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- Manufacturer : Minitar
- Model : MWGAP
- Type : Access Point
- External Antenna Jack : RP_SMA, +3 internal solder points on the board
- USB Ports : None
- Parallel port : None
- Power : 9V 800mA wall wart
- Wlan Chipset : RTL8186
- Transmit Power :
- xxmW default (Change to spec of card or put TBA)
- xxmW max (Change to spec of card or put TBA)
- Recieve Sensitivity :
- -xxdB @ 1Mbps (Change to spec of card or put TBA)
- -xxdB @ 11Mbps (Change to spec of card or put TBA)
- Available New : Yes
- Average Price : $94.95 rrp
- Vitals last updated : 11/11/06
Official Details
supposed to have:
32MB RAM
P2V56S40BTP 4 MB flash
power supply is a
1506 switchmode regulator . UNfortunately the input voltage range is 4-15. Minitar product pagePictures
picture form Minitar website
picture from southernwifi.net
OEM Firmware
Ok, so Minitar have decided to create a sourceforge project to allow hackingNo code up there yet.
{http://sourceforge.net/projects/mwgap Sourceforge ) project
No firmware on the support page yet. Well, no revision yet so makes sense
No source on the support page, It will probably not be there - refer to the sourceforge project.
Alternate Firmware
Support Forum
Minitar MWGAP Forum Misc Notes & Links
Review on SouthernWifi.net Modifications / Addon's
There is a header on the board for adding a serial console.Minitar will be selling a serial adapter ( no details yet ).
You can use the same Maxim TTL<->RS232 conversion as was done
for the MNWAPB and the WRT54.
The header is J1
Vcc (3.3V ) -- 3 2 -- Vss ( ground )
Rx -- 4 1 -- Tx Bauderate: 38400 8N1
<esc> while booting drops you into the bootloader
Discussion
Ok, now I have one I'm getting hacking on it. My objective is to get OpenWrt running. I'll contribute patches to the sourceforge project.
Things to be done:
- Apply Lexra compiler patches to buildroot
- Add CSYS image packing to buildroot
- Add lxloader to buildroot.
- Change from using embedded initrd to using jffs2 root filesystem
- port RTL radio and ethernet drivers to buildroot
- apply patches to hardware bootloader to allow bootwait loading( to flash or RAM )
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