@bushant by any chance you have a saved copy of the 38580M f/w to share? <Kong> spoiled us with that "ddupd" feature and i guess finding any of the latest versions will be a challenge to say the least.
I figured clonevince would have it by now, but it's not there yet.
yep here ya go.
Huge bummer that Kong is leaving. The fact he actually tests his builds made them a much better choice for those of us who have router models he supports.
I actually chose the AC68U (TM1900) I have five of in part because of Kong's support (the other reason was because I could get $100+ routers for $60 thanks to T-Mobile)
It will be a while before I consider replacing them with WPA3 / wifi6 capable hardware, so I can stick with my current 35030M build that has proven stable for me for a long time barring any major security issue. If it wasn't for Kong's builds I would have switched to OpenWRT to get more stability than DD-WRT's perpetual beta. Next time I guess I won't have a choice.
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14126 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 1:25 Post subject:
slice1900 wrote:
If it wasn't for Kong's builds I would have switched to OpenWRT to get more stability than DD-WRT's perpetual beta. Next time I guess I won't have a choice.
Not sure if the T-Mobile devices would have issues with FreshTomato, but there is that option as well. Not having every Broadcom device at my disposal kind of leaves me 'helpless' to do anything of merit for other folks :-/
This might eventually drive the price of Kong specific devices up
Why? Even if you accept the premise that third party router firmware has ANY affect on router prices (I don't) then losing the Kong option would make these routers LESS valuable and their price would fall.
I'm saying like a long time when these builds are old enough to be considered vintage and so are the routers. Long after retirement type of thing. You're probably right no effect ever
Let's see whether Kong might hop back to DD-WRT...
OTOH, what is the quality of OpenWRT in general? If it's really better and with more dedicated developers, maybe DD-WRT should join the project?
The whole DD-WRT repository is supporting a lot of routers, notably old ones. OpenWRT is a newer project.
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:55 Post subject:
I think one of the problems is the lack of support for broadcom routers, OpenWRT can not use the closed source broadcom drivers to which BS has access to.
I think one of the problems is the lack of support for broadcom routers, OpenWRT can not use the closed source broadcom drivers to which BS has access to.
Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14126 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 1:44 Post subject:
There aren't too many Linux distros where the 6.x STA driver isn't available AFAIK. What isn't available is the proprietary nas and wlconf source or binaries. Debian in particular seems to have figured out how to make hostapd work....