ASUS WL-500GP: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

Version vom 17. Juli 2008, 05:34 Uhr

Very recently I purchased this ASUS router. Compared to my Cisco Linksys WRTSL54GS it has the advantage of two USB 2.0 sockets. And I fear that my soldering pins onto the Linksys board broke some serial connections. At least I must state that the serial connection is quite unreliable meanwhile. So, next try.

I will dedicate this device to my friends from DB0MHB and give them digital access to their systems over the internet.

1 Resources

• About Kamikaze, the ASUS and configuration issues
  • http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL500GP
  • http://wiki.leipzig.freifunk.net/Asus_WL-500GP
  • http://wiki.funkfeuer.at/index.php/Asus_WL-500Gp
  • http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/KamikazeConfiguration
  • http://wiki.leipzig.freifunk.net/Kamikaze
  • http://downloads.openwrt.org/docs/buildroot-documentation.html
  • https://dev.openwrt.org/
• WLAN and Amateur Radio, general information

2 Basic installation procedure

Installing OpenWRT on it is really easy. Take a pen and hold down the restore button. Then unplug and reconnect power. Keep reset pressed until the power diode starts blinking. This is the time to start the flashing process:

tftp 192.168.1.1
> binary
> trace
> put openwrt-brcm47xx-2.6-squashfs.trx

In my example, the image must reside in your current working directory. Then wait six minutes. Then powercycle the router. telnet to 192.168.1.1 and you're in. There's no passwd.

Then you can hack the little box to your needs.

3 Compiling OpenWRT images

This is a good link: http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=15201

In the meantime I managed to build my own images, which is also quite simple.

• Just check out the latest version of OpenWRT as described in: https://dev.openwrt.org/
• Then go ('cd') into the directory openwrt/trunk, that is the latest stuff.
• Check out the latest utilities. Note: You only get the descriptions, because the real code will be downloaded from the according project sites.

./scripts/feeds update
./scripts/feeds install -a 

Now you have all the utilities you will ever want to have.

• Enter 'make menuconfig'

In this wonderful menu system, you can configure your image building process. You can decide to compile the modules, and software tools by selecting 'M', and you can decide to compile and package it right into your splash or whatever image with which you want to flash your device. Then the little symbol at the front of the line is '*'. When you have finished your selections, exit the GUI. It is recommendable not to activate too many things at the first time. The aim must be to get your image running first of all and then you can decide to grow it. Be prepared to enter this menu several times again.

• Now enter 'make'. If you want to see a lot of warnings and bulk messages, enter 'make V=99' instead.
• All the compiled results will be in the directory './bin/'
• In order to flash your router with the recently compiled image, see above. It's the same process. But don't forget to wait at least SIX minutes after uploading the image to the router through TFTP.