At this moment I am using Oleg's firmware on the Asus WL500g Premium. This device is used for Wifi router and samba server with USB hard disk and printer. I have also a Linksys NSLU2 with OpenSlug firmware as a NAS in my network. I want to backup this NAS automatically to the USB hard disk attached …

Used firmware WL500gp-1.9.2.7-7g.trx from Oleg

In the forum wl500g.info is information available for the installation.

I used the first time installation HowTo part 1 and 2 from Marcnesium.

Remark for this HowTo

If you use a large disk, like me, the mke2fs command needs a lot of memory. Enable swap …

The original Asus firmware

The original firmware from Asus (version 1.9.7.2) is good. This firmware version is stable and has a lot of nice functions, like:

• QoS, which is easy adjustable.
• Easy to attach hard disk and printer
• And all kind of things what i should expect in a Wifi router

What do i …

This page is moved, I described all my changes here:
[OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL500GP - OpenWrt](http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/asus/wl500gp)

Backports/Packages

Some useful packages have been backported from the development branch (trunk) to White Russian. See the RC6 00-README file for more details. To use the packages from the backports repository edit /etc/ipkg.conf and add: src backports downloads.openwrt.org/backports/0.9/ Now run …

Display kernel startup messages

$ dmesg

The logfile /var/log/messages

/etc/syslog.conf contains the configuration of this deamon

To disable the “–MARK–” messages set in syslog.conf: MARKINT to zero (minutes)

Create tar file gzipped en incl. relative path

$ tar czpf …