New oleg firmware version

[wpte]

I've flashed my router today, and the webcam refresh feature seems to work great
the flashfs things also work good now, and I didn't have any troubles so far

[quazar]

Great work guys, I will test the new r160 on my WL-500W.
So far so good!

[Lesiuk]

Great work guys, I will test the new r160 on my WL-500W.
So far so good!

My isp give me short dhcp ip lease time, every 60 secound ip must be renewed.

If the router is busy, the router do not renew my ip on time and all connections were closed.

It make me nervous when while I am transferring files via FTP I lose the connection to the Internet.

I dont know how fix that... Any ideas ?

[DrChair]

Building r169 requires user input:

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* Machine selection
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Support for Acer PICA 1 chipset (EXPERIMENTAL) (CONFIG_ACER_PICA_61) [N/y/?]
Support for Alchemy Bosporus board (CONFIG_MIPS_BOSPORUS) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for FIC Multimedia Player board (CONFIG_MIPS_FICMMP) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for Alchemy Mirage board (CONFIG_MIPS_MIRAGE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for Alchemy Db1000 board (CONFIG_MIPS_DB1000) [N/y/?]
Support for Alchemy Db1100 board (CONFIG_MIPS_DB1100) [N/y/?]
Support for Alchemy Db1500 board (CONFIG_MIPS_DB1500) [N/y/?]
Support for Alchemy Db1550 board (CONFIG_MIPS_DB1550) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for Alchemy Db1200 board (CONFIG_MIPS_DB1200) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for Alchemy PB1000 board (CONFIG_MIPS_PB1000) [N/y/?]
Support for Alchemy PB1100 board (CONFIG_MIPS_PB1100) [N/y/?]
Support for Alchemy PB1500 board (CONFIG_MIPS_PB1500) [N/y/?]
Support for Alchemy PB1550 board (CONFIG_MIPS_PB1550) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for Alchemy PB1200 board (CONFIG_MIPS_PB1200) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for Alchemy Hydrogen3 board (CONFIG_MIPS_HYDROGEN3) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for MyCable XXS1500 board (CONFIG_MIPS_XXS1500) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for 4G Systems MTX-1 board (CONFIG_MIPS_MTX1) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for Cogent CSB250 board (CONFIG_COGENT_CSB250) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support for BAGET MIPS series (EXPERIMENTAL) (CONFIG_BAGET_MIPS) [N/y/?]
Support for CASIO CASSIOPEIA E-10/15/55/65 (CONFIG_CASIO_E55) [N/y/?]
Support for Cobalt Server (EXPERIMENTAL) (CONFIG_MIPS_COBALT) [N/y/?]
Support for DECstations (CONFIG_DECSTATION) [N/y/?]
Support for Galileo EV64120 Evaluation board (EXPERIMENTAL) (CONFIG_MIPS_EV64120) [N/y/?]
Support for Galileo EV96100 Evaluation board (EXPERIMENTAL) (CONFIG_MIPS_EV96100) [N/y/?]
Support for Globespan IVR board (CONFIG_MIPS_IVR) [N/y/?]
Support for Hewlett Packard LaserJet board (CONFIG_HP_LASERJET) [N/y/?]
Support for IBM WorkPad z50 (CONFIG_IBM_WORKPAD) [N/y/?]
Support for LASAT Networks platforms (CONFIG_LASAT) [N/y/?]
Support for ITE 8172G board (CONFIG_MIPS_ITE8172) [N/y/?]
Support for MIPS Atlas board (CONFIG_MIPS_ATLAS) [N/y/?]
Support for MIPS Magnum 4000 (CONFIG_MIPS_MAGNUM_4000) [N/y/?]
Support for MIPS Malta board (CONFIG_MIPS_MALTA) [N/y/?]
Support for MIPS SEAD board (EXPERIMENTAL) (CONFIG_MIPS_SEAD) [N/y/?]
Support for Momentum Ocelot board (CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT) [N/y/?]
Support for Momentum Ocelot-G board (CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_G) [N/y/?]
Support for Momentum Ocelot-C and -CS boards (CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_C) [N/y/?] (NEW)

I guess some config-file needs modifying...

[lly]

Building r169 requires user input:

(CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_C) [N/y/?] (NEW)

Something goes wrong on your build system, as you can see

# CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_C is not set

line already present in our kernel.config. Have you execute

make koldconf

in gateway directory after kernel patching?

[lly]

My isp give me short dhcp ip lease time, every 60 secound ip must be renewed.
...
I dont know how fix that... Any ideas ?

1. Ask ISP to change too short lease time (should be at least 30 min).
2. Change bad ISP

[DrChair]

Something goes wrong on your build system, as you can see

# CONFIG_MOMENCO_OCELOT_C is not set

line already present in our kernel.config. Have you execute

make koldconf

in gateway directory after kernel patching?

No I haven't, cause it's not mentioned in the howto...

r165 still builds fine on my machine, but r166 and up have this problem.

I use the following script to build the firmware:

#!/bin/sh
inst="/firmware"
rm -rf /opt/brcm
rm -rf $inst/broadcom

mkdir $inst/broadcom/src/linux -p
mkdir /opt/brcm -p
tar -C $inst -zxvf /home/downloads/GPL_1927.zip
rm -rf $inst/broadcom/src/linux/linux
tar -C $inst/broadcom/src/linux -jxvf /home/downloads/linux-2.4.37.tar.bz2
ln -sf $inst/broadcom/src/linux/linux-2.4.37 $inst/broadcom/src/linux/linux
tar -C /opt/brcm -jxvf /home/downloads/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc-4.1.2-1.tar.bz2
ln -sf /opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc-4.1.2 /opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc

svn checkout --revision 166 http://wl500g.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ $inst/broadcom/src/wl500g-1.9.2.7-d
rm -rf $inst/broadcom/opt

PATH=$PATH:/opt/brcm/hndtools-mipsel-uclibc/bin

export PATH
cd $inst/broadcom/src/wl500g-1.9.2.7-d
make kernel
make

cd $inst/broadcom/src/gateway
make
make install

[lly]

No I haven't, cause it's not mentioned in the howto...

r165 still builds fine on my machine, but r166 and up have this problem.

Howto was written in assumption that entire tree prepared from scratch. In case of partial code upgrade from SVN, it should be extended, but we are hope that people who can do it also can understand Makefile rules.

Probably, you got an error somewhere in "make kernel". Please, remove commands after this point, and check for a error message.

[DrChair]

Howto was written in assumption that entire tree prepared from scratch. In case of partial code upgrade from SVN, it should be extended.

What do you mean with partial code upgrade??

My build-script starts with deleting my entire build-directory.
Next it performs all steps mentioned in the Wiki.

So as I see it, my tree is prepaired from scratch...

[lly]

What do you mean with partial code upgrade??

I added paragraph 5 on Howto

So as I see it, my tree is prepaired from scratch...

Ok, but I even don't exclude our mistake
You(we) should repeat process step-by-step to find a problem.

[DrChair]

You(we) should repeat process step-by-step to find a problem.

I just repeated the procedure manually with last svn, and this works fine
So either it is solved again, or my script is wrong...

Edit:
Also with my buildscript r174 builds fine, so the problem is fixed again with that revision.

Further tests show that r168 till r173 failed during "make kernel" on applying "235-usb-ehci-backport.patch" (hence the fix in r174)
r166 & r167 failed during "make kernel" on applying "303-pppol2tp.patch" (which was fixed in r169)

(and my script is wrong, cause it lacks error-checking of the different steps)

[wpte]

maybe another idea for the new firmware:
when you save somthing in the webinterface you can do a restart, to load the changed things...
Now this restart is a quick one and not a proper reboot as far as I noticed, since it leaves behind all kind of things in the memory... like php-fcgi connection.

so if you restart it via webinterface, you need to do an additional "reboot" command to have a proper clean restart.

now I guess the restart is just a quick one since nothing mutch has to be done in the normal firmware, but olegs is mainly used as more functionality via optware, so it's not really well put to have an quick restart so some programs won't reload properly


can be a stupid idea... dunno

[lly]

wpte
Idea is excellent, but requires too much time to rewrite almost entire web-interface...

[TheCrow]

i found 2 fw for my wl-500gp v2: wl500g-1.9.2.7-d-r160 (2009-03-05) http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/wiki/NEWS and WL500gpv2-1.9.2.7-10.7.trx 02-Mar-2009 http://oleg.wl500g.info/pre10a/

What are differences between`s 2

[wpte]

wpte
Idea is excellent, but requires too much time to rewrite almost entire web-interface...

maybe I can manage to make a patch for that