<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2011 19:29, Tim Rogers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:securistoremelbourne@gmail.com">securistoremelbourne@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 28/03/2011 3:42 PM, Jason Hecker wrote:
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">I have recently come across a Russian based site that
supports alternative open source firmware for the venerable
Realtek 8186 chip and newer and very cheap Ralink 305x SoCs. I
have a Minitar MWGAP which I will try the 8186 firmware out on
later this week as I am still using it in client mode for a PC but
it's pretty unreliable (needs a power cycle veryday as it stops
talking to the AP). I have also tried the Ralink firmware on an
OEM 802.11bgn 2.4GHz AP/router with success.<br>
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Either way both chips have current and working source code
available for hacking as well as binary blobs to install. Just
use <a href="http://translate.google.com" target="_blank">translate.google.com</a>
to understand the site.<br>
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<a href="http://wive-ng.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://wive-ng.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
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I would be very interested to hear the results. I think this device
has a lot of potential as it seems to have quite high ouput. I have
been mucking around with the MWGAP as well. I will try this myself
anyway. Thanks for the info.<br></div></blockquote><div> <br>I have just installed the wive.bin file onto my MWGAP with success using the web based firmware upgrade option. I thought I had bricked it as it doesn't respond to pings but sshing in to 100.200.200.249 brought it to life. There is no web page, just ssh and a simple text menu with vi based editing. Now to work out what the fsck it all means! Finally, after all these years I have alternative firmware for my old MWGAP! Are you there Serialmonkey?<br>
<br>So I can safely say that the RA3052 firmware and RTL8186 firmware from the above site does indeed work! I guess it's an alternative to using dd-wrt - and there is source for both too. Apparently for RA3052 devices dd-wrt doesn't use the hardware IP accelerator but the wive formwire does.<br>
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