[GTALUG] War story: OpenWRT USB access

Scott Sullivan scott at ss.org
Thu Jan 8 03:20:05 UTC 2015


On 01/07/2015 01:52 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Giles Orr <gilesorr at gmail.com>
> | I'm willing to try anything by this point, so I installed:
> |
> | kmod-nls-iso8859-1
> | kmod-nls-cp437
> |
> | Test again, and ... I can mount USB storage devices!
>
> Wow.
>
> I wonder how you could have figured this out (except via folklore).
>
> Since it is a kernel module that is missing the nls-* modules, the
> only ways of reporting the problem are: EWHATEVER return code (rather
> non-specific) or logging (would have to be rate-limited).  I guess
> neither of these were used.
>
> Can you fix the web page that gave you the first hints to include the
> lore about nls-*?

I remember going through this very same series of events as Giles. It 
was a few years ago with the TP-Link MR-3020, which I was setting up as 
a portable PXE boot server.

I was going through various parts of the wiki on that, but found the 
need information was covered in comprehensive document. Ah yes, this 
looks to be the one.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/storage

Also relevant, but assumes ext a linux-ish file systems, so doesn't 
mention VFAT or it's NLS needs.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/usb.storage

-- 
Scott Sullivan


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