WL-HDD
ASUS WL-HDD2.5
ASUS WL-HDD2.5
- Ostensibly a wifi device hosting a 2.5" (laptop) hard disk
- Connectivity
- Ethernet (10-base-100)
- Wifi (802.11g)
- USB v1.1
- Resources
- CPU Broadcom 4710 @ 125MHz
- RAM 16MB
- Flash 4MB
- Distribution
- OpenWRT
- openwrt-brcm-2.4-jffs2.4MB.trx
- Installation
- Plug cable directly from computer to WL-HDD
- Cheat, use Windows and Asus Firmware utility (tftp and linux is possible)
- Upload openwrt firmware (listed above)
- Bring up web browser window to configure
- Configuration
- Web interface (see image above)
- SSH
- Filesystem is on flash memory jffs2 format (so writable, though flash limits exist).
- A number of variables are stored in NVRAM and have a parallel system for swettings. They are preserved across flash upgrades, can be changed but must be "commit"ed to RAM to be permanent.
- ASUS WL-HDD specific:
- OpenWRT instructions
- nvram set wan_proto=none; nvram commit
- At this point there is still some room in the filesystem
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 3.2M 1.8M 1.4M 57% /
none 7.0M 12.0k 7.0M 0% /tmp
- Packages ipkg (tutorial)
- Add owfs to /etc/ipkg.conf (See)
- Easiest if you sftp /etc/ipkg.conf to workstation, edit and add
src owfs http://owfs.sourceforge.net/openwrt/packages
- Sometimes the retrieval across the web is error-prone.
- You can get local copies of package archive
- e.g. (in correct directory)
wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 http://owfs.sourceforge.net/openwrt/packages - Note, we need to get access to the internet from the WL-HDD
- Set a LAN address on your network
- Plug into network
- Access via network
- Packages (OWFS from Christian Magnusson)
- ipkg install ntpclient
- ipkg install owfs
- ipkg install temploggerd (optional)
- Packages for USB
- ipkg install kmod-usb-ohci
- ipkg install kmod-usb-storage
- ipkg install kmod-vfat
- ipkg install lsusb
- Space now
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 3.2M 2.5M 676.0k 79% /
none 7.0M 16.0k 7.0M 0% /tmp
- Packages to remove:
- ipkg remove ppp-mod-ppoe
- ipkg remove kmod-pppoe
- ipkg remove ppp
- ipkg remove kmod-ppp
- Space Now
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 3.2M 2.4M 856.0k 74% /
none 7.0M 16.0k 7.0M 0% /tmp
- In Use
