User Experiences

16 January 2009
by Amain
modified 4 August 2009

Dear user. I would like to invite you to share your experiences with DebWRT on your router. What do you think of Debian on your router? If you have tested DebWRT with other hardware, please leave a note about your experiences as well! It nice to know on which routers Debian runs successfully.

Regards,

Amain

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  1. 2009 February 20
    Vadim.Pechorin permalink

    Hi! I am new to Linux (I use debian for about a year), recently bought a router ASUS WL-500G Premium v.1, tried a lot of the standard firmware, firmware from Oleg, DD-WRT they all are equipped with web-interface, all they have any restrictions … I know web-interfaces that are not mine! Think about installing debian on the wl-500g … not so fast is your site! The system installed without difficulty, a little start to deal with it! Thank you for your project! Sorry for my English!

  2. 2009 May 30
    arsi permalink

    Hi!
    “These packages or not binary compatible and will not run when using Debian MIPSEL as a root filesystem. Not sure why that is.”

    Packages from openwrt are compiled with uClibc…

    Copy the libuClibc_xxxx.so to lib directory on debwrt..

    Sorry for my English..

    ArSi

  3. 2009 June 2
    angel permalink

    Hi. I have been using Debwrt with 2.6 kernel running on Asus WL-500GPv1 for a few days now. My set-up is wlan and lan routed up to wan-port which is using a pppoe connection. Everything seems to work flawlessly after some configuration was done. This is awesome project and I hope you will keep up the great work :)

  4. 2009 June 2
    Flexy permalink

    I’ve been trying to figure out how to set networking, but no luck. I’m trying to do the same as in openwrt, wan with dhcp to get a real world IP and lan and wlan bridged together, with dhcp server serving IP numbers to lan. I really would need all the help to get this working.

    edit by amain: Thank you for giving DebWRT a try :-) Networking is not jet well explained on the DebWRT site. Though designed to be as easy and out of the box as possible. Have a look into the /etc/network directory. Create a symlink to interfaces.lan-wlan-bridge (ln -snf interfaces.lan-wlan-bridge interfaces). Reboot the router or run the required scripts in the right order :-) DebWRT networking scripts/directories:

    /etc/init.d/robocfg Integrated switch & VLAN configuration
    /etc/init.d/firewall basic firewall with masquarading
    /etc/init.d/nas 2.4 WEP/WPA deamon
    /etc/init.d/hostapd-mini 2.6 WEP/WPA/wireless deamon
    /etc/init.d/dnsmasq DNS-server for LAN/WAN
    /etc/network/interfaces* Debian networking – 3 example setup’s
    interfaces.firstboot All switch ports in one VLAN, IP 10.0.2.1, WLAN disabled
    interfaces.lan-wlan-bridge LAN/WLAN bridge, WAN DHCP, LAN/WLAN bridge masqueraded over WAN
    interfaces.seperate-wlan-lan WAN, LAN, WLAN in separate VLAN’s
    /etc/nas NAS config
    /etc/hostapd-mini hostapd-mini config

  5. 2009 June 3
    angel permalink

    You need to configure iptables manually by yourself as there is no currently working iptables script provided with debwrt. I am currently using following script but it is really unrestrictive: Iptables script. Save it to /etc/firewall.sh for example, chmod it with +x and run with /bin/bash /etc/firewall.sh
    At least it works for me :)

    You may also need to do the following to get ip routing working:
    ip route del default
    ip route add default dev eth0_wan

    edit by amain: There is a basic firewall script(since 20090206-1/) in /etc/init.d/firewall. It will setup a very simple firewall including NAT(Masquarading).