Gargoyle Forum

lantis,

I am going to try and revist this as there have been quite a few AirOS releases since and im keen to have a standby router configured with usb capabilities.

Im going to flash the latest AirOS and then install 1.9.1.

Before I waste my time, can you tell me if the gargoyle 1.9.1 airrouter build has usb enabled ???

rgs

it doesnt

that doesn't mean you can't recompile it yourself with support.

Thanks Lantis,

Having looked at this again last night i can confirm that the usb port is working with the latest AirOS 5.6.9 - it simply isnt mounted by default.

Given this should the airrouter build not include USB support by default ??

So I then uploaded the gargoyle 1.9.1 build and could not change plugin source - as as you point out that would be expected as usb support isnt in the build.

As you suggested I then decided to upload a custom build i came across
1.9.1.1 (r49398), by obsy http://eko.one.pl/?p=openwrt-gargoylepl-cc
which has the usb storage plugin included.
The strange thing with this was the usb storage was detected and i could setup a share on it no problem and access it from laptop.
I could NOT however change the 'Plugin Source' to the usb as the button simply wasnt present !

Am i missing something here or is this expected behaviour ?

foxyboy wrote:Thanks Lantis,

Having looked at this again last night i can confirm that the usb port is working with the latest AirOS 5.6.9 - it simply isnt mounted by default.

Given this should the airrouter build not include USB support by default ??

Probably. If you do a custom build and it works, I'll move it.

So I then uploaded the gargoyle 1.9.1 build and could not change plugin source - as as you point out that would be expected as usb support isnt in the build.

Agreed

As you suggested I then decided to upload a custom build i came across
1.9.1.1 (r49398), by obsy http://eko.one.pl/?p=openwrt-gargoylepl-cc
which has the usb storage plugin included.

I never suggested this

The strange thing with this was the usb storage was detected and i could setup a share on it no problem and access it from laptop.
I could NOT however change the 'Plugin Source' to the usb as the button simply wasnt present !

Am i missing something here or is this expected behaviour ?

Obsy modifies his builds to suit his idea of how external storage should work.
I believe in this instance he disables this feature in favour of "extroot".
From his changelog:

Disabling the installation of plug-ins on external media (you should do extroota in order to install more packages)

Ah, maybe if i read the changelog id have seen that

Lantis,

I attempted to perform a custom build

Is it simply a matter of enabling everything in the USB Support section ?
make custom
set target as ar71xxx
and then enable everything in USB-Support ?


Rgs

I'd just move the entry from the profiles out of the default and into USB under targets/ar71xx
Then initiate a build on the ar71xx.usb target

Lantis,

Finally got round to this and happy to report it works as expected.

Moved "-ubnt-airrouter-squashfs-" from
../targets/ar71xx/profiles/default
to
../targets/ar71xx/profiles/usb

Can you do same so its included for future builds?

rgs

Hi Lantis,

Before i break something...
Did usb support get into the 1.9.2 master ?
I just had a look at the firmware size and its a
tad on the small size.

rgs

No I don't think it did sorry. I'll do the change this weekend.