Buffalo WBMR - OpenWrt trunk build R34927

Yes! It works now! :)

Download: r34927

SHA1:  C046F98F9B7370D2E6B0609403127E9B8841E2E9


Changelog:
Switch bug fixed!! Tested ;) PLUS! It is now possible to configure VLAN from LUCI too!
There is no bug in dsl_control file! No need to edit it anymore!! ADSL works fine on boot!
The LEDs are already configured!*
Kernel 3.7.1 (I don't know why but it boots faster!)
Some minor bugfix and updates.

*power, wifi and internet led are preconfigured by default! The power led might blink(no reason?or it means there router is loading? ;) ) for the first 2 or 3 minutes.

Known issues:
Check your Movie Engine switch is OFF. There is a bug when it is ON causing a reboot loop of the device!


A big thanks goes to Sebastian Mayr

Buffalo WBMR - OpenWrt trunk build R34871 - TEST

Here we go with another release! This time is a TEST build that I didn't test!

I did this test to see if the compilation is possible when using the new device tree for the WBMR (under XWAY).

If you want to test it and you know how to recover from a brick, have fun! :)

Major changelog:
Kernel 3.7.1 (FINALLY!)
Switch bug fixed (LAN to LAN traffic is possible by default now)

Download:
r34871

SHA1: d0d3053aeafc74a25578b1fd050b6952eaa4309a

I'm going to test a new trunk build in January ;)

Switch bug fixed?

https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/34838/

Could this put an end to the eternal switch bug?? :)

It's too early to compile a new build with kernel 3.7.x so..

Stay tuned!


p.s.
Yes, WBMR support is back! :D

No more support for the Buffalo WBMR (AR9 routers) for now..

Here is why there is no more support for AR9 routers:

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2012-December/017927.html

What a pity.. I was looking for the new kernel(now 3.7.1) for my WBMR.

Stay tuned for more news ;)

What do you want to see in the next trunk build?

Well, I was wondering if my builds are good enough for you or do you think I need to add some features?

Do you like the minimal build or the complete build?

What are you looking for in a build? openvpn support? USB mount? Samba?

Let me know :)

Buffalo WBMR - OpenWrt trunk build R34585

Changelog:
mac80211: update to wireless-testing 2012-12-06
mac80211: do not build mwifiex driver

Minimal build as always ;)

Download r34585
SHA1: 68f3846831cdd7f24b176e9ecef4b2599e8c0b97

Forgot to say:

There is still the dsl_control bug so edit the line 300 ;)

Buffalo WBMR - Show DSL statistics with a script

Create a new script in /sbin/ and name it whatver you want and insert the following code:


#!/bin/sh

echo "$@" > /tmp/pipe/dsl_cpe0_cmd && cat /tmp/pipe/dsl_cpe0_ack

Save it and make executable (chmod +x /sbin/filename)

Now you can execute it and see a lot of options:


   acog,          AutobootConfigOptionGet
   acos,          AutobootConfigOptionSet
   acs,           AutobootControlSet
   alf,           AutobootLoadFirmware
   asecg,         AutobootScriptExecuteConfigGet
   asecs,         AutobootScriptExecuteConfigSet
   asg,           AutobootStatusGet
   ccadbgmlg,     CCA_DBG_ModuleLevelGet
   ccadbgmls,     CCA_DBG_ModuleLevelSet
   cr,            CmvRead
   cw,            CmvWrite
   dbgmlg,        DBG_ModuleLevelGet
   dbgmls,        DBG_ModuleLevelSet
   dajes,         DebugArcJtagEnableSet
   dfcg,          DebugFeatureConfigGet
   dfcs,          DebugFeatureConfigSet
   dms,           DeviceMessageSend
   esmcg,         EventStatusMaskConfigGet
   esmcs,         EventStatusMaskConfigSet
   fpsg,          FramingParameterStatusGet
   g997amdpfcg,   G997_AlarmMaskDataPathFailuresConfigGet
...

For exemple if you want to see the SNR and attenuation, you can use the option "g997lsg 0 1"

It would be great if someone could comment this post and explain us a bit the other option ;)

p.s.
New build is in work in progress.. ;)

Buffalo WBMR - OpenWrt trunk build R34496

Changelog:
Compiled with GCC 4.7-Linaro
dropbear: update to 2012.55
mac80211: hostapd: Fix macfilter for multi bssid setups
Minor bugfixes
LuCI Trunk (trunk+svn9530)

There is still the dsl_control file, so you have to edit the line 300.

Download: R34496

SHA1: 71a5dd85a922fd73a7f7ab8d45d274b2ab3e5700

Buffalo releases a new firmware 1.79

New official firmware from Buffalo dated 21 November 2012

Download (1.79)

Changelog

Any comments are welcome :)

Buffalo WBMR - Build r34318

New release - build r34318

Log OpenWrt:
logs r34168-r34318

Changelog:
Compiled with gcc version 4.6.4 20121106 (prerelease) (Linaro GCC 4.6-2012.11)
Various bugfixes

Known issues:
You have to edit the /etc/init.d/dsl_control file to make ADSL work.

Mirror:
r34318

Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H How to recover from bricking

How to recover from bricking by saffo

The router bootloader has a tftp client, which will try to connect to 192.168.11.2 and load a file called firmware.ram.

1. Build ramdisk image. These images have uImage in their name, but you can't take the one which you get a during normal build or download. You have to setup a buildroot environment and configure it to build a ramdisk image (make menuconfig –> Target Images –> ramdisk). 

Here's my (rename the file) firmware.ram

And here is my latest trunk build as a backup r33530 (there is no dsl_control bug which is present in r34168)

2. Install and start a tftp server. For linux there is a package called tftpd-hpa and on MacOS X TftpServer Version 3.4.1 was used. If you use Windows, you can use this free tftp-server tftpd32

3. Copy the firmware.ram into the root directory of your tftp server (e.g. /srv/tftp or /var/lib/tftp or your current directory depending on your software)

4. Setup your interface. It doesn't matter which port of the router you use. Set your IP to 192.168.11.2/24. 

5. Push the AOSS button and power on the router. Keep the AOSS button for about 5 seconds pushed. When the AOSS button is pushed the LED below power will also light up on start. You can verify with wireshark, if everything works as expected. There should be a tftp request from 192.168.11.1 to 192.168.11.2 for a file firmware.ram. Then This file will be transmitted and after that the ip 192.168.11.1 vanishs, because you see your computer asking to whom this ip belongs.

6. Wait. If you have wifi configured in your image you see wifi come up after a while. Another way is to ping 192.168.1.1 or the ip you have configured in your image. You may also do a DHCP request, which will be answered if your router booted fine. My router did not give any signal via LED if it is ready or not. Also during normal operation no LED is on, except for the one in the LAN ports.

7. Flash a working image. Now you have access again, but keep in mind, that this image is not flashed and only runs in ram. Flash a clean image via your preferred way. You can do this with the webinterface or ssh/telnet and sysupgrade.

I suggest you to use Wireshark during the entire process.

Remember to change the IP for your NIC to 192.168.1.XXX or use DHCP! The firmware.ram do not use 192.168.11.0/24

This is what I did once to recover from a brick(I don't really think it really was, but something went wrong). This is NOT entirely written by me but partially edited from the official openwrt wiki Buffalo WBMR OpenWrt Wiki

Compile a minimal OpenWRT build

I prefer using ArchLinux due to its bleeding edge packages version, but any linux distro will work fine.

pacman -S subversion git python python2 unzip base-devel(in case you don't have it, kinda odd though) - (http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/bu...gence#examples for other distros)
svn co svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk
cd trunk
./script/feeds update -a
./script/feeds install -a
make package/symlinks
make menuconfig 
Target System ---> Lantiq GPON/XWAY/SVIP
Subtarget ---> AR9
Target Profile ---> WBMR - Buffalo WBMR-HP-G300H
Target Images ---> squashfs (jffs2 if you want)
Advanced  configuration options
    Target Options ---> -Os -pipe -mips32r2 -mtune=34kc -fno-caller-saves
    Toolchain Options ---> GCC compiler Version ---> 4.6.x with Linaro or 4.7.x with Linaro
LuCI
    Collections --->   <*> luci
    Applications ---> <*> luci-app-ddns
                             <*> luci-app-upnp
Kernel Modules 
   Network Devices
    <*>kmod-ltq-dsl-firmware-a-ar9 for Annex A 
    <*>kmod-ltq-dsl-firmware-b-ar9 for Annex B - default - YOU MUST USE ONLY ONE
  Wireless Drivers
    <*>kmod-ath9k
Network    
    <*>hostap-mini
    <*>hostap-utils
Now you can save the configuration.
make ( make -jX - X for each CPU core)
cd bin/lantiq/
scp openwrt-lantiq-ar9-WBMR-squashfs.image root@192.168.1.1:
ssh root@192.168.1.1
mtd -r write openwrt-lantiq-ar9-WBMR-squashfs.image linux

Buffalo WMBR-HP-G300H - Firmware status

First of all, as first post, I am going to do a small brief about the Buffalo WBMR builds (official or not)

The latest original firmware for this router is available here:

Firmware - Changelog - Version 1.78

My latest OpenWrt build is @r34168***:

Trunk@r34168 - SHA1 b610ca69c75bf866b0d10435d43a604dcd339d64 

If you prefer the latest DD-WRT build, you can download it from their public FTP:

DD-WRT FTP

This OpenWrt includes:
DDNS
IPv4 (IPv6 is NOT present)
UPNP+NAT-PMP

It is a very minimal build.

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There is a problem in /etc/init.d/dsl_control file.
It calls /sbin/dsl_cpe_control with "-f /lib/firmware/dsl-fw-${fwannex}.bin" when it should be "/lib/firmware/ltq-dsl-fw-${fwannex}-ar9.bin" but still it doesn't work!
If I edit it to ltq-dsl-fw-a-ar9.bin (annex a) my adsl works.
So be careful after flashing this build...the fix is work in progress.
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