Re: Installing PirateBox on Netgear WNR3500L

Hi,
no trunk is even more worse.

I'm not 100% sure about reflashing that device, so it would be good if you can find an additional prove if that method (using mtd/sysupgrade in this context is correct).


what you need to do- if you get an error message, please stop at this point! :

1. login to you device, which is connected to the internet
2. Reflash

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cd /tmp
  wget  http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/brcm47xx/mips74k/openwrt-wnr3500l_v1_other_regions-squashfs.chk
  sysupgrade -n openwrt-wnr3500l_v1_other_regions-squashfs.chk

The device will then do a reboot and reconnect using telnet again. It is now back to stock configuration.

Next steps are:

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opkg install http://stable.openwrt.piratebox.de/all/packages/pbxopkg_0.0.6_all.ipk
opkg update
opkg install kmod-usb-storage kmod-fs-ext4 block-mount 
reboot

The device will do a reboot again. It seems there is an issue in BreakingBarrier, that the kernel modules aren't loaded in the correct order. After the reboot is done, login back into your device using telnet or ssh. Then run the following commands

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#!/bin/sh
mnt_var=`uci add fstab mount`
uci set fstab."$mnt_var".target="/overlay"
uci set fstab."$mnt_var".device="/dev/sda1"
uci set fstab."$mnt_var".fstype="ext4"
uci set fstab."$mnt_var".options="rw,sync"
uci set fstab."$mnt_var".enabled=1
uci set fstab."$mnt_var".enabled_fsck=0
mnt_var=`uci add fstab swap`
uci set fstab."$mnt_var".device="/usr/swapfile_1"
uci commit fstab
#-----------------
# Prepare USB Stick
#-----------------
opkg update && opkg install -d ram e2fsprogs
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/lib:/usr/lib:/tmp/lib:/tmp/usr/lib'
export PATH="$PATH:/tmp/bin:/tmp/sbin:/usr/sbin"
/tmp/usr/sbin/mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkdir -p /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
tar -C /overlay -cvf - . | tar -C /mnt/sda1 -xf -
dd if=/dev/zero of="/mnt/sda1/usr/swapfile_1" bs=1M count=128
mkswap /mnt/sda1/usr/swapfile_1
reboot

After this, a new reboot is required. Now you primary filesystem is running on the USB Stick!

After the reboot is done, the next step is installing piratebox...

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opkg update
opkg install extendRoot    #This is done for dependencies and a config file
mkdir -p  /mnt/usb/install/
cd  /mnt/usb/install/
wget http://stable.openwrt.piratebox.de/piratebox_images/piratebox_ws_1.0_img.tar.gz
sed -i 's|ext_linktarget="/usr/local"|ext_linktarget=""|g'  /etc/ext.config
opkg update
opkg install piratebox
sed -i 's|DROOPY_USE_USER="no"|DROOPY_USE_USER="yes"|g' /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf
opkg install piratebox-mod-imageboard   ## I hope this doesn't fail... (never tested this in this context)
/opt/piratebox/bin/install_piratebox.sh  /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf part2
reboot

After this reboot, the SSID should appear and it should work as expected.
In addition, you should set a password using the passwd command and follow the postinstallation instructions like on our homepage.

regards Matthias

edit:
this refers to the first draft I wrote for the VoCore [piratebox.aod-rpg.de]