[HowTo] Install and configure Oleg's firmware

[bodvar]

Thanks guys, putting the IP of the home gateway as fixed in the asus router web interface (under home gateway option) did the trick!

Now I have been through this guide until the advanced section, but here is a problem: How can I get hdd spindown to work when I have cron installed?

I use scsi_stop as explained in http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=7836 and cron as explained in this guide. Doesn't work, as raas also pointed out earlier. scsi-stop worked fine until I installed cron.

Is this any way to get this to work togheter? I really need to spin down the hdd...but I also want to use transmission (which requires cron i guess)? why do I need cron?

[wengi]

Hi,

you need cron for logrotate, not for transmission.

wengi

[bodvar]

Hi,

you need cron for logrotate, not for transmission.

wengi

I removed cron and logrotate, but the disk still spins up. But when I killed transmission daemon, it stopped spinning up again. So the clue lies with transmission. Is there any way to have the daemon started/stopped only when I need to download/seed)? I don't want to manually start/stop it every time (lazy yes I know..) . Or any other way to solve this? What about automatically start/stop transmission daemon only when needed?

[wengi]

Start and stop it manually.
No other way because the daemon hosts the webinterface.

wengi

[examiner]

I removed cron and logrotate, but the disk still spins up. But when I killed transmission daemon, it stopped spinning up again. So the clue lies with transmission. Is there any way to have the daemon started/stopped only when I need to download/seed)? I don't want to manually start/stop it every time (lazy yes I know..) . Or any other way to solve this? What about automatically start/stop transmission daemon only when needed?

Yeah, but you need cron, so yoou're back at the beginning.... As wengi said - you need to start/stop the daemon manually...

[Bluelife]

Well, hi...
i´m a new user of the forum and english is not my native language so, first of all, i apologize for that.

second of all, i have the wl500gP with oleg's firmware 1.2.9.7-10 and a Mybook 1TB witch i would like to connect to the router. My doubts starts here: i can't format the disk in ext3, can you tell me how?? and how vista can recognize that?? i know there's different ways to share de disk (ftp, samba, etc) witch is better?? witch is faster?? how to configure that?? i really really really need your help, im going nuts here with this...

what i need is a FULL tutorial since the begining, can anyone have the patience to do that??

Thanks
Bluelife

[Bluelife]

well, i've done what is in the tutorial... i've formated i've installed the tools and so and so... now in vista i dont know were to access de hdd and the OS doesnt even recognize the disk when directly connected...

thanks
Bluelife

[raas]

Hi Bluelife, welcome to the forum.

This thread by wengi is probably the best tutorial you will find in this forum.
If you follow the steps exactly like they were pointed out there's 99.9% of success

About accessing the Harddisk.
Have you completed the whole setup from wengi? if not at which step did you stop?
If you've completed the setup, then your asus should show its harddisk in the network neighbourhood in windows. (that is, if you've configured the same 'workgroup' in vista than you have in the asus)

HTH

[wengi]

Hi,

there is/was (?) an issue with integrated samba and vista.
i have no vista and not the newest firmware.

Question to vista users:
Is the integrated samba working fine with vista when setup with my howto?

thanks
wengi

[Bluelife]

Hi Bluelife, welcome to the forum.

This thread by wengi is probably the best tutorial you will find in this forum.
If you follow the steps exactly like they were pointed out there's 99.9% of success

About accessing the Harddisk.
Have you completed the whole setup from wengi? if not at which step did you stop?
If you've completed the setup, then your asus should show its harddisk in the network neighbourhood in windows. (that is, if you've configured the same 'workgroup' in vista than you have in the asus)

HTH

Thanks for the reply, i really apretiated... well i did the 2nd,4,5,6,8 and 12th points and nothing happend.. maybe i just didnt save all documents with :wq! i just did ZZ in vi editor... maybe.. i dont know... but im thinkin in something else.. what about nfs server?? isnt better? or faster?? why samba?? and can i share the hdd in ntfs with nfs server or samba?? isnt that easier??

Thanks for the help.
Bluelife

[bodvar]

I did the setup using Oleg's integrated version of samba. But it seems it doesn't support some norwegian characters (which are æ ø å, Æ Ø Å). Strangely, only ø and Ø is not supported. Samba in the original firmware actually supported all of them.

Should this work with the integrated samba version, or do you know if the custom samba setup can support this?
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UPDATED: It seems that support for dos codepage 865 is needed, which the integrated samba version seems to lack. Does the custom samba version support that? If so, how can it be set up?

[mihaidenis]

Your tutorial is great (i`m for the first time in linux world).

I follow your instruction and everything was ok.

Except a small error in in your TRANSMISSION (The torrent Client) script.

Transmission never start automatically at router reboot.

Your:

vi /tmp/harddisk/transmission/config/settings.json

is like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for transmission-daemon

case $1 in
start)
# update blocklist
echo "updating blocklist, ~4MB"
cd /tmp/harddisk/transmission/config/blocklists
wget -q http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz
if test -f level1.gz; then
rm level1
gunzip level1.gz
chmod go+r level1
fi
# start transmission
echo "starting transmission"
/opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /tmp/harddisk/transmission/config
;;

stop)
if [ -n "`pidof transmission-daemon`" ]; then
kill -9 `pidof transmission-daemon`
fi
;;

restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;

*)
echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|restart)"
exit 1
esac


Mine is modified like that and it works now at router restart:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for transmission-daemon

case $1 in
start)
# update blocklist
echo "updating blocklist, ~4MB"
cd /tmp/harddisk/transmission/config/blocklists
wget -q http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz
if test -f level1.gz; then
rm level1
gunzip level1.gz
chmod go+r level1
fi
# start transmission
echo "starting transmission"
/opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /tmp/harddisk/transmission/config
;;

stop)
if [ -n "`pidof transmission-daemon`" ]; then
kill -9 `pidof transmission-daemon`
fi
;;

restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;

*)
echo "usage: $0 (start|stop|restart)"
exit 0
esac

Thanks again for your tutorial.
Takes me more time to understand vi editor than your guide.

[wengi]

My script works fine here.

What did you change? I do not see the difference.

wengi

[kaizen]

exit 1
[...]
exit 0

This is differnce (the only one).

[lowie82ph]

hi,

how can I limit the simultaneous downloads and uploads in transmission?
where can I specify the target, source and work folders?

thanks.