[OpenWrt-Devel] Netgear R6300 - 802.11ac device

2012-07-03 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
Hiya,

Netgear has recently released a 802.11ac device dubbed R6300 with 128 MB
Flash and 128 MB RAM.

The network processor is Broadcom’s BCM4706. For the 2.4GHz radio it uses
the BCM4331 w/ SiGE brand power amps. For the 5GHz radio it uses the
BCM4360 chip with Skyworks SE5003L power amps.

Anybody knows if this is as open as WNDR3800 to allow openwrt and ... open
the pandora's box with new and exciting issues with gigabit wireless? ;-)

Please CC, I'm not on the list.

Regards,
Maciej Soltysiak
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Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Netgear R6300 - 802.11ac device

2012-07-03 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2012/7/3 Maciej Soltysiak mac...@soltysiak.com:
 Netgear has recently released a 802.11ac device dubbed R6300 with 128 MB
 Flash and 128 MB RAM.

I guess my work on creating images for WNDR4500 will help here. I'm on
vacations right now, will be back to development in next week.


 The network processor is Broadcom’s BCM4706. For the 2.4GHz radio it uses
 the BCM4331 w/ SiGE brand power amps. For the 5GHz radio it uses the BCM4360
 chip with Skyworks SE5003L power amps.

We don't have driver for flash yet. BCM4331 is poorly supported by
b43, no brcmsmac support, Broadcom doesn't respond on questions on
that.
BCM4360 is even worse I guess.


 Anybody knows if this is as open as WNDR3800 to allow openwrt and ... open
 the pandora's box with new and exciting issues with gigabit wireless? ;-)

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Rafał
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Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Netgear R6300 - 802.11ac device

2012-07-03 Thread Maciej Soltysiak
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote:

 2012/7/3 Maciej Soltysiak mac...@soltysiak.com:
  Netgear has recently released a 802.11ac device dubbed R6300 with 128 MB
  Flash and 128 MB RAM.

 I guess my work on creating images for WNDR4500 will help here. I'm on
 vacations right now, will be back to development in next week.

Didn't know WNDR4500 was feasible. I heard it's not 100% open source
firmware at present and thus are not usable:
I'm basically quoting Dave Taht from Cerowrt project:
http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/355

  The network processor is Broadcom’s BCM4706. For the 2.4GHz radio it uses
  the BCM4331 w/ SiGE brand power amps. For the 5GHz radio it uses the BCM4360
  chip with Skyworks SE5003L power amps.

 We don't have driver for flash yet. BCM4331 is poorly supported by
 b43, no brcmsmac support, Broadcom doesn't respond on questions on
 that.
 BCM4360 is even worse I guess.
Right. What is your broadcom contact?

Regards,
Maciej
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Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Netgear R6300 - 802.11ac device

2012-07-03 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2012/7/3 Maciej Soltysiak mac...@soltysiak.com:
 On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote:

 2012/7/3 Maciej Soltysiak mac...@soltysiak.com:
  Netgear has recently released a 802.11ac device dubbed R6300 with 128 MB
  Flash and 128 MB RAM.

 I guess my work on creating images for WNDR4500 will help here. I'm on
 vacations right now, will be back to development in next week.

 Didn't know WNDR4500 was feasible. I heard it's not 100% open source
 firmware at present and thus are not usable:
 I'm basically quoting Dave Taht from Cerowrt project:
 http://www.bufferbloat.net/issues/355

I don't really know anything about Cerowrt. I think your router may be
similar to WNDR4500 (except second wifi chipset). For my summary take
a look at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org/msg14260.html


  The network processor is Broadcom’s BCM4706. For the 2.4GHz radio it uses
  the BCM4331 w/ SiGE brand power amps. For the 5GHz radio it uses the 
  BCM4360
  chip with Skyworks SE5003L power amps.

 We don't have driver for flash yet. BCM4331 is poorly supported by
 b43, no brcmsmac support, Broadcom doesn't respond on questions on
 that.
 BCM4360 is even worse I guess.
 Right. What is your broadcom contact?

Public mailing lists, nothing private:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/93675
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/93688
(I didn't get response for my question from the second link).

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Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Netgear R6300 - 802.11ac device

2012-07-03 Thread Arend van Spriel
On 07/03/2012 06:40 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
 We don't have driver for flash yet. BCM4331 is poorly supported by
  b43, no brcmsmac support, Broadcom doesn't respond on questions on
  that.
  BCM4360 is even worse I guess.
  Right. What is your broadcom contact?
 Public mailing lists, nothing private:
 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/93675
 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/93688
 (I didn't get response for my question from the second link).
 
 -- Rafał

Hi Rafał,

The intention is to add BCM4331 to brcmsmac, but lately focus has been
on brcmfmac development. As for BCM43228 this question has raised, but I
do not yet have a (definite) answer.

Gr. AvS


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Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Bounty: /overlay on x86

2012-07-03 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
Is /overlay supported on x86?  Am I missing something here?

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Kristian Kielhofner k...@kriskinc.com wrote:
 Hello everyone,

   I've been struggling to get /overlay to work on x86.  I'm using an
 initramfs filesystem and I want my changes to persist across reboot.
 For some reason I've been completely unable to get /overlay to work.
 I've tried asking here before, I've tried asking on the forum, and
 I've tried it myself - all to no avail.

   This post to the forum (from October) is a good summary of what I'm
 trying to do:

 https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=169868

   To verify I've tried a native ext2 filesystem and bind.  I can't get
 either to work.  I'm offering $500 to someone who can get this
 configuration to work (bind fs) using openwrt trunk with an initramfs
 filesystem on x86 as cleanly (/overlay UCI config) as possible.  Any
 changes made to OpenWRT sources (scripts, functions, etc) must be
 contributed back and accepted into openwrt trunk.  Payment to be
 delivered via PayPal or some other means we can agree upon.

   Any takers?

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 Kristian Kielhofner



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Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] 96348A-122 improvements (Comtrend 5365)

2012-07-03 Thread Jonas Gorski
On 21 June 2012 18:12, Álvaro Fernández Rojas nolt...@gmail.com wrote:
 1) Improve WLAN button.
 2) Add 96348A-122 image.

 Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas nolt...@gmail.com

Thanks, applied in r32593.
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