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Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router
An anonymous reader submits news of Netgear's release of the "open source Wireless-G Router (model WGR614L), enabling Linux developers and enthusiasts to create firmware for specialized applications, and supported by a dedicated open source community. The router supports the most popular open source firmware; Tomato and DD-WRT are available on WGR614L, making it easier for users to develop a wide variety of applications. The router is targeted at people who want custom firmware on their router without worrying about issues, and enjoy the benefits of having an open source wireless router."
Now we can use vastly superior ROT13 encryption instead of that lame WEP stuff.
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
There's still no such thing as an N router. They're all provisional N
The problem is how to use the same "free" radio frequency (2.4 GHz) both for "b/g" and "n" without interferencing
* SLAP *
Don't do that.
What? And no PCIe? Please. No SATA???? What do they think it is? A frikkin accesspoint or something?
c++;
And no monitor included? No printer function either?
I'm not going to buy this piece of shit.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
My dad has a Netgear that looks like that; it constantly overheats and completely drops wifi connections (ethernet works fine).
Ventilating it and adding some aluminum fins onto the main chip helped only somewhat.
I wonder, is this new one any better?
Nothing to see here; Move along.
Currently the wife's XP laptop will never drop off the wireless. If my Linux laptop is connect they will both drop about once a day. If I turn on my linux desktop which is wired in, the wireless laptops will drop out about once an hour.
I bet they include 801.11n support in the HURD.
Let him say what he wants.
Stop interferencing.
This is true, but there are modded Tomato firmwares floating about without Jon complaining. I've dontated to his project; I love Tomato. He deserves the right to keep control over the web ui, but I do agree that it detracts from making the firmware as free as it could be.
Cromulence abounds.
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of making this work:
On days whose name match "\w*a\w", we use the old 11b/g standard.
However, on days whose name match "\w*y", we use 11n.
Govvy: Splendid. You make this all sound so simple. How many Full Time Equivalents will this take to implement?
Sir Bedevere:Three-score and a fortnight, no more.
Govvy: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
The problem is solved by having two radios.
Baldric: Sir Bedevere, there is a flaw in the regular expression used to match 11b/g days. "Saturday" will match early, just "A Minute Past" the end of Friday, when we decide which standard is more standard for the day.
Sir Bedevere: Can we use XML?
Baldric: I have a cunning plan. We will use UTF-8, and have our system include SÃturday, instead of Saturday, so that there won't be any ASCII 97 characters except in the penultimate position.
Sir Bedevere: Recall, Baldric, that I hired you away from Edmund Blackadder not to solve problems, but to maintain them. Your fix can go in, but you have to make sure that it ripples through the system and triggers at least twice as many problems, or we won't consume all our FTE.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Well, that was a very fuckusanct thing to say wasn't it...
Perhaps, but it's at (+4, Simpsons Reference) right now.
Man: "Well I believe I'll mod that down."
Kang: "Go ahead. Throw your vote away."
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
It always seems that whenever a company releases something open-source they have to make at least one component proprietary. As this allows Open-WRT to be installed on it perhaps it is really open, but just about every device that uses something open-source has something that makes it hard to install something new on it or they don't use a 100% open source OS (examples, N800, EEE PC, TiVo, etc)
EEE PC? You mean this EEE PC running Ubuntu right here? It can't do that? Hmmm... Well I better stop altering reality then...
I provide the WiFi in hotels.
Oh, YOU'RE the guy.
Don't let me find you.