When it will be made available?
For some time now I look at this forum in a dally basis... hopping, maybe is today, maybe is today.
It's true, I don't have the right knowledge to make my custom firmware, and fix all that bugs, not all maybe some ones, like BT that never worked with me, the harddisk always spinning, etc..
I'm selling it on Ebay
Thanks for your effort, in my name and in the name of all others like me, who don't have the right knowledge in UNIX/LINUX programing.
Last edited by IMM22; 08-11-2006 at 11:33.
I'm working on some of these items myself right now (HDD spinning down, custom startup scripts, running wl500 executables, etc.).
As of right now, I've gotten the software recompiled and reflashed and have cross compiled 'top' and 'bash' and they're both working.
As soon as I have confirmed I can spin down the HDD, I'll post an image. Give me a week or two, I think I'm pretty close.
- K.C.
The real solution would be to finish porting openwrt on our router : http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/...e/Asus/WL700gE
That way we'll could run plenty of apps without any problem
I managed to create password protected utelnetd shell witch uses web UI credentials. If I'll have enought time I'll add ssh daemon and ipkg and release an image.
Last edited by MoD; 05-11-2006 at 10:33.
Do you have the wl500 binaries working or are you compiling these yourself? The various libs are OK. I can link against them and run the resulting executables just fine.
However, trying to run one of the executables results in a 'not found' message. I'm assuming it's because they're linked against uClibc and not gcc. I tried adding the uClibc libs but it didn't make any difference.
- K.C.
That is fantastic!
With an ssh daemon (perhaps dropbear? http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html) and ipkg, then other programs can be added at will.
It would be good also if you can include the solution for HDD spindown.
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killall -STOP watchdog
mount -o remount,noatime,nodiratime /dev/se/2 /shares/MYVOLUME1
hdparm -S 50 /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
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This was suggested by this post:
http://wl500g.info/showpost.php?p=39213&postcount=5
If all that works, the only remaining problem is the weak bitorrent client.
Perhaps the enhanced ctorrent? http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/
for which source is available?
I think this is the best way, keep it simple and allow people to experiment according to their personal preference. I really looking forward to seeing this.
Two questions...
1) As a precaution do we have a robust way of debricking the 700gE in case of any problems?
2) Is the data eg music videos at risk when we switch to the custom firmware I 'm guessing no, but I'd like to be sure!
LK
I'm very happy to read that there is progress with this routers firmware.
I wish I was able to do Linux, but I only program in Visual Basic so I can't help...
I like the concept of the Asus router but the bad torrent client and the reiserfs wasn't the best [maybe worst] choice Asus could make I think.
I would already be happy with a better torrent client
keep up the good work.
The openWRT project would be nice, but it almost looks like there is no progress on the WL-700 router. Is the hardware so much different then the other broadcom routers?
The limitation of the NVRAM [2MB?] shouldn't be a problem since there is a hdd to boot from, at least that is my simple thought
isn't it possible to format the disk to ext3 or something?
or devide the disk in 2 partitions, one say 100mb reiser fs for the software and stuff, and the rest as ext3 for downloading and file storage.
that would eliminate the 2gb bug right?
I don't have much experience with linux, but I think it's very interesting and i want to learn to make firmware for devices as the wl700gE.
another idea, how about a 2.6 kernel?
I don't own a 700gE yet, but i think it's a cool gadget, so i might buy it in the near future