I didn't.   I installed OpenWGT on a a netgear, then the Uclibc mipsel buildchain.   The binaries are compatible between the netgear and the linksys..

I haven't connected serial controle, I have alreay built openwrt and cross compile kernel 2.6.12 and then I need let this environment to support Netgear WGT634U and create new firmware image.

However, I don't know how to built a firmware image.

I flash firmware I built, and then Netgear WGT634U can't restart again, how to solve this problem

I think that's really quite weak that the 5 megs is not spared for a wgt634u openwrt image in the downloads section.  With all due respect, this is one of the most popular routers out there next to the wrt54g/gs'.

Okay, yeah, sure i can checkout the svn and cross compile using image builder but it would be nice to know you have a 100% valid and working image when throwing it on the initial flash on a router that you really don't wanna risk bricking for lack of recovery options.

Sorry to bitch, but i just can't see any valid reason not to host a 5 meg  wgt634u openwrt image that a whole lot of people would find a lot more useful than some of the more esoteric images that can be found available for download right now for routers that hardly anyone even has.

The message just preceeding this one is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

(Last edited by Ydef on 6 Feb 2006, 05:17)

Hello,

I want to use whiterussian on wgt634u, so I've compiled the images.
But which image is the right one for this device? Or can I only use the kamikaze-build?
I'm interested in a stable version and a webinterface would be fine...
So please a little hint, what I have to do to compile whiterussian build for wgt634u.
Thanks a lot

Tino

Only Kamikaze works on the WGT634U. Oh, and if you need a web interface than forgot it and don't try.

(Last edited by olli on 5 Feb 2006, 21:37)

Tino, 

Been down this road, and right now, it's a dead end with OpenWRT.  Hopefully,
with the prolific availability of these neat little routers, and as many people have
them, the development of White russian will move forward.

If you wanting something usable, I'd suggest OpenWGT.  It's still fairly young,
but much farther down the road than OpenWRT is on the 634.   It does not have
a web GUI, but is easily configured from Telnet/SSH.

* It installs easily from the Netgear web interface with no problems.
* Will boot from a Flash or hard drive plugged into the USB interface.
* Has ipkg which will install OpenWRT WRT54 packages and runs them fine.
* There is a full native build chain for compiling your own packages or programs.

I've got 3 634's running OpenWGT.  One that boots off a 160Gig Seagate USB drive,
another that boots from a Seagata 80gig drive, and one more that boots off a 512 Meg
thumb drive, or it's internal flash.

Have built samba 2.29 for them, and they make pretty respectable little samba servers
for around the house.  On the hard drive models, I get 1.36 Megs per second, copying
files to them.

Mathias is trying to get a new version out soon, but it appears he's pretty covered up.

I have 4 WRT54G/GS's running OpenWRT WR RC4, and now with the 634's doing
storage, it's a pretty powerful lot.   

Suggest you try reading up on their web page:  http://openwgt.informatik.hu-berlin.de/

If you decide to give it a try, I'm pretty comfortable with these guys, and will be glad
to help.

Bill

Hi Savoy,

I ended up installing openwgt since openwrt dev for this router seems non-existent,
although the web-page/documentation for openwgt seems pretty lacking.
as far as quality info on this router.

There's only documentation on setting up the vlan's and such if you're using ppp/pppoe.

What's the proper way to set it up NOT using ppp/pppoe?

You need to set 5 or 6 nvram lan_variables...   They are mentioned on the installation
page right above the PPPOE stuff:  http://openwgt.informatik.hu-berlin.de/installation.php

The init scripts read those variables, but only if all of them are set.

Let me know if you need anything else.  To make the root fs writeable, use
the command remount-rootfs.sh  rw ,  use ro to put it back to read only.  This
is really a good thing if your booting off external devices..

Bill

It's not the lan side that's the problem, it's the wan side, which doesn't seem to auto-configure
using udhcp.

How do I get that part working?

I had a quick look at OpenWGT and found it useless for me, because it doesn't seem to support wireless client mode.

i find all this very encuraging (still reading through it)
with all the talk about installing dif apps and webservers
i thought i'd do a search for rebol and apparently no-one's
mentioned that yet, take a look its a really cool ip enabled
scripting language.

anyway, has anyone tryed putting the mips version of rebol/core
on the netgear ?, i think it would be VERY useful as its
only 400kb (446.302 bytes if you include all the scripts)
can someone confirm it will load and run please ?.

and then you could do all the web centric protocols
build into it.
http://www.rebol.com/platforms-core.html

i cant curently find the mips rebol/view so maybe its not been
compiled yet (perhaps if someone asks they may do it.

the view is esdentially the /core app with GUI extentions
neather need any other libs or stuff like that just feed
a rebol script it eather and off they go.

personally i think it would be cool to run a rebol webserver
and rebol messageboard straight off the wgt634U  and store
the content on the usb stick or HD.

just some idea's with working rebol scripts of what you might
try and do to extend the router (if the binary above works on it ?)

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/re … pt-index.r
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/re … r=internet
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/re … e-protocol
http://babelserver.org/rix

another thought, you could use /core on the router and also right
a New nice looking /view app to talk to it and take the script with you
wereever you happen to be working in the Roofnet wireless mesh
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/doku.php?id=wgt634u

i thought this rebol multicasting script demo with a whiteboard
(but could be just about anything on rebol) was cool and has many
interesting posibilitys perhaps.

download rebol/view for your OS and run this fully working
Muticasting nework example code
http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/mul … ources.zip

tec people see http://www.rebolfrance.org/articles/mul … icast.html
and put it through http://www.freetranslation.com/free/web.htm
french to english to get the better translation (googlesucks).

WoW, VLC streaming......... really works on the box ?
what bitrate,encode  etc,CIF 384x288 i assume ?, and was it pixelated and almost
unusable draging down the cpu ?.

i wonder... what would happen if multicasting were turned on in the
stack ? i assume it can be?.

if it were possible i imagine all roofnet boxes multicasting stream channels
to all the connected PCs would be a reality, HARD to imagine that the mips
CPU would be able to keep up though.................

im thinking the rebol multicast script demo above might be useful,
were would we find the vlc to run on the router ?.

Uh, sorry.  I'm actually going to do that tonight, as I have mine in a hotel and want to use it for wireless
in the room.   All it lacks is the vlan config and udhcpc config.   I'll post back in a couple of hours.

Bill

Can someone please create a howto on getting this going in client mode and/or AP mode?

I can finally compile Kamikaze, but can't get anywhere as it seems I need wpa_supplicant and/or hostapd.

Someone please help.  I'm willing to add this info to the wiki, just need to know how to do it myself first.

Thanks,
Jason

Are you sure?  It seems like others here using openwgt are using it in wireless client mode.

Aren't you using the wireless end savoy?

BTW, whoever does have a working copy of the latest openwrt svn snapshot for the wgt634u, if  you'd like to send it to me I will gladly make it available for everyone to download until it's no longer conspicuously missing from the openwrt download area.

(Last edited by Ydef on 9 Feb 2006, 03:57)

Ydef,

Sorry, haven't spent anytime getting it working in client mode,   AP mode works quite
well.

Savoy...

How do you use it in AP mode if you don't have the LAN side configured?

I missed this link entirely, but thought i would post it to this thread in case anyone else has wgt634u tunnel vision on this thread only.

http://flyashi.dyndns.org:81/

bleeding edge openwrt builds of latest kamakazi svn provided by Yasha.

how does one go about making a serial cable for this router? help?

rtfm duod.

just go to the documentation section of this site and do a search for
'serial'.

Search button works wonders.

Im sorry to be just one more posting about problems but i think i really messed something up .. i guess in the end there was a reason god made Windows Systems Admins and Unix ones ......

I flashed the WGT634U according to the instructions at http://openwgt.informatik.hu-berlin.de/installation.php

Followed the procedure for the NVRAM:
$ nvram set lan_proto=static
$ nvram set lan_ifname=vlan0
$ nvram set lan_ipaddr=192.168.1.2
$ nvram set lan_netmask=255.255.255.0
$ nvram set lan_gateway=192.168.1.254
$ nvram set lan_dns=192.168.1.254
$ nvram set lan_domain=lan.home
$ nvram show | grep lan_
# Start watchdog, since a commit crashs sometimes the kernel
$ watchdog
$ nvram commit

And to my great discontent, i noticed that it applied the network 192.168.1.0 to the whole 5 ports of the router ... eeeckkkk , having in mind that my isp deals the IP on a dynamic base the WAN port should be getting it via DHCP wich it doesnt, furthermore now i cant connect to the internet to rollback onto the old version of the netgear firmware.

Can anyone enlighten me on what to do ? Please :$

Another odd thing is that there is a bit of a mixup on the image and the suposed id of the WAN port wich i seem to see on some pages that its suposed to be VLAN1 but i cant find reference of it anywhere.
Digging up a bit i think the problem can be a faulty config on the Setup VLAN  /etc/init.d/S39vlan and on the S40.
Can someone give me a hand ?

Best Regards

Francisco

Hi everybody.

I just flashed my WGT634U with the kamikaze latest build; but the thing is that I have selected a 2.4 kernel.

Is there any way to change the firmware to a different one or at least revert to the Official Netgear firmware to reimplement an openwrt firmware.

The thing is that I have no serial cable. Is there a way to do it without it?

thanks.

Please, do NOT FLASH without having an serial cable!
You NEED an serial cable cause only with this thingy you can access the cfe to upload the old netgear.
for openwgt, there was a function to revert, for openwrt, imho there isn't one....

Ok, no problem, I'll build one on tomorrow.

Ya, this was actually why I posted this message, 'cause I've seen that you do not need any serial cable to revert on WRT.

But thanks for the answer.

GiveMeLove

(Last edited by givemelove on 2 Mar 2006, 18:58)