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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

Below there is a sample wireless configuration which was used by us while testing:

config wifi-device  wifi0
        option type      atheros
        option channel   100
        option agmode    11a
        option diversity 0
        option txantenna 1
        option rxantenna 1

config wifi-iface
        option device   wifi0
        option network  wifi
        option mode     ap
        option ssid     5bone-test.ffgraz.net
        option encryption none
        option txpower  5

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:

ChangeLog

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