OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.
Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.
> Supported Devices
The OpenWrt project is pleased to announce that Gateworks' new Cambria Network Platform now ships with OpenWrt as the factory BSP.
The first member, the GW2358 is targeted at next generation high performance multi-radio wireless access points, mesh networks, backhauls, repeaters and VPN appliances.
Features:
CPU: Intel IXP435 @ 667MHz
Memory: 128MB
Flash: 32MB
Ethernet ports: 2x 10/100 Mbits/s
Expansion: 4x miniPCI slots, 2x USB 2.0, CF
Other features: Digital I/O, EEPROM, RTC, temp/voltage sensor, serial ports, extended temperature
Optional features: RS485 serial, GPS reciver
Full support for the Cambria family is already available in the development tree and will be part of the next stable release.
CommentsThis years LinuxWorld Conference and Expo hosts The Mobile Linux Conference. This conference in a conference is intended to explore the present state of the art in terms of mobile and embedded Linux-based solutions, and how these are pushing the development ahead. One of the tutorials on the program takes a closer look at embedded Linux development, using the NSLU2 in combination with OpenWrt Kamikaze as example: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/c … ONYB007TJR
CommentsThe OpenWrt project will over the next two months focus on a new Kamikaze release. The official name is to be: OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.08 Release. The planned schedule will take the following shape:
*Last day in July - final release candidate: 8.08 RC-1. This will be a feature freeze, and all changes after this point will be bug fixes.
*Last day in August - final release: OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.08 Release.
OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.08 Release will, amongst other, focus on bringing the following features:
- Firewall rewrite
- Broadcom 47xx running reliably with the new Kernel, not including wifi
- IMQ and Traffic shaping tested with newer kernels, especially 2.6.25
- Sysupgrade for more platforms (x86 is tested again)
- The new web interface (LuCI, Lua Configuration Interface)
- Full support for new platforms and targets
- Attention towards the integration of security updates
- Package maintaining and updates between releases
The OpenWrt Team
We thank everyone who attented the OpenWrt Fosdem 2008 presentation. The room was crowded and a lot of good questions got raised.
Paper submitted during the Call for Paper:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/people/flo … em2008.pdf
PDF of the presentation:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/people/flo … tation.pdf
Sources of the paper and the presentation can be found here:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/people/flo … m/sources/
The new Kamikaze 7.09 release is ready. It is a bugfix release for 7.07.
Changes since Kamikaze 7.07:
- Fix a crash at boot time on atheros-2.6
- Documentation updates
- UCI updates - uncommitted changes are now active on config reads
- PPP fixes
- Firewall fixes for dynamic interfaces
- Config enhancements for dnsmasq
- Timing fixes for BCM947xx (fixes flash access problems on some models)
- Fix for BCM947xx and Atheros cards on Linux 2.4
- Prevent interfaces from accidentally being started twice at boot time
- Fix QoS for dynamically assigned interfaces
- Fix IMQ errors when ip6tables is installed (Linux 2.4)
Download at http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/7.09/
The new Kamikaze 7.07 release is ready.
Changes since Kamikaze 7.06:
- PPPoE support fixed
- Failsafe on Broadcom fixed
- Failsafe on Atheros AR2315+
- Improved system boot time
- New 2.6 kernel with stability fixes for Broadcom
- Improved qos-scripts rate calculation
- Improved wireless-tools compatibility on Broadcom with Linux 2.4
- New version of MadWiFi with improved stability and performance
- New platforms: AMCC, AVR32
- WPA related bugfixes in the wifi scripts for Broadcom and Atheros
- RouterBoard 500 NAND flash fixes.
It's amazing what happens if you go searching Amazon.com for the word "OpenWrt"; it seems that we're mentioned in a few publications. I really wasn't expecting much, and indeed the first publication is nothing more than a footnote in "Wireless Hacking: Projects for Wi-Fi Enthusiasts" from 2004, but then things got interesting: "Hacking Roomba: ExtremeTech" from 2006 seems to have a section on OpenWrt -- I'm confused.
The latest in this trifica seems to be the just-now-released "Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking" which claims "Full coverage on embedded device development using the WRT54G and OpenWRT". Spiffy.