Currently, I have tested Eko's newest version of DD-WRT for the WNR3500L, which can be downloaded here:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/15174/DD-WRT-for-NETGEAR-WNR3500L-S...
It has been working great for me and I love it. However, I can't find any option for USB access support.
I believe that the previous build of DD-WRT available on the site, downloadable here, is supposed to support USB file access through FTP - as long as it is enabled in the DD-WRT GUI.
Does this newer version not support USB access? Or am I missing something in the menus? I made sure to check everywhere.
Check the files here.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/down.php?path=downloads%2Fothers%2Feko%2F...
I got it working on a thumb drive just dont know what to do with it yet. :)
hm...interesting...
Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to try it out too much. I was having wireless disconnect issues so I used my serial console setup and reverted back to the factory firmware.
Since I had to go from BIN to CHK files from DD-WRT that's the easiest way to revert back.
Well I have tested it a couple of times ... I am able to access the USB interface using ftp and also using ssh .... It works grt ...
Being new here and just purchased a 3500L 2 weeks ago I have put dd-wrt on it and it works great.
One of the things I wanted to use is the USB connection in combination with my xbox/xbmc (media player) so I can connect an USB harddisk and play movies from there.
The usb section in dd-wrt works great. I can configure XBMC to connect to ftp and play movies from there. FTP is not really the first protocol when you think of playing movies but it works smoothly (and I'm happy).
Range of the 3500L could be better though, although I have to finetune it, still I got better results with my 5 year old Belkin Pre-N (range that is, not speed).
Can someone help me out with this? I am using Windows 7 and trying to access the flash drive attached to the USB port running dd-wrt 14205. How do i enable samba support so that the drive shows up as a workgroup network drive? Also how do i access it via ftp? is it ftp:///? I am very new to USB access on dd-wrt. Netgear stock FW seems very easy as you plug in USB drive and it automatically shows up in Network computers as ReadyShare. How can I enable the same thing with dd-wrt?
Thanks.
Does anyone have an answer to this? Brandon, it seems like you have it working. I am also able to get it to show up as mounted on /mnt. The question is how to access the drive in Windows. Thanks.
Also, what are the differences in the builds with USB support. I see at least several builds with USB FTP. I am currently using Big which also has it.
Kevin,
I am now testing Tomato firmware but the DD-WRT USB option should work the same on any USB build. I don't think there is any difference.
You can see this article on how to set it up.
http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/15696/Enable-USB-Sharing-Over-Your-L...
and you have to use FTP to work with the files. Either a stand alone FTP program or you should be able to see them at ftp://192.168.1.1:21 in your web browser.
I don't think they have added Samba support to DD-WRT which is one of the reasons I am running a Beta Tomato firmware.
See http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/17508/Installing-USB-Support-on-WNR3...
Tomato file sharing with Samba looks like the setup I want similar to Netgear Readyshare. But is everything else with the beta firmware stable for use?
I see dd-wrt can enable SMB with these openWRT plugins or extra installs which require formatting the drive to linux ext3 which i cannot do with my Windows system. I guess that's the end of the road for SMB sharing on dd-wrt.
@Kevin
You may not need ext3 try to enable:
Core USB Support
USB Storage
USB 2.0 Support
FAT Support
Automatic Drive Mount
Under Administration activate JFFS2 and Clean JFFS2
Reboot and test it. For some apps this works, not sure with samba. If not then you need to format it with ext3, but that's easy just grab a linux live cd use qparted a graphical partition tool to format the usb device
yeah i can get FTP to work under dd-wrt but ideally i would like SMB to work as that is the easiest way to access network drives by assign a drive letter. FTP would require a separate browser session each time along with password.
Brandon, I took the plunge with Tomato Beta solely for the USB SMB feature and so far so good! This is the kind of convenience dd-wrt sorely lacks. I will run tomato for a while to see how it fares.
Is it normal that the wifi blue light does come on in Tomato? Can you enable it?
It is pretty easy to setup with a USB hard drive over DD-WRT and SAMBA. Here is how I did it.
1. attached my USB HD to my computer and used Knoppix boot disk. I then used gparted to format my 1tb drive to ext3 (one partition)
2. Installed the ddwrt mini firmware over NG standard, then flashed to mega firmware
3. enabled usb, ssh, ext3 support and automount to /mnt
4. putty'd in using router ip, username: root and the password I setup
5. ran the following commands:
cd /mnt
wget http://www.3iii.dk/linux/dd-wrt/slim-samba2-usb.tar.gz
tar xvzf slim-samba2-usb.tar.gz
./samba2.usb
6. accessed the drive via \\my.router.ip\data in windows
transfered at about 6.9mbps over a gigabit wired connection, and about 4.63 over a wireless N connection
well i dont' have linux so i can't do all the formatting and partitioning like you can.