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Open Source Router Firmware OpenWRT 15.05 Released
aglider writes: The newest stable iteration of the famous and glorious OpenWRT has just been released in the wild for all the supported architectures. The latest version is 15.05, codenamed "Chaos Calmer" after a cocktail drink, just like all previous ones. Major changes from the official announcements: "Linux kernel updated to version 3.18. Improved Security Features. Rewritten package signing architecture based on ed25519. Added support for jails. Added support for hardened builds. Improved Networking Support. Platform and Driver Support." For the full details you are welcome on the forums while the firmware itself and extra packages are available from the distribution servers.
If it has systemd, do not want.
Yay! It seems these "made for open source" routers are finally supported!
However bug #20 and #21 mean Apple devices sometimes cause lock ups and nobody can fix the binary blob other than Marvell?
Really, at this point, there are not a lot of new features to add. The most exciting thing would likely be support for more routers.
Just a reminder: http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
Same crummy website. Same inscrutable instructions.
If you want pizzas out of your router firmware, go buy https://on.google.com/hub/
Meanwhile, OpenWRT doesn't spy on you, and for the time being is secure.
I'm still sticking with my Netgear DGND3700 v1 DSL modem/router all-in-one with its excellent custom firmware which includes Annex M support (for higher upload bandwidth) which my local carrier (Sonic) allows customers to toggle on.
OpenWRT supports the router only but state that they will never support the DSL modem unfortunately.
There has been a lot of misinformation being spread by certain technical news publications about proposed rule changes. The FCC has passed rules and is proposing new rules that are *resulting in* manufacturers locking down there devices so that users can't flash OpenWRT and other third party firmware. See www.savewifi.org for more information on how you can help stop the *proposed rule changes* NOW. The rules which have already passed are also a problem and there will be further efforts to get them overturned.
We are already seeing manufacturers add signature checking (locks) to the stock firmware they ship on *older routers* as a result of the re-certification process. Manufacturers are asked "How are you preventing the loading of third party firmware such as DD-WRT?". The FCC has been quoted saying that they don't care how its achieved, but the reality is the quick and easy way and really only way for most/all manufactures to comply with these rule changes *in practice* is to lock the devices down. The FCC quotes are misleading to those who don't understand this and at least two articles have used this to imply it is not an issue despite *many* people saying it is an important issue (even within these articles).
There have been quotes from Qualcomm employees as well to add "clout" to the stories. These quotes were BS. The people at Qualcomm involved in the campaign, knowledgeable, and fully informed were not the people quoted. There is one current employee and actual ex-Qualcomm developers who worked on the software defined radio wifi chips now being impacted participating in the Save Wifi campaign. Adrian Chadd has reviewed the rule changes and is *working on the Save Wifi campaign*. Don't trust my words- go look at the PUBLIC mailing list archive yourself.
Lawyers, activists, and technologists from a variety of groups who have worked on FCC rule changes in the past are also involved in the campaign. They're not agreeing with the assessment that this is a non-issue or being blown out of proportion. The Electronic Frontier Foundation AND the Free Software Foundation are both involved and *big* participants in deciphering the rule changes. They are both coming out with statements as part of the Save Wifi campaign. The Save Wifi coalition is preparing letters and setting up a campaign similar to Dear FCC, SOPA, and similar campaigns to fight this.
The current proposed rules are what are currently at issue for the campaign, but there will be efforts to overturn rules already passed, and stop similar rules from going through in both Europe and Canada. It's no surprise that there is so much confusion as it's taken a month and participation by a dozen *highly involved* participants from different areas to grasp the significance of the problem and are still figuring out a road map on fighting it.
Why is it crummy? Not app'd enough for you?
Why? Because a router is just a computer with multiple network cards/wifi cards. To have a new routerrun it just build a small computer.
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osama was just a patsy
WAKE UP PEOPLE
I need to data cap a video streaming hog so we don't get charged for exceeding our usage allowance. I would like to limit him to 100 gb/month. What's the best way of doing this using openwrt?
Do these groups communicate at all? I ask because I have the Buffalo WZR-1750DHPD router that comes with DD-WRT straight from the factory. Full open source, etc.
And OpenWRT doesn't really support this router. The comments in the HW database are:
As of OpenWrt 15.05-rc3 (Chaos Calmer):
The 802.11an radio is not recognized.
The 802.11bg radio is misconfigured such that most wireless clients will connect to the AP with only a very weak signal.
Which strikes me as odd for a device that already has an open source implementation. You'd figure getting a basic function like the Wi-Fi drivers working would be fairly easy, given a working sample with source.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
We are three sharing an apartment, with three laptops, a Raspberry Pi, three phones, and the occasional guest. We've gone through several D-Link and TP-Link routers. The WiFi quality sucks, there's crappy, dropping reception 5m (15 ft) from the router beyond a wall.
What router can we buy? Do Open/DD-WRT affect performance?
So did you really mean "pizzazz", as in "an attractive combination of vitality and glamour"? Or "pizzas". Because if you've figured out how to get a router firmware to spit out a pepperoni with extra cheese, then sir, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Now *this* is news, maybe I'm skipping over stories but I don't think this was posted oin Slashdot's front page? This is important.
Twinstiq, game news
I guess I did miss this one, thanks to this poster for pointing it out
Twinstiq, game news
Radio firmware is commonly already separated from system firmware. The problem is the manufacturers who won't just make this standard. If you can't reflash the radios, then there's no problem.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I just updated a router with a complicated configuration (several wireless networks, manual firewall configuration, switch configured with multiple VLANs, web interface through ssh only, wireless on a channel outside of 1-11, etc.) from Barrier Breaker to Chaos Calmer, and absolutely everything just keeps working. I want to complain about this somehow, because it freaks me the hell out, but I don't know what to complain about. What the fuck, folks.
"..to cause cancer."
Surely this won't stop manufacturers from shipping routers with OpenWRT built in? (Well, I guess it will if OpenWRT is GPLv3, but that should be easily fixed.)