Fernando, you are right: the WRT54G was the beginning of a lot of great things, and now a lot of people contribute to OpenWRT, DD-WRT, and some other projects that i can't remember in this moment thanks to it. A disagree a bit with "...Belkin/Linksys is truly interested to "work with OpenWRT developers" means, in theory, an always welcome contribution back to the project." but according to this changelog (https://dev.openwrt.org/log/trunk/target/linux/mvebu?rev=40420) seems that the initial and hard job in OpenWRT were made by Florian, Luka (actual maintainer), Juhosg and others, in addition to the patches that other developers sent to the kernel. I can be wrong but Belkin/Linksys seems that are using existing code and adapting it, which is the right way, for its board; a wonderful board, of course, a black beast.
The patch 0030-mamba-mvebu-support-wifi-non-security.patch points that the wifi driver uses a proprietary API instead cfg80211, like Broadcom did with its proprietary wireless driver. :( To summarize: despite de precompiled wireless driver, welcome Linksys WRT1900ac! Best regards: José P.S.: i'm a bit sensitive with my surname. 2014-04-07 18:38 GMT+02:00, Fernando Frediani <fhfredi...@gmail.com>: > That is very interesting. > > Does anyone know if the source code of the .ko module was finally > provided by Belkin/Linksys ? > > Jose-Vasquez - Regarding your other email why there is so much interest > on the WRT1900ac,, I think first because it was announced as a successor > of the famous WRT54G, which needless to say the importance of this in > the start of the project. Also despite the fact other hardwares like > TL-WDR7500 are very interesting indeed, this one has its merits on the > upcoming "ac" era and if Belkin/Linksys is truly interested to "work > with OpenWRT developers" means, in theory, an always welcome > contribution back to the project. > > Best regards, > > Fernando > > > On 07/04/2014 14:32, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: >> There was a patch posted from linksys last week: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.openwrt.devel/23500 >> >> -Toke > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
