[HowTo] Part One - WL-500g Premium

[bakablah]

Great tutorial, I've used it with success up to the part where Samba and Transmission needed to be installed.

I get an error when trying to install Transmission (ipkg install Transmission), saying the file is not found. Where is it? And how do I install it then?

Pierre

Do a ipkg update
then you'll find Transmission.

[pbernardino]

Hello
My post-boot and post-mount only work manualy. Writing is names in the console.
Help please
Pedro Bernardino

[draconis1410]

How do I do these processes under windows XP?

[zzzpt]

Need some help here
Cant mount my disk

[admin@myasus root]$ df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 2880      2880         0 100% /

[admin@myasus root]$ free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        30116        12600        17516            0         1476
 Swap:        72252            0        72252
Total:       102368        12600        89768

[admin@myasus root]$ mount /dev/discs/disc0/part5 /opt  
mount: Mounting /dev/discs/disc0/part5 on /opt failed: Invalid argument

I find strange that the /dev/root is 100% used ??
I followed the tutorial up to the HDD...

I can mount in other linux systems, and it works also in the original Asus firmware, the problem that i have with it is that sometimes i cant write in some folders (sometimes only using ftp)

Is there some way to update the mount command ?

EDIT:
well think ive found the problem
the disk has
1 swap partition
1 Extendended LBA DOS (part2)
1 ext3 (part5) (with all the data)

Now how can I delete the extended partition, without delete all the data in the ext3

[raas]

Now how can I delete the extended partition, without delete all the data in the ext3

use fdisk to delete the 2nd partition

fdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc

use help command and find command to delete partition. .after you issue the command.. you will be asked to delete which partition.

Hope this helps.

[DrChair]

use fdisk to delete the 2nd partition

I wouldn't do that...
I harddisk can have up to 4 primary partitions.
That means that partition 5 is a logical partition inside the extended partition.
So deleting the extended partition also deletes the ext3 data partition.

I would hook up the disc to a pc and use partitionmagic or something like that.

[zzzpt]

I wouldn't do that...
I harddisk can have up to 4 primary partitions.
That means that partition 5 is a logical partition inside the extended partition.
So deleting the extended partition also deletes the ext3 data partition.

I would hook up the disc to a pc and use partitionmagic or something like that.

What i thought so.

Used the partition magic, but since the ext3 partition is inside the extended partition, i dont know how to delete it

[raas]

Hi,

i'm very sorry, I misread your post. overlooked the part that it was actually inside the other..

I'm happy more people read this forums :-)

[DrChair]

What i thought so.

Used the partition magic, but since the ext3 partition is inside the extended partition, i dont know how to delete it

You don't have to delete it, just convert it...

In partition magic, select the ext3 partition and choose Operations -> Convert -> Logical to Primary

[zzzpt]

You don't have to delete it, just convert it...

In partition magic, select the ext3 partition and choose Operations -> Convert -> Logical to Primary

Thanks man


will try

Its the same

[admin@myasus root]$ fdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc 

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30401.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/discs/disc0/disc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

                Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/discs/disc0/part1   *           1           9       72261   82  Linux swap
/dev/discs/disc0/part2              10       30401   244123708+  83  Linux

Command (m for help): q

[admin@myasus root]$ mount /dev/discs/disc0/part2 /opt/
mount: Mounting /dev/discs/disc0/part2 on /opt/ failed: Invalid argument

It works good, in windows using Ext3FS ...
The mount version is this

[admin@myasus root]$ mount -V
mount: illegal option -- V
BusyBox v1.1.3 (2007.01.01-14:37+0000) multi-call binary

the /opt dir is

drwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 0 Apr 6 17:00 opt

Using dmesg

[admin@myasus /]$ dmesg
xing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0xb8000300 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xb8000400 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision$, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
PPP BSD Compression module registered
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x800000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1000000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1800000 for the chip at 0x0
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.3 at 0x0040
Flash Id: Vendor: 0x0001 Device: 0x007e
number of CFI chips: 1
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1c000000
Physically mapped flash: squashfs filesystem found at block 941
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"
0x000eb714-0x007f0000 : "rootfs"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"
0x003e0000-0x007f0000 : "flashfs"
sflash: found no supported devices
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (256 buckets, 2048 max) - 352 bytes per conntrack
ip_conntrack_pptp version 1.9 loaded
ip_nat_pptp version 1.5 loaded
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_time loading
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.7 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
FAT: bogus logical sector size 58624
FAT: bogus logical sector size 58624
NTFS: Unable to set blocksize 512.
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 3.90.37.0
unregister_netdevice: device eth1/80279800 never was registered
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth1: Broadcom BCM4318 802.11 Wireless Controller 3.90.38.0
vlan0: add 33:33:00:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
vlan0: add 33:33:ff:6b:3d:e0 mcast address to master interface
vlan0: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device vlan0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth1) entering listening state
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering listening state
br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:25:12 Jun 17 2006
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.0 (0000 -> 0001)
ECHI PCI device 30381106 found.
UCHI reg 0x41 = 10
UCHI reg 0x41 changed to = 0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x100, IRQ 2
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.1 (0000 -> 0001)
ECHI PCI device 30381106 found.
UCHI reg 0x41 = 10
UCHI reg 0x41 changed to = 0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x120, IRQ 2
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: PCI device 1106:3104
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: irq 2, pci mem c00ac000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ECHI PCI device 31041106 found.
ECHI reg 0x49 = 80010f20
ECHI reg 0x49 changed to = 80010f00
ECHI reg 0x4b = 80010f09
ECHI reg 0x4b changed to = 80010f29
PCI: 01:03.2 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW, correcting to 32
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled
hub.c: new USB device 01:03.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x1058/0x901) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver audio
audio.c: v1.0.0:USB Audio Class driver
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: WD Model: 2500JB External Rev: 0108
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Partition check:
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
vlan1: Setting MAC address to 00 18 f3 6b 3d e0.
VLAN (vlan1): Underlying device (eth0) has same MAC, not checking promiscious mode.
vlan1: add 33:33:00:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
vlan1: add 33:33:ff:6b:3d:e0 mcast address to master interface
vlan1: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sd(8,0).
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 950
MSDOS FS: IO charset cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 20487
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
FAT: freeing iocharset=cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 20487
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sd(8,1).
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 950
MSDOS FS: IO charset cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
FAT: freeing iocharset=cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,2)
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 950
MSDOS FS: IO charset cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:02.
FAT: freeing iocharset=cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:02.
Adding Swap: 72252k swap-space (priority -1)
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option r
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
NTFS: unkown option 'r'
EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option read
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
NTFS: unkown option 'read'
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
NTFS: unkown option 'debug'
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
NTFS: unkown option 'noload'

now running again FSCK ....

RRRRHHHHHH

[admin@myasus /]$ fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part2
e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/discs/disc0/part2: 25980/30523392 files (6.2% non-contiguous), 56144317/61030927 blocks
[admin@myasus /]$ mount /dev/discs/disc0/part2 /opt/
mount: Mounting /dev/discs/disc0/part2 on /opt/ failed: Invalid argument

[rnthomas]

marcnesium,
What can I say, your tutorial is excellent. I certainly would not have booted up my router as quickly and easily without your tutorial. Thank you so much for your efforts.

Here is a few minor work arounds that you might want to consider. I had to do these to get my router up and running.

Fdisk is self-explaining, type m to view the help-page. When you are finished, don't forget to save changes with the w-command before you exit fdisk.
After partition your disk, it's time to create filesystems

mke2fs -j /dev/discs/disc0/part1
mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/part2

[edit@20060725] typos..

When I ran the above statements, I could not get my hard drive to mke2fs properly. I kept getting a TERMINATED error during the inode creation.

I hard to modify the above code to read as shown below in order to get my drive to format correctly.

mkswap /dev/discs/disc0/part2
swapon /dev/discs/disc0/part2
mke2fs -j /dev/discs/disc0/part1

The reason for making and mounting the swap first thing, is because *IF* you are trying to add a RATHER BIG USB drive (250 Gigs in my case) the mke2fs will die saying that it was "TERMINATED" (see in thread, people having this issue). I suspect this is caused by the router not having enough ram to finish the mke2js job. By mounting the swap file system, expands the available memory enough to allow mke2fs to run 'normally'.

For smaller hard disk drives, the earlier swap mount would not be needed.

What is it for?
Add the following lines to post-boot file:

#Wait for /opt to mount
mount /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /opt
i=0
while [ $i -le 30 ]
do
if [ -d /opt/etc ]
then
break
fi
sleep 1
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

# Activate swap
swapon /dev/discs/disc0/part2

# Run all active services - active means starts with S
/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung

[edit@20060725] typos..

I would similarly modify the above to read as follows....

# Activate swap
swapon /dev/discs/disc0/part2

#Wait for /opt to mount
mount /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /opt
i=0
while [ $i -le 30 ]
do
if [ -d /opt/etc ]
then
break
fi
sleep 1
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

# Run all active services - active means starts with S
/opt/etc/init.d/rc.unslung

Again, this is needed for BIG DRIVES only. When we try to mount a uncleanly mounted USB file system, mount will cause fsck to be run. If we can't mke2fs on 32MB of RAM, then one would not expect fsck to run. So again, by mounting the swap, we ensure fsck has the resources it needs to run successfully.

Regards,
---- Robb ----

[22chemik]

Hello,
I am newbie so I followed Moody Blue's post off installing Transmission.
All is O.K. but the download speed is about 5kB/s on 2048/512 cable link
I tested much torrents with a a good ratio of seeders to leechers, but still going
to slow.
Can someone advice me.
Thanks

[kanguru]

Hi

I followed the tutorial for WL-HDD and transmission never worked, so i tryed this one and still no luck to get torrents working. It never connects to any seed.
Any solution?


Besides this problem, the remaining functions work well, so tks for this toturial

[elund.dk]

It is my first time that I write in a forum. I do not possess great knowledge in Linux. But when I executed the following command gave the following error. If to be able to help me it was thankful.

$ mkdir /opt/tmp
mkdir: Cannot create directory `/opt/tmp': Read-only file system

I got the same problem. Are there no help availabe to newbies like jaguarman and me

[EdSki]

Hi

I followed the tutorial for WL-HDD and transmission never worked, so i tryed this one and still no luck to get torrents working. It never connects to any seed.
Any solution?

Strange, following this tut on 2 of my 500gP's and my wl-hdd are working 100%. Configuring shares/rights in Samba seems to be the most difficult part. If you f*cked that one up you cannot open Samba. First check the Samba shares to work (do not forget to rename WORKGROUP if you are using another name).

2: Check/edit all the config files! (passwords must match the FW passwords)

3: Make sure you got setup the correct DNSserver (in Oleg's FW).

4: Manually restart watchdog.

5: If it's behind another router: Port forwarding on that one has to be enabled.

Ed


Ed