{"id":615,"date":"2015-10-03T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boviner.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2015-10-03T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T13:48:15","slug":"setting-up-dd-wrt-on-d-link-dir-868l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/setting-up-dd-wrt-on-d-link-dir-868l\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up DD-WRT on D-Link DIR-868L"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got the great looking D-Link DIR-868L free recently from a broadband package that I signed up.
\n\"DIR-868L-A1-Image-L-Side-Left-\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s an amazing router that has great features<\/a> and performance. It also has great hardware specs, which makes it a perfect candidate for trying custom firmware like dd-wrt or OpenWrt. My preference would be to go for OpenWrt, unfortunately at this point of writing it is not supported. So it’s on to dd-wrt.<\/p>\n

Installation of dd-wrt firmware can be done by following this wiki<\/a>. Try it at your own risk, and always have the stock firmware on hand in case it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

Assuming you got this far, what’s next? Packages, naturally! To do that you have to first enable JFFS at the dd-wrt Administration tab. Next, let’s install something.<\/p>\n

root@xxxxxxxx:\/jffs\/tmp# ipkg update
\nmkdir: can't create directory '\/\/usr\/local\/lib\/': Read-only file system<\/p>\n

root@xxxxxxxx:~# ipkg install nano
\nroot@xxxxxxxx:~# nano
\n-sh: nano: not found
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Uh oh. Turns out ipkg is broken on this firmware and a search turns up other users<\/a> facing the same issue<\/a>. Someone on the forums suggested opkg instead and that’s where I went. There are many forum posts, blog posts and wikis on this topic. The one that I’m using is this<\/a>. However, it doesn’t work out of the box else there won’t be this blog post :-).<\/p>\n

Following the instructions, you should reach a step that tells you to download a script and execute it. Going for the “not so brave people” approach,<\/p>\n

root@xxxxxxxx:\/jffs\/tmp# wget -q -O- http:\/\/debian.keithdunnett.net\/ddwrt\/optware_setup > optware_setup
\nroot@xxxxxxxx:\/jffs\/tmp# chmod 700 optware_setup
\nroot@xxxxxxxx:\/jffs\/tmp# .\/optware_setup
\nChecking we can reach the repository...
\n.\/optware_setup: line 15: can't create \/opt\/usr\/bin\/optware_boottime: nonexistent directory
\nchmod: \/opt\/usr\/bin\/optware_boottime: No such file or directory
\nMaking sure we have an initial opkg
\nConnecting to downloads.openwrt.org (78.24.191.177:443)
\nwget: server returned error: HTTP\/1.1 404 Not Found
\nConnecting to dev.openwrt.org (217.115.15.26:443)
\nwget: can't open '\/opt\/lib\/functions.sh': Read-only file system
\ntar: can't open 'opkg.ipk': No such file or directory
\ntar: can't open 'data.tar.gz': No such file or directory
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Delving into the script, there are 2 problems. First, bind \/opt to \/jffs\/opt. Then change line 32 of the script to the updated link (look up the latest link here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

root@xxxxxxxx:\/jffs\/tmp# mount -o bind \/jffs\/opt \/opt
\nroot@xxxxxxxx:\/jffs\/tmp# vi optware_setup
\nchange to line 32:
\n`\/usr\/bin\/wget https:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/snapshots\/trunk\/bcm53xx\/generic\/packages\/base\/opkg_9c97d5ecd795709c8584e972bfdf3aee3a5b846d-10_bcm53xx.ipk -O opkg.ipk` \\
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Let’s try again.<\/p>\n

root@xxxxxxxx:\/jffs\/tmp# .\/optware_setup
\nChecking we can reach the repository...
\nMaking sure we have an initial opkg
\nConnecting to downloads.openwrt.org (78.24.191.177:443)
\nopkg.ipk 100% |***********************************************************************************************************************| 59159 0:00:00 ETA
\nConnecting to dev.openwrt.org (217.115.15.26:443)
\nfunctions.sh 100% |***********************************************************************************************************************| 7274 0:00:00 ETA
\nCreating the opkg config file in \/opt\/etc\/opkg
\nYou are now ready to install packages using opkg (this session only).
\nI've installed a script, optware_boottime, to run on boot and make the opkg settings persistent.
\nI'll add this to the end of rc_startup in nvram for you.
\nDownloading http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/snapshots\/trunk\/bcm53xx\/generic\/packages\/base\/Packages.gz.
\nUpdated list of available packages in var\/opkg-lists\/chaos_calmer_base.
\nDownloading http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/snapshots\/trunk\/bcm53xx\/generic\/packages\/packages\/Packages.gz.
\nUpdated list of available packages in var\/opkg-lists\/chaos_calmer_packages.
\nDownloading http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/snapshots\/trunk\/bcm53xx\/generic\/packages\/routing\/Packages.gz.
\nUpdated list of available packages in var\/opkg-lists\/chaos_calmer_routing.
\nDownloading http:\/\/downloads.openwrt.org\/snapshots\/trunk\/bcm53xx\/generic\/packages\/telephony\/Packages.gz.
\nUpdated list of available packages in var\/opkg-lists\/chaos_calmer_telephony.
\nMinimal setup is complete. You should now have a working opkg.
\nWe have created some aliases in your ~\/.profile to make everything work.
\nPlease either 'source .profile' or LOG OUT and LOG IN AGAIN before proceeding.
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Success!<\/p>\n

PS: Note that you’ll need to add \/jffs\/opt to your fstab or something in order to mount \/opt on startup.
\nDisclaimer: I’m a vim user. nano is just an example \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got the great looking D-Link DIR-868L free recently from a broadband package that I signed up. It’s an amazing router that has great features and performance. It also has great hardware specs, which makes it a perfect candidate for trying custom firmware like dd-wrt or OpenWrt. My preference would be to go for OpenWrt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,18,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}