It was suggested that I post my firmware build woes here. So here goes.

I can't get 1.0.1_10.17 to build out of the box. Following the (somewhat confusing) instructions in the Open Source Guide, I get as far as 'make dep' before things go wonky.

At the end of 'make dep' appear the following warnings:

 rtl865x/rome_asp.c:3295:154: warning: backslash and newline separated by space
 rtl865x/rome_asp.c:4206:57: warning: backslash and newline separated by space 

When I type 'make', the build konks out with the following error(s):

 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/lib/libcrypt_old'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/lib'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user'
#for i in /home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/vendors/Realtek/RTL865XB/. 8185mp auth boa bpalogin busybox cle-shell dniutil dnrd-dnshijack ez-ipupdate-3.0.11b7 getdeviceinfo init iptables l2tpd ntpclient pppd pptp-client ripd rw sash smtpclient upnp ; do  make -C $i || exit  ; done
for i in /home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/vendors/Realtek/RTL865XB/. dniutil boa rw dnrd-dnshijack upnp cle-shell  auth ez-ipupdate-3.0.11b7 8185mp ripd ntpclient smtpclient bpalogin getdeviceinfo busybox init iptables l2tpd pppd pptp-client pptp-client pptp-client sash ; do  make -C $i || exit  ; done
wc: /home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/images/kernel.bin.gz: No such file or directory
expr: syntax error
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/vendors/Realtek/RTL865XB'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `clean'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/vendors/Realtek/RTL865XB'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user/dniutil'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user/dniutil'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user/boa'
for i in src ; do make -C $i all || exit ; done
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user/boa/src'
bison -y  -d boa_grammar.y
make[3]: bison: Command not found
make[3]: *** [y.tab.c] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user/boa/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user/boa'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ewhac/KWGR614/KWGR614_V1.0.1_10.17WW/user'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 1 

Without digging further, it looks as if the kernel either failed to build, or didn't get dropped in the expected place.

Clearly I need to dig in to the guts of the build in far greater detail...

Schwab