Comments on: Linksys NSLU2 OpenWRT NAS and Backup Solution

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:40:04 +0000

Anybody know how to install and mount a usb cdrom drive on an nslu2 running openWrt? Here’s what I get in dmesg:

scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B E106 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0

but I never get an “Attached” message. Any ideas?

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:56:47 +0000

@egalitarian
That was an oversight. I’ve now corrected it. Thanks!

By: egalitarian

egalitarian — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:19:17 +0000

Thanks for good guide. I just have one question. Why in /etc/init.d/pivotroot you load uhci module and on the other place you use ehci. Is it intentional? If I’m not mistaken uhci is USB1 and ehci is USB2 so isn’t it better to use ehci on both places?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:08:16 +0000

Thanks a lot Man

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:17:09 +0000

Here’s a copy of my smb.conf for the NSLU2:
http://www.yorkspace.com/wp-content/nslu2-smb.conf.txt

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:58:41 +0000

I’ve a setup like your but I’m getting troubles with Samba, don’t know why but the same config I’ve previously used for another Debian machine doesn’t work with the Slug. I’ve OpenWRT like you but it seems I’m getting errors when I try to use “valid users” directive, everything works fine in guest mode. Obviously I’ve inserted users in /etc/passwd and even used “smbpasswd user password” command to add the user (not smbpasswd –add user passwd ?).
Can you please post your smb.conf so I can see the differences and see a working one.

Thank you in advance
Cheers
Ben

By: Mauriat

Mauriat — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:11:24 +0000

This is exactly what I did with my “SLUG”. Since I had so many PC’s and Laptops both Linux and Windows, I also used it as a DHCP and DNS with preconfigured IP’s for all the machines. This works incredibly well.

I had 2 issues.

1. The hardware serial port (that I manually added) for whatever reason caused a problem during bootup.

2. The performance for large transfers over SSH was not very efficient. Samba was much better, but at times left a lot to be desired.

I’ve since stopped using it for major file transfers, but the NTP, DNS and DHCP works incredibly well.