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| + | '''Note that you need to install a [http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=21182 padded OpenWRT image] so the size is what the device expects.''' | ||
* [http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=18434 Planex (PCI) MZK-W04NU Atheros AP81 platform router with USB] | * [http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=18434 Planex (PCI) MZK-W04NU Atheros AP81 platform router with USB] | ||
* [http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/Hardware(2f)Planex.html Hardware/Planex] | * [http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/Hardware(2f)Planex.html Hardware/Planex] | ||
| + | * [http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=21182 Unbricking] after a bad firmware upload requires a special serial cable. | ||
Default config is 192.168.1.1 / admin / password | Default config is 192.168.1.1 / admin / password | ||
Revision as of 15:12, 15 January 2010
Contents
Free software drivers for network/wifi routers/switches
From the High Priority Free Software Projects list
OpenWRT ath9k support
Main person working on this looks like Stephen Gutknecht.
General
- Atheros AP81 consumer routers (AR913x / AR910x), prebuilt firmware
- Organizing Atheros ath9k bug reports for kernel.org
Planex MZK-W04NU
Note that you need to install a padded OpenWRT image so the size is what the device expects.
- Planex (PCI) MZK-W04NU Atheros AP81 platform router with USB
- Hardware/Planex
- Unbricking after a bad firmware upload requires a special serial cable.
Default config is 192.168.1.1 / admin / password
Trendnet TEW-632-BRP
- Fratzicu's page for TEW-632BRP OpenWRT firmware builds
- X-Wrt install info [1]
- Trendnet TEW-632BRP X-Wrt information page
- Trendnet TEW-632BRP, TEW-652BRP, DLink DIR-615 C1, CC WLN2206 working!
Mesh Networking
There seem to be 4 major mesh networking protocols:
- OLSR, the oldest and most established
- BATMAN, newer but pretty widespread
- Babel, very new but does work / released software
- Open 802.11s, which is integrated into linux 2.6.26 and later
