USB + Gargoyle on WL500G

[Dan90]

I've been using gargoyle since september last year on my WL500 and I must say I love it.

I have read somewhere it is possible to install usb support on openwrt? How would I go about doing this?

Ideally I would like to be able to use one usb port to plug the printer into. Would this be possible at all?

Any info would be appreciated. Cheers

[DoesItMatter]

http://www.macsat.com/OpenWRT/USBActivate.php

Check that one out?

Remember - Gargoyle is a Front-end GUI for OpenWRT

So 99% of the time, OpenWRT instructions should work with
Gargoyle, but a lot of it is usually command line stuff.

[Dan90]

I'm happy to do some leg work with command line. It's all a learning curve

[Dan90]

Probably should mention in running kamikaze 8.09.1, that shouldn't matter too much should it?

[DoesItMatter]

I don't think it would matter.

I think Gargoyle 1.2.3 is on Kamikaze 8.09.2?

Not sure how all this would work once its ported to Backfire.

[Dan90]

I'm a little behind, haven't gotten around to flashing my router with a newer version. The WL500 i still running 1.0.12 (I do have some D-links running a 1.1 version (16 maybe?)

Anyway, I have gotten it working from an old mint laptop laying around the house while watching tv. The link you gave me had all the info I needed to setup the router, a few minutes on google found the rest.

Before I go and setup the other computers in the house, if I was to flash the WL500 to the newer version of gargoyle, would that mean I would need to setup the printer packages again? Doesn't worry me, but I don't want to do too much work and have to do it again. lol

Thanks for the link before btw.

[Dan90]

All I need to really figure out now is how to get the printer daemon to auto start when the router boots. Another thing to learn

[DoesItMatter]

I believe there is a startup script somewhere.

You should be able to just add the commands to startup the
USB functionality to that.

Not sure what the startup is called though, I usually don't
do much command line stuff other than standard configs.