[MLB-WIRELESS] New OpenWRT firmware available.

[Tim Hogard]

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> The OpenWRT guys have released a new firmware which is supposed to be much
> better than the old ones. It's not referenced off their web site as yet -
> but is posted about in the forum.
> 
> Direct link is: http://www.openwrt.org/downloads/experimental/
I'm not sure how much better it is but the CHANGES files is here:

 OpenWRT CHANGES
 ---------------

 Changes between official and experimental

  *) new buildroot (based on uClib buildroot2)
     *) makefiles are no longer included but executed instead
        => easier to create packages

  *) enhanced configuration system
     *) busybox fully configurable from menuconfig
     *) enabled tristate for some packages
        => < > disabled, <M> compile as .ipk, <*> compile as .ipk and embed

  *) new kernel (updated to 2.4.29)

  *) jffs2 root partition support

  *) lzma compression (kernel and squashfs root partition)

  *) posix threads library (libpthread) is now embedded in firmware

  *) newest ebtables support

  *) better support for Asus WL-500g
        (kernel modules for usb,scsi,vfat build)

-tim
http://web.abnormal.com

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