HOWTO install debian on 128 mb usb stick

[MMCM]

mangoo: Your approach to debian looks very interesting, since I am currently building my WL-500gx with OpenWrt Kamikaze 2.6 kernel, and there are some problems with it...

Does debian on a 2.6 kernel support the bcm43xx driver? Is it working?
Compared to OpenWrt: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=7842

If everything is stable with debian, I'd switch immediatly :-)

[mangoo]

mangoo: Your approach to debian looks very interesting, since I am currently building my WL-500gx with OpenWrt Kamikaze 2.6 kernel, and there are some problems with it...

Does debian on a 2.6 kernel support the bcm43xx driver? Is it working?
Compared to OpenWrt: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=7842

If everything is stable with debian, I'd switch immediatly :-)

Actually, I started that thread...

Kernel panics on wl-500g deluxe, and does not panic on wl-500g premium.

[MMCM]

Actually, I started that thread...

I know that :-)

But what's the difference (that matters) between the gx and gp?

[georgij]

Hi

I want to run debian on wl-500gP.
I followed this instructions http://wpkg.org/index.php/Running_De...WL-500G_deluxe
but after I flash "openwrt-brcm-2.6-jffs2-128k.trx" image to my box I cant telnet to my router. Also I can't ping it. Power and LAN led are on.

TNX in advance Jure, Slovenia

[Tronix]

I think, you need write Debian into your USB drive (flash or HDD), and make network configure (steps 2 and 3 in wiki). And may-be you need connect to your router via SSH (not telnet).

[astudent]

You should get a serial port hooked up so you can see what's going on. There could be a large number of reasons that it isn't working.

[astudent]

Latest update:

This whole time I had been using my WL-500gPremium with the 32MB RAM expansion trick:

nvram set sdram_init=0x0008
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit
reboot

After finding out that the "Bus error" messages that I kept getting were probably coming from the kernel trying to use memory that didn't exist, I decided to set the memory back to just using 16MB:

nvram set sdram_init=0x000b
nvram set sdram_ncdl=0
nvram commit
reboot

And ever since doing that I haven't gotten a single "Bus error" message again - everything has been working quite well (except for the fact that I'm now running on just 16MB )


1.) What do these values that I'm setting to sdram_init mean exactly!? I found http://wl500g.dyndns.org/sdram.html , but does that apply to the WL500gP?

2.) Has anyone else had trouble after enabling the full 32MB on their premium box?

3.) Is it possible that there could be something physically wrong with one of the chips on my board?

4.) I don't remember ever changing my sdram_config. It's currently set to 0x0062 - what's everyone else's set to?

[georgij]

You should get a serial port hooked up so you can see what's going on. There could be a large number of reasons that it isn't working.

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...                                    
us
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices                                    
usb usb1: Seri
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (128 buckets, 1024 max) - 236 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP vegas registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
Waiting 10sec before mounting root device...
  Vendor: VBTM      Model: Store 'n' Go Pro  Rev: 5.02
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
ready
SCSI device sda: 1019391 512-byte hdwr sectors (522 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1019391 512-byte hdwr sectors (522 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: unknown partition table
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(8,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)

[georgij]

Hi

Now I sucessfuly started Debian on Premium!
Now I wish to configure network. I access internet via Linksys wrt54g router as shown:

INET ======= WRT54g ~~~~~~~~ WL-500gP ======== computer

legend: === cable, ~~~~ wireless

IP settings of WRT54g are:
local IP 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

ifconfig on Premium:

asus-debian:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:31:B4:22:88  
          inet addr:192.168.111.177  Bcast:192.168.111.191  Mask:255.255.255.192
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:25237 (24.6 KiB)  TX bytes:3072 (3.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:4 

eth0.1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:F2:6A:E8:34  
          inet addr:192.168.111.178  Bcast:192.168.111.191  Mask:255.255.255.192
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:3210 (3.1 KiB)  TX bytes:3210 (3.1 KiB)

Please, help me editing /etc/network/interfaces file on Debian and TCP/IP settings on my comp! I am totaly newbie on networking.

here is default /etc/network/interfaces file:

# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.111.177
netmask 255.255.255.192
gateway 192.168.111.129

auto eth0.1
iface eth0.1 inet static
hw_mac_address 00:15:F2:6A:E8:34
address 192.168.111.178
netmask 255.255.255.192
network 192.168.111.128
broadcast 192.168.111.191 1

[georgij]

Anybody ?!?

[lexxdark]

build a bridge between the wireless and network interface (i think you have set the wan and lan ports there....)
check if you have the wireless interface

[The Joker]

Hi,
can somebody upload a complete Chrooted DebianEdge tar for the Wl500gp please? My old chrooted debian gets broken and the download links in the forum are dead.

thanks
joker

[parper]

Hi,
I know that I've read somewhere that there is a alternative to run only debian on a w500gp, and that is with Oleg's firmware and a debian directory which you run chrooted.

I want to do this because of the lack of wifi support in debian kernel 2.6.x.

I can not however find the instruction on this, so if anybody knows anything about this and could post me some pointers or links on how this is done, it would be great.

/P

[newbiefan]

Well, here it is: http://wiki.wl500g.info/index.php/Debian%20Distribution

[dolphs]

Hi guys, I am trying to get Debian on my asus 500w via this page however since I am a bit in the dark I get stuck at 4 where the author states 4. When all the tools are made, copy the .config file (download below) to trunk/build_mipsel/linux/.

With the latest revision this path (soft link) does not exist, instead it should be somewhere in " trunk/build_dir/mipsel " I guess. My main goal is to use both the BroadCom 4704 ethernet as BroadCom 4321 WiFi in kernel 2.6 with usb2 support.

I hope you guys like to contribute to the wiki at http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500W