An Easy Guide to Installing Tomato on the Asus 520gu

220 Responses to “An Easy Guide to Installing Tomato on the Asus 520gu”

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   Rytis 19. Nov, 2009 at 2:12 pm #

   You might need to mess with ipt­a­bles, check my pre­vi­ous post.

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   icy1 29. Nov, 2009 at 8:41 pm #

   Will tomato let you use the asus as a repeater like DD-wrt will?

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   Johnny 02. Dec, 2009 at 10:11 pm #

   One impor­tant thing is miss­ing in this guide, which caused me a lot of trou­ble. I tried a cou­ple of times and finally find the solu­tion from the tomato wik­i­books. The prob­lem is that after flash­ing the tomato firmware, I can­not log in the web inter­face using the login infor­ma­tion user “root” pass­word “admin”, which is not cor­rect.
   The solu­tion is that after you install dd-wrt firmware, it is nec­es­sary to tel­net “192.168.1.1″ log in dd-wrt with default login which is usu­ally “admin:admin”. Type com­mand “nvram get http_passwd” to get a long string, which is the cor­rect pass­word. Then you can flash the tomato firmware and log in with user name “root” and pass­word you just obtained.

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     h4x0r 19. Jun, 2010 at 10:47 pm #

     @Johnny
     I can’t login into the web inter­face. I tried to tel­net to the IP address and it keeps telling me that the login is incor­rect.
     I thought that I had bricked my router until I read your com­ment. Any ideas on what I can do?
     Thanks!

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       johnny 20. Jun, 2010 at 12:49 am #

       You should be able to go back to dd-wrt firmware by using the firmware restora­tion util­ity. If you can login to dd-wrt, your router has noth­ing wrong. The tel­net step must be done in dd-wrt firmware, before you flash­ing the tomato firmware. Next, just fol­low my post to get the pass­word and see if that’ll work.

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       johnny 20. Jun, 2010 at 12:59 am #

       I just notice that there’s another post under­neath writ­ten by Rodalli. If you can’t tel­net to the IP address, you can try a NVRAM clear process men­tioned by him. Good luck!

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         h4x0r 20. Jun, 2010 at 6:39 am #

         Thanks!!! It worked per­fectly. I should’ve read all the com­ments before both­er­ing you. Thanks again!

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   John 05. Dec, 2009 at 8:22 pm #

   super help­ful walk­thru! I got hung up on the firmware flash. Under win 7 and vista, the pro­gram needs to be Run as admin­stra­tor. If not, the util­ity just searches for the router but never finds it. After fig­ur­ing that out, it was smooth sail­ing. Still hav­ing trou­ble get­ting the printer to work though — would love addi­tiona info on that if you have it! Thanks again.

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     Andrew 02. Feb, 2010 at 5:13 pm #

     when I use the firmware restora­tion in vista(64), keeps search­ing ip address. how to over­come this prob­lem ? I am an admin­is­tra­tor option for my lap­top. Thanks.

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   HK 11. Dec, 2009 at 7:13 pm #

   i fol­lowed your step and now i am not able to login to as root and pwd admin
   can any­one help me?

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   Sandip 16. Dec, 2009 at 9:24 pm #

   the step that Johnny posted above is def­i­nitely key to log­ging into Tomato after the ini­tial install. Tel­net into 192.168.1.1 as he said and save that pass­word. Your ini­tial Tomato login is root/(the p/w you wrote down)

   great guide — maybe just add this step to the end of it.

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   HK 18. Dec, 2009 at 8:55 pm #

   Thanks man it worked This time it did not ask for pass­word to login and i was able to make changes.

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   Canada Eh! 27. Dec, 2009 at 6:37 am #

   I would like to see a start to fin­ish walk through for OSX “snow leop­ard” would be nice. No win­dows under any­thing, pure OSX. thanks

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   MERGOU 27. Dec, 2009 at 6:47 am #

   can not log in to router.. not accept­ing root/admin..help

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    User7 10. Jan, 2010 at 4:29 am #

    I can’ login to router too. Same prob­lem. HELP ! Hard reset not work­ing. Login and pass­word not accepted

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    User7 11. Jan, 2010 at 7:52 pm #

    Prob­lem resolved ! WL500GP again alive ! Hard reset pin 9 to ground help me.
    More info whith pic­ture how make hard reset here http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2507

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    first_time_flasher 23. Jan, 2010 at 4:55 pm #

    Hi. I am try­ing to flash my WL-520GU using these instruc­tions but can’t get ddrt firmware to upload. I keep get­ting “invalid ip” after click­ing the upload but­ton. Any idea? Is it because I have a newer Asus firmware? TIA!

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    first_time_flasher 23. Jan, 2010 at 5:18 pm #

    Try­ing to flash my router with these instruc­tions but can’t seem to get the ddwrt firmware to upload. I get the fol­low­ing mes­sage “invalid ip” after click­ing on the upload but­ton. Any suggestions?

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    Help! 24. Jan, 2010 at 9:42 am #

    Help! I can’t access the tomato gui through 192.168.1.1 after I set it as a wire­less eth­er­net bridge. Is there any­way to reset the tomato con­fig­u­ra­tions to default? Thanks!!

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    Ren 24. Jan, 2010 at 3:14 pm #

    For First_time_flasher;
    I had this issue. I got around it by assign­ing a fixed ip address to the com­puter that I Was using to flash the router with. Try it.

    And for Help! Are you hav­ing the pass­word issue ? I had this issue as well on my 2nd router. I flashed it back to ddwrt, wrote down the pass­word ( see above) then went back to tomato again. Strangely enough, the pass­word was then reset to the default one.
    This all did not hap­pen on my first router. Used the same firmwares on both.

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    aston4 31. Jan, 2010 at 10:44 pm #

    Works per­fectly except.…

    I have a Dell Mini-9 triple boot­ing OSX Ubunto 9.10 and a legit copy of Win­dows 7 I bought when they were run­ning the pre-release special.

    I have tomato run­ning on the Asus in client-bridge mode, so that it con­nects to the rest of my wire­less net­work (two other routers, one flashed with DD-WRT, and the other is generic I can’t remem­ber what it is run­ning stock firmware)

    Under Mac OS, every­thing works per­fect (both print­ing simul­ta­ne­ous 500gig file shares)

    Under Ubuntu 9.10 every­thing works perfectly.

    I have two old XP machines, one SP2 and one SP3 every­thing works perfectly.

    Under Win­dows 7, print­ing works fine, but when I try to access the hard drive shared on the Asus Tomato, Win­dows 7 LOCKS UP ALL THREE OF MY COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WIRELESS ROUTERS! requir­ing power cycling to get my net­work back.

    Win­dows 7 looks shiny on the out­side, but is actu­ally a use­ful weapon to a ter­ror­ist! Imag­ine imple­ment­ing a virus based on what­ever the heck they are doing. They could take down all the world’s wire­less con­nec­tions in sec­onds. If you have any ideas how to work around this, I’d love to know!

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      bookishboy 26. Feb, 2010 at 4:20 am #

      Try this:

      Go into the net­work adapter set­tings, select your wire­less adapter and choose “prop­er­ties”. If IPv6 is selected, then de-select it and choose “apply”. If one of your routers is a cou­ple of years old and only sup­ports ipv4, your net­work­ing set­tings may be con­fus­ing it into lock­ing up. I had this prob­lem with Win7 64bit and a dlink router. Every time my com­puter tried to con­nect to the router it would briefly be served by it, then sud­denly the router would reset and every­thing con­nected through it would lose net­work access until it came back up.

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    aston4 31. Jan, 2010 at 10:47 pm #

    I found some infor­ma­tion regard­ing this prob­lem here, but I tried what was sug­gested and it did not help

    http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/75–63-windows-samba-issue

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    Alex Cristiano 01. Feb, 2010 at 2:15 am #

    Hav­ing a hard time with a shared USB drive / Asus WL 520GU and Tomato 1.27 Teddy Bear USB Std.

    Exter­nal Hard­Drive, FAT32 par­ti­tion. Shared, I can see it in my XP, can write small files, but some problems:

    a) WinXP does not rec­og­nize the cor­rect size of the disc (shows me 20Gb)

    b) WinXP does not rec­og­nize the free space of the disc

    c) cant trans­fer big files TO the shared disc. First I was using a 1.25 ver­sion, and get­ting an error “The spec­i­fied net­work name is no longer available”.

    d) upgraded to the 1.27, now I have the error above, and some­times the error is like this: I try to move a 700Mb file from local drive to shared drive, and if first cre­ates a zero sized file, then asks me if I want to over­write, and at some point it says me that it cant move because the file is being used.

    dont know what to do, any ideas ?

    thanks,
    Alex Cristiano

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    Andrew 03. Feb, 2010 at 6:53 pm #

    I’d like to setup NAS at ASUS WL520GU with Tomato_1_27_ND.7z. Could you add some step by step pro­ce­dures ? It looks that there’s no USB/NAS setup menu in GUI. Thank you !!

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    Chris 12. Feb, 2010 at 2:34 am #

    A big thanks to the author of these sim­ple direc­tions and thanks to the authors of many of these com­ments that helped me get this work­ing. I bought this router so I could share my printer, and the Asus firmware wasn’t cut­ting it. After installing the Tomato firmware using these excel­lent direc­tions I got every­thing work­ing after a lit­tle tweak­ing. Thanks a lot!

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    Matt 13. Feb, 2010 at 3:15 pm #

    Good guide, but seems like allot of work when all you have to do is load WL520gu_2.0.0.8_EN.trx offi­cial firmware from ASUS on the 520gu. After that is loaded, just rename the lat­est 1.27ND USB Tomato to WL520gu_2.0.0.9_EN.trx and upload through the asus firmware inter­face on the router.

    Works like a charm. I have done this method about 4–5 times now and works every time. No need to load DD-WRT first or use any other addi­tional tools.

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      Leroy 17. Apr, 2010 at 3:56 am #

      Thanks Matt. This worked per­fectly. This seems also to solve the prob­lem with not being able to find the IP address (because your are using the firmware util­ity and not the soft­ware utility).

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    Matt 13. Feb, 2010 at 3:18 pm #

    Eas­ier method:

    1. Load WL520gu_2.0.0.8_EN.trx (Offi­cial ASUS firmware from ASUS web­site, even if you have newer firmware on your router).

    2. Rename the lat­est Tomato USB firmware to WL520gu_2.0.0.9_EN.trx and upload via firmware upgrade in ASUS setup screen.

    Done.

    I have done this method 3–4 times now on dif­fer­ent wl520gu and works every time. No need to load dd-wrt first or use any addi­tional utilities.

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      Brian Canada 26. Feb, 2010 at 9:21 pm #

      Hi Matt. I’m try­ing to ‘upgrade’ my 520 to _2.0.0.8_, cur­rent it has v3.x firmware. Every time I try it fails. Web based it just fails and says ‘check file ver­sion or file integrity’. I’ve tried under XP and two PC’s under Linux with sev­eral browsers.

      When try­ing the Firmware Restora­tion tool it always says ‘con­nect to the wire­less device’ for about 30 sec­ond then stops say­ing ‘no wire­less devices found’.

      Since cur­rently it is v 3.x. could it be as sim­ple as renam­ing the 2.0.0.8 to a ver­sion higher than what I have now? I’d rather not plow ahead blindly and brick this. Any ideas?

      A big step I for­got was the step with the reset but­ton. Another user assigned an IP to get around the invalid IP error mes­sage. A day later and the obvi­ous looks obvi­ous. I’ll try these later. I’d appre­ci­ate any com­ments so far as versions.

      I’m pretty sure I already bricked a Linksys router. All the leds do is flash and no web access or tftp. I’d rather not have the Asus 520 join it.

      thanks, Bj

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        Matt 27. Feb, 2010 at 1:42 am #

        Hi Brian.

        I am not sure why your router is refus­ing the firmware upgrade, unless it is look­ing for a newer file name. You can always try renam­ing it as it shoulnd’t hurt. I didn’t have any issues when I loaded an older firmware on.

        Did you try to do a fac­tory reset first to see if some­thing isn’t caus­ing the upgrade to hang?

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          Brian Canada 27. Feb, 2010 at 9:02 pm #

          Hi Matt. Suc­cess! I’m so pleased,thank you.

          How­ever here is an odd prob­lem. Feel­ing cocky I decided to look at a spare WL-520GU that I thought I bricked the other day. I pressed the reset but­ton, got the flash­ing LED. Using the Asus Firmware Restora­tion stand­alone and I suc­cess­fuly flashed the router with 2.0.0.8. The router rebooted and I tried to login but it would not accept the default user­name / pass­word. Think­ing that in some odd way it kept my old pwd I tried it as well with no luck. Just the fact its ask­ing for a pwd gave me hope.

          I then suc­cess­fully (accord­ing to the firmware tool) with Tomato. Upon reboot I am not allowed in the router, the browser did not see it. I tried 2.0.0.8 again and the cur­rent v3.x with no luck. Using Tomato or 3.x I do not get any login prompt, using 2.0.0.8 I’m still stuck at the pwd prompt.

          Some part of the router is alive and I’d like to recover from this.

          thanks, Bj

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          Brian Canada 27. Feb, 2010 at 9:03 pm #

          Hi Matt. Suc­cess! I’m so pleased,thank you.

          How­ever here is an odd prob­lem. Feel­ing cocky I decided to look at a spare WL-520GU that I thought I bricked the other day. I pressed the reset but­ton, got the flash­ing LED. Using the Asus Firmware Restora­tion stand­alone and I suc­cess­fully flashed the router with 2.0.0.8. The router rebooted and I tried to login but it would not accept the default user­name / pass­word. Think­ing that in some odd way it kept my old pwd I tried it as well with no luck. Just the fact its ask­ing for a pwd gave me hope.

          I then suc­cess­fully (accord­ing to the firmware tool) with Tomato. Upon reboot I am not allowed in the router, the browser did not see it. I tried 2.0.0.8 again and the cur­rent v3.x with no luck. Using Tomato or 3.x I do not get any login prompt, using 2.0.0.8 I’m still stuck at the pwd prompt.

          Some part of the router is alive and I’d like to recover from this.

          thanks, Bj

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            Brian Canada 08. Mar, 2010 at 9:37 pm #

            Reply­ing to my own mes­sage just o keep this in order.

            My 520 is truly haunted. Flash­ing it with Asus firmware I still get the a login prompt that I can­not get past. After suc­cess­fully flash­ing with Tomato it does not respond after a reboot.

            I’m won­der­ing now if flash­ing with *WRT would fare any bet­ter. I might try to give that a shot.

            Its alive and I’d like to recover it but this is so weird.

            Any help at all I’d appre­ci­ate guys.

            Bj
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          Brian Canada 27. Feb, 2010 at 10:31 pm #

          This is even weirder now. I flashed the 520 again with the cur­rent v3.x from Asus. I received a user­name / pass­word prompt. The usual admin/admin or admin / no pwd did not work. It also brought up an HTML page and image from the router — some­thing about how my WAN cable was not plugged in (it was correct.

          I really think there is somthign here to save. Its just weird.

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      Brian Canada 26. Feb, 2010 at 9:24 pm #

      Hello

      A big step I for­got was the step with the reset but­ton. Another user assigned an IP to get around the invalid IP error mes­sage. A day later and the obvi­ous looks obvi­ous. I’ll try these later. I’d appre­ci­ate any com­ments so far as versions.

      I’m pretty sure I already bricked a Linksys router. All the leds do is flash and no web access or tftp. I’d rather not have the Asus 520 join it.

      thanks, Bj

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    ben frank 17. Feb, 2010 at 11:39 pm #

    I have ugraded to tomato and attached a usb hard drive which is rec­og­nized by the router. How do I access the files from my mac?

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    noabody 25. Feb, 2010 at 3:34 pm #

    I tried Matt’s easy upgrade method and it was flaw­less until a reboot. Some­thing got stuck in NVRAM and killed ever­thing. I ended up fol­low­ing this guide start­ing from firmware recov­ery. I had pass­word trou­ble after I got every­thing up and run­ning again. To clear NVRAM I had to power the router on and press the reset but­ton for 15 sec­onds JUST AFTER THE POWER LIGHT GOES OUT.

    This router is a lit­tle odd as just hold­ing down the reset but­ton after power on doesn’t seem to work right. Hold­ing reset while pow­er­ing causes it to go into firmware recov­ery. Instead you have to power the WL-520GU and let it boot. The power LED goes out for a moment about 10 sec­onds after power on. Imme­di­ately press and hold the reset but­ton for about 15 sec­onds at this point and NVRAM includ­ing all con­fig­u­ra­tion and stored pass­words should reset. It did for me on mul­ti­ple tries.

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      Rodalli 02. Jun, 2010 at 10:04 pm #

      This lit­tle pointer saved me from bang­ing my head against my desk for hours. Like many oth­ers, when I loaded up Tomato after flash­ing through DD-WRT, Tomato would not accept the nor­mal pass­words. I DID try the to tel­net into the router as described by Johnny, but it would not give me tel­net access either.

      Clear­ing the NVRAM worked. Just:

      1. Unplug the ASUS router, wait a few sec­onds until com­pletely pow­ered down.
      2. Plug the router in. Have your pen ready to press the black reset but­ton. Roughly 10 sec­onds after plug­ging in the power LED will turn off, this is when you IMMEDIATELY press and hold the reset but­ton.
      3. Wait 15–20 sec­onds and release the reset but­ton.
      4. You should now be able to log in through the web-interface at 192.168.1.1 with user/password: root/admin\
      5. Enjoy Tomato! The USB drive recog­ni­tion is amaz­ing! A wire­less router w/ QoS, VPN and NAS/Printer sup­port for $40 + ~1 hour setup and con­fig time.

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    noabody 25. Feb, 2010 at 3:35 pm #

    I tried Matt’s easy upgrade method and it was flaw­less until a reboot. Some­thing got stuck in NVRAM and killed ever­thing. I ended up fol­low­ing this guide start­ing from firmware recov­ery. I had pass­word trou­ble after I got every­thing up and run­ning again. To clear NVRAM I had to power the router on and press the reset but­ton for 15 sec­onds JUST AFTER THE POWER LIGHT GOES OUT.

    This router is a lit­tle odd as just hold­ing down the reset but­ton after power on doesn’t seem to work right. Hold­ing reset while pow­er­ing causes it to go into firmware recov­ery. Instead you have to power the WL-520GU and let it boot. The power LED goes out for a moment about 10 sec­onds after power on. Imme­di­ately press and hold the reset but­ton for about 15 sec­onds at this point and NVRAM includ­ing all con­fig­u­ra­tion and stored pass­words should reset. It did for me on mul­ti­ple tries.

    For what it’s worth.

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    MWMike 27. Feb, 2010 at 4:18 pm #

    I read all the dif­fer­ent meth­ods about updat­ing first to WRT, the Tomato, or skip the WRT and hit the reset while load­ing directly, etc.

    I sim­ply used the Asus firmware tool, pointed to the Tomato file (tomato-NDUSB-8744-vpn3.6.trx) and I was up and run­ning in two minutes.

    Every­thing I read made it seem way more com­pli­cated than it was

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      MATT 28. Feb, 2010 at 9:06 am #

      MWMike is right on and I was gonna do this, but this is the first time I have flashed a router with dif­fer­ent firmware.

      So I down­loaded “WL520gu_2.0.0.8_EN.trx” and “tomato-NDUSB-8744-Std.trx” to folder called c:\tmp. Then used Asus’ flash util­ity to flash the 2.0.0.8 firmware (because the firmware that came on my new router was ver­sion 3.0.0.8). Then renamed the tomato firmware to “WL520gu_2.0.0.9_EN.trx” and then flashed that. It worked in two min­utes with­out any difficulties.

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        MATT 28. Feb, 2010 at 9:36 am #

        … or exactly what the first Matt said.

        Dou­ble check that you unzipped the .rar firmware files to a sim­ple folder (ex. c:\tmp) and use the flash util­ity off the CD and point it to the unzipped files. Do not press the reset but­ton after, just let it fin­ish by itself.

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    Teutonic 28. Feb, 2010 at 4:36 am #

    I have the dd-wrt mini installed but when I try to upgrade to Tomato the upgrade fails. If I use the firmware update it installs tomato but I can not access the router because it will not accept any sign in that I have tried. I then have to flash back to dd-wrt and it responds to my sign in attempts

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    MWMike 28. Feb, 2010 at 4:15 pm #

    As for the printer install, after fol­low­ing the USB arti­cle and attempt­ing to tel­net and mount the print­er­a­long the lines of the USB drive, I’d like to pass along the solu­tion I found some­where else.For other OS’s, just do a search on the words in this solution.

    How to set-up wire­less print­ing in Tomato (Teddy’s USB mod­i­fied Tomato ver­sion). Note: the router does not need to “mount” the device; it need only rec­og­nize it. I was able to set-up my Mac and PC using these direc­tions from dd-wrt.com [dd-wrt.com]:

    Win­dows XP

    * Find your printer in Con­trol Panel — Print­ers etc. and open the prop­er­ties page for it.
    * Select the Ports tab.
    * Click Add Port and choose Stan­dard TCP/IP printer port and click New Port
    * Enter you router’s IP address (nor­mally 192.168.1.1) and click Next
    * Set Device type to cus­tom and click set­tings.
    * Make sure RAW is selected and spec­ify the nec­es­sary port num­ber (nor­mally 9100, 9101 for sec­ond printer, etc) and click OK
    * Click Next and Fin­ish and Close
    * Make sure the newly cre­ated port is selected for your printer and click OK

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      Peter 28. Mar, 2010 at 8:11 am #

      I am run­ning Tomato 1.27 on a sec­ondary (asus WL520GU) router, and has been able to set up my printer so that I can access it and print trough the that router on IP 192.168.1.111. How­ever, when con­nected to it I can no longer get access to my main router (on 192.168.1.1) and thus to the out­side web.

      My prob­lem seems to be in the con­fig­u­ra­tion of the asus router where I have been exper­i­ment­ing with­out luck using var­i­ous set­tings under “basic net­work”. There is no dif­fer­ence whether I enable or dis­able the secu­rity set­ting (WPA) .

      What is the rec­om­mended con­fig­u­ra­tion of the sec­ondary router?

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        Peter 30. Mar, 2010 at 6:13 am #

        The set­ting “wire­less eth­er­net bridge” under Basic Net­work seems to be the right thing to do, pro­vid­ing trans­par­ent access to the main router and the internet.

        How­ever, to give access to the attached USB devices it turns out that the default set­ting “gate­way” under Advanced Rout­ing has to be changed into “router”.

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    Tian Shen 04. Mar, 2010 at 5:05 pm #

    I directly trans­fered the Teddy’s USB mod­i­fied Tomato ver­sion to the router through tftp, and it looks like work­ing fine with nice webui and wire­less access con­trol.
    but, the router can not get a ip from my cable mod­ern, which worked before under dd-wrt. I used DHCP for WLAN and tried MAC clone, reset the cable mod­ern and router, noth­ing seems to work. It shows renew­ing forever.

    Any­body have a clue?
    Thank you

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      MWMike 05. Mar, 2010 at 1:07 am #

      I’m curi­ous, who do you have for an ISP? I had issues with Com­cast and the stock firmware. Asus is stat­ing these modems are tougher to reset..

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    AdamKlong 24. Apr, 2010 at 8:34 am #

    Eas­ier method by Matt (described below) didn’t work for me:
    [.… 1. Load WL520gu_2.0.0.8_EN.trx (Offi­cial ASUS firmware from ASUS web­site, even if you have newer firmware on your router).
    2. Rename the lat­est Tomato USB firmware to WL520gu_2.0.0.9_EN.trx and upload via firmware upgrade in ASUS setup screen. Done.
    I have done this method 3–4 times now on dif­fer­ent wl520gu and works every time. No need to load dd-wrt first or use any addi­tional utilities. …]

    I’ve tried it and wasted half the day but it kept stuck on “Renew­ing” cycle on the Tomato router con­trol page.
    Almost gave up after read­ing a LOT of post­ing by other peo­ple that had the same prob­lems I do.
    So I gave the “long” method (go thru dd-wrt first) a try and it worked for me.

    For any rea­son that you think you might brick the router (for­got the right username/password or can­not logon to
    http://192.168.1.1 con­trol page or for­get to retrieve the right pass­word string via “nvram get http_passwd” cam­mand):
    – Use the Firmware Restora­tion to flash back to ver­sion 2.0.0.8. But don’t for­get to dis­con­nect the WAN
    line off your router first !! IMPORTANT !!! oth­er­wise it would go into ‘con­nect to the wire­less device’ loop and end up giv­ing you the mes­sage ‘no wire­less devices found’.
    – Start over again. This is why I love this router so much. It’s almost unbrickable.

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    Venix 30. Apr, 2010 at 4:28 pm #

    I have tomato loaded and all is work­ing cor­rectly with the USB printer. But I can­not get two print­ers to work. Either printer (Brother 2140 and HP 1600) works fine alone when con­fig­ured to port 9100. But as soon as add a sec­ond printer and use port 9101 for the sec­ond printer, noth­ing hap­pens. The first printer con­tin­ues to work fine. I have tried it with either printer as the first one, and which ever one it con­fig­ure first on port 9100 works and the sec­ond one does not. Also, both print­ers are rec­og­nized by the router.

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    Fire 01. Jun, 2010 at 1:44 am #

    been run­ning tomato v1.25.8634 ND for awhile, lately, i encoun­tered this weird of band­width drop. The sig­nal is so weak that make 1 pc dead. Con­tacted ser­vice provider who tested on their end and see no prob­lem and sug­gested the prob­lem is from the router. I used qos set­ting ear­lier and now dis­abled, noth­ing changes. When scan­ning chan­nels it shows great sig­nals but once it is done, it is back to crawl­ing. I don’t know what the prob­lem is and won­der if any­one has such weird prob­lem. USB port is not used currently.

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    Matt 07. Jul, 2010 at 1:23 am #

    Great Guide.

    Please add step N1 to tell every­one to choose “Restore to default set­tings” as that is not the default in DD-WRT and if you don’t you’ll see all the pass­word prob­lems every­one is hav­ing here.

    While you’re at it you could tell them all in step B to “Run as Admin” the Asus restore util in Vista.

    Those are the only two issues I had.

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