[debian-non-standard] 2.6.30 kernel for ASUS WL-500g*

[Aryanto Rachmad]

Hello Tomasz and Martin,

I am not sure if I have ever posted to this list, so greeting to every one.

It has been a long time since I played around with WLAN router. And I 
was surprised to see a discussion about using the recent kernel on ASUS 
router. So I am interested to start playing around again, as I just got 
a quite cheap old bricked WL-500gP which I just un-bricked. :)

What I plan to do with this router is to upgrade the RAM to 128MB, 
change the Mini-PCI to Atheros and have a Debian Lenny on it. For that I 
have a few questions:

1. How do we use this kernel 2.6.30 that you have been discussing here?

   A few years back, when I tried to have Debian running on my old 
WL-500g Deluxe, I used Openwrt to boot it then chroot to Debian on USB 
hard disk. Is it still the case now?

2. Is the kernel 2.6.30 on http://www1.wpkg.org/debian-asus/2.6.30/ 
compiled with glibc or uclibc?

3.  Does the original ASUS WL-500gP Broadcom Mini-PCI work with kernel 
2.6.30?

    If not, would it be better to have Atheros based Mini-PCI? If so, 
which Atheros based Mini-PCI is known to work well?

4. Is the patch to have 128MB RAM included in this kernel 2.6.30?

I guess that is all (for now). Thanks a lot in advance for your responses.

Kind regards,

Anto


Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Dienstag 16 Juni 2009 schrieb Tomasz Chmielewski:
>   
>> Hi,
>>     
>
> Hi Tomasz,
>
>   
>> I just uploaded 2.6.30 kernel, modules and other stuff for ASUS
>> WL-500g* routers.
>>
>> You can download it from http://www1.wpkg.org/debian-asus/2.6.30/
>>
>> Wireless works with Broadcom cards, but is not very stable (i.e. you
>> will have to restart hostapd from time to time).
>>     
>
> I upgraded today. On first sight it seems to work like a charm.
>
> Thanks for building the kernel. Now my router has a more recent kernel 
> than my laptops, cause 2.6.30 doesn't yet fly with TuxOnIce on my ThinkPad 
> T42.
>
> Ciao,
>   
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