So I decided to buy a new router since my HD space was getting low. I bought the Asus 700Gl. The thing is suppose to be great because it has a built in 160gb HD which is to act like a media stream for Itunes and Torrents as well as a network server. I got the internet and user name configured however it appears that the router doesn't like ID3 tagging from Itunes (just gives the filenames and not the tags)

Theres a prog out there called MtDaapd which supposable makes ID3 tages friendly to itunes. Link below

http://www.debonaras.org/wiki/HowTo/MtDaapd

Now in order to install any scripts or any type of add ons to this router, I'm suppose to download and install the hacked firmware that a group of angry 700Gl users created to make this router functional (apparently I missed the memo when I bought this saying it sucks unless you know linux really well..It's great after you can get another Distro on and are able to expand and install packages and such)

So here is the how to guide I'm trying to figure out. I installed the hacked firmware allready and created a user directory like the tutorial said under /shares/MYVOLUME1/opt/etc

http://home.comcast.net/~kfurge/wl700ge.html#Example_rc.local_files_

Now I'm suppose to telnet into the router to run the script  /shares/MYVOLUME1/opt/etc/rc.local

I'm not sure what the heck I'm doing, just winging it and hoping I get lucky. Anyone have time to read over the info and help me make some simple logical sense of this tuturial, please let me know...Thanks

Once again another update....

SO it turns out MV is used and not NV...I found out as soon as I zoomed in a little. So I finished this tutorial but I'm still unsure what all this does. I don't know linux unless there's a gui in front of me so I guess i'm in the dark yet

Oh well, no worries.

k, so I did indeed get everything working

Thing is though is that ipkg doesn't launch right away. once I do these commands in Putty though I have it

    *  export PATH=/opt/bin:${PATH}
    * export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}


Now how would I go about getting that to run all the time? I would imagine I would use vi and edit my rc.local file and add it in startup (which I thought I did) but it ended up not working. I still have to run the export commands before it runs.

Another prob I have is my installing... The directory some of my apps are installed under is /opt/etc/opt/etc. Now I believe this may be the prob with my first problem as well. It should be in opt/etc but for some reason it created another opt/etc directory and dumped everything in there (more less mt-daapd which is a itunes server under linux that actually is suppose to run id3 tagging)

Now I haven't gotten around to changing the export path to

export PATH=/opt/etc/opt/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/etc/opt/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

However I would like to just move the entire second opt directory overtop of the first one like it should be. I was looking at MV a little more but haven't figured out the exact command I would need to execute in order to move everything from /opt/etc/opt/ to the original /opt dir and overwrite everything (it's all new files so nothing should be technically overwritten)

I believe that if I do this that I will solve my prob with my export paths and why ipkg is not being executed..(I also installed BASH scripting along with busybox but I need to add something to get those features to start. I was thinkiing export starts all your scripts but if it doesn't...how would u go about adding that script to

Any Ideas..this has been a pretty good learning experience and so far I'm pretty happy. I have maatpd running (runs off the server...192.168.1.1:3869) and spending 9 hours straight, I've been getting around pretty decent now. But there still is a few ? that I don't understand.

Oh 1 more thing...

when I get a script (I've been getting them from this great site http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/)

I use wget and the html..Then after that I do tar xvzf [the package name]; tar xvzf data.tar.gz

That whole code I believe unzips the package. Is that used just in this unix distro is the code simular when ur installing with other linux distros as well (Ubuntu, Debian). Also the packages end in .mipsel?

Is that just the extention of nl2u? or is that like a type of zip for distro's and tar is the unziping?

Just some questions if anyone gets around to answering. Thanks

If you want to move files around and you have ssh access (which I will assume you do since you mentioned putty) get a copy of WinSCP. Gives you a graphical interface for moving files around and you can transfer files with your machine and edit config files from your windows machine.

**Do I get an award for the longest run-on sentence in a while?