Update: DD-WRT Kong Mod - USB/FTP/SAMBA3/MINIDLNA

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Kevin Mahoney
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Hey Kong...looking forward to

Hey Kong...looking forward to the DLNA support. I've been trying to get an NFS share going but I'm having trouble. Have you successfully created an NFS share on your router? /etc/exports does not exist. Does it use a different file? I have all the kernel modules installed, I'm just not seeing the magic to tell nfsd what dirs to share.

Don V.
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Kong-

Kong-
When you say "Poweroff" do you mean simply pressing the power button on the back of the router (as opposed to issuing a poweroff command from shell)?

Thanks again for all your help. Your mod is great! I really needed a reliable USB backup solution--the firmware included with the Netgear router failed over and over when I tried to do large system backups. Your mod, though, has been rock solid!! Thanks once again. Which disk format would provide the FASTEST read/writes? I've noticed that using an external USB drive formatted as FAT32 is twice as fast as using a drive formatted as NTFS. 1GB of data transfers in 2 minutes with FAT32 as compared to 4 minutes with NTFS.

mrdon213
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Kong said: Seems like these

Kong said: Seems like these images are scaled down, can't read a thing.

Hope these are better

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Kong
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Kevin Mahoney said: Hey Kong.

Kevin Mahoney said: Hey Kong...looking forward to the DLNA support. I've been trying to get an NFS share going but I'm having trouble. Have you successfully created an NFS share on your router? /etc/exports does not exist. Does it use a different file? I have all the kernel modules installed, I'm just not seeing the magic to tell nfsd what dirs to share.

If you want to export nfs shares on the router you need nfs-utils installed through optware. You can check if some ipkg repository holds them or compile them yourself through openwrt build kit.

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mrdon213 said: 

 

Okay a bit better, I saw what I was looking for:-)

 

You TX Power is way to high. If you look at broadcoms wireless util it tells you that the standard maximum value is 84mW. The 71 recommended by standard dd-wrt is in my opinion to high for the wnr3500l the. Tomato recommends something around 40.

If you are lucky you did not burn the radio unit. Try setting it to a value of 20-40 power off the router wait a few minutes and then test again.

mrdon213
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reseting it lower. HOWEVER it

reseting it lower. HOWEVER it had same problem using defaul.t I raised it to see if it improved any it did not.

Kevin Mahoney
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Kong...just upgraded to this

Kong...just upgraded to this build. My startup script in /jffs/etc got deleted somehow after the upgrade. ...just something you might want to check into.

Kong
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That is rather unlikely,

That is rather unlikely, since the firmware itself has no feature to delete anything in /jffs dir. I always have a drive connected and never seen such thing.
The only software that works on the /jffs dir is ipkg

Have you created a JFFS Filestructure on the drive?

jmccrohan
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Hi Kong,

Hi Kong,

 

I just upgraded to this version from your previous build.

 

Since upgrading I am unable to mount any usb devices. Nothing is shown in /dev/scsi or dmesg.

The webgui simply says Disk Info: Not available.

 

Do you have a link to your previous build that I can roll back to?

Thanks.

Kevin Mahoney
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Hey jmccrohan...I've seen

Hey jmccrohan...I've seen this issue too. The fix was just to power cycle everything. I think something between the drive and router gets screwy.

Kevin Mahoney
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Kong...my /jffs is mounted to

Kong...my /jffs is mounted to the available flash space and not my drive. I'm wondering if during the upgrade, some of the flash space had to be reclaimed and somehow my startup script got clobbered. All I know is that it was there before the upgrade and it was gone after the upgrade.

jmccrohan
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Kevin Mahoney said: Hey

Kevin Mahoney said: Hey jmccrohan...I've seen this issue too. The fix was just to power cycle everything. I think something between the drive and router gets screwy.

Thank you :-)

I was rebooting but not power cycling.

Kong
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Ah now I get it, you don't

Ah now I get it, you don't have a drive attached and use the rest of the flash for /jffs. That would be a different thing especially since the minidlna version is very big and uses pretty much all of the flash space.

John70
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I have a NTFS USB harddrive

I have a NTFS USB harddrive setup as the public share, and it's showing the wrong filesize for files >4GB. The filesize displayed is the real filesize %(mod) 4GB, so a 5GB file or a 9GB file will show up as 1GB. If I copy the large file from the share to my local drive, it is truncated to the reported filesize.

Kong
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Hi Jon, thanks for reporting.

Hi Jon, thanks for reporting. Just verified this, samba still cannot handle files larger than 4GB. I'll check and see if this also applies to ftp busybox and others just to make sure this is not a uclibc problem.

Sawyer
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Hi. Is the dd-wrt performance

Hi. Is the dd-wrt performance still so slow as in this review compared to original firmware? http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/31164-lots-more...

Kong
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@Sawyer, checkout the

@Sawyer, checkout the following link and you will know the reason + fix for this performance bug:

http://www.myopenrouter.com/forum/thread/21393/WNR3500L-WAN-to-LAN-throu...

John70
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I tried the latest version of

I tried the latest version of tomato (v1.28 beta 19), and it didn't have the 4GB limitation with samba. All the large files showed the correct size and could be read correctly. Kong, does tomato use a different version or configuration of samba that could be incorporated into your next update of DDWRT?

Kong
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Hi John, I have already fixed

Hi John, I have already fixed the dd-wrt samba3 makefile. I just have to do a final test to make sure it's fixed.

In addition to that I'm going to fix the routing performance bug, that increases wan-lan throughput from ~80Mbps to ~130Mbps

Sawyer
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Can I use google chrome or

Can I use google chrome or should I stick to IE whatever version is in windows 7 to flash? Or Should I even grab latest opera or firefox?

Kong
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IE should be fine. I usually

IE should be fine. I usually test with firefox using linux.

@all

I noticed while testing that pretty much all apps missing large file support, not just samba, busybox utils like ls,rm etc didn't work as well as proftpd. Hard to believe that this hasn't been implemented already in dd-wrt.

I have already fixed and tested samba + busybox console utils.
I'll have to do another build which enables LFS for proftpd.

Cheeks
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Has this firmware been tested

Has this firmware been tested on a Linksys 610N V2 already? I am really looking forward to a stable firmware with integrated NTFS and mediaserver capabilities...

Kong
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The V2 has exactly the same

The V2 has exactly the same hardware as the wnr3500l, therefore it will work just like the RT-N16 which has been tested by a few users.

Cheeks
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Kong said: The V2 has exactly

Kong said: The V2 has exactly the same hardware as the wnr3500l, therefore it will work just like the RT-N16 which has been tested by a few users.

Ah cool, I will give it a try! Or is there a new build planned on short term (I notice there is a remark that 'Peter' is supposed to upload a new build in the start post)?

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Cheeks said:

Kong said: The V2 has exactly the same hardware as the wnr3500l, therefore it will work just like the RT-N16 which has been tested by a few users.

Ah cool, I will give it a try! Or is there a new build planned on short term (I notice there is a remark that 'Peter' is supposed to upload a new build in the start post)?

Yes I just announced a new build today that fixes all issues that have been reported in the last few weeks. The announcement contains the direkt link to the image. Within a few days the link in the download section will be updated by our community manager Peter Redmer.

 

P.S. Someone over at dd-wrt forum reported that he is running my build on a WRT610nV2

 

Sawyer
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I have the router now but

I have the router now but gonna test it the first day on original netgear firmware to confirm that all is ok.

I have 4 pppoe connections going from the same modem. But now I cant connect them anymore from Inside windows Like I used to do. Any idea why? It only reports 651 error. Netgear can connect the one pppoe it supports. Other 3 from windows are dead now.

Peter Redmer
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@Kong & Cheeks - the new

@Kong & Cheeks - the new build is now reflected in the download section.

http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/19806/DD-WRT-BETA-Kong-Mod-USB-FTP-...

jmccrohan
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Hi Kong,

Hi Kong,

For the next build, would it be possible to provide a text box for entering a custom proftpd config file similar to samba?

At the moment I run it from an init script because I want a different home directory to the ones listed.

Thanks.

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