From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932189AbVH3QBQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:01:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751450AbVH3QBQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:01:16 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:62436 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751447AbVH3QBP (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:01:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:01:25 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Michael Tokarev Cc: LKML Subject: Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux Message-ID: <20050830160125.GA15126@midnight.suse.cz> References: <20050830093715.GA9781@midnight.suse.cz> <43147FF1.60707@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43147FF1.60707@tls.msk.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:49:05PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > Hi! > > > > The D-Link DWL-G730AP devices from the Kernel Summit run Linux, And it's > > likely a GPL violation, too, since sources are nowhere to be found. > > > > They're based on a Marvell Libertas AP-32 (ARM9) design, similar > > to the ASUS WL-530g. A bootlog from the ASUS (which has telnet enabled > > for some reason, and thus can be logged in) is at the end of the mail. > > > > A firmware image is available from D-Link ([URL removed]) and it seems > > to be composed of compressed blocks padded by zeroes. I haven't verified > > yet that it's indeed a compressed kernel, cramfs, etc, but it seems > > quite likely. > > Why [URL removed] ? ;) See the comment at the end of the mail. I tried to send the mail twice already, and with the URLs in, it wasn't delivered. Probably some spam filter at kernel.org ate it. > There's an ongoing project to "bring some power" into other D-Link > devices (from DSL series; one of them, DSL-G604T (which I own) has > an access point too) at http://mcmcc.bat.ru/dlinkt/ . This stuff is > also based on the same design, it seems (but I know right to nothing > about all this arm stuff - wasn't even able to compile a cross-gcc > for it yet). McMCC (the author of this whole work) figured out the > layout of the firmware images and mtd devices, and got D-Link stuff > (out of http://ftp.dlink.ru/pub/ADSL/GPL_source_code/ ) to build and > run on those boards... These seem to have an entirely different architecture. The DSL's are Texas Instrument MIPS, while the Libertas is an Marvell ARM. > BTW, DSL series has telnet by default (user root, password is the > one set in the admin interface, default is 'admin'). And the whole > webinterface looks very similar (but this DWL-G730AP device has some > "advanced" controls for the wireless component which are absent in > my DSL-G604T). The web interface is likely the only part done by D-Link. In the DWL-G730AP, the rest (board design, etc) was done by Marvell and Global Sun Technology. The PCB name is "WL AP 2454 NM1 VER:1.1". -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR