@anectine17
that article links to the same page as mentioned 7 posts ago, by krikkit
@Krasny
when you say its firmware you mean the official firmware? and does it support wpa on the wireless bridge?
and by the way, if that's true, then according to the openwrt page there are a few more compatible:
Smc WEBT-G aka Philips SNR6500 aka Siemens Wlan Repeater 108 (AR2316)
paulo i dont know what modes support the smc brigde, i don´t have it, but u can see a speadsheet here, it seems that it support WPA, in SMC´s page you can find firmware updates too.
And i don´t know if it has differences between "La Fonera", but i saw the image and they look very similar!, maybe both are based on atheros pcb reference design.
Since the Atheros reference design uses SPI memory instead of parallel flash, is it possible to attach a SD card to the SPI bus and use the hardware SPI driver to get more memory?
Now that we have the sources for all the routers, it shouldn't be too hard to figure that out. I'm sure there are some differences between the PCBs though...
Configuration wise, the fonera has 8mb flash and 16mb ram where the SMC only has 4mb/8mb
http://olsrexperiment.de/sven-ola/fonera/ <-- some packages for the fonera especially usefull is wpa_suplicant ...which made it possible for the fonera to connect to a wpa encrypted network in client mode.. _________________ Using Firmware:
DD-WRT v24-sp2 (01/29/09) vpn
(SVN revision 11514) on WRT54G v3.1
now kill all the old wlan setup und create a new ath0 interface in client mode...
Code:
ifconfig ath0 down
ifconfig ath1 down
ifconfig tun0 down
ifconfig eth0:1 down
/etc/init.d/N50chillispot stop
killall chilli
killall hostapd
killall dnsmasq
killall wpa_supplicant
wlanconfig ath0 destroy
wlanconfig ath1 destroy
wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta
ifconfig ath0 up
wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
Code:
root@OpenWrt:~# more /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
ssid="www.krikkit.net"
#psk="XXXXX"
psk=YYYYYYYY
}
after this the fonera should be connected to your wpa encrypted wlan... and you should be able to ping it on the specified ip
no setup of bridging is done up to now...there is also some kind of problem with fetching ip via dhcp
if you test it on your own fonera, please report any problems and additional enhancements made... _________________ Using Firmware:
DD-WRT v24-sp2 (01/29/09) vpn
(SVN revision 11514) on WRT54G v3.1
You say lafonera has 16mb ram but as i see, the ram chip is HY57V281620 and it's only 8mb. I can't check the flash as i don't have my unit yet.
It would be great to know if there is any fully compatible hardware and having it's binary firmware file because i could program the flash outside the board (unsoldering it) in a flash/eeprom programmer.
Maybe we could change the flash for a smaller one if that were the only difference with the smc device and flash that new 2mb chip before soldering on lafonera board.
Sorry is correct. SMC, Philips and Siemens similar devices use A2V64S40 8Mb ram and lafonera uses HY57V281620 16Mb Ram. I'm not sure if it would run a smc firmware (changing flash) with a bigger ram chip.
