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August 12, 2009 12:01 AM

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Tathagata Das

NETGEAR
Joined: 12/24/2007

Couple of days ago I uploaded OpenWRT source code (version 1.0) for WGR614L. I have seen that lots of people have downloaded that.

Can you share your experience with us ?

If you find any issue or wants some features should be present in that source then please let me know. You can also do that by yourself as you have source code.

Your feedback will be highly appreciated.

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Generic Member Avatar
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August 12, 2009 6:32 AM

Hi ,
I will surely give it a try .... is it different from bleeding-edge stuff previously available at this site ...

Tathagata Das Avatar
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August 12, 2009 6:53 AM

I have taken some small reference from bleeding-edge stuff. Otherwise it is different. I have incorporated GUI, firmware upgrade feature has been added.
Also I am not using b44 as ethernet driver, rather I have used Ethernet driver from Original Netgear source code base.

Generic Member Avatar
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August 12, 2009 8:47 AM

Tathagata Das said: I have taken some small reference from bleeding-edge stuff. Otherwise it is different. I have incorporated GUI, firmware upgrade feature has been added. Also I am not using b44 as ethernet driver, rather I have used Ethernet driver from Original Netgear source code base.
OK .... dats cool .... I will let you know if I face any problem with this stuff ...

Dav Avatar
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August 15, 2009 2:05 PM updated: August 15, 2009 2:05 PM

I posted my feed back as a comment in the download section of this OpenWRT source code.

1- minor detail : the script does not work with relative path
2- major issue : I can not make the wifi work (despite you wrote in the README that it should work). I tried no encryption, wep, wpa.

I can see that the signal level is 0..

wl0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"OpenWrt"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:22:3F:13:D1:E4
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:164
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

-------------------------

config wifi-device wl0
option type broadcom
option channel 5

# REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI:
option disabled 0

config wifi-iface
option device wl0
option network lan
option mode ap
option ssid OpenWrt

I would highly appreciate any help on this.

sodamnmad Avatar
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August 16, 2009 1:33 AM

i didn't read the warning about not upgrading from tomato 1.25 until it was in the middle of the upload from tomato 1.25... can't get dhcp address from it so i can't get it.

$dhcpcd -t 6 eth0
err, eth0: timed out
warn, eth0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.225.253

does this mean i need to get a fancy serial cable to try to cover it? when i try to get an address from it the power light starts blinking green at 1 second intervals.

Tathagata Das Avatar
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August 16, 2009 11:35 PM

Dav said: I posted my feed back as a comment in the download section of this OpenWRT source code. 1- minor detail : the script does not work with relative path 2- major issue : I can not make the wifi work (despite you wrote in the README that it should work). I tried no encryption, wep, wpa. I can see that the signal level is 0.. wl0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"OpenWrt" Mode:Master Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:22:3F:13:D1:E4 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:164 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ------------------------- config wifi-device wl0 option type broadcom option channel 5 # REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI: option disabled 0 config wifi-iface option device wl0 option network lan option mode ap option ssid OpenWrt I would highly appreciate any help on this.

First of all thank for your feedback.

I will lookinto the minor issue (script does not work with relative path). 

Wireless is working.  By default wireless is disabled. (That is the design of broadcom driver in OpenWRT). You need to enable it first time from GUI. Once you configure this and enable this from that time onwards wireless should work and it should work across reboot also. 

So goto "Network" tab. There you find wireless options. Enable it and save the changes. Then apply the changes. Wireless would be up.

Tathagata Das Avatar
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August 16, 2009 11:45 PM

sodamnmad said: i didn't read the warning about not upgrading from tomato 1.25 until it was in the middle of the upload from tomato 1.25... can't get dhcp address from it so i can't get it. $dhcpcd -t 6 eth0 err, eth0: timed out warn, eth0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.225.253 does this mean i need to get a fancy serial cable to try to cover it? when i try to get an address from it the power light starts blinking green at 1 second intervals.

Sorry to say that you have no other options other than setting up serial cable. Actually your board is not booting now. You need to upload anothe firmware through tftpd.

I can not remember fully but most probably board is now halted in tftpd reading mode in bootloader. So you can try one thing.

Connect your PC to the board by one Ethernet cable. Assign IP manually in your pc.

$ ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 up

I am assuming that interface name to which Ethernet cable is connected is eth0.

Hopefully tftp client is present in your machine. Otherwise install it into your PC. Then give following commands

$ cd /tftpboot

$ tftp -m binary 192.168.1.1 -c put openwrt_wgr614l.chk

You can give any other firmware (chk file) you want. I hope this will solve your problem.

 

Dav Avatar
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August 17, 2009 3:17 AM

Tathagata Das said:
Dav said: I posted my feed back as a comment in the download section of this OpenWRT source code. 1- minor detail : the script does not work with relative path 2- major issue : I can not make the wifi work (despite you wrote in the README that it should work). I tried no encryption, wep, wpa. I can see that the signal level is 0.. wl0 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"OpenWrt" Mode:Master Frequency:2.432 GHz Access Point: 00:22:3F:13:D1:E4 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:164 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 ------------------------- config wifi-device wl0 option type broadcom option channel 5 # REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI: option disabled 0 config wifi-iface option device wl0 option network lan option mode ap option ssid OpenWrt I would highly appreciate any help on this.
First of all thank for your feedback. I will lookinto the minor issue (script does not work with relative path).  Wireless is working.  By default wireless is disabled. (That is the design of broadcom driver in OpenWRT). You need to enable it first time from GUI. Once you configure this and enable this from that time onwards wireless should work and it should work across reboot also.  So goto "Network" tab. There you find wireless options. Enable it and save the changes. Then apply the changes. Wireless would be up.

The problem is that I enabled wifi (first using GUI, then I checked the config file).

You can see in the config file above :  option disabled 0

so i dont get what is wrong

Tathagata Das Avatar
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August 17, 2009 4:30 AM

What are the steps you did in enabling WiFi ?

What do you see in status page (mainly wireless section) ?
I have tested it couple of times and every time wireless is working fine.

sodamnmad Avatar
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August 19, 2009 3:45 AM

> tftp -m binary 192.168.1.1 -c put openwrt_wgr614l.chk

thank you so so much. my router works again! :)

Tathagata Das Avatar
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August 19, 2009 4:36 AM

Good. Please do not forget again that do not upgrade openwrt firmware from tomato 1.25 firmware.

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September 1, 2009 3:13 AM

so it was working for awhile and i was messing with openwrt and did things that i didn't understand (i think it had something to do with vlan). long story short... i can't get ip address, etc. can't ping 192.168.1.1, etc...

i got a serial cable, works.. but i must have done a terrible job b/c its almost impossible to use. if i type too fast it garbles characters and many times even when slow. output from console (if fast) is also garbled... how can i reset the settings so openwrt can function again?

i tried ctrl+c while booting (extremely hard b/c i need to type it fast, so it garbles the input to random data), i did get it to work once, but my computer couldn't tftp upload it for some reason. i didn't think to try different eth ports, but if i get that far one day, i will.

any thoughts? i know its borderline off topic.. but maybe a hint to reset settings may help.

Tathagata Das Avatar
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September 1, 2009 4:32 AM

Try following steps.
1. Goto CFE prompt.
2. Fire the command "nvram erase"
3. Then reboot.

It normally rewrites default nvram setting and that may recover the board.

Generic Member Avatar
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September 7, 2009 1:56 AM

you can try hard factory reset also ....... this will also set different params properly ....

Dav Avatar
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October 11, 2009 12:18 PM

Tathagata Das said: What are the steps you did in enabling WiFi ? What do you see in status page (mainly wireless section) ? I have tested it couple of times and every time wireless is working fine.

 After a while without testing this stuff, i did the following :

I flashed my board with the Netgear default firmware : then, I was able to see the SSID with my laptop, so the wifi seemed to work.

Therefore, I used the openwrt_build (download latest source, compile). I went to the webif and set the wireless radio to "on", apply. I could see in the config file that it has been updated to options disabled 0. But I can not see the SSID with my laptop!!!

What can I do more?

iwconfig gives this : 

wl0    IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"OpenWrt"  
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.432 GHz  Access Point: 00:22:3F:13:D1:E4   
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality:5  Signal level:0  Noise level:164
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

And the config file :

 config 'wifi-device' 'wl0'
        option 'type' 'broadcom'
        option 'channel' '5'
        option 'mode' ''
        option 'maxassoc' ''
        option 'distance' ''
        option 'diversity' ''
        option 'txantenna' ''
        option 'rxantenna' ''
        option 'disabled' '0'

config 'wifi-iface'
        option 'device' 'wl0'
        option 'network' 'lan'
        option 'mode' 'ap'
        option 'ssid' 'OpenWrt'
        option 'encryption' 'none'
        option 'bssid' ''
        option 'server' ''
        option 'port' ''
        option 'hidden' ''
        option 'isolate' ''
        option 'txpower' ''
        option 'bgscan' ''
        option 'frag' ''
        option 'rts' ''
        option 'wds' ''
        option 'key1' ''
        option 'key2' ''
        option 'key3' ''
        option 'key4' ''

Tathagata Das Avatar
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October 12, 2009 1:19 AM

You need to do following steps to enable wireless in OpenWRT.

1. Set wireless radion "on" from web interface. (you already did that).
2. Click the button "Save Changes". It will save the new configuration
3. Then Click the button "Apply Changes".

After that you will be able to connect to the board using wireless.

Generic Member Avatar
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October 12, 2009 3:02 AM

Somehow I'm having a serious problem with openwrt that nobody else seems to have. When I load the openwrt firmware (both the self-compiled as the provided binary), it won't process ARP requests and replies on the WAN port.

When I ping from the router it sends an ARP request but won't save the reply and when I ping to the router it won't send an ARP reply. I havn't used the web interface, but it should get an IP from the DHCP server right? Even when I configure a static IP on the WAN port (eth0.1) it won't work. Any ideas?

Dav Avatar
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October 12, 2009 8:16 AM

Tathagata Das said: You need to do following steps to enable wireless in OpenWRT. 1. Set wireless radion "on" from web interface. (you already did that). 2. Click the button "Save Changes". It will save the new configuration 3. Then Click the button "Apply Changes". After that you will be able to connect to the board using wireless.

 I did all these steps!
I even made the board reboot a couple times (and I could see that the config files remains right, same as I pasted above). But still no SSID detected!

What can I check? 

Generic Member Avatar
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October 14, 2009 2:32 AM

I finally got it to work. I had to change the virtual interface for VLAN 1 from eth0.1 to eth0. Is makes sense since VLAN 1 is untagged, but why would OpenWRT default to eth0.1? And why does the binary from MOR too?

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