Changing Welcome text, logo, colors, etc on opening page
Hi again, I am using my piratebox for a salon in Denmark and I would therefore like to change the language of the welcome text and maybe the logo as well. But after browsing both the piratebox files...
View ArticleUSB Problems
I just bought a new MR3040 and have been attempting to install PirateBox. I flashed the firmware without issue, but upon reboot it does not seem to have run any of the installation scripts. I have no...
View Article:(Very sure I bricked my MR3040.
Just got into PirateBox, and decided to get the MR3040, cause 3040 is higher then 3020 right? And bigger numbers sounded better. I get it, and bring my PNY 8GB USB and begin. I had some difficulties...
View ArticleStop shoutbox reset
Hi, When trying to stop the shoutbox reset through /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf I'm denied access root@piratebox:~# /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf -ash: /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf:...
View ArticleIssue With MR3040 Piratebox Installation
Hi, I recently acquired an MR3040 with version 2.3 firmware. I followed the instructions carefully but the OpenWRT firmware will not load. I loaded the install folder onto my flash drive after...
View ArticleMultiple storage devices?
Hello, excuse me for my bad english. I recently bought a tplink MR3020 and sucessfully installed piratebox onto an usb. Everything works fine, however i would like to switch from a usb to an external...
View ArticleRe: USB Problems
Hi, I think you USB Stick don't have a partition and is recgonized as /dev/sda only - we are waiting for /dev/sda1 To verify that, can you please post the output of those commands: [www.piratebox.cc]...
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Re: :(Very sure I bricked my MR3040.
Well the mr3040 does have a tiny reset button though, you could use that to get into failsafe mode:
View ArticleRe: :(Very sure I bricked my MR3040.
Hi, first of all: you MR3040 has a failsafe mode. Bigger Numbers aren't better. The MR3020 and the MR3040 are technical identical, beside the fact, that the MR3040 has a battery included. The howto...
View ArticleRe: Issue With MR3040 Piratebox Installation
Hi, ok, that sounds strange. Did you buy a new one? Can you verify the v2.3 from the sticker outside on the package? Where did you download the bin file? best regards Matthias
View ArticleRe: Multiple storage devices?
yes it is possible. Take care that your hard disk has one partition formatted with FAT32 , copy over all files. And you should use an additional power source, because the tiny TPLink does not always...
View ArticleRe: Issue With MR3040 Piratebox Installation
I bought it brand new, the package was sealed. The sticker under the battery says v2.3 on it as the firmware version. I didn't check the packaging but I will when I get to my home. I downloaded the...
View ArticleRe: Issue With MR3040 Piratebox Installation
It's OK, at least I have one working box and I will probably play around with the other one to see if I can figure out how to flash the firmware. Thanks for your help and support.
View ArticleRe: Multiple storage devices?
PROBLEM SOLVED: The piratebox does not work with exfat only. you need to create one partition that has FAT32, you will still be able to use all the space. After this you can just copy over the files...
View ArticleRe: USB Problems
I have reformatted and repartitioned several different usb sticks with no luck. Here is the output from those commands. Any involving the /mnt/usb or /opt directories are missing because the...
View ArticleRe: USB Problems
mh, I just added another thing which is interesting: dmesg | grep sda ls /dev/sd* best regards Matthias
View ArticleRe: USB Problems
I managed to boot it to failsafe mode and start over from scratch. Still not sure what I did wrong the first few times, but it is working now. Thanks for your help. :)
View ArticleMR3020 Boot loop except in failsafe?
I had everything working perfectly except kareha, so I went to reinstall it by emptying /opt/piratebox/www/board. I went to cd into /www but didn't see that I was still on rm, clearing my /www. So...
View ArticleRe: Need help with MR3040 install
im still having problems with this step. Is there some sort of format I need to enter the ADMIN_PASS and SECRET in? Every time I enter the new values and the I attempt to save and exit, it reads: 'ZZ'...
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