[HowTo] Install and configure Oleg's firmware

[shinji257]

@all
ALWAYS REMEMBER: Your Asus is a Router and NOT a Pentium Core II Duo with 3GHz. THIS MACHINES ARE SLOW!!!

Amen! Anyways it is a miracle how much I got going on my router.

Full IPv6 support (radvd broadcasting IPv6 subnet)
Lighttpd w/ PHP using FastCGI and eAccelerator extension
Transmission
RRDTool (macsat.com setup)
2 x Dropbear servers w/ SFTP capability
Syslog Daemon (from ipkg)

Now then I do have Wordpress going on the server using a SQLite database (addon db support) and it works surprisingly well. Slow but well enough. I spec the router for the equivalent to an approx 8 year old computer. Not very fast but enough. I won't even attempt to push on a MySQL server. The swapfile works well. So well that even though the number of applications running well exceeds the available ram my router has kept on ticking.

[metamorphose]

@metamorphose
Did you extract the zip?

wengi

Yes, of course I did and I tried to upload TRX file, unsuccessfully.

[bogd_A]

HI,

I had to reconfig from scratch my WL-500gP V2 - HDD system.
Everything worked ok, using Wengi's tutorial, but after installing transmission, I had the first error.
Note that I set my sistem (WL-500gP V2 + HDD) two times before, and had no error.

at vi /opt/etc/crontab
I have:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/bin
MAILTO=""
HOME=/
# ---------- ---------- Default is Empty ---------- ---------- #

On the firs two setups I had:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/sbin:/opt/bin
MAILTO=""
HOME=/
# ---------- ---------- Default is Empty ---------- ---------- #
*/30 * * * * admin nice /opt/sbin/transmission_watchdog

This is the first difference.

The second error was:
[admin@WL-500gP root]$ transmission_watchdog
-sh: transmission_watchdog: not found
[admin@WL-500gP root]$

ps axf looks like this:

[admin@WL-500gP root]$ ps axf
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:01 /sbin/init
2 ? S 0:00 [keventd]
3 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 ? S 0:00 [kswapd]
5 ? S 0:00 [bdflush]
6 ? S 0:00 [kupdated]
7 ? S 0:00 [mtdblockd]
57 ? S 0:00 telnetd
62 ? S 0:00 httpd vlan1
68 ? S 0:00 klogd
71 ? Ss 0:01 nas /tmp/nas.lan.conf /tmp/nas.lan.pid lan
73 ? S 0:00 [dnsmasq]
75 ? S 0:00 [khubd]
83 ? Ss 0:00 lpd
85 ? Ss 0:00 p9100d -f /dev/usb/lp0 0
88 ? Ss 0:00 waveservermain
92 ? Ss 0:00 rcamdmain
96 ? S 0:00 [usb-storage-0]
97 ? S 0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
107 ? Ss 0:00 infosvr br0
108 ? Ss 0:00 watchdog
111 ? Ss 0:00 \_ ntp
118 ? S 0:00 dropbear
241 ? Ss 0:00 \_ dropbear
242 pts/0 Ss 0:00 \_ -sh
245 pts/0 R+ 0:00 \_ ps axf
135 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
136 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
162 ? S 0:00 /sbin/syslogd -m 0 -O /opt/var/log/syslog.log -S -l 7
168 ? Ss 0:00 /opt/sbin/cron
177 ? Ss 0:00 /opt/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
187 ? Ss 0:00 /opt/sbin/smbd -D
189 ? Ss 0:00 /opt/sbin/nmbd -D
195 ? S 0:01 upnp -D -L br0 -W vlan1

As firmware I use oleg 1.9.2.7-10

What went wrong?

[wengi]

reinstall transmission.

wengi

[bogd_A]

reinstall transmission.

wengi

I did that 2 times and nothing ...
Can be an error in the downloaded packages?

[shinji257]

It is possible that the packages may not be downloading or installing correctly. Try uninstalling the packages and then reinstalling it and see if that works. I do know that I installed it fine recently.

[bogd_A]

It is possible that the packages may not be downloading or installing correctly. Try uninstalling the packages and then reinstalling it and see if that works. I do know that I installed it fine recently.

did that, still the same ...

It is possible that all this could be caused by the HDD?
I did a e2fsck -fv /dev/discs/disc0/part2, - the IPKG part, and the result is:

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

3132 inodes used (2%)
6 non-contiguous inodes (0.2%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 58/0/0
14115 blocks used (5%)
0 bad blocks
0 large files

1908 regular files
110 directories
0 character device files
0 block device files
0 fifos
0 links
1105 symbolic links (1105 fast symbolic links)
0 sockets--------

3123 files

Can u post your transmission.conf and version of transmission? Perhaps it is a new ver of transmission and this is why I have this error

Thank you

[Samo27]

I have the same problem as bogd_A. I found out that there is no transmission_watchdog in opt/sbin and trasmissiond in opt/bin and also no www subdirectory under opt/share and also busybox does not listen on port 8008. There must be something wrong with transmission package. After I copied all missing files and run 'busybox_httpd -p 8008 -c /opt/etc/httpd.conf -h /opt/share/www' I got transmission to work.

[oleo]

transmissiond inclusion solved with changeset/8556. Our package master bzhou downgraded to 1.22 and left out transmissiond.

I recommend ipkg update && ipkg upgrade

[zemitras]

I'm having the same problem with transmission

What files and where do will I put them?

Thanks

[boss]

I'm having the same problem.. But no new package is available for download.
I did "ipkg update && ipkg upgrade" but it says it has nothing to do.

I am using this one: http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...2-1_mipsel.ipk

but it's not working.

The firmware is WL500gpv2-1.9.2.7-10.trx

[oleo]

Sometimes you just need to wait a while that autobuild machine compiles new package for all platforms!

Packages are now available!

ipkg update
ipkg upgrade

One can also do ipkg force reinstall transmission if fails to upgrade. Bu I doubt it.

[wpte]

the only problem I have with transmission is that somehow no graph data is being written to the file...
so I can't create any graphs.
maybe it's due the fact I have /tmp/harddisk mounted as /mnt
?
I did do the right setup for everything, and changed the values to the right place...
so, oleo, what would you reckon goes wrong?

(yes I have the lasted transmission)

[wengi]

maybe it's due the fact I have /tmp/harddisk mounted as /mnt

You can test this by creating a symbolic link from /tmp/harddisk to /mnt

wengi

[wpte]

You can test this by creating a symbolic link from /tmp/harddisk to /mnt

wengi

extreamly silly me!
I forgot to do this:

syslog has to be changed:
SYSLOG=/opt/var/log/syslog.log

it seems to work now... but I still don't get how it changed, because it use to work and I always kept my config