From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.taht.net (mail.taht.net [IPv6:2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:feae:7028]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A6CA3CB36 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:18:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dancer.taht.net (unknown [IPv6:2603:3024:1536:86f0:eea8:6bff:fefe:9a2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.taht.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D7BA221425; Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:18:15 +0000 (UTC) From: Dave Taht To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net References: <20190811160148.6d3b5a17@primarylaptop.localdomain> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 06:18:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20190811160148.6d3b5a17@primarylaptop.localdomain> (Denis Carikli's message of "Sun, 11 Aug 2019 16:01:48 +0200") Message-ID: <87blwuzfn8.fsf@taht.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [OpenWrt-Devel] Has OpenWrt suport for Powerline devices X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:18:17 -0000 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes: > Hi, > > I've a device with PowerLine. It's the devolo dLAN pro 500 wireless > plus. > > It has an ath9k compatible WiFi (2.4GHz + 5GHz), and a free > software bootloader, which is an old vendor fork of u-boot. > > The PowerLine part doesn't work out of the box and require a nonfree, > non-redistributable firmware to work, however there is some > documentation on it on the wiki[1]. > > A really good way to fix that, and integrate everything would be to > have people working on free software replacements for such nonfree > firmwares, however I've no idea if anyone has started working on that > yet. > > There is also a tag called 'plc' (Power line communication[3]) on the > wiki for device with PowerLine. > > References: > ----------- > [1]https://openwrt.org/toh/devolo/devolo_dlan_pro_wireless_500_plus > [2]https://openwrt.org/tag/plc?do=showtag&tag=plc > [3]Note that the PLC acronym is also commonly used for "Programmable > logic controller" which has nothing to do at all with PowerLine. > > Denis. > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel