Re: Zsun can't connect to wwan and is not broadcasting its ssid

I finally received more Zsuns and was able to install PirateBox without almost any problem. More about this in a moment.

I just want to confirm that what went wrong in my first installation is the line:

uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].encryption=psk

which of course is inappropriate if the encryption is wep based. So I replaced it with:

uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].encryption=wep

These uci settings relate to the Zsun to home router connection. If this connection isn't successful, the OpenWRT documentation says that wireless access to the device will be deactivated. As a result it then becomes impossible to communicate with the Zsun. So, just to be on the safe side, I created a script to restore the initial wireless configuration in case of such a scenario. The instructions for creating this script are described here. Go directly to step 3 to access the instructions. On a wireless only device like the Zsun, having extra insurance can't hurt.

Now regarding the PirateBox installation, almost everything went smoothly except the folowing:

During execution of:

opkg update && opkg install -d ram e2fsprogs mkdosfs fdisk

I got the following:

Configuring mkdosfs.
grep: /usr/lib/opkg/info/mkdosfs.control: No such file or directory
cat: can't open '/usr/lib/opkg/info/mkdosfs.list': No such file or directory

Configuring libext2fs.
grep: /usr/lib/opkg/info/libext2fs.control: No such file or directory
cat: can't open '/usr/lib/opkg/info/libext2fs.list': No such file or directory

Configuring e2fsprogs.
grep: /usr/lib/opkg/info/e2fsprogs.control: No such file or directory
cat: can't open '/usr/lib/opkg/info/e2fsprogs.list': No such file or directory

Configuring fdisk.
grep: /usr/lib/opkg/info/fdisk.control: No such file or directory
cat: can't open '/usr/lib/opkg/info/fdisk.list': No such file or directory

Then, after executing this:

sed -i '​s:​DROOPY_CHMOD:#​DROOPY_CHMOD:'​ /​opt/​piratebox/​conf/​piratebox.conf

I got this:

sed: unsupported command

And not much later, while executing this:

/opt/piratebox/init.d/piratebox_alt start

I got a bunch of denied chown operations. I also got another batch of those during the installation of Kareha.

PirateBox works nonetheless, but the sd card is not functional as it should. Plus, File upload always end with a Retry message.

How can I fix this?