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The Grumpy Editor's Tomato reviewThe Grumpy Editor's Tomato reviewPosted Jan 11, 2010 22:14 UTC (Mon) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438)Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review From the OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09.2 release notes: "Note: The brcm47xx still won't work for those of you needing broadcom wifi, stick to brcm-2.4. We will tell you when it does work." So at least for the WRT54GL, OpenWRT won't give you a 2.6 Kernel either for now.
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The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 11, 2010 22:22 UTC (Mon) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028) [Link]
A 2.6 kernel is provided, just not recommended. My experience is that wireless works most of the time with 2.6, but occassionally things wedge.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 11, 2010 22:56 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] I tried the git snapshot with the Linux 2.6 kernel on WRT54GL, and it worked for me. The only problem is that luci (the web interface) had to be installed manually. Admittedly, I only needed the wireless interface in the station mode. Anyway, I think there are good chances we'll see free Broadcom support in the next release.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 11, 2010 23:21 UTC (Mon) by zuki (subscriber, #41808) [Link]
The problem is with access-point mode with WPA, not with station mode
or un-encrypted access-point mode. I tried a few recent versions of the brcm47xx branch a few days ago and the router always resets on a successful authentication by a client - not good.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 12, 2010 2:08 UTC (Tue) by nbd (subscriber, #14393) [Link]
That bug should be fixed in the latest version. It was a bug in mac80211
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Jan 12, 2010 7:55 UTC (Tue) by zuki (subscriber, #41808) [Link]
Excellent. Thanks.
The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review Posted Feb 15, 2010 21:59 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
Using it since a year (with no encryption though; we use ipsec). If there is problem at all, it's because the AP is so far away, but that ain't WRT or the kernel's fault. For web interface, there is X-WRT (not really a fork, but it uses OpenWRT as a base).
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