Re: [OpenWrt-Users] full 2.6 kamikaze functionality on a WRTSL54GS?

2008-01-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
that's nice to know, i was actually checking out the ASUS earlier but couldn't find a local vendor. Canada Computers. Don't think they are as far West as Waterloo, but they are in the GTA if you care to drive. no, they have a shop right here in town. but they don't appear to have any

[OpenWrt-Users] autofs

2008-06-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
Has anyone setup some form of automount/autofs under kamikaze? Any hint w.r.t which variant is the most frugal memorywise? Any hint w.r.t how to go about installing it? Stefan ___ openwrt-users mailing list openwrt-users@lists.openwrt.org

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Question from newbie

2008-12-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
In my case I've been using the Linksys WRT54GL (final L is important). I think that is one of the most common devices for OpenWRT and you'll find a lot of information in the Internet for any problem you may have. I found this router in many shops, thanks for this hint. I find that any such

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] a good choice for a wireless, 2.6-based router now that 8.09-RC1 is out?

2008-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
currently, i'm running an asus WL-500GP (V1) with 2.4 to have reliable wireless but i see that 8.09-RC1 advertises reliable broadcom 47xx support under the new kernel, so maybe that's a decent choice here. For what it's worth: I'm running something close to 8.09 (hand-built from svn

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] a good choice for a wireless, 2.6-based router now that 8.09-RC1 is out?

2008-12-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
For what it's worth: I'm running something close to 8.09 (hand-built from svn sources) on my WL-700gE, and the wifi on it (connecting to my WPA network) is not quite reliable: I can't seem to get bridging to work, and the max bandwidth I get is around 100kB/s. Does the CPU get pegged with the

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] WRT54G, v7.00.4: how about switching?

2009-02-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
1.1.7. WRT54G v5, v5.1, v6, v7 and v8 This version has switched to a proprietary non-Linux OS (VxWorks). It has less flash (2 MB) and less RAM (8 MB). These versions are NOT supported. http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Linksys/WRT54G Indeed. The bright side of it is that

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Asus wl 500 gp v2 USB?

2009-02-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
so it recognizes the 4 GByte pendrive, but not the 16 GByte one pendrive's in a laptop: [1b1c:0a10 - Corsair Survivor 4 GByte ] [0951:160f - Kingston DT mini Slim 16 GByte] Googling for Kingston DT mini Slim indicates you're not the only one with problems and that OpenWRT probably doesn't

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] wireless bridge with b43

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
My b43 driver works OK nowadays in STA mode, but when I tried to put it into a bridge with my 5 wired ports, bridging didn't seem to work: the machine can talk to wireless and wired hosts, but wired hosts can't talk to wireless hosts via my OpenWRT box. Does someone use a similar setup, or

[OpenWrt-Users] Firewalling questions

2009-10-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
I finally got my firewalling rules to work, but I must say I'm puzzled by what I had to do, and am wondering if I'm really understanding what I'm doing: - I want to redirect my router's wan port 22 to some internal host and redirect the wan port 21 to the router's port 22 (so I can log into

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] openwrt and netgear WNR3500L?

2009-10-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
in the meantime, there's nothing that says we can't discuss that on this list. so, to recap, does anyone have any recommendations for fully openwrt-compatible routers with the works? that is, 2.6 kernel, working wireless, USB ports, GUI, etc? I haven't tried broadcom wireless in

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Automatic switch to umts connection

2009-10-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
At the moment if I yank the ethernet cable the router does not switch to umts automatically. What I do usually is to ssh in the router and bring up the umts connection. Is there a way to automatize this? Maybe there's an ifplugd package you could use? Or netplugd (although no idea if it's

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] What Kamikaze compatible router offers the best price/performance ratio?

2010-02-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm looking for a router that can run Coovachilli, nas or hostapd with 2 to 4 clients authenticated with WPA2-EAP TLS, tinyproxy, dansguardian without impacting web surfing performance. I've tried this with the WRT54GL but loading web pages can't get very slow (especially pages with several

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Hardware compatibility Check

2010-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
That sounds like a viable option, I may try running something like CentOS, I'm not too familiar with Debian, although I have experience of CentOS. Debian and Gentoo are the only standard GNU/Linux distribution that I've seen used for small systems. Maybe it's just an accident, but maybe it's

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] reading gpio input ports on backfire

2010-06-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
OK, i found the missing package: kmod-gpio-dev After installing this, gpioctl works. FWIW, I've used the following patch which adds /proc/diag/button directory where you can read the state of each button, making gpioctl and kmod-gpio-dev unnecessary. Another advantage over gpioctl is that

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] skype on WRT54GP2

2010-07-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
(Due to a crummy connection and slow speed, only skype works for me, not SIP, by the way.) SIP should work just as well as skype, in terms of connection quality: it mostly depends on the codec used (so you may have to play with the software on either end of your connection to be able to use a

[OpenWrt-Users] firmware for wl-500g

2010-07-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
How do I make a firmware that would be suitable to flash via tftp for my wl-500g (v1). It seems like it requires some magic header, and older OpenWRT did build it, but it looks it has been dropped from backfire. Stefan ___ openwrt-users

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] firmware for wl-500g

2010-07-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
How do I make a firmware that would be suitable to flash via tftp for my wl-500g (v1). It seems like it requires some magic header, and older OpenWRT did build it, but it looks it has been dropped from backfire. Duh, turns out the error was due to something else and my recollection was just

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Updating system with rootfs

2010-07-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
A month or so ago i installed openwrt and a number of packages and setup everything with rootfs on my usb external HDD. Now i'd like to update my copy of openwrt with the newest build and presumably this would involve recompiling it. Just wonder, can i update it it without losing my settings

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] overlay_root move (space matter)

2010-10-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
ty...@tolaris.com : If that's a WRT-54-GL, It is. I think you'll find there isn't enough flash space to install any packages. If you build your own image, you can save a fair bit of space by only keeping what you need (e.g. I never use the web-interface for administration). I at least

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] WL520GC, 2MB flash

2010-11-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a small WL520GC, and would like to run openWRT on it. It's 2MB flash, and some links refer to an openWRT mini. What openWRT flavor do you recommend me to flash my WL520GC with? Build your own: OpenWRT is really designed for the user who wants to build his own firmware: it's easy to do

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] OpenVPN and ntpd

2010-12-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
Could someone explain more what the overlay does, is this a temporary area for installation or is it where additional installed material is kept? To maximize the amount of stuff you can cram into the limited amount of flash space, OpenWRT uses a highly-compressing filesystem (squashfs) for the

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] /overlay

2010-12-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
Hi, thanks for this. It doesn't sound good at all this design decision, any ideas on how I can merge the overlay partition into the main part, and then point opkg to install there. I think this makes openwrt fairly rubbish for systems with low memory and without a usb port, but I don't know

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] OpenWRT image linker error when trying to link it to an application

2011-02-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I don't understand the words 'link', 'OpenWRT', 'image', and 'application'? I should apologize for being snarky in public. I didn't mean to send this to the list and have it be public. Everybody's entitlted to ask stupid questions without being made fun of because we're all ignorant at

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Best OpenWRT router with ASDL+2 modem

2011-05-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
1. Most stable possible running OpenWRT Backfire; 2. ADSL+2 modem bult-in (working stable too); 3. The maximum flash and RAM possible; 4. Easy to found :) Apparently the Gigaset SX763 now works under OpenWRT. It seems it's possible to make both the wifi and the modem work. I'm interested

[OpenWrt-Users] HTPC?

2011-08-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I was wondering if there is some specialized HTPC-style box (along the lines of the network-media-tanks, say) which support Free Software sufficiently well to run OpenWRT? Stefan ___ openwrt-users mailing list openwrt-users@lists.openwrt.org

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] HTPC?

2011-08-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
lines of the network-media-tanks, say) which support Free Software sufficiently well to run OpenWRT? HTPC = rather powerful. Generally x86 or x86_64 compatible. Try to search the internet for networked media tank. As Luca mentioned, there are several much cheaper and lower-powered boxes that

[OpenWrt-Users] LuCI thanks

2013-09-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
I had used LuCI several years ago, when it was still relatively young and was fairly satisfied with it back then, but hadn't had the opportunity to use it again until now. So I just wanted to say thank you for that nice UI. I generally prefer editing files, but LuCI is by far the best UI I've

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Kill TCP connections behind NAT when IP address changes

2013-10-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
Simon Iremonger writes: Can you... by any changce... add something to the pppoe-up or equivalent script... so that, the iptables connection-tracking table is 'flushed' when that has happened. ? Ah, I didn't think of playing with the conntrack tables, but that's a good idea, indeed.

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Bandwidth usage

2014-06-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
What tools can I use on my OpenWRT router to see the bandwidth usage indexed either by local IP addresses or by remote IP addresses, or by time, or ... Thanks for the various replies. Now that the wiki is back I also took a look at http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/bwmon?s[]=bandwidth. The

[OpenWrt-Users] Installation on MPR-A1

2014-08-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a Hame MPR-A1 thingy left-over and figured I could make use of it, but the wiki (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/hame/mpr-a1) doesn't say how to install OpenWRT on it. I don't have a serial connection on it, currently (and would prefer not to have to use it). Can a uImage be installed via the

[OpenWrt-Users] Keeping public hotspot under control

2014-11-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I've been looking at ways to provide a public hotspot that won't eat up all my bandwidth and setup quotas and throttles. I found nodogsplash, which seems very old (and doesn't let me have quotas), and gargoyle, which seems to build on OpenWRT but without being a package that can be installed on

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Keeping public hotspot under control

2014-11-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
Maybe peppershot, thought I do not know if it supports traffic quotas. Anyway, do you want quotas per user? Or in all? I'd rather assume that some of the users can be sophisticated enough to change MAC address to circumvent per-user quotas, so I'd rather place global quotas. The kind of rule

[OpenWrt-Users] Traffic report (was: Logwatch or similar for OpenWRT?)

2017-01-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A pitty you didn't get an answer. I was just going to ask something similar. > I would like to see what individual WiFi users consume for traffic. This information is not present in the syslogs, usually. You'll want to install something like `darkstat` instead. Stefan

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] Hardware recommendation for Access Point with WPA Enterprise

2016-11-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Do they support my RADIUS, multi-ssid and user-to-VLAN-mapping wishes? AFAIK RADIUS and user-to-VLAN-mapping should work "anywhere" by OpenWRT, even on the cheapest thingies (as long as there's enough RAM/Flash/CPU to handle it), since it's a "simple matter of coding". So the main question is

[OpenWrt-Users] Data about frequency/duration of disconnections

2018-04-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm happily running LEDE 17.01 on a BT homehub 5 and I'm wondering how I could get some statistical data about my WAN connection. More specifically, the overview conveniently tells me for how many days and hours my WAN has been up (and same thing for the DSL connection), but usually the info I'd

[OpenWrt-Users] Help with traffic shaping: limiting bandwidth for a host

2018-04-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm trying to limit bandwidth usage of a particular set of hosts. After reading various manpages and webpages about tc, qdisc, classes and whatnot, I believe I mostly know what I'd like to do and how, but the final details still elude me: Basically, I want to pass traffic destined to a

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] conntrack-tools for 17.01 (MIPS24k)

2018-04-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Try 'opkg update' first then 'opkg find conntrack' Duh! Hmm... I had done that, tho a while ago. Was so sure I didn't need to do it again. I know this data is flushed upon reboot, but is it also flushed at other times (I could swear that I haven't rebooted since the last time I had done

[OpenWrt-Users] conntrack-tools for 17.01 (MIPS24k)

2018-04-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'd like to delete some conntrack entries from a script, so I was looking to install conntrack-tools. But I can't seem to find this package. https://openwrt.org/releases/17.01/changelog-17.01.0 says that conntrack-tools was updated to 1.4.4, which strongly suggests that conntrack-tools is

Re: [OpenWrt-Users] conntrack-tools for 17.01 (MIPS24k)

2018-04-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
Damiano Verzulli <dami...@verzulli.it> writes: > On 22/04/2018 17:44, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >> I'd like to delete some conntrack entries from a script, so I was >> looking to install conntrack-tools. But I can't seem to find this >> package. >