On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:54:00PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Jonathan McDowell wrote:
What model of router is it? Have you seen OpenWRT (http://openwrt.org/)?
It's a Solwise SAR-600E. Its based on AR7 (http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/AR7)
I have looked at OpenWRT but wasn't clear whether it would work on this router (right chipset I think but not listed as supported).
Ah, the joyous AR7. I have a DG834G, which is based on the same chipset. OpenWRT doesn't support AR7 at present in any usable fashion. And the SAR-600E appears to only have 2MB flash so OpenWRT isn't likely to be an option.
What routers have you used? I don't need anything beyond basic ADSL+router (ie no wireless needed) but I'm not especially tied to the Solwise kit (we just use them for other stuff and the SAR-600E is cheap). NB: I'm prepared to risk breaking my SAR-600E, its only for testing some ideas anyway.
There's nothing in the way of ADSL routers that I can really recommend at present. AR7 is the best hope and I'm not sure anyone's really working on it at present. I've ended up with a Netgear WGT634U that has USB2 on it with a USB Speedtouch attached.
Getting back to your original question about squashfs I assume you didn't rebuild the kernel? Does the firmware source from Solwise not include a suitable mksquashfs? The Netgear one does.
OpenWRT has target/linux/image/squashfs/patches/100-lzma.patch which might help as well?
J.