I decided to upgrade to RC6 since the packages repository no longer worked for RC5. I don't know if this was intentional but I had RC5 and tried to install qos-scripts and the package didn't work because it was the RC6 one.

I had these problems with RC6:

- The bin distribution no longer includes pppoe. There's now a pppoe one. This wasn't explained anywhere so when I installed bin like I did for RC5 I no longer had a pppoe connection, thus no internet. To fix this I used mtd to go back to the original linksys firmware by flashing it's .bin file. I had to press the reset button for it to actually work again so I guess it copied a firmware from a ROM and mtd didn't work?

- After I installed pppoe I had no internet DNS. I changed the /etc/resolv.conf symlink to point to /tmp/resolv.conf.auto instead of /tmp/resolv.conf and that fixed it. What's the correct solution?

The bin image should not contain ppp, that's why there are ppp variants; same firmware just with additional ppp packages. This was explained in the documentation.

As for the resolv, when you boot the symlinks will be as follows:
/etc/resolv.conf -> /tmp/resolv.conf -> /tmp/resolv.conf.auto

This is done for the benefit of dnsmasq -- as of rc6, local queries are run through dnsmasq. Dnsmasq will insert itself between /tmp/resolv.conf and /tmp/resolv.conf.auto.

What documentation? The wiki says that bin contains pppoe and that's what happens in RC5. And http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/rc6/00-README says that bin contains pppoe and says nothing about the ppp variants.

This didn't happen in my install. Both /tmp/resolv.conf and /tmp/resolv.conf.auto are regular files.

My problems with RC6 are mostly because of no "Firewall" tab in it's webif...
I miss it.

I'll try to install webif^2 now and see if it helps.

PS
I had to create the two NVRAM variables manually: dhcp_start and dhcp_count for dnsmasq to work properly...
It was not nesessary on RC5.

(Last edited by booBot on 8 Nov 2006, 16:22)

I'm still having the /tmp/resolv.conf.auto symlink problem. If I reboot /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink to /tmp/resolv.conf which is a real file with the content:

instead of a symlink to /tmp/resolv.conf.auto. Seems like something is overwriting /tmp/resolv.conf on every boot. I've solved this by changing /etc/resolv.conf to point to /tmp/resolv.conf.auto directly.

It's not a bug. If dnsmasq is running, /tmp/resolv.conf will not be a symlink...

We still include the firewall page in webif^2

Already updated - very much satisfyed now!

ping: www.google.com: Unknown host

From console mode DNS does not work. I tried creating resolv.conf.local with wan_dns IP's and it doesn't work.
resolv.conf.auto doesn't get created.
The only way this works is if I create /etc/resolv.conf with wan_dns IP's.

/tmp/resolv.conf gets rewritten by /etc/init.d/S50dnsmasq

Jan  1 02:43:21 (none) kern.info dnsmasq[1143]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Jan  1 02:43:21 (none) kern.warn dnsmasq[1143]: ignoring nameserver 127.0.0.1 - local interface

(Last edited by VeNoM on 13 Nov 2006, 12:23)

Hi,

had the same problem like pedrocr, after installation of the default .bin there was no pppoe. I had to explicitly install the pppoe binary. If you look at http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Installing the definition of the different types of bins is a little bit confusing, because the default bin does NOT contain pppoe-

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This is a change in RC6 so the local resolver will take advantage of dnsmasq.  The problem is you copied an old dnsmasq config from non-rc6. 

You need to add the line:
resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.conf.auto

in your /etc/dnsmasq.conf

I can't find the firewall page anywhere in the RC6 gui.  I have all the webif packages installed.  Is it on a different page than RC5?

One major difference I am noticing between RC5 and RC6 is that dhcp leases last for less than 1 minute.  I have uncommented this line in dnsmasq.conf:
dhcp-range=192.168.1.100,192.168.1.110,255.255.255.0,12h

but it has no affect.

What other setting am I missing?  I have looked all over google.  Are others seeing this issue and if so is there a known fix?

Thanks.

nbd .... or mbm u can answer my question in

http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=8489

Please ... i have doubt about .... official bin bugs

I have a problem with mounting samba share from NAS.
Please, look at this:

root@OpenWrt:/mnt# mount.cifs //192.168.61.43/PUBLIC /mnt/public -o guest
mount error 20 = Not a directory
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

smbclient works well.

Note to the resolv.conf problem:

Some statements (al least the line resolv-file=/tmp/resolv.conf.auto) in /etc/dnsmasq.conf seem to be ignored if dnsmasq is started with command line options like it is done in /etc/init.d/S50dnsmasq.

For me it works to make a new /etc/init.d/S50dnsmasq script with only one line of content:

dnsmasq

After reboot there are symlinks /etc/resolv.conf -> /tmp/resolv.conf -> /tmp/resolv.conf.auto and in /tmp/resolv.conf.auto there are the right lines from the dhcp offer the wan iface got from the ISP. DNS lookups work fine now.

(Last edited by weiszespferd on 5 Jan 2007, 14:21)

A problem I found with RC6 is discussed here -->> http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=8523

You have to turnoff linux extensions before you mount (after every reboot):
echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled

That one liner will fix your cifs problem.  See here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. … 2848#92848

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic. … p;start=60