Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Buffalo WZR-600DHP (updated WZR-HP-AG300H)

[Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>]

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:31 AM, <dpreed@reed.com> wrote:

> Down at the local Cambridge Micro Center there is a whole pile of new
> 3800's.  But knowing what Netgear does, this might be a completely
> different hardware platform that is incompatible.  How does one tell that
> it's the right version, in case I want to buy another...  (don't know at
> this time if I do).
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We've only seen one variant of the 3800, so we expect they should be fine.


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> Honestly, my main interest is that I'd like to see 802.11ac supported on
> one of the new routers from Netgear or Cisco - but I suspect that the
> drivers are probably not easy to get working on Linux.
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The thing to do is to find routers based on the Qualcomm Atheros chipset:
they've been best about Linux support in open source (as opposed to binary
blobs to fit into specific versions of Linux). Even then, validating the
driver is a significant amount of work.

In the last couple years, broadcom open source driver support has improved,
but IIRC, it is still a softmac device and has a blob of firmware, that is
not trustworthy.
                              - Jim


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Dave Taht" <dave.taht@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:19am
> To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
> Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] Buffalo WZR-600DHP (updated WZR-HP-AG300H)
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>  Given how difficult it is becoming to get 3800s, a device with the
> most similar chipset is this one.
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> Anyone tried it? They were in use at the other two openwrt based demos at
> ietf.
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> I am working on getting a steady supply of 3800 refurbs and on other
> alternative hardware.
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> I note that unless major bugs show up in cerowrt, I'm not planning on
> spinning up a new dev cycle until after Linux 3.8 is stable-ish
> ... and not until after someone else steps up to be the new
> buildmaster, and not until supplies of something suitable are assured.
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> About the only major cerowrt thing I need to do in the coming weeks is
> start pushing up the stuff to openwrt that works, maybe getting it
> also into hipnet, and getting cake restarted.
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> As I'll be travelling for the next 2 months - I kind of expect most of
> what I'll be coding is prototyping code on x86, if that.
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> (note - that doesn't mean development and CI are going to stop,
> (although I do need a break), it just means I'm hoping you all enjoy
> the current release as is, more than constantly upgrading.)
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> Certainly get your feature requests in! What else needs to get into
> this puppy to make it rock on ipv6 and naming and bufferbloat and
> whatever else you need?
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> --
> Dave Täht
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> Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt:
> http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html
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