New oleg firmware version

[shantanugoel]

yes, shouldn't be a problem!
you might want to reconfigure the webadmin again tho, it has some new features

thnx wpte.. whenever i post a question here, you are the one to answer I'll try it out. and hope that can help out in some possible ways

[QMax]

Can someone please post here or on Googlecode, the differences/benefits of this new version, compared to 1.9.2.7-10 ?

I just replaced my HDD, and installed all from the beginning following wengi's great tutorial.

Can I upgrade only the Asus firmware and still continue using my new /opt and all ipkg installed packages ?

Thanks

Max

[wpte]

Can someone please post here or on Googlecode, the differences/benefits of this new version, compared to 1.9.2.7-10 ?

I just replaced my HDD, and installed all from the beginning following wengi's great tutorial.

Can I upgrade only the Asus firmware and still continue using my new /opt and all ipkg installed packages ?

Thanks

Max

yes you can still use the ipkg packages, since they use their own uclibc library.

benefits:
better security (ssh and ftp brute force attack blockers)
better compatebility
newer drivers
updates on a lot of things
better speed
etc.

[hggomes]

Hi, i still using the old OLEG firmware (pre10 version), i've tried 2 times the "new" firmware from http://code.google.com/p/wl500g and i found some issues in iptables, some rules were not applied, some other were (oleg OLEG version worked fine) but that was along time ago. So i decided today to install the R740 version that was available to download and the first thing i noticed was that the web enviroment its constantly failing "web page not found" when i travel over the web interface menus it shows many time that message, i've tried another computer and the same happen, i've used again the old OLEG version and it's all working fine, so i gave up from the new fw version again

Update: With Mozilla Firefox all works fine, with IE8 shows the "web page error", but with old OLEG it doesn't? Any explanation for this? Anyone noticed the same?

[theMIROn]

Update: With Mozilla Firefox all works fine, with IE8 shows the "web page error", but with old OLEG it doesn't? Any explanation for this? Anyone noticed the same?

Didn't you forget about browser cache clearing?

[lly]

Hi, i still using the old OLEG firmware (pre10 version), i've tried 2 times the "new" firmware from http://code.google.com/p/wl500g and i found some issues in iptables, some rules were not applied, some other were (oleg OLEG version worked fine) but that was along time ago.

iptables was upgraded, as you can read in NEWS. So, syntax may be changed and you should check this.
Anyway, some bugs can be present in new iptables too. Unless you provide details, nobody can say something useful.

[hggomes]

Didn't you forget about browser cache clearing?

Hi, offcourse not, i've tried that and even better. I've used IE8 from other machine and the same happen, but only with your fw version. I can't understand why. Can you test it with IE8 please? Browse all menus please.

[hggomes]

iptables was upgraded, as you can read in NEWS. So, syntax may be changed and you should check this.
Anyway, some bugs can be present in new iptables too. Unless you provide details, nobody can say something useful.

Hi, thanks for the answer but i was talking about the old version, i haven't test it now with de new one, i will soon I just want to resolve the web browsing "problem" first, its really annoying

[lly]

Can you test it with IE8 please? Browse all menus please.

Sorry, I haven't IE at all and even don't want to install it under wine. Try any reliable browser (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, ...)

[wpte]

Hi, thanks for the answer but i was talking about the old version, i haven't test it now with de new one, i will soon I just want to resolve the web browsing "problem" first, its really annoying

I tested all the pages with IE8 32bit and 64bit both worked fine, every page loads up, some a bit slow but they load.

probably a IE thing that happens over time since I rarely use IE.

[wpte]

looks like th RT-N16 firmware is almoast ready?
http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/source/list
I mean... rapid changes on the changes list

[lly]

looks like th RT-N16 firmware is almoast ready?

Unfortunately, it is not usable for end-users yet Too many TODO's and manual corrections after startup.

About rapid changes - it was preparation for branches merge. We switch from patches to full source for some packages (httpd, rc)

[wpte]

Unfortunately, it is not usable for end-users yet Too many TODO's and manual corrections after startup.

About rapid changes - it was preparation for branches merge. We switch from patches to full source for some packages (httpd, rc)

ah well, it does sound a bit closer to completion.

I just hope the wifi signal is better than from dd-wrt, the only way to stop the package errors a bit is turning down the signal to 20mW... now it's 1/3 of the power comprared to my wl-500w

I'd say keep the good work up, and if there is anything to test I'd be happy to do so

[lly]

I just hope the wifi signal is better than from dd-wrt, the only way to stop the package errors a bit is turning down the signal to 20mW... now it's 1/3 of the power comprared to my wl-500w

It is not a big secret now, that DD-WRT team got somewhere broadcom wl sources (not last version, but complete bundle). Probably, they sign NDA with Broadcom.

We tied to binaries from ASUS, I can't guarantee that they will much better

[wpte]

It is not a big secret now, that DD-WRT team got somewhere broadcom wl sources (not last version, but complete bundle). Probably, they sign NDA with Broadcom.

We tied to binaries from ASUS, I can't guarantee that they will much better

imo the original asus fw binaries perform better than the dd-wrt ones, so I guess it'll be fine