I would like to describe another OpenWrt configuration. It’s going to be just few examples how to configure latest available OpenWrt firmware Backfire 10.03.1.
I’m going to use TP-Link TL-WR1043ND wifi router with small 64MB USB stick [/dev/sda1] containing ext2 partition. I plan to have some stats on the USB stick and simple html pages as well.
I forget to publish this article almost a year ago 
So now it’s a good time before I’ll write another one…
It’s OUTDATED and INCOMPLETE, but it can still bring some light…
Few days ago I bought WiFi router TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. The main reason was the USB, Gigabit Ethernet ports, 802.11n and support in latest OpenWrt.
OpenWrt is amazing project which can create really powerful device from the wifi routers.
I spent many days with collecting various information about OpenWrt, because I want to use web camera, USB hub, external USB storage and later few thermometers.
I decided to compile it from scratch (using Fedora 13), because squashfs can’t work with block-extroot without building an image (see https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=108642).
I prefer to use squashfs, because some people say it’s better than jffs2.
Here you can find my notes…
Sometimes you have a RHEL/CentOS server which is not connected to the Internet. But you should also install security update to prevent local hackers to mess up your system.
I was not able to find some nice description how to do it. Some people are using proxies – but then you still need some connection to the proxy – which can not be the case.
Here is my way how I did it….
Sometimes you need to run Nvidia proprietary drivers in various linux distributions.
I was able to run it on standard RHEL 6.0 installed as “Desktop” with the following commands:
My brother asked me to customize firmware in his WiFi router TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. He wants to use if for downloading torrents and sharing them using smb and ftp protocols.
I have good experiences with OpenWrt, which is really good in customization and suits well for this purpose. Nowadays you there are few torrent clients in OpenWrt distribution, but I choose transmission and for ftp daemon vsftpd.
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