New oleg firmware version

[snowx]

It is inside kernel - under Documentation/ subdirectory. Additional materials about kernel modules you can find in internet. Toolchain starting point is http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/wiki...CustomFirmware and knowledge of gcc & binutils will be helpful.

lly,

I am trying to compile it but got the following and stopped

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/gateway/portmap'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/gateway/portmap'
make -C iproute2 KERNEL_INCLUDE=/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux/include EXTRACFLAGS="-Os -mips32 -mtune=mips32 -Wno-pointer-sign -DBCMWPA2 " EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath /lib"
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/gateway/iproute2'
Please, compile the kernel first
make[1]: *** [check-kernel] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/gateway/iproute2'
make: *** [iproute2] Error 2

[snowx]

is the RTN build for WL500W on core.dumped.ru based on 2.6 kernel? i.e. WL500W-1.9.2.7-rtn-r23.trx.gz

Are they stable enough for home 24x7 usage?

[lly]

lly,

I am trying to compile it but got the following and stopped

Real cause of problem is printed below, why simply not to follow it?

Please, compile the kernel first

[snowx]

do you mean the following commands?

$ cd /whatever-you-want/broadcom/src/1.9.2.7-d
$ make kernel
$ make

I have run them already and there were no error...

[lly]

Seems to be you have slightly different host environment, try to

make kernel

from src/gateway before "make"

[snowx]

I got the following now:

find . -name '*.[chS]' | xargs /home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/scripts/mkdep -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fno-builtin-strpbrk -fno-builtin-sprintf -fomit-frame-pointer -I /home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/include/asm/gcc -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe -finline-limit=10000 -mabi=32 -march=mips32 -Wa,-32 -Wa,-march=mips32 -Wa,-mips32 -Wa,--trap -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -I/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/include -DBCMDRIVER -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -- > .depend
realpath(/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/include/asm/gcc) failed, No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [fastdep] Error 123
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/arch/mips/tools'
make[2]: *** [_sfdep_arch/mips/tools] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10'
make[1]: *** [dep-files] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10'
make: *** [kernel-image] Error 2

I checked that the "/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/include/asm" is missing. should I manually create a symbolic link to asm-mips?

i.e. ln -sf asm-mips /home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/include/asm

Seems to be you have slightly different host environment, try to

make kernel

from src/gateway before "make"

[lly]

I checked that the "/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/include/asm" is missing. should I manually create a symbolic link to asm-mips?

Something goes wrong on your host env. This link should be created automatically by kernel's Makefile. Also check .config file presence in kernel directory.

[snowx]

I did the symbolic link then try the make kernal again. Now I got this error and I am completely lost.

( . /home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux/.config ; \
if [ "${CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK}" = "" ] ; then \
make -C /home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux zImage CC=mipsel-uclibc-gcc-3.4.6; \
fi )
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by `include/config/MARKER'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/wchan/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10'
make: *** [kernel-image] Error 2

[snowx]

.config exist in ~/wl500w/broadcom/src/gateway
but not in ~/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/kernel

Something goes wrong on your host env. This link should be created automatically by kernel's Makefile. Also check .config file presence in kernel directory.

[snowx]

should I try the RTN version of wl500w instead? Does RTN version has better support for usb sound?

[lly]

Does RTN version has better support for usb sound?

Generally - no, since 2.6.22 is very old kernel and usb sound support on router is not our primary task. Of course, some parts of sound subsystem definitely newer in 2.6.

[snowx]

back to the compilation then... how do I proceed? Any clue?

.config exist in ~/wl500w/broadcom/src/gateway
but not in ~/wl500w/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37.10/kernel

[lly]

back to the compilation then... how do I proceed? Any clue?

Unless you get some knowledge about Makefiles & linux kernel , you can't proceed. ".config" you mentioned are totally different. kernel's default config stored in src/linux/linux/arch/mips/defconfig-bcm947xx and later copied to src/linux/linux/.config

[snowx]

Generally - no, since 2.6.22 is very old kernel and usb sound support on router is not our primary task. Of course, some parts of sound subsystem definitely newer in 2.6.

Is the rtn build stable? how does it compare to the 2.4 version?

[lly]

Is the rtn build stable? how does it compare to the 2.4 version?

Please read info at http://wl500g.googlecode.com/ - it's beta.

If someone can describe to you all difference between 2.4 & 2.6 kernels in a few words, he(she) will be true hero.