Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-28 Thread Bjørn Mork
Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org writes: On 2014-04-23 11:31, Felix Fietkau wrote: Quick update on this subject: Linksys has now posted a GPL source for the WRT1900AC, and it contains the wifi driver sources. It appears to me, that this driver was properly licensed under GPL, with proper

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-24 Thread José Vázquez
2014-04-23 21:52 GMT+02:00, Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: 2014-04-23 13:41 GMT+02:00 José Vázquez ppvazquez...@gmail.com: I don't know if any of the OpenWRT developers or contributors have this router. If yes, my opinion is to add support for the board using the patches sent by Matthew

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-24 Thread Fernando Frediani
Couldn't agree more. Very good email. On 23/04/2014 18:33, cmsv wrote: Although it would be good to have this hardware supported aren't we all forgetting something such as BETTER alternatives without extra work and headaches ? I have seen this router costing from $279 to a typical price of

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Gerry Rozema wrote: On 17/04/14 07:54 PM, Matthew Fatheree wrote: I can acknowledge that this process is ongoing, and our engagement with OpenWRT is not yet complete. From the sounds of most of the folks who are OpenWRT, it's not ongoing because it never started. My

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread Felix Fietkau
Quick update on this subject: Linksys has now posted a GPL source for the WRT1900AC, and it contains the wifi driver sources. It appears to me, that this driver was properly licensed under GPL, with proper license headers in all source files. This means that work on supporting this device can

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2014-04-23 11:31, Felix Fietkau wrote: Quick update on this subject: Linksys has now posted a GPL source for the WRT1900AC, and it contains the wifi driver sources. It appears to me, that this driver was properly licensed under GPL, with proper license headers in all source files. This

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread José Vázquez
2014-04-23 11:40 GMT+02:00, Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org: On 2014-04-23 11:31, Felix Fietkau wrote: Quick update on this subject: Linksys has now posted a GPL source for the WRT1900AC, and it contains the wifi driver sources. It appears to me, that this driver was properly licensed under

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread José Vázquez
2014-04-23 13:41 GMT+02:00, José Vázquez ppvazquez...@gmail.com: 2014-04-23 11:40 GMT+02:00, Felix Fietkau n...@openwrt.org: On 2014-04-23 11:31, Felix Fietkau wrote: Quick update on this subject: Linksys has now posted a GPL source for the WRT1900AC, and it contains the wifi driver sources.

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread Zoltan HERPAI
I don't know if any of the OpenWRT developers or contributors have this router. If yes, my opinion is to add support for the board using the patches sent by Matthew Fatheree as base, reworking them and drop wireless support for now until they (Marvell or Belkin) develop a cfg80211 or mac80211

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread José Vázquez
2014-04-23 14:27 GMT+02:00, Zoltan HERPAI wigy...@uid0.hu: I don't know if any of the OpenWRT developers or contributors have this router. If yes, my opinion is to add support for the board using the patches sent by Matthew Fatheree as base, reworking them and drop wireless support for now

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread cmsv
Although it would be good to have this hardware supported aren't we all forgetting something such as BETTER alternatives without extra work and headaches ? I have seen this router costing from $279 to a typical price of $352 and more which ends up for being close to 400 bucks after taxes

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-23 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2014-04-23 13:41 GMT+02:00 José Vázquez ppvazquez...@gmail.com: I don't know if any of the OpenWRT developers or contributors have this router. If yes, my opinion is to add support for the board using the patches sent by Matthew Fatheree as base, reworking them and drop wireless support for

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm not sure if I can adequately address all of your concerns, but I may be able to clear up some confusion. It seems that there was no confusion at all. The problem is that Belkin/Linksys lied about its involvement with the OpenWRT community and what you're saying confirms it. The

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-22 Thread Fernando Frediani
I'm glad these emails threads remain recorded in the archives so they will be useful in the future for people cheated by Linksys/Belkin marketing department if this doesn't get resolved with the same energy that was spent to announce the product. Fernando On 22/04/2014 20:34, Stefan Monnier

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-18 Thread Andrew Johnson
(See below) On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Matthew Fatheree matthew.fathe...@belkin.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 19:27 -0700, Andrew Johnson wrote: As already pointed out by Felix, your patches do not contain the necessary wireless driver, so OpenWRT users are not actually able to

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-18 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2014-04-17 23:07 GMT+02:00 Matthew Fatheree matthew.fathe...@belkin.com: We have submitted our code patches to the OpenWrt mailing list and are awaiting approval. Please note you submitted incorrectly formatted patch (one huge one) with mangled white spaces. It can't be easily applied to

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-18 Thread Fernando Frediani
From the product review in Amazon: --- Linksys says: Hi Mat, Hopefully we can clear up some of your concerns. *Flashing your WRT1900AC will NOT void your warranty. We are making sure our support staff are clear on this*. Thanks for letting us know that you were

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-17 Thread Fernando Frediani
I think Belkin marketing responsible person should be fired straight away because they lied. My opinion ! Sometimes, in my organizations, sales and marketing people seems that just because they wear a suit and a tie they can lie without the risk of any penalty so they don't measure a bit of

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-17 Thread Matthew Fatheree
Hi Andrew, I'm not sure if I can adequately address all of your concerns, but I may be able to clear up some confusion. For the last several months the team at Belkin/Linksys has been working on creating a version of OpenWrt that will run on our WRT1900AC router. We have submitted our

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-17 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2014-04-17 23:07, Matthew Fatheree wrote: Hi Andrew, I'm not sure if I can adequately address all of your concerns, but I may be able to clear up some confusion. For the last several months the team at Belkin/Linksys has been working on creating a version of OpenWrt that will run

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-17 Thread Andrew Johnson
Hi Matthew, Thank you for taking the time to respond. Unfortunately, I'm finding that rather than making things clearer, it's making things more confusing. (More below) On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Matthew Fatheree matthew.fathe...@belkin.com wrote: Hi Andrew, Once that process is

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-17 Thread Matthew Fatheree
Hi Andrew, ( Responses Below ) On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 19:27 -0700, Andrew Johnson wrote: Hi Matthew, Thank you for taking the time to respond. Unfortunately, I'm finding that rather than making things clearer, it's making things more confusing. (More below) On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM,

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-17 Thread Gerry Rozema
On 17/04/14 07:54 PM, Matthew Fatheree wrote: I can acknowledge that this process is ongoing, and our engagement with OpenWRT is not yet complete. From the sounds of most of the folks who are OpenWRT, it's not ongoing because it never started. My questions for the list 1) Is OpenWRT a

[OpenWrt-Devel] Making sense of OpenWRT / Linksys WRT1900AC collaboration claims

2014-04-16 Thread Andrew Johnson
Hello, Now that this router is available at retailers [4] and we're seeing all kinds of reviews pop up, if possible I'd like to get some clarification on the nature of the collaboration between Linksys and the OpenWRT developers on the WRT1900AC. Linksys has been making claims in their marketing