[NoCat] No splash page

[Joe Peifer]

No Splash Screen... splashd process halting...

This is my first time trying to implement NoCatSplash
on a Linksys router running OpenWRT.  Unfortunately
I'm running into a problem I don't understand... and
am hoping someone out there can provide some insight.

The device being configured is a Linksys WRT54GSv2


PREFACE... 
(Feel free to skip to PROBLEM if this is boring)

I installed OpenWRT via the Linksys administration web
interface (version openwrt-wrt54gs-squashfs.bin dated
03-Feb-2007 as downloaded from
http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/newest/default/)

After rebooting the router I pointed my browser at
192.168.1.1 and saw the friendly OpenWRT Admin Console

I set my password and then SSH'd into the device as
root

The following commands appeared to run successfully
from the SSH terminal...
	# ipkg update
	# ipkg install glib1 iptables kmod-iptables-extra
	# wget
http://nocat.net/~sderle/nocatsplash_0.93pre2-2_mipsel.ipk
	# ipkg install nocatsplash_0.93pre2-2_mipsel.ipk

Finally I cold booted the router

PROBLEM...
I expected at this point that any attempt to browse
the Internet would result in being redirected first to
a splash screen.  Instead, the system directed me
immediately to the site I was attempting to browse.

	# ps aux
	
returned

	PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
		1 root        356 S   init       
	    2 root            SW  [keventd]
	    3 root            RWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
	    4 root            SW  [kswapd]
	    5 root            SW  [bdflush]
	    6 root            SW  [kupdated]
	    8 root            SW  [mtdblockd]
	   71 root            SWN [jffs2_gcd_mtd4]
	   95 root        344 S   logger -s -p 6 -t  
	   97 root        356 S   init       
	   98 root        348 S   syslogd -C 16 
	  100 root        300 S   klogd 
	  453 root        320 S   wifi up 
	  484 root        392 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear 
	  491 root        368 S   httpd -p 80 -h /www -r
OpenWrt 
	  497 root        380 S   udhcpc -i vlan1 -b -p
/var/run/vlan1.pid -t 0 -R 
	  500 root        264 S   telnetd -l /bin/login 
	  504 root        336 S   crond -c /etc/crontabs 
	  524 nobody      424 S   dnsmasq -K -F
192.168.1.100,192.168.1.249,255.255.255
	  528 root        392 S   /usr/sbin/splashd -D 
	  600 root        596 S   /usr/sbin/dropbear 
	  603 root        440 S   -ash 
	  608 root        344 R   ps aux 

Oddly, any attempt to call the NoCatSplash
splash-screen directly
(http://192.168.1.1:5280/splash.html) causes the
splashd process to halt completely (disappears from
the list of running processes).  I must then reboot
the router to get the process started again.

Any help out there?


       
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