[HowTo] Part One - WL-500g Premium

[chriska]

Hi All!

First of all, Marry Christmass!
Next, I have difficulties with my system. I have an ASUS WL-500G Premium. An external hdd is connectec to it (via usb). I siply just can't get through with the write protection on it...
Unfortunately I am not used to linux (win. user).
According to the manuals, I could set with the legal firmware update the share as followings:

Network Neighborhood Mode: Apply rules in shared node list
FTP Mode: Login to first matched shared node

User permissions are set in Share Node List. (Guset: read only, Admin: read/write)

DDNS settings are ok.
I can reach the router via http, and reach the share via ftp. (Also on LAN.) The problem is that even if I connect to it as admin (ftp), I can not write to the disk, unless I unmount it, connect it to the PC directly and copy to it. But this shall not be the way I want to use it.

If you could help me with solving this problem, I'd appreciate that much.
Thx 4 your hlp in adv.

Chris

[al37919]

unfortunately, this router supports ntfs only in read-only mode.

[chriska]

unfortunately, this router supports ntfs only in read-only mode.

Any way of solution? I wish I could use it mostly as ftp server, BT client as for second.

(Now I'm tryting with reformatting the usb drive to fat 32.)

[QMax]

Use FAT32 EXT2/EXT3 filesystems.

Max

[hweiee]

Hi all!

This tutorial is great. I got it all working. Except... trying to have 2 USB Printers.

My router is WL-500W. It has 2 USB Ports. The first one is connected to a USB Hard Disk directly. The other one is connected to a USB Hub. The 2 printers are then connected to the USB Hub.

It appears the problem is to do with the Printer Drivers. This is what it shows when i type "dmesg" in Putty.

[admin@hwei root]$ dmesg
instruction cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Primary data cache 16kb, linesize 16 bytes (2 ways)
Linux version 2.4.20 (root@localhost) (gcc version 3.2.3 with Broadcom modifications) #9 Sun Oct 28 11:52:04 MSK 2007
Setting the PFC to its default value
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
zone(0): 8192 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM4704 rev 9 pkg 0 at 264 MHz
Calibrating delay loop... 263.78 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30012k/32768k available (1833k kernel code, 2756k reserved, 248k data, 72k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Fixing 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 953
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "boot"
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"
0x000ee744-0x007f0000 : "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 22016
FAT: bogus logical sector size 22016
NTFS: Unable to set blocksize 512.
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.108.9.0
eth1: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.108.9.0
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth2: Broadcom BCM4329 802.11 Wireless Controller 4.108.9.0
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth2 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth2) entering listening state
br0: port 1(eth0) entering listening state
br0: port 2(eth2) entering learning state
br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth2) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(eth0) 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 22:59:22 Oct 15 2007
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 12
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 12
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 12, pci mem c00f1000
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
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
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 0xd49/0x3200) is not claimed by any active driver.
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: Maxtor Model: 3200 Rev: 0344
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
Partition check:
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
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 22278
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
FAT: freeing iocharset=cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 22278
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 63222
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
FAT: freeing iocharset=cp950
FAT: bogus logical sector size 63222
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

The part that i made BOLD is why i think its a driver problem. And,.. only 1 printer is detected? correct? But I have 2 printers connected.


Please help.

[IMM22]

This guide is written supposing that your PC runs Windows, and you want to use your router as file server and Torrent client. My objective was to setup Oleg 1.9.2.7-7f with Transmission and Samba2.

....

Hi,

First I want to thank you for the great tutorial on "Update for Oleg 1.9.2.7-7f with Samba2 and Transmission". I have a small question that O don't know if you can respond.

I've installed Samba2 and Transmission and both this packages work ok. But when I install mt-daapd (itunes) server, Samba2 won't startup on boot and for some reason it's impossbile to access the webpage of transmission. Did you allready test this configuration?
What could be wrong?

Thanks for your attention!

[jc_pazos]

Hi Everybody.

I followed the steps to configure the client torrent, and what I go running but discharges to a very low speed, I would like to know if you can give me some advice to increase the speed.

Thanks

[Moody Blue]

Hi,

I've installed Samba2 and Transmission and both this packages work ok. But when I install mt-daapd (itunes) server, Samba2 won't startup on boot and for some reason it's impossbile to access the webpage of transmission. Did you allready test this configuration?
What could be wrong?

Thanks for your attention!

I have not tested this configuration. My router is now with one of my children and I have no access to it. Also, because of this, I no longer visit this forum as often as before.

Warm regards, Hugo

[Quistor]

Hello all,
I started with the howto part1, literally following all code but I get stuck with FDISK. This is due to me having no experience with Linux
In FDISK I made 2 partitions:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/discs/disc0/disc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

                Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/discs/disc0/part1               1       60000   481949968+  83  Linux
/dev/discs/disc0/part2           60001       60801     6434032+  83  Linux

(By the way it's a WD MyBook 500Gb)

When I try to commit, it goes wrong:

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource
 busy.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.
Syncing disks.

When I restart my wl-500gp I still see my old ntfs partition?
Could anyone explain to me what I should do, please bear with me, I'm a complete newbie.

[raas]

Hi Quistor,

What exactly goes wrong.. this 'syncing disk' thing will take a while.
(has to write journal, blocks, inode, etc.etc.)

when it's ready, it will 'return' with a 'prompt'.

and, can fdisk remove this 'ntfs' partition. (otherwise, remove the partition from the disk with a windows system so that you have a 'virgin' disk with no partitions on it)



So,
- recreate the partitions using fdisk,
- save partition table to disk with 'w'
- wait until it's finished.
- reboot, and see what it does.

HTH

[Quistor]

Hi Raas,

Thanks for your response
I did solve the issue. I checked the system log through the web interface and noticed this line:

USB storage: ntfs(ro) fs at /dev/discs/disc0/part1 mounted to /tmp/mnt/disc0_1

So I thought, maybe I should unmount it? That did the trick indeed.

umount -v /tmp/mnt/disc0_1

I hear the duh's from more experienced Linux users, but this might be helpful for linux noobs like me

cheers,

René

[funmen]

when I do the command
mkdir /opt/tmp

the router will not process it. I receive the words not-readable or something like that. anyway, the may can't be created. What is the solution for me?

[raas]

@funmen:
Have you mounted your partitions correctly?

please post the output of the 'df' command.

[funmen]

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 2880 2880 0 100% /

That's it, I have done everything according to the turtorial. But the hard disk is offline, I'm going to do it again tomorrow and reset the whole thing. The hard disk is not working, so I first have to format the hard disk again. Which format is the best, ext3 or fat32? I'm going to use it for bittorrent and a little http server.

[thohmann]

Hi funmen,

I`m not able to help but I'll let you know that you are not alone .
Same Problem to me. I have partitioned my hard disk again but no write access during the mount. Hope someone can help here.

See:

Sharing answers will help us both

Best regards,

Thomas