"step by step" guide to custom code on the WGR614L

by hrlevy February 22, 2008 03:58 PM

Posted in: WGR614L Open Source Router Open Source Projects and Firmware

Are there any "step by step" guides to putting custom code on the WGR614L ?

I have already downloaded all available stuff for the WGR614L.

It would be nice if there was a basic module usage guide.

This would greate assist in locating which areas /modules need to be enhanced to add custom features. Also a basic logic flow would be handy.

It seems pretty dumb to me to have to spend 100's of hours in try to understand what does what so that I can make a minor change.

In my case I want to supply my customer base  (200 users) with a  modified version of the "netgear orig" code so the rather than block selective sites only allow access to selected sites.

I have spent many hours and still can not find out which module handles this processing.

Thanks

Howard R. Levy

Discussion:

Nachi on February 26, 2008 3:40 PM

Unfortunately no such step-by-step guide available yet. The three files '*build_instructions.txt", bcm5354/README.TXT and bcm5354/ReleaseNotes.html also does not come anywhere close to a step-by-step guide - but they are useful.

It would definitely going take a bit of time to create such a gude as most of the time for the people who can create such a document are busy in helping ports of other open source firmwares like tomato/dd-wrt/openwrt etc.

Whent the features of the Netgear 614L factory burned firmware does not meet your need it is also a good idea to look into the Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT firmwares as they already have many such features available. I think it is much easier to use tomato etc. than try to change this Foxconn code/binaries.

 Hope this helps.

-Nachi

twindragon6 on July 1, 2008 12:47 PM

Nachi said: Unfortunately no such step-by-step guide available yet. The three files '*build_instructions.txt", bcm5354/README.TXT and bcm5354/ReleaseNotes.html also does not come anywhere close to a step-by-step guide - but they are useful. It would definitely going take a bit of time to create such a gude as most of the time for the people who can create such a document are busy in helping ports of other open source firmwares like tomato/dd-wrt/openwrt etc. Whent the features of the Netgear 614L factory burned firmware does not meet your need it is also a good idea to look into the Tomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT firmwares as they already have many such features available. I think it is much easier to use tomato etc. than try to change this Foxconn code/binaries.  Hope this helps. -Nachi

Give it up, the code, I need the code Mu ha ha haaaaa!!!!

So how do I do this on DD-WRT? Lets say I want to build my own code as well, there simply isnt any tutorials out there on how to do this and if there is they are spotty at best! Currently your the only ones out there with a successful build of DD-WRT. DD-WRT's own website doesnt even have one out yet. They arent even developing for it as far as I can tell. As far as time away from developers if you build a tutorial I'm sure there are plenty of people out there in the OSS community that whould be happy to help build or even contribute to these projects.

Nachi on July 2, 2008 7:32 PM

We have released the source code for base version of WGR614L. This is the source code for "http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/10360/Source-Code-WGR614L-MyOpenRouter-Independent-Firmware-Build/" Please have a look at this version and check out the README and Release notes.

If you have need any specific help let us know. We will be happy to help.

About a detailed tutorial - we are simple don't have enough resources. Any help would be appreciated. Such a code include the Linux Kernel, some cases tool chains and libraries, many different applications for different sources. Each of these ones unfortunately takes efforts to learn and all these have their own quarks. I am not sure what kind of tutorial would be helpful to the developers.

Someone familiar with dd-wrt/openwrt/tomato codes can pick up development without much difficulty. Anyone willing?

Will appreciate more pointed suggestions.

Nachi