Hi everyone, Just wanted to share my experience with dd-wrt vs open-wrt.
A little background: I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x220 running debian testing with a intel 6300 wireless chipset. The access point I was connecting to was a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH running its factory install of dd-wrt. The story: I started having issues (it was working before this, and for some reason stopped) one night with my router when I was connected via my laptop. The router locked up, I rebooted it, tried to connect, it locked up again, tried this a few times to no avail. I eventually figured out that I could talk to it over the wired connection, but as soon as I tried to talk to it or to the internet over wireless, it would lock up hard. I took this to be that there was a problem with the hardware (perhaps) but did a factory restore (after a bit of troubleshooting), this did not do anything. Then I flashed the firmware to the newest stable version supplied by Buffalo (same version that was already on the machine), this also did not work. I flashed it to the newest (testing) version of dd-wrt buffalo supplied and it still did not work. Upon contacting Buffalo, they said it was the wireless hardware and would RMA the device. While waiting on the RMA to be passed down to me, I went over to Andrew's house, who has the same device as I do, and lo and behold the device locked up upon me connecting to it. So the problem was the software, not the hardware. So when I got back home, I installed open-wrt, got it configured, and everything works great now. The box seems to be a bit more responsive then it used to now as well, not sure if thats a perception issue or if it is actually faster, but I'm not going back to dd-wrt to see. Open-wrt also has a TON of packages, (~2000) so there is plenty to make it much more functional then dd-wrt. Their documentation seems to be pretty decent as well. TL;DR: Laptop locks up this router with dd-wrt, and works fine with open-wrt. Dan Bidleman --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
