And yes i know the OP is using a buffalo g300nh but being that they are both atheros units, it still should apply for you as well.
looked into it but it asks that I format the USB drive with ext2 3 first which I dont want to. I am looking for a solution to use the USB with a large external HDD full of info.
I thought DD wRT is the ultimate firmware but it seams otherwise now. the original firmware has that option but for one user at a time. feel like it was a big waste reading all these posts and setting up ddwrt on my router.
Hello I have a problem with ntfs support, but it's quite different from what I've read here and there.
I have wrt610n v1 router, I've flashed it with "15943 NEWD-2 K2.6 big Eko". After first boot I've enabled USB support, connected via telnet, used two commands:
I could then set via http, that ProFTPD "folder" was /opt and it worked like charm. Some time later (maybe after some restart? I don't know, really) I couldn't mount ntfs volume. When I used the above command, I got:
ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root
(this "modprobe" doesn't exist)
I read whole Internet ( ) and it seems that after executing the "insmod fuse.ko", fuse is not loaded, as "lsmod" doesn't list anything similar to "fuse".
I also cannot install optware (although I don't have Atheros but Broadcom), so I can't check if optware way to mount ntfs would work.
It's totally hopeless - as for now I figured that hard resetting the router helps - but that way I am losing my settings and I have to set everything from scratch... :/
Any ideas? I'm a linux newbie, and I've tried many things to make that work, read dozens of topics, but I just couldn't force it to work...
_________________ Asus RT16N + OTRW
Kingston 4GB USB-disk 128 MB swap + 1.4GB ext3 on /opt + 2 GB ext3 on /mnt
Copperjet 1616 modem in ZipB-config
Asterisk, pixelserv & Pound running on router
Another Asus RT16N as WDS-bridge
And yes i know the OP is using a buffalo g300nh but being that they are both atheros units, it still should apply for you as well.
looked into it but it asks that I format the USB drive with ext2 3 first which I dont want to. I am looking for a solution to use the USB with a large external HDD full of info.
I thought DD wRT is the ultimate firmware but it seams otherwise now. the original firmware has that option but for one user at a time. feel like it was a big waste reading all these posts and setting up ddwrt on my router.
couldn't he just use ProFTPD under nas? and just use the router as a ftp server to use his drive for storage etc?
maybe I am way off the mark as I just got an E3000 last night and connected an 8gb flash drive(ntfs) and turned on usb2.0/storage support and just turned on ProFTPD and did the password and did the file directory to /mnt. I can read and write using windows explorer. _________________ E4200
Everyone give B.S. and Eko a cookie !
If it isn't running DD-WRT it's just a router.
ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try 'modprobe fuse' as root
This time I've plugged usb stick, but it doesn't matter if it's flash drive or portable hdd.
frater wrote:
If you have optware
I don't and I can't install it, because I get something like "your hardware isn't supported", though I have Broadcom h/w (which, as far as I know, is supported).
By the way - why there's so much "hostX" in /dev/scsi/ ? (for the time being, I have four, although I haven't connected more than 2 devices to the router...)
Ok
You need to mount some more modules to get it going. Just fuse is not enough.
All this is done in my automount script, but then you don't have OTRW....
You can give an 'lsmod' to check if the modules were able to load.
It probably isn't when you only insert fuse.
Do a
Code:
ls -l /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/
And check which partition you want to mount
You gave an example of the whole disk _________________ Asus RT16N + OTRW
Kingston 4GB USB-disk 128 MB swap + 1.4GB ext3 on /opt + 2 GB ext3 on /mnt
Copperjet 1616 modem in ZipB-config
Asterisk, pixelserv & Pound running on router
Another Asus RT16N as WDS-bridge
I don't and I can't install it, because I get something like "your hardware isn't supported", though I have Broadcom h/w (which, as far as I know, is supported).
You're the first that says he has broadcom and can't install it. We should check why.
You probably can install it.
Something is probably wrong with one of the checks. _________________ Asus RT16N + OTRW
Kingston 4GB USB-disk 128 MB swap + 1.4GB ext3 on /opt + 2 GB ext3 on /mnt
Copperjet 1616 modem in ZipB-config
Asterisk, pixelserv & Pound running on router
Another Asus RT16N as WDS-bridge
At first, it didn't work, but I've restarted the router and then tried again. Looks like it's working.
Just to be clear, my mount command this time looked like this:
(the hdd is divided into 3 partitions - 1.5GB Fat32, 150GB NTFS and 325GB NTFS; Fat32 is automounted to /opt)
frater wrote:
You gave an example of the whole disk
Well, it was flash drive, but as you can see - I used hdd this time.
Still - can you tell me why there's so much hosts in /dev/scsi/ ? Every time something is plugged the number increases, thus making automount script useless (unless it does detect the largest number by the "host" and use it as a variable in the command...)
Anyway - as I can see, those are some charset tables (or something like that...). Why mounting didn't work without those commands?
And about optware...
I did run two commands, just as they appear in the OTRW how-to:
Code:
wget -O /opt/prep_optware http://wd.mirmana.com/prep_optware
sh /opt/prep_optware
And I got:
Quote:
Optware installation was NOT successfull...
Your hardware is probably not compatible
system type : Broadcom BCM4785 chip rev 2
processor : 0
cpu model : Broadcom BCM3302 V1.10
BogoMIPS : 299.00
wait instruction : no
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 32
extra interrupt vector : no
hardware watchpoint : no
ASEs implemented : mips16
shadow register sets : 1
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available
I'm using /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, ....
I do have to create these nodes in /dev
I'm going to sleep now...
We'll have to look into OTRW another time.
What kind of device do you have? _________________ Asus RT16N + OTRW
Kingston 4GB USB-disk 128 MB swap + 1.4GB ext3 on /opt + 2 GB ext3 on /mnt
Copperjet 1616 modem in ZipB-config
Asterisk, pixelserv & Pound running on router
Another Asus RT16N as WDS-bridge
The automount feature of DD-WRT doesn't do a good job with mounting the same partition all the time.
It's not really that much problem, as it mounts only my 1st partition and I have to mount 2nd manually. The problem is that the 'host numbers' increase every time I plug the hdd to the router, so simple script "copypasta" won't work as I need to check the number every time I plug in the hdd.
frater wrote:
I made a feature request that will make this happen.
It would be nice if it would automount the drive/partitions all by itself.
As for the link you've provided - it's kinda like black magic for me - I barely can understand "why" and "what for". Same for the "nodes" thing, etc.
I'm not really willing to install Optware, because I simply don't need it for anything. I just read somewhere, that Optware has ntfs support included and I wanted to check if it would be some kind of remedy to my problem. The solution with those additional 4 commands you've provided is sufficient enough for me, as I only wanted to mount my portable drive (which is used part-time as FTP drive). Nothing more.
I'm not really willing to install Optware, because I simply don't need it for anything.
You can't say you have no need for something if you don't know what it is. I know what it is (I wrote OTRW) and see you need it, because it solves the problem you are having.
I helped you doing it without OTRW because I can help you with your part of the problem. I can't do everything.. I did that with OTRW. _________________ Asus RT16N + OTRW
Kingston 4GB USB-disk 128 MB swap + 1.4GB ext3 on /opt + 2 GB ext3 on /mnt
Copperjet 1616 modem in ZipB-config
Asterisk, pixelserv & Pound running on router
Another Asus RT16N as WDS-bridge
You can't say you have no need for something if you don't know what it is. I know what it is (I wrote OTRW) and see you need it, because it solves the problem you are having.
I did read your manual months ago (tremendous job, by the way) and the whole Optware package is something a person like me won't use, ever.
(Well, perhaps excluding the automount/unmount/hotmount, which - as I presume could solve the problem in my case).
frater wrote:
I helped you doing it without OTRW because I can help you with your part of the problem. I can't do everything.. I did that with OTRW.
So you basically say that Optware does it (the automounting) way better than the dd-wrt built-in scripts (or whatever does this)?