[HowTo] Install and configure Oleg's firmware

[Garluk]

wengi I have installed on new asus wl-500gp v2 a version 10 of oleg's firmware.

I have used the deutsche HowTo to config the router.

I have actived from web interface (internal samba) the Samba.
In "Samba File Share" i've selected "All Partition", in "Default Access Level" I've selected "Read/Write" and, finally, I've imposted hostname adn workgroup.
Samba doen't work. If I try to find the share from my PC I get error.

I've tried to active the internal FTP. FTP doe'nt work!

If I type
ps xaf

I don't see in process list neither smb neither vsftpd

Can you help me?

[yarosh]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I have no Linux experience, so would never have succeded in setting up my WL500gP without this tutorial.

Had one or two problems though, first time around it wouldn't activate my swap automatically, but started over from scratch and it worked. Don't know what I did wrong.

Another problem was really weird though, when rebooting the router it would hang, and I discovered that it was writing an endless log file to /opt/var/log/message.0, it would simply carry on till my disk was full. I solved it by removing the link to the original syslog and prevent it from copying content between the two.

Hi. I had the same problem but did not solve it yet. When I reboot it is fine but when I save to flash, commit and reboot (with appriopriate command) then I have the same issue. The drive is being filled in with the message.0 file (opt/var/log/) However I can't reslove that issue. I removed the 'executable' flag from /usr/local/sbin/pre-shutdown but I dont't think it helped...
Also I cannot connect to my samba with WinXp. When I go to the network neighbourhood or put the IP directly, my winxp opens the window with login to the guest account and pass. Whatever I put as a pass it won;t work. Can you help?

PS.
Nevertheless many thanks to Wengi for a great guide!

[sarlacc]

Problem could be in init startup script of syslogd.

[wengi]

This issue comes if you use the old syslog config with the new rc.unslung.
be sure you have both the newest version.

wengi

[yarosh]

Thanks for the answer. Will try to update as soon as I get back home from work. Which also reminds me of another issue. Can someone please tell me where (or how) I can open port 22 for SSH so I can login from anywhere?

Also the issue with WinXP asking for password - anyone?

EDIT:
I found the answer for the SSH ine the forum - sorry for being so lame Should've checked earlier

[mrbazsee]

This issue comes if you use the old syslog config with the new rc.unslung.
be sure you have both the newest version.

wengi

I have the same problem but have no idea what to do... I followed the steps as you writed down, so i guess there is the source of the problem. could you tell me what should i do now to make it work?

[wengi]

Hi,

@ALL:

The HowTo is updated!! Please double check if your installation is up to date before posting requests here!
Have an eye on rc.unslung and startup scripts! They changed!!!

@ mrbazsee, yarosh, sarlacc, Garluk and others:
Your problems are a result of a not working HowTo version.
There was a reason why i stated the review status in bold red at the beginning of the howto until today ;-)

wengi

EDIT: Please report if you have problems by following the HowTo from scratch! There may still be failures..

[keeshardt]

Wengi, thumbs up for your great work! I will try to follow your new tut one of the following days and report back if there is anything not working.

Thanks again!

[wengi]

May the force be with you
wengi

[thohmann]

Hi all,

I have installed Olegs Firmware 1.9.2.7-9 to my router. After reboot the router starts and web interface for configuration is running and reachable. I have installed dropbear and startet it. After this I worked with Putty in order to do the rest of my configuration. Internet access is ok, DNS is working. I have partinioned my disk to 512MB swap and rest for a share.

I tried to mount both partitions without success.
[root@WL500GP etc]$ mount -a
mount: Mounting /dev/discs/disk0/part1 on none failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /dev/discs/disk0/part2 on /opt failed: No such file or directory

I tried to create necessary subdirectories but I got:
Cannot create directory

What did I wrong?


See System log:
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: SP2514N Rev: 0811
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: Partition check:
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: p1 p2
Jan 1 01:00:06 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jan 1 01:00:07 kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).

May I ask for for help?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

[wengi]

Are the partitions formated?
Do an e2fsck on the partitions.

If this does not help: give us some infos:

fdisk -l
free
mount

wengi

[thohmann]

Are the partitions formated?
Do an e2fsck on the partitions.

If this does not help: give us some infos:

fdisk -l
free
mount

wengi

Wengi,

thanks a lot for your quick feedback. I resolved the problem. I have formatted the disk with Partition Expert and tried to mount it without access. After a lot of trials (disk was identified and available under /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/partx,y,z but not mountable) I decided to re-partition the disk but this time using fdisk. After that I was able to mount all partitions execpt the biggest share which should be mounted to /tmp/harddisk via symbolic link from /tmp/mnt/disc0_6. ---strange behavior---

I did a ln -s /...... created the link and all partitions are working now.
Your tutorial said "If you allready partitioned your HDD as you want (incl. swap) go to the next chapter." ..... but I think this is not possible in all cases.

Let me thank you also for your great tutorial and your feedback.

Have a great and successful day.

BR, Thomas

[wengi]

Hi,

good to know it works.
I will mention this in the howto.

wengi

[wengi]

Hi all,

i edited the xinetd part and will do some more changes within the next days.

The problem is the file S10xinetd because it does not support the start|stop feature of rc.unslung.

Check your config if you are using xinetd.

wengi

[sn00ze]

thanks for the tut.
all working. web interface is slow for me...
anyone got samba and osx talking?