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The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review

The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review

Posted Jan 11, 2010 22:56 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review by gidoca
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review

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.


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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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