New oleg firmware version

[theMIROn]

At the other hand, there're good news upcoming 'bout 2.6 kernel and broadcom native wl driver
http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=136257&postcount=789

[lly]

At the other hand, there're good news upcoming 'bout 2.6 kernel and broadcom native wl driver
http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=136257&postcount=789

New drivers probably can omit support for old cards

[theMIROn]

New drivers probably can omit support for old cards

Yep, it's possible... We'll see, holding our fingers crossed.

[teddy_bear]

would it be possible to set the default regulatory mode in the wireless advanced tab (for wl-500w routers) to 802.11h?

AFAIK 802.11h disables connectivity for Intel 2200BG and similar wireless cards (by setting the spectrum management flag to ON), so it's probably a good idea to keep regulatory mode "off" by default.

Alternatively wlconf can be patched to keep spectrum management off even if regulatory is set to "h" - but I don't know if this change may have any other implications...

[wpte]

AFAIK 802.11h disables connectivity for Intel 2200BG and similar wireless cards (by setting the spectrum management flag to ON), so it's probably a good idea to keep regulatory mode "off" by default.

Alternatively wlconf can be patched to keep spectrum management off even if regulatory is set to "h" - but I don't know if this change may have any other implications...

well yes, spectrum management is one of the key good features of 802.11h... less intefierence

but by default the regulatory mode is set to 802.11d, wich isn't that great imo
I didn't have any problems with B/G cards with 802.11h tho

[teddy_bear]

I didn't have any problems with B/G cards with 802.11h tho

Not sure... I don't have any Intel 2200BG card to test it myself, so this info is mostly based on this OpenWRT ticket, and this Tomato thread. Also, Oleg recommended to set mode to "d" when he releazed 1.9.2.7-8 - specifically to "solve some problems with Intel WiFi cards".

But what I know for a fact, is that the Atheros wl card in my notebook works better when regulatory mode is "off" - otherwise it keeps reconnecting all the time...

I'd vote for "off" as a default value, since according to the above and what I could google out, it causes less problems with various wifi clients than "d" or "h" modes. Anyway - not a big deal, the option is still available and can be set to "h" if that works better for you .

[theMIROn]

I'd vote for "off" as a default value

+1, completely agree

[wpte]

a bit offtopic, but:
I completed my own firmware compiles successfully thanks to the wiki on googlecode

Now can I use "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc/bin" for other projects to cross compile?

since I'm trying to get the master make file to work... but the openwrt svn is offline so it wont complete

[lly]

Now can I use "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc/bin" for other projects to cross compile?

Yes, you may. But toolchain from wl500g.googlecode.com is incompatible with optware since it uses different uClibc (0.9.29 vs. 0.9.28.2).

[wpte]

Yes, you may. But toolchain from wl500g.googlecode.com is incompatible with optware since it uses different uClibc (0.9.29 vs. 0.9.28.2).

but it uses the uclibc in oleg firmware right?
or won't I be able to run it on the router?

btw, I get as build system when I do a configure: i686 architecture... that's not right I guess? :P

[lly]

but it uses the uclibc in oleg firmware right?
or won't I be able to run it on the router?

Old "Classic" Oleg firmwares uses uClibc 0.9.19, we upgrade it to 0.9.29. Some old binaries can run new libc, but mostly not. optware seeks for /opt/lib/libc.so.0 by default, this allows usage of two versions of uClibc simultaneously.

btw, I get as build system when I do a configure: i686 architecture... that's not right I guess? :P

Typically, you should issue:

./configure --host=mipsel-linux

for cross-compilation.

[wpte]

thanks lly, works great
way better than the optware cross compiler imo

[wpte]

Hey, I found out this morning that r273 has a non working webcam

I have a logitech quickcam 4000
and when connecting it acts normal:

May 3 00:13:31 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 01:03.0-2, assigned address 2
May 3 00:13:31 kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0x8b2) is not claimed by any active driver.
May 3 00:13:31 USB webcam: attached
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Philips webcam module version 9.0.2 loaded.
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Supports Philips PCA645/646, PCVC675/680/690, PCVC720[40]/730/740/750 & PCVC830/840.
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, various Logitech Quickcams, Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30,
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc the Creative WebCam 5 & Pro Ex, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite VCS-UC300 and VCS-UM100.
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Default image size set to vga [640x480].
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro USB webcam detected.
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Philips webcam decompressor routines version 9.0-BETA-2
May 3 00:14:14 kernel: pwc Supports all cameras supported by the main module (pwc).
May 3 00:14:15 kernel: pwc Failed to set LED on/off time.

like any other time...

because in the changelog there is something about a fix for webcams on usb-hubs, I tought of trying to connect it to the usb-hub wich resulted in this:

May 3 10:49:48 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 01:03.2-1.4, assigned address 5
May 3 10:49:48 kernel: usb.c: unable to get device descriptor (error=-32)
May 3 10:49:48 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 01:03.2-1.4, assigned address 6
May 3 10:49:48 kernel: usb.c: unable to get descriptor
May 3 10:49:48 kernel: usb.c: unable to get device 6 configuration (error=-32)

I have a full 2.0 usb hub and all my hdd work on it

well, the only thing I can see is a grey image with the time displayed on right bottom...
kinda weird, because rcamdmain and rcamd are started

[purpleray]

lly firmware makes me interested in studing wl-500gx again!!

After one day i installed r273 firmwareon wl-500gx, it shows below error message, and it seemed to occure in Oleg firmware as well. any idea to resolve it, please. Or it's a known bug in both firmware of oleg and lly?

With making a google for possible rooted cause, it looks like one non-proper interface configuration in lo. So I try to re-config lo by "ifup lo", there seems no this commend by error message shown "-sh: ifup: not found"

Thanks a lot!

smbd[296]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] lib/util_sock.cpen_socket_in(826)
smbd[296]: Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host wl-500gx@RR
smbd[296]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] smbd/oplock.cpen_oplock_ipc(93)
smbd[296]: open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was No such file or directory
smbd[297]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] lib/util_sock.cpen_socket_in(826)
smbd[297]: Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host wl-500gx@RR
smbd[297]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] smbd/oplock.cpen_oplock_ipc(93)
smbd[297]: open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was No such file or directory
smbd[298]: [2009/05/08 02:24:02, 0] lib/util_sock.cpen_socket_in(826)
smbd[298]: Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host wl-500gx@RR
smbd[298]: [2009/05/08 02:24:02, 0] smbd/oplock.cpen_oplock_ipc(93)
smbd[298]: open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was No such file or directory

[purpleray]

i get he answer for no ifup, becasue there's no ifup in busybox of lly firmware. It currently defined functions:

[, [[, arping, ash, awk, basename, busybox_httpd, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, cmp, cp, crond, crontab, cut, date, dd, df, dirname, dmesg, du, e2fsck, echo, env, ether-wake, expr, false, fdisk, free, fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, fuser, grep, gunzip, gzip, head, hexdump, hostname, hwclock, ifconfig, insmod, ipcalc, kill, killall, klogd, ln, logger, login, ls, lsmod, md5sum, mkdir, mke2fs, mkfifo, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mknod, mkswap, modprobe, more, mount, mv, netstat, nice, nohup, nslookup, od, passwd, pidof, ping, pivot_root, printf, ps, pwd, realpath, renice, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, sed, seq, sh, sleep, sort, strings, stty, su, swapoff, swapon, sync, syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, udhcpc, umount, uname, uniq, uptime, usleep, uuencode, vconfig, vi, watch, wc, wget, yes, zcat

lly firmware makes me interested in studing wl-500gx again!!

After one day i installed r273 firmwareon wl-500gx, it shows below error message, and it seemed to occure in Oleg firmware as well. any idea to resolve it, please. Or it's a known bug in both firmware of oleg and lly?

With making a google for possible rooted cause, it looks like one non-proper interface configuration in lo. So I try to re-config lo by "ifup lo", there seems no this commend by error message shown "-sh: ifup: not found"

Thanks a lot!

smbd[296]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] lib/util_sock.cpen_socket_in(826)
smbd[296]: Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host wl-500gx@RR
smbd[296]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] smbd/oplock.cpen_oplock_ipc(93)
smbd[296]: open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was No such file or directory
smbd[297]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] lib/util_sock.cpen_socket_in(826)
smbd[297]: Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host wl-500gx@RR
smbd[297]: [2009/05/08 02:24:01, 0] smbd/oplock.cpen_oplock_ipc(93)
smbd[297]: open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was No such file or directory
smbd[298]: [2009/05/08 02:24:02, 0] lib/util_sock.cpen_socket_in(826)
smbd[298]: Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host wl-500gx@RR
smbd[298]: [2009/05/08 02:24:02, 0] smbd/oplock.cpen_oplock_ipc(93)
smbd[298]: open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was No such file or directory