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Comment on Linksys WRT54G3G + Huawei E600 + OpenWRT Kamikaze = Internet at summer house by Keith

Keith — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:40:56 +0000

For those needing to authenticate themselves to an APN / private APN:
add the following lines (obviously with your own username and password) to your /etc/ppp/options file:

user myusername
password mypassword

and possibly add these too:
defaultroute
usepeerdns

to watch the log, uncomment the “debug” line and use the command
logread -f &
to do the equivalent of a tail -f /var/log/messages in linux. (Or just use logread on its own to see the most recent log messages)

Comment on Home Wireless Network by matt

matt — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:16:42 +0000

Hello!
Thanks for your howto, everything works good. I’ve only had some problems with getting the internet connection working on the router without wan connection. I’ve had to manually assign static network settings for wan interface on this router (copied the ip address of the wan interface from the gateway router and as a gateway address set the local ip address of that router), but now I’m very happy openwrt user.
Regards.

Comment on Buggy IMAP authentication on Nokia 6233 by wolfgang

wolfgang — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:20:00 +0000

Just ran into a similar thing.
My IMAP setup doesn’t support anything besides PLAIN and LOGIN and I haven’t tried SSL yet because of the certificate issue.
So anyway AUTH=LOGIN doesn’t work either. The phone tries to “select inbox” even before the server confirmed the login what just yields to the fact that “select inbox” is ignored and the phone thinks it got no data.
The only thing that works for me is plain auth what is annoying.

Comment on Linksys WRT54G3G + Huawei E600 + OpenWRT Kamikaze = Internet at summer house by simon

simon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:58:18 +0000

Assasin, it looks as if there is some USB problem. Either your card has a broken USB chip, or there is a software error. Let’s assume the latter..

I’ve run into USB problems sometimes that had to do with OHCI vs EHCI vs UHCI. Could you try unload the usb-ohci driver and load ‘uhci’ instead? or some ehci* driver. Look in /lib/modules/ for the available drivers.

Good luck…

/Simon

Comment on Linksys WRT54G3G + Huawei E600 + OpenWRT Kamikaze = Internet at summer house by Assasin

Assasin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:21:06 +0000

Hi Simon,

I really hope you can help me
I am having a problem with a data card, I have been every where and can not seem to find the problem,
I had the router working great with an Option data card on vendor=0xaf0 product=0×6701
I have got a new E600 card, with the same setting as listed by you.
vendor=0×12d1 product=0×1001

I built and image with the old card settings, that I loaded onto a new router, and installed the new card in that one

But now i get the error as listed in DMESG
usb-ohci.c: usb-02:00.0, PCI device 1131:1561
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 02:00.0-1, assigned address 2
usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB2 (or usb/tts/2 for devfs)
hub.c: new USB device 02:00.0-2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-145)
hub.c: new USB device 02:00.0-2, assigned address 4
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=4 (error=-145)

How do I get around this as the card no longer initilases?
I am totaly stumped,

This is from a working one:
root@OpenWrt:/proc# cat modules
usbserial 23884 1
wlcompat 14944 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 19252 0 (unused)
ds 7420 0 (unused)
yenta_socket 10668 1
pcmcia_core 44064 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ip_conntrack_tftp 1712 0 (unused)
ip_nat_irc 2336 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc 3128 1
ip_nat_ftp 2960 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp 4272 1
ppp_async 7884 2
ppp_generic 22300 6 [ppp_async]
slhc 6064 0 [ppp_generic]
wl 630776 0 (unused)
usbcore 71296 1 [usbserial usb-ohci]
switch-robo 4540 0 (unused)
switch-core 4864 0 [switch-robo]
diag 25520 0 (unused)

And this from a not working one?
usbserial 23516 0
wlcompat 9504 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 19252 0 (unused)
ppp_synctty 6332 0 (unused)
ds 7420 0 (unused)
yenta_socket 10668 1
pcmcia_core 44064 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ip_conntrack_tftp 1712 0 (unused)
ip_nat_irc 2336 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc 3128 1
ip_nat_ftp 2960 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp 4272 1
ppp_async 8044 0 (unused)
ppp_generic 22380 0 [ppp_synctty ppp_async]
slhc 6064 0 [ppp_generic]
wl 666224 0 (unused)
usbcore 71296 1 [usbserial usb-ohci]
switch-robo 5052 0 (unused)
switch-core 4928 0 [switch-robo]
diag 28032 0 (unused)

Please help??
Thanks
Assasin

Comment on Home Audio Server by Whites

Whites — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:49:58 +0000

I own a native 266 slug.
I read some guys with Gentoo had problems with mpd & libasound > 1.0.15. So, I decided to downgrade to etch (I was running lenny), and that did the trick. Don’t know if it’s an actual mpd-libasound2 issue, anyway. Now it just works

Comment on Linksys WRT54G3G + Huawei E600 + OpenWRT Kamikaze = Internet at summer house by simon

simon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:10:13 +0000

Hi ferdie. I think all three would work, but I don’t know for sure. Actually, what IS the difference between those devices? The data sheets on the linksys looks just the same to me.

It should work fine as a hotspot, but you may need additional software if you want to configure it for authentication. Such as Chili Hotspot.

Linksys has a list of supported devices, but it is rather short, and OpenWRT should support any PCMCIA 3G card that emulates serial ports. My huawei E600 isn’t supported by linksys, but it works fine with OpenWRT.

However, keep in mind that a cheaper choice may be to buy a normal wireless router with a USB port. I have several ASUS WL-500gP’s which should handle this fine. You can then buy a separate USB-based 3G modem. They tend to be cheaper then the PCMCIA 3G modems too.

Good luck,
Simon

Comment on Linksys WRT54G3G + Huawei E600 + OpenWRT Kamikaze = Internet at summer house by ferdie

ferdie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:56:14 +0000

Just saw this site. I am interested to try this out. Just a few questions guys, so I can get my hands dirty on this later.

Which of the WRT54G3G I have to buy?
I saw three flavors of this in Linksys site.
WRT54G3G-AT
WRT54G3G-ST
WRT54G3G-VN

Can use this as hotspot once installed with OpenWRT?
Are there any list of supported PCMCIA cards?
I’m from Asia, any online store I can buy this router?

That’s it for now =)

Comment on Home Audio Server by simon

simon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:22:27 +0000

I haven’t used this setup in a while, but I didn’t have performance problems, at least not with mpd. mt-daapd was more efficient though, so try that.

Btw, I have not over-clocked my NSLU.

Since I wrote this article, I have bought both a Squeezebox and a Soundbridge. I like the soundbridge better. The web interface for squeezebox is rather slow, and a NSLU2 isn’t powerful enough to run the server. I kind of like the soundbridge human-interface better too. And it is cheaper…

/Simon

Comment on Home Audio Server by Whites

Whites — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:47:31 +0000

I get very poor performances with mpd
Actually, cpu goes to 95-96% and nothing is heard. It’s a default Debian installation, like yours, and you seem to get it working out of the box.
Further, mplayer with flac goes very well, and madplay for mp3 does the job too. In your experience, can it be an mpd issue (0.13.1)?
I’ll give a try to mt-daapd, but I’d like to use mpd…

Thanks