Hi, i found little mistake in your tutorial

....If it dosnt work, your might have your WAN interface connected to a 192.168.1.XXX network, try setting up the nvram variables slightly different:

nvram set lan_ipaddr=192.168.0.1 < enter >
nvram commit < enter > .....

....nvram set lan_gateway=192.168.1.1
nvram set dhcp_start=192.168.1.50
nvram set dhcp_end=192.168.1.75
nvram commit ......

Is this correct ?

Ludek

Hi, I found that you say in the tutorial:

Hi, I just want to report a slight mistake - in the Installing OpenWRT tutorial there is a command


but instead, there should be



In addition, I can share my experience of running the tutorials on Asus WL500b - there are a few differences:

1) To set the MAC address of WAN port, the nvram variable is et1macaddr, so you should use something like this:


2) Before clearing the NVRAM after OpenWRT is installed over another firmware, it may be a good idea to look at it to see the old firmware settings:


At least, you can determine the interface name variables for your router. It is also usefull to look at it after it was cleared and before performing tutorial "nvram set" commands for LAN and WAN configuration, as many of the variables are already set (strange when it was just cleared, maybe this is why they say it is not safe to reset to factory defaults or clearing the NVRAM on WL500b, anyways it works for me...).

3) On my 500b, uhci module doesn't work. To support USB, ohci must be installed instead. So you have to run


instead of


4) When mounting an USB flash disk, it may be a good idea to disable update of atime attribute to avoid the exhausting of the flash memory write cycles:


5) It can be usefull to have a swap partition on the USB storage, because WL500b has only 14 MB of RAM. To support swapping, the swap-utils package:


Now the swap partition must be activated. Consider adding something like a following command in one of your startup scripts.


6) fdisk and mke2fs tools are hopefully supported in OpenWRT. You have to setup /etc/ipkg.conf for accessing the OpenWRT backport repository as described here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Packages