Hello,

i have a big problem with my RB433. I have spent two days looking for a solution and i didn't find anything so far. I have installed openwrt on a Routerboard RB433, it is quite stable until I start transmiting via my WiFi card (CM9, Atheros AR...?). After that RB433 reboots itself. I have the same problem with both madwifi and ath5k so i think it is not a driver issue. I have found a similar problem in another thread (http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=90340), but there is no solution. I have tried three CM9 and the last one is completly new. I don't know what to try now. Could you assist and suggest something that would help me resolving this issue?

Adam

Can u try Kamikaze 7.09 with MadWifi ?

I was trying many different 8.09 versions, none of them was working good.
While using 7.09, I had no problems, but am unable to build Quagga-unstable (0.99.11) so can't test it in real enviroment on my network.
If u can provide me with some help on how to build the package for 7.09 or give me the binary of the package I could try to test it on 433AH.
But, I must say, Mikrotik RouterOS 4.0 RC is working very well now on that board.

you have to provide more data, like what openwrt version are you running, what mode is your wifi card running etc.  If you feel like, you can try a fresh build for ar71xx that I maintain and usually test on live wifi routers here.  do note that this tree does not have bridge/vlan functionality compiled within kerenl.  it's for using the router as a router :-)

Do u user madwifi or ath5k or ath9k?
What throughput do u get over a link and overall through the board?
What wireless cards do u use?
What do u use for routing (bgp, ospf...)?

hey dajhard, check this

AWMN backbone is based on 802.11a. we use bgp on Point-2-Point links. we like cm9 wifi cards.  throughput is near average 30Mbit per link.  distances can go up to 20+Km on a clear LoS

I use openwrt-madwifi. on a very few cases I use madwifi-trunk. Every now and then I do test both ath5k and ath9k and am anxious to see them going on production.

(Last edited by acoul on 9 Jul 2009, 10:56)

It is 8.09, compiled my self from svn. WiFi runs as station with PSK. I have it just for routing and statistics for my home network. On other RBs we have ROS. I think it is some buffer. It can run normal about half an hour, but something happen than and RB is rebooting. Big ping reboots it in few seconds. My complete settings is here: http://box.initd.cz/config.tar . I use OSPF, zebra, madwifi (same problem with ath5k), card is CM9, throughput is not large, but it reboots anyway.

since you compile it your self, you can try compiling and testing latest trunk.

Ok, i will.

I have tried lastest trunk and it seems it is fine. I will try use kernel from trunk and i will notice you.

This looks like a bad power source to me, not a software issue.
Is the injector volts adequate to the cable length? Can you test it with another cable and another injector?

Regards.

MCunha: It is not power source. I tested two, and same result. I think it is problem with MiniPCI driver or something like that.

I checked your web a year ago, that's where I found out about OpenWRT in the first place.
The thing is, we are using 802.11a in SuperA mode (108Mbps) and our links have a throughput of cca. 60 Mbps TCP. We use Debian (2.6.18.) with MadWifi. Also we use Ralink cards for 2.4GHz in 802.11g and 802.11n mode.

The thing is, OpenWRT and the RB433AH was looking very very promising while testing it with 1 miniPCI card on Kamikaze 7.09. It was running for more than 2 months very stable on a link 450m long with an throughput of 60-65Mbps.
After that I upgraded to 8.09 and put it in place of our old router with 3 wireless links. I tested many different versions of 8.09. On some of them, I could only get 1 link working, on others I got low throughput and on some I got random reboots.
After a few months of work with no results, I put the Mikrotik RouterOS back on the board, upgraded to 4.0 RC and am quite pleased how it is working.

Latest version I tried was a trunk 1 month ago.

I also have a IXP4xx board from SparkLAN with 2 miniPCI slots and the same problems are happening there, so I can rule out a hardware or architecture issue.

Now, I had to put the 433AH in production due to lack of hardware, but still have the IXP4xx board to play with OpenWRT. Hope it works because the SparkLAN IXP4xx board is a real best-buy in 2-miniPCI boards segment.

Regards

After four days I have OpenWRT (trunk) on RB433. I am really really happy now. Thanks to you all for your help.

hey dajhard, you may want to check a fairly fresh snapshot that I use and it's quite stable. Do know though that it does not have bridge/vlan functionality enabled in-kernel as it meant to use a router as a router. talking about best buy, you may want to also check the RouterStation or the soon to be released RouterStation Pro.

Can u tell me how do I download source for a specificsnapshot?
I would like to build 16746 from source and add some modules (quagga-unstable, nano, ntpclient). I dont need bridge and vlan as I am using this as a router also.

Try something like that:

svn co -r 16746 svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/branches/8.09
or
svn update -r 16746

You can add modul to source just by copying from here https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/package … a-unstable (quagga for example) to folder packages.