If your dd-wrt x86 has crapped!

Q:I installed the image to a hard disk. Something BAD went wrong and I'm trying to start over... I remove all partitions, tried Windows 98's FDISK and formatted the drive in fat32..... then removed the partitions again. tried fdisk /mbr (just in case) ... and I cannot get it to reset the settings... Even after I re-flash the drive it keeps the same password, and all of the settings..... and still is not letting me access the web interface. If anyone could help.. I would be greatly appreciative!!!

A:use Damn Small Linux, boot into the Gui. Get internet access, download the latest beta, and then use the command "dd if=dd-wrt_public.image of=/dev/hda" (remove quotations)

A:I not totally sure about the fdisk /mbr. I think I would try to totally erase the mbr. I've seen various flavors of Windows NOT erase a grub mbr even after a full windows install. I had to fdisk the drive from Linux and erase the partition to rid the drive of the MBR. Try downloading a very small bootable Linux ISO, and boot from it, with the drive in question attached as Primary Master. From a shell, type " fdisk /dev/hda". Then type "d", then w to write the changes. "m" will give you a help screen. Then, just type "dd if=ImageFileName of=/dev/hda" All should be fine then. I've not had a 100% success rate using physdiskwrite, and eventually gave up on it. Hope this helps, and good luck.

A:but the damn small linux way will not erase the part3 partition. basicly you need to delete /usr/local/nvram/* then just reboot

A:basicly you must erase the third partition. thats all

Trying to get a server to run dd-wrt on it

Recently i saw this server for cheap on the internet and i am planning to buy it, the specs go as

MSI Micro-Star MS-7021 Motherboard w/ MSI CoreCell

AMD Sempron 2400 Processor

Corsair Value Select PC 3200 Ram Memory

1 Onboard & 2 Add-on Ethernet Cards (D-Link DFE-530TX+)

Gigabyte GV-R7064T (64MB) Graphics Card w/ S-Video
& ATI Radeon 7000 Processor

MikroTik RouterBoard 14 (4 mini PCI slots) w/ 3 CM9 PCIs

128 MB DiskOnChip

Linux & Lilo 22.3.4


a couple of photos are

Bountiful BWRG1000 High Power 1 Watt Wireless Router

i never knew such a router even existed!

here are its specs my my...

The Bountiful Router’s wireless signal reaches a level of slightly less than 1,000 milliwatts – just below the maximum allowed by the FCC. This router consistently provides 2 to 4 times more range than other routers. Signal strength triples by using the Bountiful Wifi Wireless Router.

Experience this performance improvement without replacing the wireless cards in your PCs. This wireless router delivers enhanced performance by utilizing time proven radio frequency techniques used in sophisticated military radio systems for years. Specifically, low noise signals, maximum output power and receive signal amplifiers make up part of the patent pending enhancements to standard Wifi technology that improve network performance in all environments and at much greater ranges than previously available.

Features:

Over 1 watt output power EIRP

54Mbps 802.11g high speed

Receive amplifier (LNA)

Ultra clear signals for maximum reliability and range

Only one thing stops me from buying it... $484.99 !!!

This is what is needed to make a PC into a dd-wrt router...

Wistron CM9 RoHS 2.4/5Ghz 802.11A+B+G

Features:

High speed 11 Mbps (802.11b), 54 Mbps (802.11a/g) or 108Mbps (802.11a/g turbo) data rateWi-Fi, WPA certificated interoperability

Multi band operation with single card

Super G and Super A supportedWide frequency use possible

High Radio output power

Hardware AES-CCM EncryptionStandard U.FL coaxial connector type

WiFi chips made by world leader in Wifi AtherosHigh receiver sensitivity (-95dBm) for long distance operation

Specifications

Main Chipset: MAC: Atheros AR5213; PHY: Atheros AR5112

IEEE Standard Compliance

IEEE 802.11a 5GHz OFDM

IEEE 802.11b 2.4GHz OFDM

IEEE 802.11g 2.4GHz CCK

Frequency Range 802.11a: 4.9GHz ~ 6,1 GHz

802.11b/g: 2.3GHz ~ 2.5GHz

Receive Sensitivity: 802.11b: 95dBm @ 1Mbps 90dBm @ 11Mbps

802.11g: 90dBm @ 6Mbps 74dBm @ 54Mbps

802.11a: 88dBm @ 6Mbps 71dBm 54Mbps

Output Power: 802.11b: 18 dBm

802.11g: 18 dBm @ 6Mbps, 15 dBm @ 54Mbps

802.11a: 17 dBm @ 6Mbps, 13 dBm @ 54Mbps

Transfer Data Rate:

802.11b: 11, 5.5, 2, 1 Mbps, auto-fallback

802.11g (Normal mode): 54, 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9, 6 Mbps, auto-fallback

802.11g (Turbo mode): 108,96,72,48,36,24,18,12 Mbps, auto-fallback

802.11a (Normal mode): 54, 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 9, 6 Mbps, auto-fallback

802.11a (Turbo mode): 108, 96, 72 48, 36, 24, 18, 12 Mbps, auto fallback

Operation Voltage: 3.3V +/- 5% DC

2 U.fl Ultra-miniature coaxial connectors on MiniPCI card

Environmental Specification

Specification operation temperature: 0ºC ~ 70ºC

Storage Temperature: -20ºC ~ 80ºC

Operating Humidity: 10%~90% (Non-condensation)

dd-wrt Features....

Features:

13 languages
802.1x Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Access Restrictions
Adhoc
Afterburner
Client Isolation Mode
Client Mode (supports multiple connected clients)
DHCP Forwarder (udhcp (http://udhcp.busybox.net/))
DHCP Server (udhcp (http://udhcp.busybox.net/) or Dnsmasq (http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html))
DNS Forwarder (Dnsmasq (http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html))
DMZ
Dynamic DNS (DynDNS (http://www.dyndns.com/), easyDNS (http://www.easydns.com/), FreeDNS (http://freedns.afraid.org/), No-IP (http://www.no-ip.com/), TZO (http://www.tzo.com/), ZoneEdit (http://www.zoneedit.com/), custom, and others)
Hotspot Portal (Sputnik Agent (http://www.sputnik.com) ,Chillispot (http://www.chillispot.org/))
IPv6
JFFS2 (JFFS2 (http://sourceware.org/jffs2/))
MMC/SD Card Support (hardware modification required)
NTP
Ntop Remote Statistic
OpenVPN Client & Server (only in -vpn build of the firmware)
Port Triggering
Port Fowarding
PPTP VPN Server & Client
QoS Bandwidth Management
QoS L7 Packet Classifier (l7-filter (http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/))
RFlow
Routing (BIRD (http://bird.network.cz/))
Samba FS Automount
Syslog
Rx Antenna
Tx Antenna
Show Status of Wireless Clients and WDS with System Uptime/Processor Utilization
Site Survey
SNMP
SSH server & client (dropbear (http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html))
Startup, Firewall, and Shutdown scripts (startup script (http://wrt-wiki.bsr-clan.de/index.php?title=Startup_Scripts))
Static DHCP
Style (Changeable GUI; v.23)
Supports New Devices (WRT54G V3, V3.1, V4, V5 and WRT54GS V2.1, V3, V4)
Telnet server & client
Transmit Power Adjustment (0-251mW, default is 28mW, 100mW is safe)
UPnP
VLAN
WOL (Wake On Lan) (WOL (http://ahh.sourceforge.net/wol/))
WDS Connection Watchdog
WDS Repeater Mode
Wireless MAC Address Cloning
Wireless MAC Filter
WMM (Wi-Fi MultiMedia QoS)
WPA over WDS
WPA/TKIP with AES
WPA2
Xbox Kaid (Kai Engine (http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/))

dd-wrt has a websever too???

recently i found out this...

DD-WRT runs a small httpd server used for configuring the router. This guide will show how to use it to serve you own pages to your LAN or to the world. Please remember that opening WEB server to the world could be potential security problem.

Assumptions:

- You have telnet and SSH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell) enabled on your router. See Telnet/SSH_and_the_Command_Line.

- You can send files via SSH to and from your desktop (e.g with WinSCP)

- You have jffs enabled and enough free space to store your files or you have working mmc mod.

- I will assume you are installing to the jffs partition. If you are not, replace jffs with mmc or some other folder

- You have the "Enable Info Site" enabled (Administration -> Management -> WEB Access)- Optional: you have the "Wireless GUI Access" enabled (Wireless -> Advanced Settings)

- You MUST name your index file Info.htm (note upper case "I", thus "Info.htm" and NOT "info.htm")

How will this work?

- We will move the router's web admin to port 81

- We will start your WEB server at port 80

- Optional: we will open port 80 to the world

Procedure:

1) Copy your files to the router, i.e. to the /jffs folder
2) Open web admin Administration -> Diagnostics, press "Run"
3) Enter these lines to the Commands field:

killall httpd
cd /www
httpd -p 81 -h /www
cd /jffs
httpd -h /jffs

4) Press "Save Startup", the router will reboot or reboot it manually.

How to cancel this?

Telnet to the router and type:

nvram set rc_startup=""
nvram set rc_firewall=""
nvram commit
reboot

What is dd-wrt?

DD-WRT is a third party developed firmware released under the terms of the GPL for many 802.11g wireless routers based on a Broadcom chip reference design. For a list of supported devices, please see the Supported Devices page.

The firmware is maintained by BrainSlayer (mailto:brainslayer@braincontrol.org) and is hosted at dd-wrt.com (http://www.dd-wrt.com/). The first versions of DD-WRT were based on the Alchemy Firmware from Sveasoft Inc (http://www.sveasoft.com/), which is in turn based on the original GPL'd Linksys firmware and a number of other open source projects. DD-WRT was created directly from Sveasoft's software decision to start charging for their firmware, closing the door to opensource.

At present DD-WRT is available for free although a different business model is being drafted (http://forum.bsr-clan.de/ftopic4612.html) by BrainSlayer in order to pay his salary, as this is his full time job.

The new version of DD-WRT (v23) is a completely new project. DD-WRT offers many advanced features not found in the OEM firmwares of these devices, or even the firmware available for purchase from Sveasoft. It is also free of the product activation or tracking found in the Sveasoft firmware.

Note: Beta firmware, by its very nature, will contain bugs. It is not recommended to install beta firmware on large networks that are used for businesses, etc. However, there is now a bugtracker in place for DD-WRT firmware located here: DD-WRT Bugtracker (http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/bugtracker/).

Among other features not found in the original Linksys firmware, DD-WRT adds the Kai Daemon for the Kai Console Gaming network (http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/), WDS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System) wireless bridging/repeating protocol, Radius Authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS) for more secure wireless communication, advanced Quality of Service controls for bandwidth allocation, and software support for the SD-Card hardware modification.