Again, I've taken advantage of WIP day to get help from GLP. I'm trying to pay back by noting problems.
Last WIP day, I installed x-wrt 7.07 on my WR850g. I found and reported some problems. Still not fixed: diag.c does not properly identify this router, even though it tries. I've posted a fix for this but I've not noticed any action. https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/1936 ==> Could someone commit the change I suggested near the end of that ticket? My router treated LAN port 4 as if it were the WAN port and the WAN port as if it were a LAN port. This is because /etc/config/network had a couple of lines wrong: WRONG: config switch eth0 option vlan0 "1 2 3 4 5*" option vlan1 "0 5" RIGHT: config switch eth0 option vlan0 "0 1 2 3 5*" option vlan1 "4 5" This was not easy for a newbie to figure out, but working backwards from the configuration, you can imagine the symptoms. I don't know why this configuration was set up incorrectly. In particular, when I installed 7.09 (see later) this problem did not reappear. Since diag.c had a bug, I decided to work around it by setting an nvram variable: nvram set MOTO_BOARD_TYPE=WR_FEM1 nvram commit This variable is not normally set on my model; I hope that no bad side effects result. Notice the nvram commit. I did not know this was necessary or possible so I had a few confusing set-reboot cycles where the variable was unset after each reboot. ==> The nvram command's usage string should list "commit" as an option. https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2613 Now, on rebooting, /proc/diag/model is correct. I was ready to install 7.09. The wiki page is unclear but it seems that openwrt cannot accept the wr850 binary distributed by x-wrt (or, I assume, OpenWRT). A header, needed by the Motorola firmware flasher must be removed for the OpenWRT flasher. I used the new, improved motorola-bin --strip command. This was checked in last week but I had a copy since I was the one who made added this feature. I've worked on the wiki page for this router: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Motorola/WR850G When I installed, I removed the WAN connection. I was not sure which port it should be in after installation. It turned out that it should be in the WAN port! I looked in /etc/config/network, and it was as I thought it should be. But I'm not sure why. I had left the original one in /etc/config/netowrk.ORIG and that was gone. So I'm guessing that with diag correctly setting /proc/diag/model, the installer got /etc/config/network right. But maybe it reserved my version. ==> determine if fixing diag.c fixes swapping of WLAN and VLAN4 ports. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
