That's fine, but I think the more testers the better feedback Kong would have, wouldn't he ?
I asked a couple of questions because I'd also like
to test on WRT-1900AC - but if testing is allowed only
to a certain circle of people, then the rest of people
would like at least to know when a build would be intended
for broader audience _________________ R7500 Nighthawk X4 (main router)
Current build : 1.0.0.82/23.12.14
WRT1900AC (WiFi-bridge)
Current build : Chaos Calmer r45250 (testing OpenWRT)
Had you read the whole thread your posting in, you would have read that Kong said he would just use a few volunteers for pre-release testing & not had to ask where is the ftp link.
Due to his lack of recent activity here & on svn, I would guess Kong is either on holiday or just real busy with life at the moment. He will post when we can expect the new widely available firmware everyone is eagerly awaiting.
Unixworld wrote:
That's fine, but I think the more testers the better feedback Kong would have, wouldn't he ?
I asked a couple of questions because I'd also like
to test on WRT-1900AC - but if testing is allowed only
to a certain circle of people, then the rest of people
would like at least to know when a build would be intended
for broader audience
_________________ Router currently owned:
Netgear R7800 - Router
Netgear R7000 - AP mode
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2015 14:40 Post subject: open source software
A very strange way to develop open source software. Either you do not talk about it in the forums before you want to drop it. Or else take the help of anyone who can / wants to help.
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 15:40 Post subject: Re: open source software
bitbytare wrote:
A very strange way to develop open source software. Either you do not talk about it in the forums before you want to drop it. Or else take the help of anyone who can / wants to help.
Patience,Kong working on 2 other router..WE all have a life!
Joined: 20 Sep 2009 Posts: 125 Location: Indianapolis, USA
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:54 Post subject: Re: open source software
bitbytare wrote:
A very strange way to develop open source software. Either you do not talk about it in the forums before you want to drop it. Or else take the help of anyone who can / wants to help.
True however at least Kong is willing to help port DD-WRT to our router.. So be patient..
Im sure all hes doing is making a stable build that will at least function as close to the legit firmware then rather a downgrade from the OE firmware..
As Kong has stated:
<Kong> wrote:
@All, since I'm kind of busy right now, working with 3 units at the same time, fixing bugs for the R7000 with regular broadcom driver, R8000 triple radio with broadcoms new driver and the WRT1900AC that is a brandnew platform for us. Thus I'm a bit slow responding to any PM's
I just need a handful people to spot obvious issues at the current stage.
Now with the above being stated Im sure "a handful (of) people" is meant more towards the less bombardment of PM's being sent to Kong towards bug reports, ext..
As I know I wouldn't want to have my PM filled towards 3 different alpha builds of FW's on 3 different pieces of hardware..
Give him time..
Thanks for all your doing Kong..
Also thats goes out to the testers as well.. _________________ WRT54G v5~Fan,LED
WRT54G v4~BW is a GOD, He got her workin (thanx Dark & BW & T~)
WRT1900AC ~Main server
Marvell has released new WIFI drivers
Our troubles might be coming to an end soon
Commit mwlwifi driver 10.2.8.5.p0
1. Added support for station mode.
2. Upgraded firmware to version 7.2.8.5.
3. Added support to parse DTS file to configure band, antenna and power table.
4. Enhanced interoperability with some MAC clients.
5. Removed module parameters.
6. Cleaned up code based on the feedback from community.
7. Updated README, script and sample configuration files.
I tried out the OpenWRT kaloz image with the new wireless drivers last night and was not impressed. 5GHz. (the band that I care about *smile*) looked okay initially, but I saw deep dips in signal strength to the point where it wasn't useful to me in my favorite spot in my house during the dips. So I went back to stock firmware on the WRT1900AC, which has decent signal strength and much less overall variation. Although I hate using it with stock firmware, since the web interface is so useless, the one thing that I see is less variation in the wireless signal strength than my other routers.
Could be that there's more to be done with this new driver, don't know yet. I'll probably try it again down the road a bit, not a great initial impression, though.
Same here. Kaloz's images, as well the lifehacksback's
seem to still suffer the 5 GHz-driver issues
(as far as I'm informed).
I've tried 4 builds so far :
- Kaloz (openwrt_wrt1900ac_snapshot.img)
- lifehacksback "last known good" (openwrt-mvebu--squashfs.img)
- lifehacksback "testing-CC" (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
- CC, "Chaos Calmer r44898", which is a "bare-bone" build and you are left with a telnet/ssh-only
connection to router (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
With neither or those was I able to make this router a
"wireless bridge" to my main EA6700 (DD-WRT 26490).
Could be entirely my fault, though, as I'm fairly
"mainstream" in networking _________________ R7500 Nighthawk X4 (main router)
Current build : 1.0.0.82/23.12.14
WRT1900AC (WiFi-bridge)
Current build : Chaos Calmer r45250 (testing OpenWRT)
Same here. Kaloz's images, as well the lifehacksback's
seem to still suffer the 5 GHz-driver issues
(as far as I'm informed).
I've tried 4 builds so far :
- Kaloz (openwrt_wrt1900ac_snapshot.img)
- lifehacksback "last known good" (openwrt-mvebu--squashfs.img)
- lifehacksback "testing-CC" (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
- CC, "Chaos Calmer r44898", which is a "bare-bone" build and you are left with a telnet/ssh-only
connection to router (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
With neither or those was I able to make this router a
"wireless bridge" to my main EA6700 (DD-WRT 26490).
Could be entirely my fault, though, as I'm fairly
"mainstream" in networking
This is because they forgot to update the dts, since the new driver grabs these things from dts, see mwl_main.c
Same here. Kaloz's images, as well the lifehacksback's
seem to still suffer the 5 GHz-driver issues
(as far as I'm informed).
I've tried 4 builds so far :
- Kaloz (openwrt_wrt1900ac_snapshot.img)
- lifehacksback "last known good" (openwrt-mvebu--squashfs.img)
- lifehacksback "testing-CC" (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
- CC, "Chaos Calmer r44898", which is a "bare-bone" build and you are left with a telnet/ssh-only
connection to router (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
With neither or those was I able to make this router a
"wireless bridge" to my main EA6700 (DD-WRT 26490).
Could be entirely my fault, though, as I'm fairly
"mainstream" in networking
This is because they forgot to update the dts, since the new driver grabs these things from dts, see mwl_main.c
Cient mode is also working now:-)
Good news, thanks for passing that along. I was hoping that there might be more to the story *smile*.
Hoping that you'll have a "public" Beta soon *smile*.
Same here. Kaloz's images, as well the lifehacksback's
seem to still suffer the 5 GHz-driver issues
(as far as I'm informed).
I've tried 4 builds so far :
- Kaloz (openwrt_wrt1900ac_snapshot.img)
- lifehacksback "last known good" (openwrt-mvebu--squashfs.img)
- lifehacksback "testing-CC" (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
- CC, "Chaos Calmer r44898", which is a "bare-bone" build and you are left with a telnet/ssh-only
connection to router (openwrt-mvebu-armada-xp-mamba-squashfs-factory.img)
With neither or those was I able to make this router a
"wireless bridge" to my main EA6700 (DD-WRT 26490).
Could be entirely my fault, though, as I'm fairly
"mainstream" in networking
The trunk images are quite stable just need to manually add the web gui "luci", package.
However as you noted, and Kong responded to, "bridging" is impossible.
Kalzo, Lifehacksback, are not images that Openwrt supports, Kaloz is a developer and puts up test images, Lifehackback tests patches and so on, his images are test as well.
Well the marvel driver still needs some work until I consider it usable. There are several things that don't work right now and some are buggy e.g.: 5G <-> USB sucks.
But you can see the driver improves I have been running the unit in client mode (2G) for the last 2 days, with one pc attached to ethernet and one to 5G. Throughput is not too bad.
And since the driver builds out of tree, updating the driver just takes a few minutes.
