Hi Andy,
I posted a brief summary on the openwrt 'General' forum earlier today ... it's
brief but will hopefully help. I've done 2 now, only bricked one (by
experimenting) and the serial cable makes it pretty easy to recover.
Cheers,
Lee.
On 25 Jan 2012, at 22:01, Andrew Lyon <andrew.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:51 PM, <lee.es...@nowonline.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using trunk on a Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H ADSL router with great
>> success, so I've been looking at the existing DSL support and am keen to
>> help out getting it better integrated.
>
> Could you explain or point me in the direction of documentation about
> how you installed openwrt onto the WBMR-HP-G300H? I just got one to do
> some testing with and have loaded dd-wrt, I have serial console
> working and I think I can simply write the appropriate image to one of
> the mtd devices but if you can detail how you did it it would be
> helpful, and reduce the chances of me bricking the device.
>
> The openwrt wiki has hardly any documentation about the WBMR-HP-G300H,
> I will try to contribute some info...
>
> Thanks
> Andy
>
>
>>
>> I'm conscious that there are likely to be a number of different DSL devices
>> needing support and have been thinking about a way to have relatively
>> standard support in LuCI but with flexibility in implementation.
>>
>> I have put together some patches to start doing this, but thought it best to
>> check the concepts before getting too far ... also I don't know if anyone
>> else is working on this or if other ideas have been discussed.
>>
>> So basically:
>>
>> A single "control" script that is shipped as part of the relevant driver (or
>> app) for the device. For me, this is the lantiq one.
>> The control script (my suggestion is: /etc/init.d/dsl_control) would be
>> responsible for the normal start and stop as any rc script would be.
>> But also ... the control script can be used to get the DSL status, either in
>> human readable form, or in a standard form parsable by Luci.
>>
>> In this way any DSL implementation need only provide basic start, stop and
>> status information and then it could easily appear in LuCI to provide line
>> status, speed and noise information without any hardware specific detail in
>> LuCI.
>>
>> Just by way of example:
>>
>> root@OpenWrt:~# /etc/init.d/dsl_control status
>> Line State: UP [0x801: showtime_tc_sync]
>> Data Rate: 4.064 Mb/s / 448 Kb/s
>> Line Attenuation: 49.0dB / 26.5dB
>> Noise Margin: 12.2dB / 25.0dB
>>
>> Or, the LuCI compatible version ... I went for a "loadstring" approach that
>> returned a lua table:
>>
>> root@OpenWrt:~# /etc/init.d/dsl_control luastat
>> local dsl={}
>> dsl.line_state_num=0x801
>> dsl.line_state_detail="showtime_tc_sync"
>> dsl.line_state="UP"
>> dsl.data_rate_down=4064000
>> dsl.data_rate_up=448000
>> dsl.data_rate_down_s="4.064 Mb"
>> dsl.data_rate_up_s="448 Kb"
>> dsl.line_attenuation_down=49.0
>> dsl.line_attenuation_up=26.5
>> dsl.noise_margin_down=12.3
>> dsl.noise_margin_up=25.0
>> return dsl
>>
>> I've also implemented the basic summary in the LuCI admin overview page
>> which looks pretty nice, updates regularly (you can see the noise margin
>> changing) and doesn't seem to place much load on the system.
>>
>> There's a bit more to do, it currently doesn't actually check the daemon is
>> running etc, also I think a "start_available" and "stop_available" variable
>> might be a nice way to control whether LuCI should allow start and stop
>> buttons ... possible on the network admin page?
>>
>> Anyway ... just a few ideas, interested in thoughts, I can post the current
>> patches if there's interest, or happy to explore other ideas if I'm way off
>> the mark.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Lee.
>>
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