I'm a huge geek when it comes down to OpenWRT.
\nI love the style of small little router boards with not much power consumption and still big impact and power.
\nI have been registred on OpenWRT Forums since 2006, and thats also the time I'm already working on it and doing (weird) stuff with it.
\nAnd actually I just plainly love that small debian derived linux.<\/p>\n
And thats why most of you would be wondering why I never downloaded the build enviroment and build an image myself.
\nActually, I have to face the same question. Because, In fact, its very easy to build an image from source to your own like.<\/p>\n
I was thinking about writing an long big blog entry about this topic, but actually, its awesomly well documented within the OpenWRT Wiki, so I just give you the link and encourage you on building your own images: http:\/\/wiki.openwrt.org\/doc\/howto\/build<\/p>\n
But for all who want it short for Ubuntu 10.03, here are my notes:<\/p>\n
install req:
\napt-get install build-essential asciidoc autoconf binutils bison bzip2 \\
\n flex gawk gettext libncurses5-dev libz-dev patch unzip zlib1g-dev subversion<\/p>\n
download stable:
\nmkdir OpenWrt\/
\ncd OpenWrt\/
\nsvn co svn:\/\/svn.openwrt.org\/openwrt\/branches\/backfire<\/p>\n
download and install feeds:
\nBefore downloading feeds (additional predefined package build recipies for OpenWrt) you
\ncan check which sources you want to include. Just edit feeds.conf.default in your base directory.
\nThen start the download with
\n.\/scripts\/feeds update -a
\ninstall with
\n.\/scripts\/feeds install -a<\/p>\n
Building Process<\/p>\n
1. Updating sources via Subversion
\n## Here, backfire is the directory name of the current release branch you're tracking
\ncd OpenWrt\/backfire\/
\nsvn up<\/p>\n
2. Updating package feeds
\n.\/scripts\/feeds update -a
\n.\/scripts\/feeds install -a<\/p>\n
3. Creating a default configuration (if necessary)
\nmake defconfig<\/p>\n
4. Configuring the image(s) to build
\nmake menuconfig<\/p>\n
5. Building the image
\nmake<\/p>\n
copy images:
\ncd bin\/
\nls *\/<\/p>\n
cleaning up
\nmake clean<\/p>\n
cleaing everything, erasing build images:
\nmake distclean<\/p>\n
If you need own files compiled into the image, put them to: OpenWrt\/backfire\/files<\/p>\n
How to disable failsafe:<\/p>\n
Edit \"package\/base-files\/files\/lib\/preinit\/30_failsafe_wait\"
\n- FAILSAFE=
\n- pi_failsafe_net_message=true
\n- preinit_net_echo \"Please press button now to enter failsafe\"
\n- pi_failsafe_net_message=false
\n- fs_wait_for_key f 'to enter failsafe mode' $fs_failsafe_wait_timeout && FAILSAFE=true && export FAILSAFE
\n+ FAILSAFE=false
\n+ #pi_failsafe_net_message=true
\n+ #preinit_net_echo \"Please press button now to enter failsafe\"
\n+ #pi_failsafe_net_message=false
\n+ #fs_wait_for_key f 'to enter failsafe mode' $fs_failsafe_wait_timeout && FAILSAFE=true && export FAILSAFE<\/p>\n