Yes, William was instrumental in my change over from dd-wrt to open-wrt. Just wanted to share a case where it was a actual required change to the firmware to get a function to work.
Dan Bidleman On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Dan Trevino <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe William came to the same conclusion a couple of months ago. I > believe the buffalo routers are my next purchase. > > dan > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Dan Bidleman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Just wanted to share my experience with dd-wrt vs open-wrt. >> >> A little background: >> I have a Lenovo Thinkpad x220 running debian testing with a intel 6300 >> wireless chipset. The access point I was connecting to was a Buffalo >> WZR-HP-G300NH running its factory install of dd-wrt. >> >> The story: >> I started having issues (it was working before this, and for some >> reason stopped) one night with my router when I was connected via my >> laptop. The router locked up, I rebooted it, tried to connect, it >> locked up again, tried this a few times to no avail. I eventually >> figured out that I could talk to it over the wired connection, but as >> soon as I tried to talk to it or to the internet over wireless, it >> would lock up hard. >> I took this to be that there was a problem with the hardware (perhaps) >> but did a factory restore (after a bit of troubleshooting), this did >> not do anything. Then I flashed the firmware to the newest stable >> version supplied by Buffalo (same version that was already on the >> machine), this also did not work. I flashed it to the newest >> (testing) version of dd-wrt buffalo supplied and it still did not >> work. Upon contacting Buffalo, they said it was the wireless hardware >> and would RMA the device. >> While waiting on the RMA to be passed down to me, I went over to >> Andrew's house, who has the same device as I do, and lo and behold the >> device locked up upon me connecting to it. So the problem was the >> software, not the hardware. So when I got back home, I installed >> open-wrt, got it configured, and everything works great now. The box >> seems to be a bit more responsive then it used to now as well, not >> sure if thats a perception issue or if it is actually faster, but I'm >> not going back to dd-wrt to see. >> Open-wrt also has a TON of packages, (~2000) so there is plenty to >> make it much more functional then dd-wrt. Their documentation seems >> to be pretty decent as well. >> >> TL;DR: Laptop locks up this router with dd-wrt, and works fine with >> open-wrt. >> >> Dan Bidleman >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >> Unsubscribe [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > --- > Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Open Standards! > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
