FreeWRT inside!

Hi,

the fucking Spammers attacked us two times in one week. Sorry for the damage in our ticket system. I hope I get everything recovered today and will try to finetune the Anti-Spam module and some more stuff, to avoid further attacks.

Sorry for the inconvenience
waldemar

Hi,

finally Thorsten managed to build the FreeWRT development version on a recent MacOS X Intel-based MacBook.
It is fully untested, but at least we now have a build system for tests. Full build of all packages will not work, but we are working on that. Please help and try to build FreeWRT trunk from source. Report Bugs!

Thanks
Waldemar

Hi,

if you ever compiled FreeWRT from source, you know there is a directory named staging_dir_$arch. This was the directory where the toolchain compile results and all other libraries and headers for the target where mixed up with cross-compile host-tools like gcc. Finally Thorsten managed to separate host and target tools, so that we do not mixup them anymore. There is a new directory called cross_$arch with at least two subdirectories. One is named target, which contains all header files and libraries needed to cross-compile applications. The host directory contains all applications and tools, which are excuted on the host, to cross-compile stuff or to use other nice tools.

Now we could activate native binutils again. Next step is to have a native compile, which sometimes might be useful.
For example you could do some stress test with kernel compiling.

If you are updating your trunk, do not forget to recompile your toolchain via "make cleandir". And remove staging_dir*, because it is obsolete now.

Have a nice day
Waldemar

Today I talked to someone in our channel who is searching for a device, which can be used as virtual access point.
While we are discussing this topic, he told me, he is using FreeWRT as a music appliance in his home network. That is not totally new, because I already use my Asus WL500g deluxe to play music via USB audio connected to my stereo system with a mpd (music player daemon) and an external USB disk. But he has ported esd and use his amarok musik player on his desktop to play local music. Great idea. I start integrating esd now :}

bye
Waldemar

I really like t-shirts very much. Therefore Dave, my personal t-shirt designer
slave and popular for his Geekladen
motives, created a new design for me. By the way, the only OpenWrt t-shirts I
know of, are designed by Dave, too. I have sold some of them at What-the-hack
in the netherlands. This year we will start selling the FreeWRT t-shirts at
Linuxtag 2007. If you like these t-shirt, you also can buy them later in the
Geekladen webshop. They will be available in black and navy blue.



Do you like them?

Have fun
Waldemar

Some days ago our german article about FreeWRT was suggested for deletion. He was right about the quality of the article and so I would be very happy if somebody jumps in and create a well formed article about the FreeWRT Linux distribution. Right now somebody has started to rework the german article, but we need more.

So if YOU like to help, start writing! The person who contribute a nice and well written article about FreeWRT in wikipedia in english, will get a Netgear WGT634u for free!

If you need some background information regarding FreeWRT, do not hesitate to contact me.

Thanks in advance
Waldemar

Hi,

Michael has developed a nice mobile wlan hacking device. Unfortunately my UMTS provider is very unstable at the moment, so I have no internet at home. Happily Michael brought his Netgear WGT634u to me and we had a short search, if any open network is available. Yeah, just few seconds later he had a stable and free internet connection.


On the picture you see a battery pack powering the wireless router.
He choosed Netgear WGT634u, because it contains a Atheros based wireless card. Together with the madwifi-ng driver you have a full featured wireless radio, which can be used to search for new networks and being an access point for wireless clients at the same time. The virtual access point (VAP) feature is not only usable to have a private WPA secured network and a public hotspot system on a second AP, like Fon is using it on their Foneros.

Happy hacking
Waldemar, now ordering a battery pack ...

Hi,

good news. Finally we (Thorsten and me) implemented a nice method to name all
init scripts in /etc/init.d just with the name of the daemon or script name,
without the annoying leading "SXY" prefix. This was a suggestion from Lars,
our usability chief developer . It is long time ago he suggested it and finally I got
some time to explain Thorsten what we need, to get a little bit more general
Linux distribution compatibility. The implementation is very short and clean:

grep '^#FWINIT ' /etc/init.d/* | \

      sort -nk2 | \

      while read line; do

           /bin/sh ${line%%:*} autostart 2>&1

      done

It is nice to work with experienced unix people, who know their tools.

New packages should use #FWINIT XX in the init script to define the startup order.

This weekend I have installed a nice IRC bot, which informs our IRC chatroom #freewrt on irc.freenode.net about any changes in trac or on the blog. The bot software is rbot. Really simple to install and to configure. The name of the bot is "fwrt". If you don't like him, just use the ignore function in your client.

Happy chatting
Waldemar