[TriLUG] OpenWRT Help

[Greg Brown]

Warren!

Howdy.  If you are still running OpenWRT White Russian I strongly suggest
you upgrade to Kamikaze if for no other reason then it fixes the Broadcomm
freeze and reboot bug.

There are major differences between Kamikaze and White Russian the first
being that there is no more nvram - all configs are stored in /etc/config.
Wireless is disabled by default on top of that (you just have to comment out
a line in /etc/config/wireless.

I wrote a blog entry a while back about Kamikaze and getting a WRD repeater
up and running:

http://tbcorp.homeip.net/blog/?p=545

The good news is the basic installation of Kamikaze will create a home
router with wireless (assuming you uncomment the aforementioned line) right
out of the box.  Segmenting a port off for DMZ should be fairly easy as
well.

One important note: do NOT install the 2.6 kernel!  Use the 2.4.. wireless
isn't yet supported in Kamikaze running the 2.6 kernel.

Greg

On 10/24/07, Warren Weber <wrweber at hufta.net> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> A ways back, I spent some time fooling around with a new WRT54GL that I
> put
> OpenWRT on and seemed to have it working (I could get add-ons for it,
> browse the
> Web through it, etc.).  After letting it sit for too long, it is now A Big
> Deal that it get
> working SOON.  Unfortunately, I must have been doing something manually
> when I
> got it working that I didn't write down.  :-P  I am not getting out at all
> any more.
>
> I have gone through the WIKI on the OpenWRT site and am only getting more
> confused.  Is there an OpenWRT for Dummies site out there that I haven't
> found that
> would lead me through the bare basics for configuring this beast?  Or does
> anyone
> have a set of procedures they would be willing to share?  Right now I just
> want to get
> it where it will replace my existing router, then add firewalling, a DMZ,
> and wireless to
> it.
>
> Thanks!
> Warren
>
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>
> Warren Weber
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