htismaqe
Very Senior Member
Other thread?
Sorry. Trying to avoid getting this thread off-topic, Tim has been policing us too much lately.
http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=17594
Other thread?
At best you might see some unofficial forks from tinkerers.
Much like the ASUS unofficial builds, eh?
Those "tinkerers" do find some excellent solutions to bugs within the official releases. Present company included...
sfx
Been over at the OpenWRT site and saw your post in regards for some "magical" thing to come in the next few weeks. Honestly, I am grateful you guys have been pouring your heart and soul over the FW build. If it weren't for you and the rest of the WRT community, we would be left with Linksys to release a "safe" build.
Well, waiting patiently for you guys, and when it's right, you'll release it to the rest of us......"jailbreakers"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OpenWRT now has the wireless driver source code
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=240734#p240734
OpenWRT now has the wireless driver source code
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=240734#p240734
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc1Mzk
and deeplinked there...
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=242104#p242104
TL;DR - Marvell is still reluctant to release a fully open-source driver - OpenWRT seems to want everything - and it's likely not going to get that - Linksys and Marvell have gone about as far as they can.
OpenWRT tends to adhere very closely to the overall GNU/Linux philosophy - code is best when it is set free for others to observe, tweak, modify, etc...
The chipset is a soft MAC, meaning that firmware on boot needs to be loaded into the chip - this is a common approach - but that firmware has "secret sauce" developed internally and also licensed in some cases where the license for that code is incompatible with GPL v2/v3 - hence the best they can probably do is provide well documented header files for the firmware object file...
and the OpenWRT project is rejecting that...
oh well... it's not a tech issue, it's above that on what can be shared...
Having seen the driver, I can say that even with full source code available it would be hard to get it accepted into OpenWrt for a number of reasons:
- Crappy non-standard ioctl interface instead of standard Linux wireless APIs.
- No support for upstream hostapd, requires an old version hacked up with a bunch of crappy patches.
- Bad code quality.
I don't understand how anyone can backup Belkin or Marvell anymore. These two companies are completely incompetent. They are either lying at users or have no clue. I mean, there must be a contract between the two parties and the delivery of the driver, must be absolutely clear from the start.
If you look back in time. Then you will see how badly Belkin approached OpenWRT. They sent patches of the lowest quality, without correctly sending them (without wrapping), with binaries. No OpenWRT dev received a unit before these patches were sent. They did not contact any OpenWRT developer before they released the unit and sent patches, although they have announced OpenWRT support month ago at the CES.
Just to keep this forum informed you should be aware of interesting new developments with WRT1900AC OpenWRT:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=244714#p244714
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=245282#p245282
https://github.com/TheDgtl/mrvl_wlan_v7drv
https://github.com/OperatorOverload/mrvl_wlan_v7drv/
https://github.com/notnyt/Mamba/tree/attitude_adjustment
https://github.com/Chadster766/McWRT
Links, please?Note from OpenWRT developers:
All the new WRT routers have their own firmware images in trunk, you have to use the right one.
WRT1900AC(v1) - Mamba
WRT1900ACv2 - Cobra
WRT1200AC - Caiman
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P | Linksys Velop WHW03v1 firmware version 1.1.20.211186 | General Wi-Fi Discussion | 0 | |
M | WRT1900AC handshake issues? | General Wi-Fi Discussion | 5 |
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