OpenWRT on Asus WL-500gP: Command and Path Reference

update note 8/9/2010: This guide is for the Asus WL-500g Premium version 1 which has the Broadcom 4704 (Broadcom 4318). Asus rereleased the WL-500gP with a slower chip that is not yet supported.

console commands

COMMAND	DESCRIPTION
ipkg	package manager (update list status install)
logread	display entries from log files
nvram show	display nvram values
nvram set wl0_radio=0; wifi	turn radio off
nvram set wl0_radio=1; wifi	turn radio on
logread	view system log, all logs

perform basic tasks by command path reference

restart network

/etc/init.d/S40network restart

search for files or folders

find / -name $1 -print

view dhcp leases

cat /tmp/dhcp.leases

system logs

syslogd is started on startup. You can read it with 'logread'.

logread
logread -f

There are two options for where to send the logging output: (1) to a local file stored in RAM, (2) to a remote system. The local file option is very easy but because it is stored in RAM it will go away whenever the router reboots.

Enable remote logging:

nvram set log_ipaddr=<your syslogd ip>
nvram commit

To run syslogd and klogd

vi /etc/inittab

add the following lines:

::respawn:/sbin/syslogd -n
::respawn:/sbin/klogd -n

Tells syslogd to write the log file to /var/log/messages

/var is linked to /tmp but we may need to create /var/log at boot time

vi /etc/init.d/rcS

add the following line:

mkdir /var/log

which computers are connected and at what signal strength

Response is in dBm's and a less negative number is better. Put this script in /bin

ipkg install wl

#!/bin/sh
for MAC in `wl assoclist | awk '{print $2}'`
do
  echo -n "Computer: `grep -i ${MAC} /var/dhcp.leases | awk '{print $4}'`";
  echo -n " IP: `grep -i ${MAC} /var/dhcp.leases | awk '{print $3}'`";
  echo -n " Expires: `grep -i ${MAC} /var/dhcp.leases | awk '{print $1}' | awk '{print strftime("%x %X",$1)}'`" ;
  echo -n " Signal Strength: `wl rssi $MAC | awk '{print $3}'` dBm" ;
  echo " "
done

path information

The example configuration includes a mounted flash drive on the USB port. The bootloader then is configured so that the flash drive is mounted and the operating system loaded from it.

busybox shell command path information:

/mnt/disc0_1/usr/bin/
/usr/bin/