[Commotion-dev] Working Openwrt build for Buffalo

[Daniel Bryg]

I'm also confirming that r27467 works with the older A0D0 version
Bufallo, too.
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On 7/5/2011 1:30 PM, Brian Duggan 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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