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Topic: whiterussian RC3 crashing

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Hi,

I have Linksys wrt54g. I used it with standard firmware (2.02.7) and it
worked ok. Just for fun, I installed whiterussian RC3. I flashed it with
tftp.

I have a "standard" configuration:
- wan with dhcp
- lan with 192.168.1.0/24 and dhcp from 100 to 150
- dnsmasq
- no telnet, access only with ssh
- AP infrastructure mode
- WEP

Actually everythink works find, except for system crashes which occur
very often, particularly when I am logged in with ssh. I have the
maximum of uptime of aprox. 30 minutes. I have an impression, that if
I am not logged in, the system works fine (but still it has to be
tested better). Any hints?

After last crash, I can not log in (ssh says 'Permission denied'). Obviously
at least either sshd or /etc/passwd is currupted. Is there any other way
to log into the system? Must I reflash the device? How about this crashes?

Thank you,
Marek.

Thank you for the hint.

Unfortunatelly it has not helped.

I reflashed the device and I executed linksys-fixup.sh. But I think for my hardware version the script does nothing. It symply displays line with HW type:

nvram get boardtype gives 0x101.

I don't have system crashes (well I use telnet instead of ssh right now), but on "heavy" load, what in my case means (I use my wrt54g at home, so I have just a few connections from browser and mp3 stream, + a few telnet sessions) less than 1, the system is not stable, eg. ls command give segmentation fault, ps command displays processes and hangs.

I reflashed the device with tftp. Well, to my suprice, changes which I had done in eg. /etc were not lost afterwards.

Thank you,
Marek.

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