[Commotion-dev] Working Openwrt build for Buffalo

[Daniel Bryg]

I don't if you've tried, but most of the time i have to power cycle
cable modems before connecting a device with a new MAC address.

Is this also a problem when you reboot the buffalo or have you only
tried plugging the network cable while the router is already on? We
could debug it with tcpdump.

Daniel


On 7/6/2011 7:58 AM, Ben West wrote:
> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Ben West me at benwest.name
>>>
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