[Commotion-dev] Working Openwrt build for Buffalo

[Ben West]

I just tried out the Buffalo router running r26910 on a Charter cable uplink
for WasabiNet, and sadly it wouldn't take a DHCP lease from the cable modem
(which I connected to eth1, aka blue WAN port).  Oddly enough, eth1 does get
its DHCP address fine if I attach it to a port on a DD-WRT router I have
sitting around, but not the cable modem.

Has anyone else had similar difficulties using their NFiniti with a wired
broadband connection that issues DHCP leases?  I don't have this problem
with the Mikrotik rb532a boards running Backfire rc4, when connected to a
Charter cable modem.

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Brian Duggan <bcdugga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Support for this router might be stabilizing. OpenWRT trunk r27437
> worked for me this weekend, too.
>
> Brian
>
> On 7/3/11 9:01 AM, pablito wrote:
> > Wow this is helpful!  For people not building their own, I also had
> > luck with a pre-built image as I mentioned on the riseup/crabgrass
> > group:
> >
> > I managed to leave DC without the recipe for flashing the Buffalo
> > router, so after some experimentation and reading, came to find that
> > TFTPing a nightly build from the openwrt
> > trunk(http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/) worked. I used
> > openwrt-ar71xx-generic-wzr-hp-g301nh-jffs2-tftp.bin as
> > openwrt-ar71xx-generic-wzr-hp-g300nh-jffs2-tftp.bin didn’t work for
> > me.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the .config is for pre-built images, so very happy
> > Ben figured out something which works!
> >
> > -p
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:43:17PM -0500, Ben West wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I just finally got a working instance of OpenWRT r26910 on the
> >> Buffalo NFiniti, including the 802.11n radio.
> >>
> >> Do note that Daniel is referring to the "trunk" branch of OpenWRT
> >> and not the "backfire" branch.  The latter branch is apparently
> >> still missing support for the newer g301nh chipset.
> >>
> >> In particular, this is what I did to checkout / compile the
> >> revision of OpenWRT mentioned, with luci and some other stuff
> >> enabled.
> >>
> >> I'm also attaching my config for make menuconfig. (I.e unzip this
> >> file and name it .config in the root of the OpenWRT repo, before
> >> running make world.)
> >>
> >> svn co -r 26910 svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/
> >> ./trunk-r29610 cd trunk-r29610 cp feeds.conf.default feeds.conf
> >> ./scripts/feeds update -a ./scripts/feeds install -a -p luci
> >> ./scripts/feeds install -a -p luci-ssl ./scripts/feeds install
> >> bmon #copy in .config file make world V=99 #wait for several hours
> >>
> >> I used the tftp method described in the wiki to flash the router.
> >> You may have luck using the upgrade page provided with the stock
> >> DD-WRT firmware.
> >>
> >> Finally, do note this version of OpenWRT appears to have everything
> >> at / mounted read-only.  The writeable overlay is located at
> >> /overlay, specifically at /overlay/etc.  If you have to copy a file
> >> from /etc over to /overlay/etc, e.g. opkg.conf, you may need to
> >> have to reboot to get the writeable file recognized.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Daniel Bryg <fermenthor at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> Here are the promised details of the successful build i made on
> >>> Friday during the meeting in DC.
> >>>
> >>> - I used Openwrt trunk r26910. It won't boot with the current
> >>> trunk code or the snapshots - r27096 doesn't work either despite
> >>> being reported by the router as a result of code merging.
> >>>
> >>> - flashed following the usual tftp steps for Bufallo:
> >>> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/buffalo/wzr-hp-g300h
> >>>
> >>> - you need the wzr-hp-g300nh image the for the older "A0 D0"
> >>> model and wzr-hp-g301nh for "A2 F0B"
> >>>
> >>> I'll be continuing these efforts later this week, maybe i'll set
> >>> up a code repo. Let me know if you need a link to binaries and
> >>> whatnot.
> >>>
> >>> It was great to meet some of you last week.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________
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> >>> http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/commotion-dev
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -- Ben West me at benwest.name
> >
> >
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