<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:31 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dpreed@reed.com" target="_blank">dpreed@reed.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="times new roman"><p style="margin:0;padding:0">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).</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0">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.</p>
</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">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.</div>
<div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">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.</div>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0">-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Dave Taht" <<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>><br>Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:19am<br>To: <a href="mailto:cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net" target="_blank">cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net</a><br>
Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] Buffalo WZR-600DHP (updated WZR-HP-AG300H)<br><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0">Given how difficult it is becoming to get 3800s, a device with the<br>most similar chipset is this one.<br><br>Anyone tried it? They were in use at the other two openwrt based demos at ietf.<br>
<br>I am working on getting a steady supply of 3800 refurbs and on other<br>alternative hardware.<br><br>I note that unless major bugs show up in cerowrt, I'm not planning on<br>spinning up a new dev cycle until after Linux 3.8 is stable-ish<br>
... and not until after someone else steps up to be the new<br>buildmaster, and not until supplies of something suitable are assured.<br><br>About the only major cerowrt thing I need to do in the coming weeks is<br>start pushing up the stuff to openwrt that works, maybe getting it<br>
also into hipnet, and getting cake restarted.<br><br>As I'll be travelling for the next 2 months - I kind of expect most of<br>what I'll be coding is prototyping code on x86, if that.<br><br>(note - that doesn't mean development and CI are going to stop,<br>
(although I do need a break), it just means I'm hoping you all enjoy<br>the current release as is, more than constantly upgrading.)<br><br>Certainly get your feature requests in! What else needs to get into<br>this puppy to make it rock on ipv6 and naming and bufferbloat and<br>
whatever else you need?<br><br>-- <br>Dave Täht<br><br>Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: <a href="http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html" target="_blank">http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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