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No I am using a Nokia cable which ends with USB on host end.  You cannot simply wire directly from WRT to RS232.  The WRT works at TTL 3.3V levels and the antique RS232 port works at 12V so they are not wire-compatible.

Ah ok, thanks again.

best regards,
David

I've just got a sucessfull connection to my WRT160GL! This box is really cool! I don't even have to open it for a serial connection!


http://www.badminton-mgh.de/sascha/try1.jpg
http://www.badminton-mgh.de/sascha/try2.jpg

Though I would be happy to get a link or the name for a propper connector wink Its rather unstable!

I've been on the hunt for a real serial connector and have turned up nothing...

I may have found a jtag cable that will work. I have been reading up on it and the jtag ports are supposedly exactly the same as the wrt54g-tm. If someone can support this statement, i'll go buy one and get a firmware dump to the devs.

Hi

Is there any chance to load-up a "Open Wrt Iso" to WRT160NL? Without serial connection etc.? I am new in this soft, but i wist to learn an use it. I bought Linksys but at openwrt.org isn`t any info about how to do it.


Regards

It's way to new. No-one has been able to make an image for the wrt160nl yet.

Been there. The source isn't entirely there. They have a lot of objects that hide the actual code they used, or else it could be hacked and we could move on. Linksys thought carefully when they posted that code.

I just purchased one of these from Newegg as well. I'll be anxiously following the code progress. This looks like a promising unit.

Just for reference, what are the outstanding issues in the sense of what still needs to be reverse engineered in the software?

(Last edited by ajmas on 21 Jul 2009, 15:35)

Hi~~
I want to connect serial consol so, I'm using RS232 to Rs485 converter.
but it's no output... and I saw same problem on this page....
but i cant get CA-42 cable because i live in Korea..Most people dnt use nokia....
What kind of communication mode this cable??
Plz answer~~

(Last edited by bgidoong on 21 Jul 2009, 18:16)

@ajmas
From what I know, we need the switch driver, and we need a complete flash dump from the jtag port.

@bgidoong
No matter what I did my max232 adapter would not allow write. I don't know what to tell you. How is Korea's government on imports from China?

bgidoong wrote:

Hi~~
I want to connect serial consol so, I'm using RS232 to Rs485 converter.
but it's no output... and I saw same problem on this page....
but i cant get CA-42 cable because i live in Korea..Most people dnt use nokia....
What kind of communication mode this cable??
Plz answer~~

Did you try shortening your cable?  I do not know why it would
be a problem but someone in another thread claimed that the
cable being too long is an issue.

The signal is pretty conventional 3.3V TTL so there should
be many ways to get to it not just Nokia.  Did you try using
the pins in the LAN/WAN ports with same results?  Those
pins also go to serial console.

Does anyone know the reason this is not a gigabit switch? Other than that it seems awesome, but that feature missing is bothersome.

Thanks vincentfox!!!  Success on serial console!!!
I'm using MAX233CPP!!

http://blogfiles16.naver.net/20090722_63/bgidoong_1248243941420hgNJ5_jpg/circuit_bgidoong.jpg
It's a circuit diagram~

(Last edited by bgidoong on 22 Jul 2009, 07:29)

awesomo wrote:

@ajmas
From what I know, we need the switch driver, and we need a complete flash dump from the jtag port.

Isn't the driver available in the firmware sources ? Or is it binary ?
(sorry if the above does not make sense, I never touched the mentioned sources, I am just about to buy a new WLAN router and WRT160NL is one of the candidates - if anyone knows a router with : draftN WLAN, gigabit ethernet, USB with decent performance and of course OpenWRT support, please say so)

David

One USB Port is not much, I am wondering  will it be possible to
connect an USB HUB like this http://www.lindy.co.uk/4-port-usb-2-cab … 42836.html
to extend the number of ports ?

Or if there is not enough power to connect an active USB HUB ?

lixus wrote:

One USB Port is not much, I am wondering  will it be possible to
connect an USB HUB like this http://www.lindy.co.uk/4-port-usb-2-cab … 42836.html
to extend the number of ports ?

Or if there is not enough power to connect an active USB HUB ?

Probably not for devices that draw power over USB. I think the power supply is enough to handle the WRT and that's about it.

You can use a powered hub.
But I have no idea how the original (or OpenWRT) firmware supports hubs and multiple USB devices.

Linksys WRT160NL

I've seen Linksys WRT160NL in menuconfig using AR71xx target and trunk dated about 30.7.2009 (r17039). Now the WRT160NL is in the Profile menu among Trendnet TEW-632, TEW-652, DIR-615 revC1 and others. I've searched available threads and there's a note that WRT160NL is build using the same hardware as the other routers.

1. Does this mean that the images for TEW and DIR could be used to 160NL?
2. What's important - does it mean that as well as TEW and DIR is 802.11n(OpenWrt) capable?

Thank you

I just compiled the latest trunk with profile for WRT160NL


Have no serial access yet though.

Can i netboot it without serial? Or flash it?


Which file to flash?

freezer@pioneer:~/openwrt/trunk/bin$ ls -la
insgesamt 20168
drwxr-xr-x  3 freezer freezer    4096  3. Aug 18:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 freezer freezer    4096  3. Aug 17:51 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer     692  3. Aug 18:19 md5sums
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer 2222281  3. Aug 18:19 openwrt-ar71xx-rootfs.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer 3145728  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-root.jffs2-128k
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer 3014656  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-root.jffs2-64k
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer 1966080  3. Aug 18:19 openwrt-ar71xx-root.squashfs
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer 1798148  3. Aug 18:19 openwrt-ar71xx-root.squashfs-4k
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer 1059104  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-uImage-gzip.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer  769428  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-uImage-lzma.bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 freezer freezer 2351238  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 freezer freezer 2417840  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer 1114112  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 freezer freezer  786432  3. Aug 18:18 openwrt-ar71xx-vmlinux.lzma
drwxr-xr-x  3 freezer freezer    4096  3. Aug 17:51 packages

I would get serial and do a tftpboot first, as noted back a few pages.

The nice thing about a tftpboot image is that it's RAM-resident so if something is not working just power-cycle it and you are back to factory firmware.

nemozny wrote:

I've seen Linksys WRT160NL in menuconfig using AR71xx target and trunk dated about 30.7.2009 (r17039). Now the WRT160NL is in the Profile menu among Trendnet TEW-632, TEW-652, DIR-615 revC1 and others. I've searched available threads and there's a note that WRT160NL is build using the same hardware as the other routers.

1. Does this mean that the images for TEW and DIR could be used to 160NL?
2. What's important - does it mean that as well as TEW and DIR is 802.11n(OpenWrt) capable?

Thank you

I would find out who did this change to the menu and ask him. (I did a quick search, but did not find when the change was made...)

Since yesterday you can build trunk images for the WRT160NL


-rw-r--r-- 1 freezer freezer 4391936  7. Aug 00:15 openwrt-ar71xx-wrt160nl-jffs2.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 freezer freezer 3277824  7. Aug 00:16 openwrt-ar71xx-wrt160nl-squashfs.bin


Both flashed fine here under uboot typing:

upgrade code.bin



Ethernet, wifi and USB are working fine!


Once OpenWRT is running, you can flash to a newer version using mtd:

mtd write openwrt-ar71xx-wrt160nl-squashfs.bin firmware

(Last edited by freezer2k on 7 Aug 2009, 12:32)

freezer2k wrote:

Ethernet, wifi and USB are working fine!

Does this mean the switch driver issue is solved?

That's the only thing stopping me from getting one of these.