whiterussian RC4 on WL-HDD

[fries]

Has anyone had success loading openWrt on a WL-HDD?  I can flash Oleg's firmware 1.9.27 and of course the Asus f/w but not openwrt-brcm-2.4-*-4MB.trx.  If I try to flash with the web interface, I get a "failure" message pretty quick, as if the .trx file itself is bad.  I've tried building my own, and also getting one from downloads/rc*, but no luck

[macsat]

Try to do it like this:

Login to your Oleg firmware with ssh.

Switch to /tmp and download the openwrt trx file :

Code:

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/rc4/micro/openwrt-brcm-2.4-jffs2-4MB.trx

When the file is download issue the following command:

Code:

mtd -e linux -r write openwrt-brcm-2.4-jffs2-4MB.trx linux

Now the flash will be erased and rewritten with OpenWRT.

I have chosen the "micro" version of RC4, this is a version with some ppp/pppoe and so on stripped, stuff you wont need on your non-router device :-)

[fries]

Thanks, that did work to burn the firmware.  Unfortunately, the firmware didn't work.  It seems to boot, and I see an OpenWRT wireless network, and I cold sniff the LAN getting a DHCP address, but, I can't connect to in in any way.  The wireless won't give out DHCP addresses, and I can't ping/telnet/etc to the LAN IP I see it gets.  Any ideas?

[macsat]

telnet should work on LAN.

First time only telnet is up, then you login and change your password according to instructions, and telnet will be disabled and ssh enabled.

You can always try to use the ASUS Firmware Restoration tool from your ASUS CD, to restore your original firmware, olegs firmware or simply reflash with OpenWRT in that way again :-)

[fries]

nothing would work.  I used f/w recovery to reflash Oleg custom. Now I am working on building my own Oleg f/w.  Thanks.