Firmware v1.8.1.7 CR3 [Oleg]

New firmware available for
WL500g
WL500gx
WLHDD
WL500b
WL500bv2
WL300g
Sources and other info available here.

Changes:

• Preliminarily WL-HDD support, www pages credits are going to Antiloop (ide partitions does not get mounted automatically, except when USB drive is attached; most of the wl500g functionality is included).Thanks to Antiloop for performing various ide related testing (16 test versions evaluated)
• Fixed firewall rules with virtual servers enabled
• Added 802.11g LRS mode
• Updated samba to 1.9.18p10 (latest from the old 1.9 series)
• Fixed 1.8.1.7-2a second NTP server field problem
• Changed makefiles, so firmware could be now recompiled with no root privileges, fixed various things to enable faster compiling and reliable packaging
• Added nls support for russian codepages 866 and 1251 (use nvram set usb_vfat_options=codepage=866,iocharset=cp1251 for correct filenames handling)
• Changed pppoe daemon behaviour - it's should now try reconnect as many times as needed
• Updated dnsmasq to 2.17, probably static leases (manual IP assignment) will work better
• Updated busybox to 1.00, added 2 new applets: fdisk and wget
• Added mke2fs and e2fsck programs from the e2fsprogs package
• Optimized stupid-ftpd performance for both upload and download

Root fs is no longer available as separate download - instructions for making root fs is updated.

Samba now supports real users with their passwords, documentation is yet to come.
My current files are follow (remember to add modified files to flashfs):

Code:

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[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/passwd
root:$1$$LMuXuAPfSStW8rhnojbc41:0:0:root:/usr/local/root:/bin/sh
nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
oleg:x:100:100:oleg:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
nk:x:100:100:nk:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
 
[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/smbpasswd
# Samba SMB password file
root:0:6F9F65B23B4B48E7613E8293942509F0:7741DF71C7  48ABCC71C6C263B99C2B08:root:/usr/local/root:/bin/sh
oleg:100:9EE3D0611811EA5C417EAF50CEAC29C3:F3AC46A6  CB04CB32FE1C77A025CF6C53:oleg:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
nk:100:8A5D3EB54FF11B0DB79AE2610DF89D4C:9FDB1AFF30  84809671715D8AE948AA35:nk:/tmp/harddisk:/sbin/nologin
[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/smbusers
root = administrator
[root@wl500g etc]$ cat /etc/smb.conf
[global]
        workgroup = WORKGROUP
        guest account = nobody
        security = user
        encrypt passwords = yes
        log level = 1
        max log size = 100
        username map = /etc/smbusers
        client code page = 866
        character set = 1251
[share]
        path = /tmp/harddisk
        writable = yes
[root$]
        path = /
        writable = yes
[root@wl500g etc]$

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Changed pppoe daemon behaviour - it's should now try reconnect as many times as needed

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Uh oh, i see a problem with that. Some people (like me) have the AP configured for their ISP (username, password, etc), but use another computer for the connection / routing from time to time.

If needed, one could hook the modem up to the AP and dial in manually from the web interface and was online without the hassle of searching the login information from the ISP.

In your last ROM, ppp just died and stated that the "cable was not connected". Is that still true for this release? Doesn't make much sense to have the deamon retry over and over again in this case.

Ideally, the web interface would have a "Turn off dialing" switch ;)

BTW: Thanks for your great work on these ROMs!

Hi Oleg,

thanx for the great work !

can you tell me where i can find the Busybox 1.00 final full Version ? ;)
And pls why is the root fs not longer available ? i'am start the
firmware from hdd, so i must first flash and the copy the firmware :mad:

best regards

- Trixam -

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Originally Posted by trixam

Hi Oleg,

thanx for the great work !

can you tell me where i can find the Busybox 1.00 final full Version ? ;)
And pls why is the root fs not longer available ? i'am start the
firmware from hdd, so i must first flash and the copy the firmware :mad:

best regards

- Trixam -

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please read oleg's post.. you can find there instruction where to find stuff to update rootfs..

and also I'm not in the mood to mirror 6 rootfs's for all different firmwares

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Originally Posted by Antiloop

please read oleg's post.. you can find there instruction where to find stuff to update rootfs..

and also I'm not in the mood to mirror 6 rootfs's for all different firmwares

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Hi Antiloop,

i know how i can bulid a root fs but I would not like flash my wl500g for build
it.

Btw thanx to you for all the work and test on the forum.

best regards

- Trixam -

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Originally Posted by trixam

i know how i can bulid a root fs but I would not like flash my wl500g for build
it.

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Keep in mind, that even with rootfs you need to flash firmware to update the kernel (it's not stored in the root fs).

A note on rebuilding:

On my system a make in the cd wl500g-1.8.1.7-3 directory fails. The reason is, that the make utility simply ignors the target www. So the www folder in the gateway-dir is not created, and the copy of www/iBox_title_all_HDD.jpg fails.

I don't know why make ignors the www target, but as a workaround I added a target www2 to the Makefile:

Code:

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www2:
        [ ! -d $(SRC)/www ] || [ -d $(TOP)/www ] || \
                tar -C $(SRC) -cf - www | tar -C $(TOP) -xf -
        [ ! -f www.diff ] || patch -d $(TOP) -p1 < www.diff

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It's exactly the same code as in the % target.

Btw, my system is Gentoo Linux and the make is GNU make version 3.80...strange

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Originally Posted by lexi

Btw, my system is Gentoo Linux and the make is GNU make version 3.80...strange

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Well, this is the second strangeness with Gentoo... Previously it failed with mksquashfs, right?
It would be great if you found the real reason for the problem.

My thought - your make have seen www directory in the wl500g-1.8.1.7-3 and concluded, that it's up to date. There should be a way to change this behaviour.

just a quick note, i couldn't get this firmware to work at all, with bigpond. Has anything changed in this firmware which could possibly affect the heartbeat, because 1.8.1.7-2a works just fine, where as this one shows up as connected but doesn't do anything, everything just times out.

Just a note to anyone using this firmware:

Virtual server and Webcam are, in contrast to other firmwares, enabled. Turn them off if you don't need them.

Nice fix on the 2nd NTP server problem, LOL.

As allways good work Oleg!

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Originally Posted by Wesleyrpg

just a quick note, i couldn't get this firmware to work at all, with bigpond. Has anything changed in this firmware which could possibly affect the heartbeat, because 1.8.1.7-2a works just fine, where as this one shows up as connected but doesn't do anything, everything just times out.

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Nothing changed in respect to bigpond. Probably your config is messed up by switching between firmwares. Reset to defaults and config again.

Sources are reuploaded

There was a typo in makefile, which is preventing kernel compiling. Also, I've probably fixed problems with Gentoo.

md5sum for new file is
c629bd834b6214680a99b9328e9fe3c8 wl500g-1.8.1.7-3.tar.bz2

Updated once again:
ce4f54eb31c3acd9adc11665ffea60fc wl500g-1.8.1.7-3.tar.bz2

i thought i'd give this firmware another go, and yes i did reset to defaults last time as well, but this time 1.8.1.7-3 is working just fine with the heartbeat. i'm not sure what happened last time, but yeah this 'custom' firmware is great! Thanks heaps Oleg!

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Originally Posted by Oleg

Nothing changed in respect to bigpond. Probably your config is messed up by switching between firmwares. Reset to defaults and config again.

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Hi

It seems i found a bug in the Javascripts that controll the admin page. If you repeatedly switch between two sellections in some of the pulldown menus they get longer and longer (see Screenshot).

Also, It still dont shows the printer status in the Status page (Blank fields).

The rest is a great release, now have to test Samba :)

A question: Can you embed the NetIO binary in the next release, great for testing and only 25k or less.

Greets

Oleg,
Can you still have a look at the WPA-PSK/TKIP and WPA-PSK/TKIP+AES issue, as has been discussed in the 1.8.1.7-2 forum?
Thanks.