On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:50:43 +0200 "Genghis Khan" wrote: >So far I use my newly born router as a wireless adapter. >It seems to work well, except not being able to access to OpenWrt from >the IP address I set up for it (IP is 192.168.0.1, different than >192.168.1.1), >even though I was able to, earlier this session.
This is something very strange, maybe you could try to reboot the router and refresh network settings/reboot your PC. Anyway your PC should stay in the same subnet in use by the router (192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x) >In general, OpenWrt 8.09 seems to be working as expected. >The thing I would like to do is to use that router as a wireless repeater >(bridge). That's surely working, at least try to avoid double DHCP and/or DNS between the wireless repeater/router and the main router/appliance where you get connected to. Some OpenWrt releases will automatically disable DHCP if another DHCP server is met in the network (but obviously your PC may loose the OpenWrt subnet and move to the main router/gateway network settings). >> Any following update, when OpenWrt is already installed, will have to >> be executed with slightly different procedure. > >I did not expect that. I thought that once OpenWrt is successfully installed, >user will be able to upgrade OpenWrt by web interface, too. Yes, you can upgrade OpenWrt from the web interface, but you cannot use pre-built images which are made for matching the mandatory requirements of the original firmware. You need a more generic firmware image, which is generally available in the same download folder, for example: >From original firmware to OpenWrt >http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/brcm47xx/legacy/openwrt-15.05-brcm47xx-legacy-linksys-wrt54g-squashfs.bin >From OpenWrt to OpenWrt >http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/brcm47xx/legacy/openwrt-15.05-brcm47xx-legacy-squashfs.trx >> Please consider this as a preliminary habit: put your device in a >> factory default status, in order to avoid any unpredictable issue and >> reboot it before any flash update or upgrade. > >Does factory default status mean to downgrade to stock firmware? No, just removing all configured settings to avoid any unpredictable issue. This is something generally preferred when moving from stock firmware to OpenWrt, due to some NVRAM saved data. Sometimes a NVRAM clear procedure is available. >> As per Benjamin H. and Aaron Z comments, the latest firmware images >> could slow down the device because of the "lua web interface". >> I would appreciate if anybody with experience on WRT54G and WRT54GL >> could possibly offer some mode details on the noted slow down of the >> router with any of the latest releases. >> From my personal experience, I'm currently testing a couple of WRT54GL >> with CC 15.05 (with LUCI enabled) and I am not able to see any >> evidence in normal operations when compared to TL-WDR3600 with the >> same release. > >I guess it occurs at the moments you use LUCI. Still checking my router to see some slow issues. >> Please consider that I speeded up my WRT54GL from 200MHz to 250MHz via >> software config, modded RAM memory has been increased from 16MB to >> 64MB and FLASH memory increased from 4MB to 8MB. > >How did you do it? You can find in the OpenWrt forum some very good advices and gurus, in short I just applied their hits. Please consider to read carefully some of those posts. SPEED/CLK MOD: nvram set clkfreq=250 nvram commit RAM MOD: removed 16MB ram chip and replaced with a 64MB ram chip (from an old notebook ram module). nvram set sdram_init=0x0113 nvram set sdram_ncdl=0x000000 nvram commit FLASH MOD: saved CFE (backup bootloader data), removed 4MB (32Mbit) flash chip and replaced with a 8MB (64Mbit) flash chip (from an old broken Cisco 82x router), reflashed the CFE (restore bootloader data) In the end, all experimental mods are just for testing purposes, good soldering skills are required. Regards, Wlady -- ZE-Light e ZE-Pro: servizi zimbra per caselle con dominio email.it, per tutti i dettagli Clicca qui http://posta.email.it/caselle-di-posta-z-email-it/?utm_campaign=email_Zimbra_102014=main_footer/f Sponsor: Idee regalo classiche o alternative? Trova l'offerta migliore in un click Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid327&d"-10 _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
