[HowTo] Part One - WL-500g Premium

What is it for?
This is a little "HowTo" for new Users of the Asus WL-500g Premium. It's a synopsis of my own experiences in setting up this box with Oleg's firmware "WL500gp-1.9.2.7-7f-pre4.trx". Thanks to Oleg fort his great work and thanks to all users of this forum, because almost every information I gathered comes from this site here (including the postings from macsat).
Comment: I tried to record every step of setting up the box, so I hope the amount of typos and principal faults is finite. And please be forbear with my grammar and orthography - English is not my native language..
In general: Any corrections, comments, improvements or suggestions are welcome!
2nd comment: principally you have to save every changes on flash fliesystem before you reboot with

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flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

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but you can execute more than one of this sections and commit changes to flash at the end, unlike I write you have to flash.

To get access
First of all you've got to get access to your box. Therefore I use Putty, you can get it here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s.../download.html
If you didn't disabled telnet on the Asus-configuration site, you can access your box by opening a telnet-session with IP 192.168.1.1, Port 23, username "admin" and password "admin" (if you haven't changes yet, but you should).
Now you are connected to your box. You can try some commands to play a bit around: top, ps, df, free...

Install ssh-deamon
So, you have access, but with telnet this connection is not encrypted, so we will establish a ssh-connection. Therefore we need to install dropbear.
Create the dropbear-directory:

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mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/dropbear

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Generate dropbear-keys; it may take a few seconds:

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dropbearkey -t dss -f /usr/local/etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key
dropbearkey -t rsa -f /usr/local/etc/dropbear/dropbear_rsa_host_key

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Create the script-directory:

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mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin/

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Create the post-boot script-file

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echo "#!/bin/sh" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

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Mark post-boot-file as executable:

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chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

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Start dropbear in post-boot-script:

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echo "dropbear" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

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You can start dropbear manually to try it out, but we have to reboot anyway:

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dropbear

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Save changes in flash and reboot:

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flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

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Extend RAM to 32MB
After flashing Oleg's FW on your box, it has by default 16MB RAM, but on the PCB are 32MB. By changing some NVRAM variables you can make the hole 32MB RAM accessable.

Attention! This just works with Premium boxes! Use this section on your own risk! It can damage your box! You shouldn't change the nvram variables with a Premium V2!!!

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nvram set sdram_init=0x0009
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit
reboot

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You can check the success by typing

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free

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Prepare USB-HDD
If you want to connect a USB-HDD to you box and make it accessible by network you have to partition your HDD and create a linux-accassible filesystem (ext3). For that matter we can create a swap-partition.
Î made the decision to create one big primary partition for data and one little partition at the end of the disk for swap.
Run the partition program by typing

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fdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc

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Fdisk is self-explaining, type m to view the help-page. When you are finished, don't forget to save changes with the w-command before you exit fdisk.
After partition your disk, it's time to create filesystems

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mke2fs -j /dev/discs/disc0/part1
mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/part2

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We already created the post-boot scriptfile, now we can create several others too.

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touch /usr/local/sbin/post-firewall
touch /usr/local/sbin/post-mount
touch /usr/local/sbin/pre-shutdown
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/*

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Netx we will modify the post-boot-script with the vi-editor. I wouldn't say it's self-explaining ;) but with a few commands you can use it. With "i" you get into editor-modus, with [ESC] you leave it. With ":wq!" you quit the editor by saving your file. For further information about vi visit http://lug.boulder.co.us/docs/vi_vim_howto.html

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vi /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

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Add the following lines to post-boot file:

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#Wait for /opt to mount
mount /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /opt
i=0
while [ $i -le 30 ]
do
if [ -d /opt/etc ]
then
break
fi
sleep 1
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

# Activate swap
swapon /dev/discs/disc0/part2

# Run all active services - active means starts with S
/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung

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Save changes in flash and reboot.

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flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

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Initiate ipkg and install nano, screen, midnight commander
With ipkg there exists a package-system which enables you to easily install additional software-packages. Available packages und information about them you can find here: http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g/, http://ipkgfind.nslu2-linux.org/
So, make the necessary dirs and install and update ipkg:

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mkdir /opt/tmp
mkdir /opt/tmp/ipkg
ipkg.sh update
ipkg.sh install ipkg
ipkg update

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Now you are able install useful software, for examle nano, a nice, easy to use editor:

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ipkg install nano

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Install the terminal-multiplexer screen, a nice tool to handle several terminal-sessions:

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ipkg install screen

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Some useful commands for screen are:

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C-a c                create
C-a n                next
C-a p                previous
C-a #                #=number of screen beginning with 0
C-a A                give a name
C-a "                list
C-a K                kill
C-a d                detatch
screen -r        reattach
C-a S                split horizontally
C-a X                kill 2nd region

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In which e.g. "C-a" means to press [ctrl] and [a] at the same time. For further information see: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/package/epics/extensions/iocConsole/screen.1.html

Install midnight commander, THE file-browser:

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ipkg install mc

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Midnight commander won't rum without a few lines in the post-boot script:

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nano /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

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So add to post-boot-file:

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#to let midnight commander run on terminals, make alias for colored mc
echo "export TERMINFO=/opt/share/terminfo">>/etc/profile
echo "alias mc=\"mc -c\"">>/etc/profile

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Install cron, a daemon to run scripts by scheduler:

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ipkg install cron

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With cron it is possible to let script-files periodically run, accordingly to its directory in which it is saved.

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mkdir /opt/etc/cron.5mins
mkdir /opt/etc/cron.hourly
mkdir /opt/etc/cron.daily
mkdir /opt/etc/cron.weekly
mkdir /opt/etc/cron.monthly

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Now you have to edit the crontab-file:

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nano /opt/etc/crontab

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and add the following lines:

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SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/usr/bin:/opt/usr/sbin
MAILTO=""
HOME=/
# ---------- ---------- Default is Empty ---------- ---------- #
# Syntax for lines is : minute hour day month dayofweek command #
*/5 * * * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.5mins
0 * * * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.hourly
0 0 * * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.daily
0 0 * * 0 admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.weekly
0 0 1 * * admin run-parts /opt/etc/cron.monthly

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It's just an example. To understand how cron works, search for a cron-howto. I didn't used it copious, but I think it works (note: you need cron for the torrent-package). As you can see in the run-parts-script, I have this from macsat, but I modified the crontab-file.

So, we have to create the run-parts-script:

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nano /opt/bin/run-parts

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Fill it with the following lines:

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#!/bin/sh
#
# runparts.sh by macsat@macsat.com
# intended for use with cron
#
# based on rc.unslung by unslung guys :-)
#
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage : $0 "
fi

RUNDIR=$1"/*"

for i in $RUNDIR ;do

# Ignore dangling symlinks (if any).
[ ! -f "$i" ] && continue

case "$i" in
*.sh)
# Source shell script for speed.
(
trap - INT QUIT TSTP
set start
. $i
)
;;
*)
# No sh extension, so fork subprocess.
$i start
;;
esac
done

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And make the script executable:

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chmod +x /opt/bin/run-parts

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Save changes in flash and reboot:

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flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

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[edit@20060725] typos..
[edit@20080827] nvram variables with Premium V2

Samba
So, you have a HDD connected to your box, now you want to access this disk over network connection. For this we need to configure the samba-daemon.

Create samba-directory:

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mkdir /opt/etc/samba

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Create samba-config-file with nano or vi:

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nano /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

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Content of /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf:

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[global]
workgroup = YOURWORKGROUPNAME
guest account = nobody
security = share
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = no
log level = 1
max log size = 100
encrypt passwords = no
dns proxy = no

[smbshare]
path=/opt/share
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
force user = admin

[otherdir]
path=/opt/share/otherdir
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
force user = admin

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This is just an example, too. It makes the "share"-directory accessible over network under the name "smbshare" and its subdir "otherdir" under the name "otherdir". You can modify that like you want. Under Windows you can connect to this dirs with \\192.168.1.1\smbshare and \\192.168.1.1\otherdir.

Create samba-Init-file:

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nano /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba

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Content of /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba:

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D -n myasus -o -l /tmp -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

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Mark init-file as executable:

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chmod 755 /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba

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Save changes in flash and reboot:

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flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

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Install (c)torrent
There are two ipkg-packages, which make it possible to download files over bittorrent-protocol with your box. The downloaded files are stored on USB-HDD. This download-solution is not compatible with the Asus download master. But it works very well, I never used Asus dm at all. To control and supervise the downloads oleo wrote a cgi-script, which enables you to control your downloads with browser/webinterface. Thanks to oleo.

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ipkg install ctorrent
ipkg install torrent

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The following directories are necessary:

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mkdir /opt/share/torrent
mkdir /opt/share/torrent/source
mkdir /opt/share/torrent/work
mkdir /opt/share/torrent/target

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To get the cgi-script run you have to edit the httpd configuration-file:

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nano /usr/local/root/httpd.conf

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Content of /usr/local/root/httpd.conf

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A:*
/cgi-bin:admin:admin
.au:audio/basic
.asp:text/html

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You have to start the http daemon in one of the start-scripts:

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nano /usr/local/sbin/post-mount

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Add following line to /usr/local/sbin/post-mount

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/busybox_httpd -p 8008 -h /opt/share/www

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Now you can edit the torrent configuration file:

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nano /opt/etc/torrent.conf

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Mine looks like this:

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##########
#  Configuration
#  NOTE: no spaces around the = sign
#  the config will be sourced (eg. . torrent.conf)

SOURCE=/opt/share/torrent/source
WORK=/opt/share/torrent/work
TARGET=/opt/share/torrent/target
MAILTO=
MAILFROM=
# default MAILER is mini_sendmail
#MAILOPT="-sblackhole.dyndns.org -f"
USER=admin
GROUP=root
DATE_FORMAT="%d %h %H:%M"

# btget port range environment
BTLIB_MINPORT=52846
export BTLIB_MINPORT
BTLIB_MAXPORT=52846
export BTLIB_MAXPORT
#time between logs
LOG_TIME=59

# Seed torrent after completition (YES or NO)
AUTOSEED="YES"

#Colors for command line. # comment out if not needed
GREEN="\033[32;1m"
#NC="\033[0m"
#BACK_UP="\033[1K\033[0G"
NORMAL="\033[0m"
WARN="\033[33;1m"
BAD="\033[31;1m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
GOOD="\033[32;1m"

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Now you can put a torrent-file into the source-dir and control it with the cgi-script http://192.168.1.1:8008/cgi-bin/torrent.cgi. That's it.

Install nload
A nice tool to watch the traffic on the network interfaces of the box is nload:

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ipkg install nload

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You can use it for example like this:

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nload -t 200 -s 7 -i 2048 -o 256 -u H eth1

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-t: time until refresh in ms
-s: smoothness [1-9], 1 means average over litte, 9 over long time
-i: sets scale for incoming traffic, in kBit/s
-o: sets scale for outgoing traffic, in kBit/s
-u: sets units, see helppage -h for more details

In order to make this command more easier to use, you can create an alias in /usr/local/sbin/post-boot:

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nano /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

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Add the following line to post-boot file

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echo "alias nld=\"nload -t 200 -s 7 -i 2048 -o 256 -u H eth1\"">>/etc/profile

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The Wondershaper-issue
I must admit, that's one thing, that doesn't work well, yet. Wondershaper is a script which provides QoS, but I can't get it run very well.
I tried to start the script with:

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/init/wshaper start "eth1" 1990 190 " " " " "54321" "54321"

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But except of some experiments I don't use it, cause it don't work very well for me. For own experiments use nload to watch effects of wshaper.
In my opinion thy syntax is quite complicated. For further information read the following:
- http://wiki.wl500g.info/index.php/PackageWondershaper
- Wondershaper QoS discussion on AsusForum
- http://www.docum.org/docum.org/docs/BB/BB.php
- http://lartc.org/lartc.html

That's it. Preliminary. I hope it helped you a bit. This here are all steps I've done on my box and it's running since a week or two without any problem (except wshaper)...

As I wrote above: Any corrections, comments, improvements or suggestions are welcome! You can help to correct and complete this.

[edit@20060728]: typos
[edit@20060822-Styno]: typo

great tutorial!!!

everything works almost fine, one thing i have troubles with.

[admin@paco sbin]$ post-mount

that command i must manually start, when i reboot the router i must login with ssh and run that command before the web interface for the torrent is working.

do you have any suggest/idea?

Perhaps the script is not marked as executable...
To check type:

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ls -all

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correct return is:

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[admin@horst sbin]$ ls -all
drwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root            0 Jul 16 19:24 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root            0 Jan  1  2000 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root          712 Jul 24 13:11 post-boot
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root          64 Jul 24 12:24 post-firewall
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root          60 Jul 24 13:12 post-mount

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If one file is not executable, change this with

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chmod +x post-mount

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Helpful?

Thx, but did is not the problem, i checked it by myself before.

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[admin@paco sbin]$ ls -all
drwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root            0 Jul 24 15:33 .
drwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root            0 Jan  1  2000 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root          465 Jul 24 16:11 post-boot
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root            0 Jul 24 16:05 post-firewall
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root          60 Jul 24 16:26 post-mount
-rwxr-xr-x    1 admin    root            0 Jul 24 16:05 pre-shutdown
[admin@paco sbin]$

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Looks fine to me

Is your tutorial also useable for the wl-500gx? i have to set one up tomorrow.
Is the memeoty trick also possible?

Thanks

elbling

To my knowledge the Deluxe version has only 16MB RAM on PCB, so DO NOT change this NVRAM-variables!! It can damage your box!! :eek:

The rest of the howto should be transferable to the deluxe-box. Spontaneous I can't think of any problems (expect of the RAM!!) - but I never owned a deluxe box - so I never tried ;) Let me know...

Ciao Marc.

No reason for this problem found. Perhaps an individual case? Anyone with same problem? Workaround: start http daemon in one of the other post-~-scripts...

Ciao Marc.

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Originally Posted by marcnesium

No reason for this problem found. Perhaps an individual case? Anyone with same problem? Workaround: start http daemon in one of the other post-~-scripts...

Ciao Marc.

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the post-mount is not running automaticly for me too.. i need to do it everytime i restart the router

I aint able also to acess samba or even ftp any ideas what may be causing this?

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Fdisk is self-explaining, type m to view the help-page. When you are finished, don't forget to save changes with the w-command before you exit fdisk.
After partition your disk, it's time to create filesystems

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mke2fs -j /dev/discs/disc0/part1
mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/part2

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pls help me, mke2fs works good, but when i try "mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/part2" putty says :

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[admin@(none) root]$ mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/part2
mkswap: /dev/discs/disc0/part2: No such file or directory
[admin@(none) root]$

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any ideas?


EDIT: FOUND MY PROBLEM
forgot to make a swap partition with fdisk - damn :D
sorry, im a linux newbie ;)

Thanks for this very good tutorial!!

I also followed the (c)torrent install part but I am having some problems. It seems like everything is installed correctly but the torrents does just not download.

I can upload the torrent file and I can see that it is recognized with the cgi-script. I do not know if I control the torrent downloads correctly but the torrents does not download.

I have tried to a few different ports in the torrent.conf. One of the ports I have tried is the one that my Aazerues on my laptop uses, which downloads just fine.

Can someone help me debug this issue? Perhaps to check if everything is installed correctly. If I need to control the torrent download by doing something more than just upload the torrent file. Or to check the see if it is a firewall issue.

Any suggestions are welcome.

'am a newbies and i'll would install CTORRENT with oleg's firmware 1.9.2.7-7f-pre3 because Download master don't work fine.
what is the method?

a fat32 HDD is ok for CTORRENT?

(sorry for my english)

thank you for help

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Originally Posted by willy132fr

'am a newbies and i'll would install CTORRENT with oleg's firmware 1.9.2.7-7f-pre3 because Download master don't work fine.
what is the method?

a fat32 HDD is ok for CTORRENT?

(sorry for my english)

thank you for help

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recently, i try the HOW TO but system (with putty) says me:

"can't write" when i try <echo "#!/bin/sh" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot> , have you an idea?

Hi, i have also some small problems to get all this nice stuff working.

I proceeded all this tutorial and some problems was mentioned here...

I updated to WL500gp-1.9.2.7-7f-pre4.trx today my WL500gP.
Restart and all settings about memory is well.

Post-boot doesn't work to me automaticky. So when i want ctorrent get working i have to start this sctipt after reboot.
I didn't find any mistake in my way.
When I'll do post-boot manualy, I can access to Torrent admin but links source, work and target is not accesible in browser. May be some link is written wrong but I don't know where :( .
May by it's relate with other problem... samba seems to have problem. I cannot connect to router by win sharing by lan. I tried also settings by r0kanon.

May be somebody can send list of all installed files with adjusted rights?
It should be helpful but I think I have it wll :( .

Thank You.

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Originally Posted by willy132fr

recently, i try the HOW TO but system (with putty) says me:

"can't write" when i try <echo "#!/bin/sh" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot> , have you an idea?

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Try to write it with nano... or other editor directly into post-boot file.
Or may be you have wrong rights to write into this file.

The thing is - it is started like this:

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/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

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So what you do after you try to start samba manually - with the line above - is:

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ps | grep mbd

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- it will show you if smbd is running or not

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tail -n 20 /opt/var/log/smbd.log

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- the last 20 lines of samab logfile may tell you why it was unable to start up. I remember veguely that it did not like hostname not set. But check what is your case

My samba is working with opts I gave in the tutorial, so perhaps you want to take a look at your conf file and post it (w/o sensitive info) - if you don't have luck with the steps above.

:confused: how to open ports for ctorrent in the firewall and what are the best ports to use :confused:

I realy don't know... st. is wrong but i don't know what...
After manual start no log appears:

]$ tail -n 20 /opt/var/log/smbd.log
tail: /opt/var/log/smbd.log: No such file or directory
tail: no files

But when I send

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/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

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any error is written and mbd proces is also runnig.

Any new idea, please?

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Originally Posted by r0kanon

The thing is - it is started like this:

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/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

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So what you do after you try to start samba manually - with the line above - is:

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ps | grep mbd

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- it will show you if smbd is running or not

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tail -n 20 /opt/var/log/smbd.log

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- the last 20 lines of samab logfile may tell you why it was unable to start up. I remember veguely that it did not like hostname not set. But check what is your case

My samba is working with opts I gave in the tutorial, so perhaps you want to take a look at your conf file and post it (w/o sensitive info) - if you don't have luck with the steps above.

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I added dir "log" and logs started to log ;-)
so...

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[2006/09/10 23:12:43, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(826)
  Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host ASUS

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Originally Posted by Houston

I realy don't know... st. is wrong but i don't know what...
After manual start no log appears:

]$ tail -n 20 /opt/var/log/smbd.log
tail: /opt/var/log/smbd.log: No such file or directory
tail: no files

But when I send

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/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

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any error is written and mbd proces is also runnig.

Any new idea, please?

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Yes, you need to set your hostname in any of the startup scripts. It is done

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hostname yourhostname

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i hope i done that before...

i have got

hostname ASUS
in
/usr/local/sbin/post-boot

and now this one is in log:

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[2006/09/12 00:26:32, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(826)
  Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host ASUS

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i have to setup host name somewhere else?

i think it's set here...
i have also

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workgroup = SOME_WORKGROUP
server string = ASUS

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in smb.conf

may be the reason is somewhere alse but where :-(

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Originally Posted by r0kanon

Yes, you need to set your hostname in any of the startup scripts. It is done

Code:

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hostname yourhostname

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Yes this is a bit difficult as I do not know how exactly gethostbyname() gets the hostname. I don't have to deal with that because my hostname is on DNS. I guess what you could try first to substitute DNS lookup is to enter your hostname in the /etc/hosts file.

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ip.adr.nume.rical      your host name - same as set by the command

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of course for that to work automatically you have to add the line in your /usrl/local/sbin/post-boot

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echo "ip.adr.nume.rical      your_host_name" >> /etc/hosts

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Hopefully this will work, other wise something else could be looked at. I have heard that this works if in smb.conf file

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dns proxy = yes

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Let me know if this works

Isn't the correct way to set the hostname via the web interface?
This sets an nvram variable, which works for me

#nvram show | grep lan_hostname
..
lan_hostname=MyAsus
#hostname
MyAsus

NB I haven't set the hostname in any script..

You can have a different netbios name for windows shares in the smb.conf, e.g

[global]
netbios name = mystorage

Then you can access this with \\mystorage

Thank You for all your helps. But still any progress :(
hostname is set to "ASUS"
I set it in smb.conf

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#nvram show | grep lan_hostname
lan_hostname=          <=== nothing is here where i can set it?
not in webgui neither in smb.conf... so where?

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I tried to set netbios name and dns proxy also

and

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#cat /etc/hosts
...
192.168.2.1  my.router my.WL500gp

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but I didn't set this.

I'll try to set all firmware from begining again... then i'll send my result.

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Originally Posted by WVR

Isn't the correct way to set the hostname via the web interface?
This sets an nvram variable, which works for me

#nvram show | grep lan_hostname
..
lan_hostname=MyAsus
#hostname
MyAsus

NB I haven't set the hostname in any script..

You can have a different netbios name for windows shares in the smb.conf, e.g

[global]
netbios name = mystorage

Then you can access this with \\mystorage

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Well on my web gui, On lefthand menu:
IP Config -> LAN
Then get box "Host Name:"
When you hover over it says
"This field allows you to provide a
LAN hostname for
WL500g.deluxe"

Or you could set the value directly in the nvram
nvram set lan_hostname=MyHostName

If you do it this way, don't forget to save the nvram ...
nvram commit

Houston - do you have the line in your smb.conf that says

dns proxy = no

?

Hello everybody!

I have flashed my WL500gP just 2 days ago with Oleg's pre7. I've configured it according to marcnesium's and r0kanon's tutorials (by the way, great job guys).

However I have expierienced the same problem with SAMBA as it was already posted here. Nevertheless I found a solution. As you have pointed out the problem was hostname. In marcnesium's tutorial there was this piece of code:

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#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D -n myasus -o -l /tmp -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

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to put into the /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba file.
As you the "myasus" in the third line is actually your hostname. So what I have done, was just changing "myasus" to "WL500gP" (the hostname I have set in all other files) in S97Samba. After reboot the Samba was working just perfect. I've mapped a network drive under windows and now I can browse, add and remove files.
By the way, I know so very little about linux, so don't laugh if I've written something lame :)

Hello everybody

I followed the howto and got most of the commands in with no error but now i can't get ftp acsess nor samba .
i can mound the disk and browse it withe putty but i have no acsess from my computer

samba is running

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[admin@AsusWL500gP smbshare]$ ps
  PID  Uid    VmSize Stat Command
    1 admin      660 S  /sbin/init
    2 admin          SW  [keventd]
    3 admin          SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 admin          SW  [kswapd]
    5 admin          SW  [bdflush]
    6 admin          SW  [kupdated]
    7 admin          SW  [mtdblockd]
  57 admin      308 S  telnetd
  62 admin      396 S  httpd vlan1
  65 admin      524 S  nas /tmp/nas.lan.conf /tmp/nas.lan.pid lan
  69 admin      364 S  klogd
  70 nobody      488 S  dnsmasq
  71 admin      396 S  syslogd -m 0 -O /tmp/syslog.log -S -l 7
  72 admin          SW  [khubd]
  81 admin      276 S  lpd
  83 admin      260 S  p9100d -f /dev/usb/lp0 0
  86 admin      340 S  waveservermain
  89 admin      344 S  rcamdmain
  93 admin          SW  [usb-storage-0]
  94 admin          SW  [scsi_eh_0]
  100 admin      320 S  infosvr br0
  101 admin      456 S  watchdog
  103 admin      340 S  ntp
  116 admin      436 S  dropbear
  120 admin          SW  [kjournald]
  129 admin      432 S  udhcpc -i vlan1 -p /var/run/udhcpc0.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc
  136 admin      408 S  /opt/sbin/cron
  145 admin      1008 S  /usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf
  147 admin      984 S  /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -n myasus -o -l /tmp -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf
  174 admin      452 S  upnp -D -L br0 -W vlan1
  184 admin      744 S  dropbear
  185 admin      572 S  -sh
  197 admin      316 T  cat
  262 admin      412 R  ps


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can someone help me??
thx

I had a problem but I fixed it

when you format your hdd for the data bit you may get:

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Writing inode tables: Terminated

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If so first format your swap partition (shoudn't take long) then just activate it :

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mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/partx
swapon /dev/discs/disc0/partx

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x beeing your swap partition (in this tut its 2)

then do

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mke2fs -j /dev/discs/disc0/party

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y beeing your data partition (in this tut its 1) -L0L party :P-

there you go problem solved

im doing fine untill the ipkg setup,

when i type:
mkdir /opt/tmp

I get the following error:
mkdir: cannot create directory '/opt/tmp' :Read-only file system


any help is appreciated, i neeeed to get the ctorrent working as the asus download manager blows

First you have to mount a harddisk/pendrive's partition to /opt. Check it with 'df' command.

Hello everybody!

I've read the two tutorials, and managed to get samba and almost all the other stuff working except stupid-ftp.
I've tried to find the config file necessary to run stupid-ftp (stupid-ftp.conf) but I can't find it anywhere.
I have enabled FTP sever on the web interface, but still nothing. What can I do in such a case... when should this stupid-ftp.conf be created, and by who?

If nobody can tell me, at least could someone please copy/paste a config file, so I could at least see how do they look like.

Thanks guys!

Regards,
X

thanks for the help gorion, i got the hard drive set up and all the apps installed correctly but for some reason i cant get samba to work,
also i have to type post-boot after a restart, it doesnt do it automatically

after i do run post-boot ctorrent starts, but when i click links like source and work, they dont go anywhere 404 error,
also i cant get into my samba shares

any ideas?
most people have been saying set hostname, i do have it set in the web gui and a post-boot line as MyAsus,

TIA

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Originally Posted by africamagical

thanks for the help gorion, i got the hard drive set up and all the apps installed correctly but for some reason i cant get samba to work,
also i have to type post-boot after a restart, it doesnt do it automatically

after i do run post-boot ctorrent starts, but when i click links like source and work, they dont go anywhere 404 error,
also i cant get into my samba shares

any ideas?
most people have been saying set hostname, i do have it set in the web gui and a post-boot line as MyAsus,

TIA

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I have the same problems with post-boot! have you tried looking in 'ls -all' to see if its in there? (mine isnt btw) i cant seem to get it running... even with the chmod +x... ARGH!

I was following the instructions in the HOWTO, and it was fine until I got to installing screen, at which point it complained:

[admin@(none) /opt]$ ipkg install screen
Installing screen (4.0.3-2) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/un...3-2_mipsel.ipk
Installing termcap (1.3.1-2) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/un...1-2_mipsel.ipk
Configuring screen
chown: unknown user name: root
Configuring termcap
Successfully terminated.

It looks like it tried to chown something to user 'root', but the only user I have is 'admin'.

I uninstalled screen:

[root@(none) root]$ ipkg remove screen
Removing package screen from root...
Successfully terminated.

Then used the web interface to change the user's name to root using System Setup > Change Name, then tried installing screen again and it worked that time.

So should the HOWTO be changed to tell people to change the username to 'root' instead of 'admin', if that's what the packages expect to find? Or did I do the wrong thing?

I'm kinda new to this router linux world, but I've decided to take out the parts I need from the guide.
and start with dropbear, cuz ssh would be nice to use when out in the world:)
when I have folowed the instruction, made the key, and the script.
the thing is, that I can't just start dropbear.. nothing happens (I expect something to happen, since you made the remark with playing with it)

Anything I need to do before this guide (use 1.9.7.2.f7)

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Originally Posted by KingGuru

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the thing is, that I can't just start dropbear.. nothing happens (I expect something to happen, since you made the remark with playing with it)

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Do a ps and if dropbear is running then thats it.
Then use e.g. putty from a PC to ssh into it.

The first time you connect putty should ask you if you want to save the key from the ssh server (dropbear) on your Asus.

Got it.. apperently I forgot to save :(

but anyway.. I have trouble with the transmission for torrent. I get a file not found when I try to access the page /cgi-bin/trans....

I have installet it with the ipkg system..

I'am a newbie with Linux. (Yes anotherone...)

I use the following firmware from Oleg: WL500gp-1.9.2.7-7f.trx

During this manual i have 3 errors.

ipkg install mc cannot find package mc
ipkg install ctorrent ERROR: cannot satisfy the following dependencies
for ctorrent: libstdc++
ipkg install nload ERROR: cannot satisfy the following dependencies
for nload: libstdc++

Can anyone help me?

MMhhmmm....

Some things aren't as difficult as they seem.

I did -ipkg install libstdc++- and now ctorrent and nload installed correctly.

Leaves one question: How to get MC?