. Also I can't ping it. Power and LAN led are on.
TNX in advance Jure, Slovenia
I think, you need write Debian into your USB drive (flash or HDD), and make network configure (steps 2 and 3 in wiki). And may-be you need connect to your router via SSH (not telnet).
You should get a serial port hooked up so you can see what's going on. There could be a large number of reasons that it isn't working.
Latest update:
This whole time I had been using my WL-500gPremium with the 32MB RAM expansion trick:
After finding out that the "Bus error" messages that I kept getting were probably coming from the kernel trying to use memory that didn't exist, I decided to set the memory back to just using 16MB:Code:nvram set sdram_init=0x0008
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit
reboot
And ever since doing that I haven't gotten a single "Bus error" message again - everything has been working quite well (except for the fact that I'm now running on just 16MB :( )Code:nvram set sdram_init=0x000b
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit
reboot
1.) What do these values that I'm setting to sdram_init mean exactly!? I found http://wl500g.dyndns.org/sdram.html , but does that apply to the WL500gP?
2.) Has anyone else had trouble after enabling the full 32MB on their premium box?
3.) Is it possible that there could be something physically wrong with one of the chips on my board?
4.) I don't remember ever changing my sdram_config. It's currently set to 0x0062 - what's everyone else's set to?
Quote:
Originally Posted by astudent
Code:Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
us
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb usb1: Seri
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (128 buckets, 1024 max) - 236 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP vegas registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Waiting 10sec before mounting root device...
Vendor: VBTM Model: Store 'n' Go Pro Rev: 5.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
ready
SCSI device sda: 1019391 512-byte hdwr sectors (522 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1019391 512-byte hdwr sectors (522 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(8,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)
Hi
Now I sucessfuly started Debian on Premium!
Now I wish to configure network. I access internet via Linksys wrt54g router as shown:
INET ======= WRT54g ~~~~~~~~ WL-500gP ======== computer
legend: === cable, ~~~~ wireless
IP settings of WRT54g are:
local IP 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig on Premium:
Please, help me editing /etc/network/interfaces file on Debian and TCP/IP settings on my comp! I am totaly newbie on networking.Code:asus-debian:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:B4:22:88
inet addr:192.168.111.177 Bcast:192.168.111.191 Mask:255.255.255.192
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:25237 (24.6 KiB) TX bytes:3072 (3.0 KiB)
Interrupt:4
eth0.1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:F2:6A:E8:34
inet addr:192.168.111.178 Bcast:192.168.111.191 Mask:255.255.255.192
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3210 (3.1 KiB) TX bytes:3210 (3.1 KiB)
here is default /etc/network/interfaces file:
Quote:
# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.111.177
netmask 255.255.255.192
gateway 192.168.111.129
auto eth0.1
iface eth0.1 inet static
hw_mac_address 00:15:F2:6A:E8:34
address 192.168.111.178
netmask 255.255.255.192
network 192.168.111.128
broadcast 192.168.111.191 1
Anybody ?!?
build a bridge between the wireless and network interface (i think you have set the wan and lan ports there....)
check if you have the wireless interface
Hi,
can somebody upload a complete Chrooted DebianEdge tar for the Wl500gp please? My old chrooted debian gets broken and the download links in the forum are dead.
thanks
joker
Hi,
I know that I've read somewhere that there is a alternative to run only debian on a w500gp, and that is with Oleg's firmware and a debian directory which you run chrooted.
I want to do this because of the lack of wifi support in debian kernel 2.6.x.
I can not however find the instruction on this, so if anybody knows anything about this and could post me some pointers or links on how this is done, it would be great.
/P
Well, here it is: http://wiki.wl500g.info/index.php/Debian%20Distribution
Hi guys, I am trying to get Debian on my asus 500w via this page however since I am a bit in the dark I get stuck at 4 where the author states 4. When all the tools are made, copy the .config file (download below) to trunk/build_mipsel/linux/.
With the latest revision this path (soft link) does not exist, instead it should be somewhere in " trunk/build_dir/mipsel " I guess. My main goal is to use both the BroadCom 4704 ethernet as BroadCom 4321 WiFi in kernel 2.6 with usb2 support.
I hope you guys like to contribute to the wiki at http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500W