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PCEngines Alix boards
Hardware description: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm
We intend to run OpenWRT Kamikaze on these boards. Debian and OpenBSD are other alternatives.
The x86 images created with the OpenWRT image builder work fine.
The second Version of our patch to build the firmware. This image contains support for Hardware Crypto of the Geode CPU and the newest madwifi modules which support DFS. You can build the image by invoking the following commands:
# wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/7.09/kamikaze_7.09.tar.bz2 # tar -xjf kamikaze_7.09.tar.bz2 # cd kamikaze_7.09 # patch -p1 < ../kamikaze_7.09-for-alix-0xff-02.patch # make
The older patch without crypto support and old madwifi can be found here. The patch can be used to build an image with kernel modules for VIA Rhine and Alix Leds. The image also contains ip, olsrd, kmod-madwifi, wireless-tools, tcpdump and libpcap. There is currently no support for the Hardware Crypto of the Geode CPU.
Some hints:
20080605 The challenge is getting the Geode's hardware crypto support running with Kamikaze. Or actually, the challenge is to build Kamikaze from trunk anyway when something is broken