[debian-non-standard] USB-Stick not active after flashing

[Thomas Ohms]

Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 19:15 +0200 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski:
> Thomas Ohms schrieb:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 14:09 +0200 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski:
> >> Thomas Ohms schrieb:
> >>> Am Montag, den 23.06.2008, 21:53 +0200 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski:
> >>>> Thomas Ohms schrieb:
> >>>>> Hi there,
> >>>>> I was following your instructions on
> >>>>> http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe for the same
> >>>>> model. After flashing I put everything on ext3 formatted USB stick but
> >>>>> when I connect the router the LED of my USB stick stays dark. Seems the
> >>>>> USB port isn't active. First I thought that I have done something wrong
> >>>>> with flashing and so I used the Windows recovery tool from ASUS to flash
> >>>>> again (which is quite comfortable), but same result. Also I've added a
> >>>>> boot flag to USB stick and nothing happened again.
> >>>>> Any idea why my USB port on the router isn't active?
> >>>> Is the USB stick detected if you use OpenWRT?
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you have a serial cable?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I'm afraid no - USB port isn't active either and I'm afraid I don't have
> >>> a serial cable (guess it would make things easier).
> >> Please reply to the list (i.e., use "Reply All" in your mail client).
> >>
> >> So if USB doesn't work with OpenWRT, and it doesn't work with original 
> >> ASUS firmware, then it means your hardware is simply broken.
> > 
> > No, with original firmware it works fine! As I said - I could imagine
> > that it has to do with the upload process via tftp and that my way of
> > uploading via ASUS' restoration tool just isn't working as I was
> > thinking of.
> 
> I doubt any of your problems have anything to do with flashing. If it 
> was unsuccessful, your device wouldn't boot. There is no such thing like 
> "upon unsuccessful flashing, USB doesn't work".
> 
> All right - USB works fine with the original firmware.
> 
> If USB doesn't work with the kernel on my site, you won't be able to 
> boot Debian, obviously.
> So you have to debug your issue with OpenWRT - I assume OpenWRT boots at 
> least, but you're not able to use USB?
> 
> If it boots, than dmesg output would be interesting; if you manage to 
> get the binaries of lsusb and lspci, it's output would be helpful, as well.

As I said: I would answer "yes" here if at least I could get the
firmware on my router as mentioned in the HOWTO.
So could we start here?! Means my first problem is: when I try to upload
the firmware I always receive a timeout by tftp. How did you configure
your local network? What steps have you taken to get the firmware on the
router?

Thanks very, very much for your patience and help!