[MLB-WIRELESS] Linux on DWL 900+ APs

[Ben Anderson]

At the moment, basically nothing.  The kernel boots, and that's about it.
There's a enough work to go to get things running, let alone the amount of
work required to reverse engineer the drivers for the wireless interface
(which don't appear to be standard, it seems to be a cut-down/direct
interfaced chipset so the standard drivers don't work).

Get your teeth dirty on some real hacking and give these guys a hand...
cool project..  I hope it results in more hardware companies being more
forthcoming with hardware specs and open firmware.   I don't get it -- what
does a hardware company lose by making their firmware open source?  (the
source is probably licensed to licencees of the design anyway, so they can
make their own modifications...  why not make it open-open and sell even
even more boxes?)

Ben.


> I tried to look at this site, but it had been /.ed and was soooo slow. Can
> someone tell me what can you do with a hacked AP? Run Zebra / Quagga on
it?
> Something else?
>
> Regards,
> g at z.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> [mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Barry Park
> Sent: Monday, 3 November 2003 5:02 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Linux on DWL 900+ APs
>
>
> Posted on Sladshdot not so long ago. This chipset is used in the DLink
> DWL 900+ APs. many of the associated websites are in French (Belgians
> speak French, but with a Belgian accent) so anyone who's good at
> translations ...
> - Barry
>
> Hacking Samsung 4510-Based APs
> Posted by timothy on Sunday November 02, @07:52PM
> from the making-waves dept.
> zoobab writes "Some belgian linux hackers met this week-end to hack some
> wireless access points based on the samsung4510 chip. They have
> succeeded in compiling and booting a uClinux kernel on a Dlink 614ap+,
> which is equipped with the infamous acx100 wireless chipset. There's
> still some work to do, but if you want to help, open your 22mbps AP and
> try to built your own JTAG adaptator to get access to the flash..."
>
<http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/11/02/2155244.shtml?tid=106&ti
> d=137&tid=185&tid=193>
>
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