New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices 194
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hypnosec writes with word that the OpenWRT team a few days ago released the final version of the project's newest iteration, version 12.09 (codenamed "Attitude Adjustment"). "The final version doesn't support Linux 2.4, because of which the distribution wouldn't run on old router models, for example the Linksys WRT54G models, which have 16MB of RAM and CPUs clocked at 200MHz. The distribution is now based on Linux 3.3 and there is good news for the Raspberry Pi fans as the distribution now supports the credit card-sized computer, along with Ramips routers."
Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
So they drop support for the routers everyone has and want you to build your own router from a raspberry. Sounds like a plan for success.
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Informative)
Pretty much par of course for them.
For years now OpenWRT is becoming more and more bloated, to a point it is hard to make it run smoothly in the standard base device (WRT54GL). I haven't been able to use the standard image for at least 3 years now, having to build my own removing as much bloat as I can...
Re:Brilliant (Score:4, Informative)
Yes. it's called quit playing with toys and run iPCop or other real firewall. I can do a lot more easier and it is brain dead easy to update myself. Built a nice mico ITX box with two ethernet ports into a router/firewall that is fantastic in every way and does not suck up all my time to manage it.
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
I sense a great disturbance in the fork.
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Using the Pi as a router does have it's interesting advantages and the price point is pretty close in that application as the smaller cheaper Pi would serve well in that capacity. Shame to drop support for the smaller devices, but you can beat yourself to death trying to support too many platforms.
By the way, the Pi offerings are not the only options out there. I'm seeing a lot of similar cards popping up out there.
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A R Pi has a single 10/100 Ethernet that's connected to USB 2.0. That does not seem like much of a router to me it might be useful for encryption bit it's can not handle current upper tier broadband speeds.
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That's the model B. The model A the parent is talking about doesn't have ethernet support at all.
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Well it supports USB to Ethernet and USB wifi adapters, adding them to the cost though.
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I said that it would serve fairly well in some applications as compared to the WRT hardware that got dropped. The Pi sure has limitations, but it's a pretty cheap platform that comes at a similar price point to what you can get WRT hardware for.
My real interest would be in the *other* cards out there at similar price points to the Pi. I think the Pi has at least spurred on the development of similar cards which are more capable (memory, CPU etc) and hopefully will lower the prices of such cards.
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I have a pi and this would be a useful project for me (in need of a new router)
But I'm keen to know how feasible it really is. As poster says below, the spec isn't great and even now I'm getting frequent ethernet dropouts on my openelec install (I haven't looked into this yet, so I dunno if it's software or power supply-related).
Any real world experience out there using pi as a SOHO router?
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Raspberry Pi? Sounds like a plan for a rather cheap, capable repeater bridge to me, even if I don't feel like replacing my dinosaur 54GL. And if temperature is any indication (hint: it is), it's a heck of a lot more power efficient too.
The WRT54G had a good run, but it's obsolete. (Score:4, Interesting)
The WRT54G came out in 2002. The newer WRT54GL version was released in 2005. While these were phenomenal products with a long lifespan, they are obsolete by any standard. Things like no N support, no Gigabit Ethernet, and the lack of CPU and Memory to do cool things have been huge issues for a while.
Serious users have already moved on. Platforms like the Netgear WNDR3700v2 are cheap, easy to find, and offer modern features. No one is suggesting rolling your own from a Raspberry will be the most popular option, but that enabling it will be a cool option for many hackers.
Re:The WRT54G had a good run, but it's obsolete. (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm still using my 54GL with Tomato Firmware on it. Tomato seems to have died (last update for the mainline was in June 2010) but it seems fine, aside from not supporting newer things like IPv6 (software limitation), 802.11n, or GigE (hardware limitations), all of which are merely "nice to have" right now.
I do plan to replace the old beast, but will wait until my ISP finally brings out IPv6 support so that I can have the best possible router within my budget when that finally happens.
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Hmm. OK, I'm seeing several builds for routers in that family but no guidelines as to which will work on a real 54GL with 4MB of flash storage.
I'm interested in these features from build.png: IPv6, OpenVPN, kernel 2.6 if possible. That points me to using either the Max, miniVPN, or VPN-nousb builds. Of those, the MIPSR1 Max build is 5.8MB so too big. MiniVPN is 3.7MB so I suppose it'd fit, and for kernel 2.4 there's the VPN-nousb build at 3.4 MB.
Am I on the right track here?
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Re:The WRT54G had a good run, but it's obsolete. (Score:5, Informative)
The two main branches of Tomato are:
Toastman: (What I use) http://www.4shared.com/dir/v1BuINP3/Toastman_Builds.html#dir=zBnbpdpY [4shared.com]
Shibby: http://tomato.groov.pl/ [groov.pl]
I've been using Toastman tomato on a WNR3500Lv1 and a ASUS RT-N66U for months now. If you're going to get a new router, I'd strongly recommend the RT-N66U, because the WNR3500L has a v2 which is totally different hardware. In addition, the RT-N66U is very fast, stable (never crashed), nearly impossible to brick and is dual-band. The RT-N66U is $170, and it's been worth every penny. Signal output is very strong--I can pick up my internet in my neighbor's house, without adjusting transmitter output power. In addition, the devs appear to use the RT-N66U's personally, so it has the most testing.
Tomato has been rock solid, stable, and an excellent daily driver for me for the last 5 years or so. I strongly recommend it, and my friends and neighbors use it and have been very happy with it. Do update to Toastman or Shibby--they're doing an excellent job fixing issues and keeping things current.
I still use my WRT54G's as wireless bridges throughout my house, but they do show performance issues when I go above 10MBps Upload/30MB Download.
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"Planes and satellites do occasionaly fall out of the sky around here, but hey: TANSTAAFL."
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Toastman Tomato is a great release
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The RT-N66U is $180, The WRT54G is $50...kinda not really comparable, hell an Apple airport is cheaper. How about showing us one under $100 that will run the new/newer stuff?
Oh and if it isn't wireless so much the better as the first thing I have to do with a wireless router is disable the wireless part, between all the interference from having so many in a large apt complex on the same frequency and the script kiddies constantly pounding on the firewalls looking for somebody to leech off of? Not really
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How about the TP-LINK WR1043 [pbtech.co.nz]. Costing equivalent of $80USD here in NZ, probably cheaper in US, I didn't look.
I got one recently when I was looking at ways to manage per-user data usage quotas at home. I have a lodger who is hammering my meager 40gb monthly allowance and with the gargoyle firmware [gargoyle-router.com] I can throttle or kick him off the LAN when quota is exceeded. This firmware is based on openwrt I believe.
I was running tomato on WRT54-GL before this, but lack of gigabit ethernet was another motivation for me
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I understand what makes ASUS think the RT-N66U is worth $60 more than an RT-N16, but does it really make a difference, if you're just using it for a home router?
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I don't think that's the problem hoss, its the fact that they are suggesting using the RPi, which has 1 lousy Ethernet plug and USB 2.0 as a suitable replacement for a fricking router that has most people going WTF.
To use a slashdot car analogy that would be like Ford saying your truck is obsolete so here is a motor, build yourself a replacement. The "solution" isn't one, its a piss poor substitute for an actual router and this is coming from somebody that actually likes the RPI, its great for things like
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The WRT54G came out in 2002. The newer WRT54GL version was released in 2005. While these were phenomenal products with a long lifespan, they are obsolete by any standard. Things like no N support, no Gigabit Ethernet, and the lack of CPU and Memory to do cool things have been huge issues for a while.
Serious users have already moved on. Platforms like the Netgear WNDR3700v2 are cheap, easy to find, and offer modern features. No one is suggesting rolling your own from a Raspberry will be the most popular option, but that enabling it will be a cool option for many hackers.
Okay, so how is OpenWRT's IPv6 support? Since it's so good that it's okay to drop support for the G?
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So I'm supposed to pay $150 for a brand new router to replace a working box w/ Tomato that hasn't been touched in 4+ years ??
When it finally dies THEN I'll look into replacing the WRT54GL workhorse.
The first rule of networking: If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it.
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Disclaimer: I own one. It works.
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I posted about this router above. It can be had for $50 at amazon right now.
You should drop them anyway... (Score:2)
Below are the speedtests of two different routers using a wired connection.
Actiontec (about 2011) – 53.22 MB (down) 8.23 (up)
Linksys WRT54G v2 (about 2004) – 23 MB (down) 7.76 (up)
http://bryanquigley.com/libre-software/on-upgrading-routers [bryanquigley.com]
Re:You should drop them anyway... (Score:4, Funny)
Below are the speedtests of two different routers using a wired connection.
Actiontec (about 2011) – 53.22 MB (down) 8.23 (up) Linksys WRT54G v2 (about 2004) – 23 MB (down) 7.76 (up)
I've got Time Warner cable internet, so I'm cool, then.
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If you have to do that, might as well put a full-featured firewall on instead. Pfsense, for example.
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"Dropping support" does not mean you won't be able to get an OpenWRT for your old device that's about to go tits-up anyway. The older versions of OpenWRT will still work, won't they?
What the hell are you going on about?
Nobody's forcing you to go fruity.
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there's a solution for all us with older hardware (Score:2)
it's called BSD
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I don't see how those old systems suddenly became useless. And not everyone feels compelled to stay on ancient kernels with crusty, old hardware.
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old is a moving target there is currently much faster old hardware. There reaches a point where something gets old enough that you should upgrade. ten years old for a router of that type is passed from old to ancient. remember just because the they aren't actively supporting it does not mean you can not compile and backport features yourself if it is that important to you otherwise just download the older version.
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Insightful)
Why upgrade? Seriously? Shit works. Shit is faster than my cable modem service? Why poison the planet with another piece of expendable?
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Insightful)
In general, I agree with you--I keep devices for a very long time to be environmentally friendly. I still use my WRT54G's as wireless bridges. But there is a reason to upgrade your router if you have tangible needs for the additional speed/range. Especially one from 2002.
My old stuff! (Score:2)
Ditto. I even use older stuff like my 19.5" Sharp CRT TV from January 1996, VCR (for connecting between computers, DTV Pal DVR, and TV) Casio Data Bank (DB) 150 calculator watch, analog bone conduction hearing aid model from 1994 (don't want digital with implants), no mobile phones, old computer parts (IDE/PATA HDDs, two HDTV PCI tuner cards from 2005, etc.), etc. They all still work for me. I will upgrade/replace them when needed. :)
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If it works, why upgrade it?
Re:Brilliant (Score:4, Interesting)
I bought one last year. They're still for sale and being manufactured. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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You really should double-check your facts before you spot off something that is easily verifiable. Out of 388 wireless routers on Newegg, 14 of them are 54mbps or slower and 121 are 10x or more faster. Newegg makes it difficult to evaluate your IPv6 statement, though. Of the first 3 "featured" wireless routers, 2 mentioned IPv6 support while the third didn't say either way. Searching yielded 4 routers, none of which were the 2 "featured" routers I found that had IPv6 support. Router companies aren't ex
From IIGS to 3GS (Score:2)
I knew I should be writing code for the apple ][ instead of IOS
The first hint might have been when Apple named the iPhone 3GS after the Apple IIGS.
Re:From IIGS to 3GS (Score:4, Funny)
They named most of their products after the IIGS
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I don't know, 11 year old routers might be pretty uncommon. Hell, I'd suggest that it'd be a good time to upgrade. My Netgear WNDR-3700 has 64MB of RAM and 8MB of flash, so this will work fine for me. I'll be upgrading from 10.03.1 so the lack of an ancient, obsolete kernel like Linux 2.4 means nothing to me.
But hey, the older images are still there.
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, a bigger reason is that if you're on the faster internet service, ye olde WRT54GL is no longer fast enough. I think it's routing speed is fast for when it was released (50Mbps?) but it's no longer adequate in this age where a startling number are getting 25, 50, 100Mbps service (indeed, it's become the bottleneck). Even using it for 25Mbps might get iffy due to the low headroom available.
It was stupidly fast on release when few had 10Mbps service, but it seems the availability of faster service has rendered it out of date.
Especially with modern high end routers getting 750+Mbps speeds. Not fast enough for Google Fiber, but definitely enough with headroom for the top tier 250Mbps service available in some areas.
It's time for it to be retired. There are new generations of open routers available nowadays. Though, router power consumption is creeping upwards a bit - I'm sure you can build a PC that can do full wirespeed GigE routing and consumes under 50W, plus handle wifi and everything else and be pretty much fanless and quiet.
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Amazon is still selling them new for $50/each [amazon.com]
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You can buy a wrt-54gl (the model with the original, larger, flash and ram) new from Amazon [amazon.com], today. Your netgear model is double the price.
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Not really. 2.4 didn't have an IPv6 stack last I recall. Combined with the fact that 2.4 and 3.3 have little in common (hell 2.6.0 and 2.6.39 had little in common) and 3.3 has way more in terms of features, I'm not surprised that 16MB of RAM was a little too constraining.
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Kernel 2.4 is a completely different beast then version >= 2.6.0. That was why the version went from 2.4 to 2.6 - back then the second number incremented for super major changes.
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why in hell should I use an "N" router when everybody and their clan has one in my neighborhood? I've found that sticking with the "B" band works better, gives me a longer range and I don't suffer all the stinking interference that everyone using "N" does. Hell it's the same reason I switched back to a 900Mhz cordless phone. Better range and a lack of interference from all the other hardware crapping on the 5Ghz band (shit N routers).
Re:Brilliant (Score:4, Insightful)
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Gee I thought the WRT54G was a G router.
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WRT54G is, as you might assume from the "G" at the end, a G router. In the United States, G is faster than the connection to the house. An order of magnitude faster, actually.
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Depends on your area. I currently have 15/2 Mb/s D/U, and that's being phased out for 50/25 (a friend of mine has 150/65, and is probably going to jump to 300 soon).
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"You'd have trouble finding tires for a Model T too."
Nope : http://www.cokertire.com/ [cokertire.com] Easy as pie. They even carry Model A tires.
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Perfectly capable of reaching a one-generation-old bandwidth standard (at best) on both the wireless and wired LAN sides...you can still run the older firmwares on these devices. It's hardly sad news.
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Yes, which is still probably more than 10 times faster than most people's Internet connection.
Re:Brilliant (Score:4, Informative)
My cable internet is only 2Mbps. I'm not upgrading because it's enough for me and going with 5Mbps or 10Mbps would double or triple my monthly fee.
No, there's no other options where I live, the company has a real monopoly.
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I've been watching for other options for the last four years, aside from $100+ per month for satellite with monthly caps of 2GB, there's nothing but the local cable company.
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But still a small fraction of their wired LAN bandwidth. If you often transfer large files or stream HD video within your home network like I do, you can't afford to be generations behind or wired or wireless speed. There are still other maintained older OpenWRT firmwares that can work on these routers, dropping support for these relics in the latest release is no big loss.
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But still a small fraction of their wired LAN bandwidth. If you often transfer large files or stream HD video within your home network like I do, you can't afford to be generations behind or wired or wireless speed.
I call BS. A quick google search says Hollywood blueray is usually encoded around 25-35 Mb/s. So even an uncompressed video would stream just fine with an old 10/100 router and cat 5 cabling. And that's with no/minimal compression.
Big files, sure, I'll give you that. But I'd also argue the average person isn't moving files that large to and fro on their network too often.
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I meant over the wireless. 100Mbps is enough for pretty much any video, although still painful waiting for transferring multi-GB files.
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Yes you can. if you pull your head out of your ass and call them first they will order from Coker and have them there the next day. Why you got a rally race in 4 hours and you need tires?
But you seem to be the type that has his head firmly shoved up his rectum and likes it that way..
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It depends on your demands. My WRT54G is fine for 95% of the things I throw at it... about the only thing it chokes on is streaming 1080p video over wireless. Since my main media player is on ethernet, that's mostly a non-issue.
Admittedly, I'm in a very rural area and my ISP is over a fixed wireless connection which maxes out at 90's era DSL
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The main problem I've had is that every newer router I've tried in the 3 or 4 years have has had horrible reliability problems... dropped connections and the like. I got tired of messing with them and spent the $50 on the WRT54GL (which is what it's still going for on Newegg [newegg.com]: and haven't had an issue like that since. Sure, the wireless is slower, but my WRT54GL's been running stably and consistently despite not having been rebooted in over 2 months. whereas the newest router I had required a full router re
Re:Brilliant (Score:4, Informative)
I also have experience with the WNR3500Lv1, which has worked great for me (stable for years with no lockups). I see it's listed for $60 at Amazon, however, there is a new v2 hardware out which is VERY different from the v1, and software support is radically different. If you could get your hands on an old WNR3500Lv1, it'll work great. If you order a new one, you'll probably get a v2, which is NOT what you want. It's not dual-band, though.
The RT-N66U appears to be what most of the Tomato devs use, so that's what I would recommend. To me, it's worth the extra $$, as I plan on keeping it for many years and the 5Ghz gives me great speeds in my house (62Mbit reliable at pings only 2ms slower than wired).
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Do they make new routers that can maintain a stable connection for under $100?
Yes - TP-LINK do [amazon.com]. Currently $50 at amazon.
I'd never heard of them until getting this model a while back. Plus it looks like something designed by the people responsible for Knight Rider (I like it, but apparently routers are also fashion accessories [asus.com] nowadays), but it's a really good unit.
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Funny that, I still use a few Thinkpad T23's, Pentium IIIm inside. I upped the RAM to 768MB a long time ago - it would be expensive to do that nowadays - but they do indeed contain 20GB and 30GB drives. They are very usable machines, running some form of Linux (one Debian, two U
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I'm going to assume it's a Tualtin P3? As long as it doesn't have the Intel graphics you should be running fine. I've got a Dell C400 that I use as a netbook (P3 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM) that does great until something tries to use the GPU (which also excludes modern Linux. Still runing RHEL 5 on that thing).
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Informative)
Gigabit ethernet is a really good thing if you have a file server in your LAN
yeah, but if you count up the 90th percentile, people use wireless AP's to connect their laptops to their cable or DSL connection to reach servers where the total link speed is less than real-world 802.11g performance. And Backfire will work just fine for that. Internet connection speeds aren't much different than they were in 2002 for most people; a 200MHz MIPS is plenty to handle 7Mbps.
I have a wndr3700v2 running Attitude Adjustment with wpad and luci-ssl installed, but that's me.
There is at least one exception: I was trying to help my folks get out from behind their double-NAT situation on FiOS and realized that the TV gets routed through IP, so the packet processing speed of their 54g will be insufficient, so I needed to turn back on that one. BTW, what a massive pain FiOS is to use your own router.
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Most people don't change the firmware on their router either.
Blogspam (Score:5, Informative)
And now for some karma whoring^W^W^Wthe actual details:
The OpenWrt Release Team would like to announce the final Attitude Adjustment Release (12.09).
Highlights since Backfire 10.03.1:
Dropped support for legacy Broadcom target (brcm-2.4)
Switched to Kernel 3.3
Switched to uClibc 0.9.33.2
Switched x86 images from ext2 to ext4 filesystem
Improved parallel building support
New netifd implementation to replace the old script based network configuration system
Switched to shadow passwords
Support for external overlay filesystems in release images
Various firewall enhancements
Wireless driver updates and stability improvements
Experimential support for 5 and 10 MHz channels in ath5k and ath9k
Package updates and dependency fixes
New target support: ramips, bcm2708 (Raspberry Pi) and others
Support for further router models
Support for building with eglic instead of uClibc
Support for 6RD configuration
Support for bridge firewalling in release images
Known Issues:
Most open tickets at the time of the final builds
Lower end devices with only 16 MiB RAM will easily run out of Memory, for bcm47xx based devices is Backfire with brcm-2.4 recommended
More detailed information: https://dev.openwrt.org/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=Attitude+Adjustment+12.09 [openwrt.org]
Detailed core changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/attitude_adjustment [openwrt.org]
Detailed packages changelog at: https://dev.openwrt.org/log/branches/packages_12.09 [openwrt.org]
Binaries can be downloaded at http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ [openwrt.org]
Re:Blogspam (Score:5, Informative)
And now for some karma whoring^W^W^Wthe actual details:
You left out the most important part [openwrt.org]:
ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT (12.09, r36088)
* 1/4 oz Vodka
* 1/4 oz Gin
* 1/4 oz Amaretto
* 1/4 oz Triple sec
* 1/4 oz Peach schnapps
* 1/4 oz Sour mix
* 1 splash Cranberry juice
Pour all ingredients into mixing
tin with ice, strain into glass.
(Reformatted to please Slashdot's filters.)
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If that's the attitude adjustment someone else said I need, I am down for it.
for bcm47xx ... Backfire with brcm-2.4 recommended (Score:4, Informative)
Right there in the release note, folks - if you have a 54G, use Backfire.
Newer hardware gets better kernels.
Next story.
Rasberry Pi (Score:2, Funny)
So now it runs on Rasberry Pi?
Just what I needed, a router with a single network interface!
Sigh... (Score:3, Informative)
A few seconds at openwrt.org will reveal that OpenWRT is a specialized Linux distribution, and they've simply migrated to the 3.3 kernel. Kind of like Ubuntu 10 migrated to 2.6, lo those many years ago.
Maybe this qualifies as news for some people, but it's certainly not something to get your panties in a bunch over.
Artifact title (Score:3)
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So the original device is being retired and the name lives on. If you're insistent, the Linksys WRT160NL and Linksys WRT350N v2 are supported still as they have 32MB of RAM each. But it's supported on such a wide array of other devices, I still don't see why this is any reason to throw up a fuss.
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It's not just the linux kernel upgrade that matters here, but also the end-of-support for "low memory devices". IMHO, though, 16MB is a pretty large amount of memory for a home router.
Post the link (Score:2)
Somebody post the link to the latest version that uses the 2.4 kernel, so this can be a useful Slashdot bookmark.
Does it support HFS+ now? (Score:2)
For me and many Mac users the question is: Does it support HFS+ for a connected external drive now?
Previous versions didn't (neither does DDWRT), although you could find the drivers in some obscure place you could not make it work because of kernel support (you could use the HFS, minus +, in some way just to read tough). So far, as I'm lead to believe, only Tomato firmware correctly supports HFS+. I didn't' test it myself tough, so I still take that with a bit of salt.
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Last I checked (which was kernel 2.6.18 IIRC) HFS+ was supported by the kernel, but only if journaling was off.
Lack of 2.4 isn't the problem (Score:2)
Tomato RAF for the WRT54G uses the 2.6.22 kernel, and can push 80 Mbps of routed throughput (not sure why. Optimizations? Performance improvements in 2.6 versus the 2.4 used by most other WRT54G firmwares?) The things are still ancient, though, and should be retired.
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Why should they be retired just because they are "ancient". They are still perfect serviceable, and still perfectly available [amazon.com]. They also have a reputation for being more reliable and longer lasting, hardware-wise, than the consumer crap they chrun out nowadays.
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Lack of support for modern wireless networking (no 802.11n, on either 2.4GHz or 5 GHz), inability to perform any sort of processing whatsoever on faster connections (hitting those 80Mbps speeds requires disabling anything that might hit the CPU, so no stateful firewall, no QoS, no wifi encryption, no nothing), limited wired performance (100 megabit switch is a bottleneck for LAN use), limited conntrack ability due to tiny amounts of RAM and CPU power available, lack of USB ports for external connectivity (n
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OK, so to sum up, for about two thirds of North American users it's fine (they don't have more than a 22/5 pipe), and probably 99.9% of casual users would never notice the difference compared to the highest performance available wireless router. They most certainly would never notice the absence of a gigabit switch (although same is only $20 to add on).
Mind, I personally use a Sonicwall TZ 170 Unlimited with enhanced firmware, and I have four gigabit switches on my LAN, but I'm hardly a typical user.
Debian + Intel DN2800MT. (Score:2)
This combination is what I use at home. Debian has all the software one needs. The DN2800MT can take a couple of mini pcie cards, and a pcie card. This gives me two radios (5/2.4GHz) and an extra ethernet port (total 2). It has plenty of SATA connectors for NAS (2x1TB 2.5" drives). I have the whole thing in a tiny M300 case. Power consumption after boot is about 14W under normal use. It is about 11W when idle, and 18W when hammered. It doesn't have a slew of ethernet ports, so I have to add 6W (v.
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You must have had better luck finding a WiFi card compatible with the DN2800MT that supported hostapd than I did. Maybe things have changed recently and I need to go update bios and such, but I eventually gave up trying to get hostapd to work and moved on to other things. What hardware have you actually gotten to work in host mode? What BIOS rev are you on? I'd still like to go back and get the AP function working on my robot. (DN2800MT is a great card for higher-end robots, since the power supply requ
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I don't know the bios version off the top of my head. For the wireless access point, I'm using an Atheros AR9285 for 2.4GHz, and AR9390 for 5GHz. They are both used with hostapd. One needs a separate configuration file for each, but that can be set in /etc/default/hostapd.
Best wishes,
Bob
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Yes - what are you squawking about? Tell you what - take Windows 7 or Windows 8, whichever you prefer. Slap it onto a ten year old computer. See how it crawls. Especially if the original purchaser decided to opt for the minimum amount of RAM. When you're tired of suffering, take that very same ten year old hardware, and install whichever flavor of *nix you care to install. Linux, BSD, Solaris - I don't care which.
None of the *nixes are going to turn that old hardware into a high performance machine, b
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Why? Did the WRT350N cease to exist?
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I suggest The Distribution Formerly Known As OpenWRT.
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So the Pi could be a wireless access point. Those only need 1x Ethernet + wireless.
Some people don't use wired Ethernet anymore.
still severely crippled (Score:3)