New oleg firmware version

[theMIROn]

So any pertinent feedback is welcome

[wpte]

So any pertinent feedback is welcome

so far really nice!
I had to reinstall things like samba and openssh a few times on the fresh formatted usb stick since they both gave me some segmentation faults. The weird thing is, according to some hashing tools the executables or the ipkg files stayed the same
They run smooth now tho.

samba results are really impressive, both 1MB/s more than dd-wrt:
up 8.45MB/s
down 6.65MB/s
even when oleg is still "less completed" it runs faster
Still the cpu is underclocked when you comprare it to the 533MHz from asus.

nvram get clkfreq
480,240,120

There is no way of overclocking it yet I noticed, since I noticed it would ran on like... 150MHz I believe


buffers do flood when transferring files, just like with dd-wrt

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        126312     123980       2332          0        292     107920
-/+ buffers/cache:      15768     110544
Swap:        56188        148      56040 

after a file transfer they should empty again right?
with my wl500w they empty after transfers

ps with memory info:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.4   1368   544 ttyS0    Ss+  22:15   0:00 /sbin/init
root       669  0.0  0.2   1616   304 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 klogd
root       667  0.0  0.2   1616   320 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 syslogd -m 0 -O /tmp/syslog.log -S -l 7 -b 2
root       671  0.0  0.1   1616   236 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 telnetd
root       674  0.0  0.2   1148   284 ?        S    22:15   0:00 httpd eth0
nobody     678  0.0  0.3    932   428 ?        S    22:15   0:00 dnsmasq
root       679  0.0  0.2   1012   368 ?        S    22:15   0:00 snmpd -c /tmp/snmpd.conf
root       698  0.0  0.1   1124   188 ?        S    22:15   0:00 nas /tmp/nas.lan.conf /tmp/nas.lan.pid lan
root       720  0.0  0.2   1368   348 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 rcamdmain
root       764  0.0  0.2    800   284 ?        S    22:15   0:00 radvd
root       768  0.0  0.3   1380   448 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 watchdog
root       809  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Zs   22:15   0:00  \_ [ntpclient] <defunct>
root       767  0.0  0.1   1124   188 ?        S    22:15   0:00 nas /tmp/nas.wan.conf /tmp/nas.wan.pid wan
root       793  0.0  0.1   1636   232 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 udhcpc -i eth0 -p /var/run/udhcpc0.pid -s /tmp/udhcpc
root       832  0.0  0.4   1444   516 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 /opt/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
root       839  0.0  0.5   3264   724 ?        S    22:15   0:00 /opt/sbin/sshd
root       888  0.2  1.2   3376  1616 ?        Ss   22:18   0:02  \_ /opt/sbin/sshd: root@pts/0
root       889  0.0  0.3   1624   492 pts/0    Ss   22:18   0:00      \_ -sh
root       899  0.0  0.3   1568   504 pts/0    R+   22:36   0:00          \_ ps afxu
root       845  0.0  0.8   3660  1020 ?        Ss   22:15   0:00 /opt/sbin/smbd -D
root       887 15.7  1.5   4016  1956 ?        S    22:17   2:57  \_ /opt/sbin/smbd -D 

[maurer]

It is alpha version and it has serious limitations:
1) WiFi will not up out-of-the-box (manual only)

how can i set wireless up manually ?

[wpte]

When I want to compile the firmware myself I should do the same thing as for the wl-500 series?
Just place it in the broadcom/src, add kernel 2.6.22 somewhere?

[al37919]

the only difference is that sources of 2.6.22.19 should be untarred to src/linux/linux-2.6

to build this 2.6 alpha for wl500g series replace

CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R2=y

by

CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R1=y

in kernel config and adjust the unit name in Makefile.top

[wpte]

the only difference is that sources of 2.6.22.19 should be untarred to src/linux/linux-2.6

to build this 2.6 alpha for wl500g series replace

CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R2=y

by

CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R1=y

in kernel config and adjust the unit name in Makefile.top

with kernel config you mean what file? I've looked into a couple of files but nothing comes close to those settings

[lly]

with kernel config you mean what file? I've looked into a couple of files but nothing comes close to those settings

src/linux/linux-2.6/.config or src/linux/linux-2.6/arch/mips/defconfig-bcm947xx
Second used by default in case of first is not present.

[wpte]

src/linux/linux-2.6/.config or src/linux/linux-2.6/arch/mips/defconfig-bcm947xx
Second used by default in case of first is not present.

so I downloaded kernel 2.6.22.19, unpacked it and linked it into src/linux/linux-2.6

downloaded the rt-n branch into /src/rt-n

"make kernel" inside the rt-n folder
changed the src/linux/linux-2.6/arch/mips/defconfig-bcm947xx file

issue "make" inside /src/rt-n again and the gateway folder is created

go into gateway and issue "make"

* CPU selection
*
CPU type
> 1. MIPS32 Release 1 (CPU_MIPS32_R1)
2. MIPS32 Release 2 (CPU_MIPS32_R2) (NEW)
choice[1-2]:

choose 1

"make install" and done

[maurer]

"make install" and done

Does the wifi works now?
how is this firmware? any good?

[wpte]

Does the wifi works now?
how is this firmware? any good?

No idea... I'm able to flash it, but after that the router doesn't quite boot...
power led and active lan/wan led's on, wireless led off.
This is after flashing and the router just doesn't respond to anything

I'm using R1187 atm
the wl500w version seems to work
and the RT-N16 version seems to be about the same size as the one on googlecode

maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Back to R1143

edit:
just spotted http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/source/detail?r=1189
rebuilding
...
and not working either

final edit:
I left the CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32_R2=y setting alone, so it's revision 2 now...
and it works properly now
wireless broadcasts and is connectable, but wpa2 tkip+aes doesn't seem tow work yet
everything else seems to work fine
I can't seem to port my settings from my WL-500W router unfortunately, the RT-N16 will stop responding after a reboot.
using r1189

download: http://rapidshare.com/files/34838100...tn-r1189-2.trx

these are not right tho, (kernel panics)

Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: Call Trace:
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<8000e2d0>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<801ceb2c>] __kfree_skb+0x174/0x1a8
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<802ba080>] vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit+0xec/0x2a4
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<801d949c>] dev_queue_xmit+0x2cc/0x430
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<802af5d8>] br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x70/0xbc
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<802af698>] br_forward_finish+0x74/0x88
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<802af84c>] __br_deliver+0x7c/0x88
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<802ada94>] br_dev_xmit+0x94/0xd0
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<801d949c>] dev_queue_xmit+0x2cc/0x430
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<800513dc>] file_read_actor+0x114/0x160
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<80053178>] do_generic_mapping_read+0x518/0x6e8
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<80055a04>] generic_file_aio_read+0x1a8/0x2c4
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<8007acc8>] do_sync_read+0xd8/0x15c
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<8007b768>] vfs_read+0xc0/0x15c
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<8007bcdc>] sys_read+0x58/0xa8
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: [<80010264>] stack_done+0x20/0x3c
Feb 9 23:34:58 kernel: WARNING: at net/core/skbuff.c:326 __kfree_skb()

[dokee]

Does the latest version of your custom firmware (1.9.2.7-d) include the changes ASUS published in official WL-500W 3.0.0.9 firmware? I'm especially interested in the final N standard support.
If it's not included then it would be possible to recompile this custom firmware with the latest ASUS sources for 500W?

Thanks in advance.

[al37919]

firmware 3.0.0.9 contains the same wireless driver as previous one. Only web interface is changed. To make your router fully 802.11n compliant (at least according to asus) set encryption mode to AES only, because final version of the standard doesn't allow TKIP option.

[dokee]

firmware 3.0.0.9 contains the same wireless driver as previous one. Only web interface is changed. To make your router fully 802.11n compliant (at least according to asus) set encryption mode to AES only, because final version of the standard doesn't allow TKIP option.

Thank you the answer! Currently I'm using Oleg's latest firmware (1.9.2.7-10) in which I experienced some weird wireless problems (I'm sure that it's ASUS' fault). I'm just wondering that these issues would be fixed if I installed the mentioned most recent version of the custom firmware or the official ASUS one. The current security settings are: WPA2 personal with AES. Is my router N compliant then?

[al37919]

to the best of my knowledge yes.
Give a try to a last version of 1.9.2.7-d. It contains the latest wireless driver available. It is newer than the one from 1.9.2.7-10 and the same as 3.0.0.9

[wpte]

The RT-N16 wireless is not quite stable yet I've found out
During transfers the speed will slow down over time to mere kb/s and the ping becomes very high during that period (around a second sometimes).
Eventually the wireless will stop responding, and I need to reconnect.