I am a long time user of dd-wrt, but recently have grown tired of the somewhat unstable nature of some of the builds.  I use Sputnik (http://www.sputnik.com) to operate my Hotspots and have always been enthused of dd-wrt support for this service.

Is there any type of package the allows Sputnik to be utilized with OpenWRT?

cjkeeme

I guess you just have to "extract" the needed binaries, and it should work.. dd-wrt uses our kernel and most of our patches, so it sould "just work (tm)"

Is anyone else in need/want of this that could possible help me out?  I am not familiar with DD-WRT or OpenWRT source.

Am I really the only one interested in this addition for OpenWRT?  I'm going to look over the 'Documentation' section to see what type of other Sputnik-type services OpenWRT supports.  Does anyone have recommendations for me?

Honestly, I'm tired of DD-WRT and it's shady administration.

I use ChilliSpot to run my network.  I haven't seen a lot of interest in Sputnik around here, seems more a service for outsourcing.  I already have a RADIUS server and ChilliSpot is easy enough to setup, why would I want to share money with Sputnik?  Not criticizing your setup, just pointing out maybe different philosophies at work here.

Oh, I do agree completely.  I could setup RADIUS & ChilliSpot, but this is a one man operation with already to many clients to make a major switch.  I could however slowly migrate, but the costs associated may not make that feasible to go with ChilliSpot (more colocation, time, hardware, servers, documents, etc).

Is there any other popular portal service used with OpenWRT that is more turnkey?

I would suggest looking at http://www.coova.org It is built on openwrt whiterussian.

Excellent to hear as after all my research I've decided to give CoovaAP a shot.  With your recommendation I'll be going forward with the testing phase.

I'm still very interested in this and would like some help in figuring out how to get the DD-WRT sputnik binaries working in OpenWRT.