Openwrt On Wl700ge Update Book

[back2basic]

We are setting up a book on how to update and set up the asus wl700ge firmware to openwrt
This book will eventualy be a detailed instruction guide on how to set up every component of openwrt
It can be modifyed by registerd users ,so feel free to participate in it
installing custom asus firmware is also in here

http://wl700g.homelinux.net

[clausbruun]

We are setting up a book on how to update and set up the asus wl700ge firmware to openwrt
This book will eventualy be a detailed instruction guide on how to set up every component of openwrt
It can be modifyed by registerd users ,so feel free to participate in it

http://back2basic.shacknet.nu/WL700Ge/

Thank you very much, this proved very useful to me!

[umonster]

Forgive my ignorance, but does this firmware require everything to be setup and run through a command line? In other words, there is no GUI?

[back2basic]

Forgive my ignorance, but does this firmware require everything to be setup and run through a command line? In other words, there is no GUI?

there is no GUI atm x-wrt is builing one but it is still in develepment

[back2basic]

The name of the site has changed into

http://wl700g.homelinux.net

[mecheng]

I tried openwrt on my wl-700ge. It is decently fast compared to asus firmware but the lack of a gui for making quick configuration changes is a big disadvantage. I use pppoe adsl and never could get it shared to wireless clients. When I went through my old router into the asus with DHCP everything was fine but pppoe would just work on the router and wouldn't share to clients.

I will go back to this firmware as soon as X-WRT is available on kamikaze and wl-700ge.

Just my 2 cents.

mecheng

[back2basic]

I tried openwrt on my wl-700ge. It is decently fast compared to asus firmware but the lack of a gui for making quick configuration changes is a big disadvantage. I use pppoe adsl and never could get it shared to wireless clients. When I went through my old router into the asus with DHCP everything was fine but pppoe would just work on the router and wouldn't share to clients.

I will go back to this firmware as soon as X-WRT is available on kamikaze and wl-700ge.

Just my 2 cents.

mecheng

x-wrt is availble and working but still in development so it isn't 100%

[mecheng]

I couldn't get any of the X-wrt versions to work on my router. I tried install from the firmware on their website and installing it on top of kamakazi install from your guide b2b. Please help me with a link to some info on this or lets chat so I can pick your brain as to what works and what doesn't.

Kfurge's firmware seems to work good lately!!

15:29:13 up 19 days, 20:02, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.08

pppoe adsl
and 3 linux laptops on wlan

Just to Update I had OpenWRT Kamikaze and a very nice web interface (X-WRT Webif^2) running on the router. The only hitch was that I was never able to connect to the wireless. Wired was fine. I am going to try to reflash.

[houli-mouli]

PPTP is not working on Austrian AON provider!
If someone is willing to provide me with support I am willing to make the eval on the entire PPTP interface.

[hal2k1]

I tried openwrt on my wl-700ge. It is decently fast compared to asus firmware but the lack of a gui for making quick configuration changes is a big disadvantage. I use pppoe adsl and never could get it shared to wireless clients. When I went through my old router into the asus with DHCP everything was fine but pppoe would just work on the router and wouldn't share to clients.

I have an ethernet ADSL modem and a wl700ge unit for my home networking equipment. It was a bit tricky to get these working together with wireless enabled.

Use your old router first, login and install every package with either "pppoe" or "ppp" alone as part of the package name. At least one ppp-related package is not included in the default firmware image, but I forget which one it was. You can find the packages you need by using the command: 'ipkg list | grep ppp'. You can find the ones you have already installed using the command: 'ipkg list_installed | grep ppp'.

Also, install the wirless-related packages as described here:
http://wl700g.homelinux.net/portal/content/view/37/30/

OK, now you need to set your modem to "bridging" mode, to allow the wl700ge to do the pppoe login. Do not let the modem login and connect the wan interface of the wl700ge using dhcp, as this interferes somehow with the dhcp part of dnsmasq in the wl700ge serving the lan ports.

With the modem set to bridging mode, and all of the ppp and pppoe related packages previously installed, edit /etc/config/network and set the wan section as described in post #3 on this thread:
http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=11451

For PPOE/DSL connection try the following settings in /etc/config/network :

config interface        wan
        option ifname   "eth0.1"
        option proto    pppoe
        option username "your-userid@isp-name"
        option password "your-password"
        option keepalive 10
        option mtu      1492

AFAIK, the wireless configuration at either reference is correct, but the wan section must be set as per the code box above.

This combination works for pppoe and for wireless, and dnsmasq also works properly.

[hal2k1]

This combination works for pppoe and for wireless, and dnsmasq also works properly.

Not stable, I'm afraid. The kam7.09 version and pppoe somehow can't live with each other for mor than a few days, it would seem.

Back to the drawing board!

OK, now you need to set your modem to "bridging" mode, to allow the wl700ge to do the pppoe login. Do not let the modem login and connect the wan interface of the wl700ge using dhcp, as this interferes somehow with the dhcp part of dnsmasq in the wl700ge serving the lan ports.

I tried this again, and this time I seem to have got it working with the ADSL modem doing the pppoe login, and the wl700ge using dhcp.

I'm not sure how it is configured differently now compared with before, but it does now seem to be working.

So ... mea culpa, I was wrong. Don't use pppoe on the wl700ge box while running kamikaze. Get another router, or your ADSL mode, to do the pppoe login instead.

[back2basic]

Due to a powerfailure my host got kicked offline .
It's the second faillure today, I don't know how long its gonne take until power is restored.
I'm sitting now here in the dark with a few candles, logged in over my mobile phone line.

As soon as power is restored I'll post a message,I hope it will be in a few hours.

Sorry for the problem......

[back2basic]

Its back online

[ded.perdyn]

I've just installed open wrt on my ASUS-wl700ge using your link: http://wl700ge.hezik.nl (OpenWrt - BackFire - 10.03.1 - Asus WL700gE)
Now I need to install software.

Can somebody please advice sowtware repository and package to be used with that version. Since now there is no any package manager installed (ipkg or opkg).

Thanks, Pavel