[Commotion-dev] Working Openwrt build for Buffalo

Wed Jul 6 20:55:21 UTC 2011

Hi Daniel,

Yes, I did learn (the hard way, naturally) that the cable modem wants to be
power cycled when I plug a different box into it.  I will try the other
suggestion to increase DHCP timeout.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Daniel Bryg <daniel at accessnow.org> wrote:

> 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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