New 1.0.4.6 based custom firmware

My general philosophy on software changes is to modify the original Asus firmware as little as possible. Instead, I'm focusing my efforts on enhancing the routers functionality through the addition of external packages. In many cases, the external packages can replace (and greatly enhance) the original Asus binaries.

To that end, my next firmware image will not replace the existing Asus torrent client. Instead, you will be able to run any of the command-line torrent packages from this repository:

http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../cross/stable/

Torrent, ctorrent, and enhanced-ctorrent are all in the package list.

Regarding rtorrent, I looked at the project page. Getting it to work on the router shouldn't be all that hard.

- K.C.

I've posted firmware image #2 at:

http://home.comcast.net/~kfurge/wl700g.html

Same caveats as before... Use at your own risk!

This image greatly enhances the usefulness of the box because it supports running all of the mipsel optware packages. It also adds login protection for telnet access. Many more details are posted at the link.

If you're currently running image #1 and want to upgrade, please read the instructions carefully. I've moved the startup script location to make it more secure.

- K.C.

Thanks for the update kfurge.

But I'm having problems at step 2.4. I can't telnet in. I revert back to WL700gE_1.0.4.6_kc_01 and I've got telnet access back. I have the starter untoched rc.local in /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/web.

Anyone else have the same problem or am I doing something stupid.

LK

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Originally Posted by LeperKing

Thanks for the update kfurge.

But I'm having problems at step 2.4. I can't telnet in. I revert back to WL700gE_1.0.4.6_kc_01 and I've got telnet access back. I have the starter untoched rc.local in /shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/web.

Anyone else have the same problem or am I doing something stupid.

LK

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I cannot telnet to. I'd like to revert to the older firmware, but I delete it, does some one knows where to find it ?

Crap! I found the problem. I'm missing a "$" in the rcex script where it executes rc.local from the web location. I'll fix it tomorrow and post the image (I'll call it "kc_02a".

Sorry for the lack of quality control. :-(

- K.C.

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Originally Posted by IMM22

I cannot telnet to. I'd like to revert to the older firmware, but I delete it, does some one knows where to find it ?

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Here's a temporary link of the first firmware. Download for your own resources.
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~prospero....4.6_kc_01.nas

OK, I've posted a fixed (and tested) image. Please grab it from the web site. Sorry for the inconvenience.

- K.C.

Step 3.2

Is it meant to be shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/opt ?

Thanks,
LK.

every worked fine, all but one thing

the installation of ncursesw
Collected errors:
Package ncurses wants to install file /opt/bin/reset
But that file is already provided by package busybox-links
Package ncurses wants to install file /opt/bin/clear
But that file is already provided by package busybox-links



and man


Configuring groff
Configuring less
Configuring libstdc++
Configuring libuclibc++
Configuring ncursesw
An error ocurred, return value: 2.
Collected errors:
Package ncurses wants to install file /opt/bin/reset
But that file is already provided by package busybox-links
Package ncurses wants to install file /opt/bin/clear
But that file is already provided by package busybox-links

Quote:

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Originally Posted by LeperKing

Step 3.2

Is it meant to be shares/MYVOLUME1/MYSHARE1/opt ?

Thanks,
LK.

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Yes, thanks for the catch.

- K.C.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by IMM22

every worked fine, all but one thing

the installation of ncursesw
Collected errors:
Package ncurses wants to install file /opt/bin/reset
But that file is already provided by package busybox-links
Package ncurses wants to install file /opt/bin/clear
But that file is already provided by package busybox-links

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Yes, I found that too. I just manually deleted reset and clear prior to installing the package.

I think adding the "-force-overwrite" option to ipkg will do the same thing...

- K.C.

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Originally Posted by kfurge

Yes, I found that too. I just manually deleted reset and clear prior to installing the package.

I think adding the "-force-overwrite" option to ipkg will do the same thing...

- K.C.

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Yes, I use the force-overwrite. but the error is there again.

But the MAN works, I've allready installed the packes. Only one error appears when loading the manual, indicating some limitations ...

And now that we have all this, some cool applications to use, does some one knows some ?

Maybe with WEB interface,, :)


reboot the router, but the path's don't work..
where can I put this:

export PATH=/opt/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

for the router to read in the startup?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by IMM22

where can I put this:

export PATH=/opt/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

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For rc.local, simply put it at the top. For an interactive bash shell, put the same lines into the .profile file located in your user account directory.

I don't think there's anything in ${PATH} or ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} with an interactive shell login, so I fully configured mine in my .profile. I posted a copy of my .profile on the web page.

- K.C.

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Originally Posted by kfurge

For rc.local, simply put it at the top. For an interactive bash shell, put the same lines into the .profile file located in your user account directory.

I don't think there's anything in ${PATH} or ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} with an interactive shell login, so I fully configured mine in my .profile. I posted a copy of my .profile on the web page.

- K.C.

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Ok, I'm doing someting wrong :)

first I put a file named ".profile" in /share/MYVOLUME1/opt/home/<username>

And added this lines

#
# Bash initialization script
#

PS1="[\u@\h \W]$ "
PATH=/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib:/shares/lib

export PS1 PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export PATH=/opt/bin:${PATH} export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}


of course all edited with vi

My rc.profile file is locanted in /share/MYVOLUME1/

and contains this entries:
#!/bin/sh

pool=`nvram get apps_pool`
share=`nvram get apps_share`
internal_hdd=/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

if [ \! -f /tmp/rc.local.done ]; then

# Indicate we've already done this
touch /tmp/rc.local.done

#
# Mount /opt and connect in various system files
#
if [ -e /shares/${pool}/opt ]; then
mount -o bind /shares/${pool}/opt /optcat /proc/mounts > /opt/etc/fstab

ln -s /opt/etc/shells /tmp/shells
ln -s /opt/etc/fstab /tmp/fstab

export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export PATH=/opt/bin:${PATH}

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

# Start utelnetd on local interface only!
/apps/bin/utelnetd -i br0 &

# Sleep for a little bit to not interfere with normal system startup
# before we kill a bunch of Asus processes.
sleep 5

# Kill processes I don't use. The killing of watchdog is necessary
# to allow the disk to spin down (watchdog is a horribly written hack
# anyway!)
killall -q -9 watchdog
killall -q usbcopymain
killall -q rcamdmain
killall -q waveservermain

# Restart the web server
killall thttpd
thttpd -dd /shares/${pool}/${share}/htdocs -p 8081 -i /var/run/t

# Do the necessary steps so the internal HDD will spin down
mount -o remount,noatime,nodiratime /shares/${pool}
hdparm -S 180 ${internal_hdd}
smartctl -dT ${internal_hdd}

fi


And that's it