Topic: OpenWRT web interface suggestion

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Post #1

InDio

30 Nov 2004, 15:43

Hi all. I'm a developer of wifiadmin, a GPL project aiming to create a web interface in PHP for any wireless extensions enabled driver.

I wonder if wifiadmin could be intergated into OpenWRT, so as to act as its web interface.

Wifiadmin is written in PHP4, it is 30something kilobytes tar.gzed and runs with minimun installation effort. We have been developing for about a year now, and the project has reached a certain level of maturity.

Our homepage can be found here. It would be nice to see the two projects work together! I must say of course that am a newbe in the WRT world, since our wireless nodes are usually old PCs with pci cards(and wifiadmin).

Post #2

Plec

30 Nov 2004, 15:59

Taken from OpenWrt home page

OpenWrt provides a minimal linux environment suitable for booting the router and providing basic functionality.

All others functionality (like your wifiadmin) can be added with ipkg installation. Built a working package, publish your repository and someone will give it a try.

Post #3

danversj

1 Dec 2004, 02:33

Hi InDio,

WifiAdmin looks like an excellent project - very nice work indeed. It's projects like yours that will help to make Community Wireless networks more accessable to a wider user-base, which can only help their growth and popularity.

The Wireless-Tools package is supported under OpenWRT, but unfortunately, the driver for the WRT54G's wireless interface is proprietary and hasn't been fully reverse-engineered. So not all features of Wireless-Tools work on the WRT54G. For full control, you need to use the proprietary 'wl' userspace app. 'wl' is available as a package for OpenWRT.

There is an existing web-interface package for OpenWRT - it used to be PHP-based but it has been converted to use Ash-scriping to save space. The web-interface is modular and allows add-on interface packages through the use of style-sheets.

I must say though, the screenshots of the WifiAdmin interface look very nice indeed. I would be happy to sacrifice the extra space required by PHP if it meant I could use your interface on a WRT54GS. (which has 6Mb of writable space under OpenWRT).

If you are able to deal with the limitations of the embedded environment that is OpenWRT, I'm sure many OpenWRT users would greatly appreciate an OpenWRT version of WifiAdmin.

Post #4

InDio

1 Dec 2004, 14:09

Thank you danversj for your encouraging comments!! We have been developing for about a year, and since our last 0.0.2 release, which adds loads of features, we've had little user feedback.

If WRT fully supported wireless extensions, given a PHP-aware httpd, porting Wifiadmin to the WRT environmet would be a matter of a few hours. Given the circumstances though, we are facing great difficulty. Also consider the fact that we must port to an environment that we do not have access to , at least at the moment.

Further suggestions are welcome! It would be nice to at least have an idea on the need for a web interface in the OpenWRT community, so that we can proceed with developing a port....

With some quick calculations, I can say that wifiadmin, WITH the support for RRDTool that will create graphs of various information, will take up to 500k of space.
Is there any chance that rrdtool can run in OpenWRT?

Post #5

andreas

3 Dec 2004, 23:42

cherete, ti kanis? A greek wifi-project from Patras.
Really nice to see. ;-) Could you have a look for your screenshot-link:

http://wifiadmin.sourceforge.net/screens.php

Error messges:

Warning: OpenDir: Permission denied (errno 13) in /home/groups/w/wi/wifiadmin/htdocs/qdig.php on line 682

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/groups/w/wi/wifiadmin/htdocs/qdig.php on line 683

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/groups/w/wi/wifiadmin/htdocs/qdig.php on line 697

Warning: OpenDir: Permission denied (errno 13) in /home/groups/w/wi/wifiadmin/htdocs/qdig.php on line 653

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/groups/w/wi/wifiadmin/htdocs/qdig.php on line 654

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/groups/w/wi/wifiadmin/htdocs/qdig.php on line 672