A little while ago OpenWRT 10.03 Backfire came out. I decided to take it for a spin. Until now I had been running OpenWRT 8.09. The other 8.09.X releases were to very stable for me. Backfire has been pretty stable so far on my Buffalo WHR-HP-G54DD. The only hickup during upgrade was opkg.conf file. I [...]
Wireless was a little iffy on the laptop when running 64-bit Karmic. It worked but the signal I was receiving was weak even though I was close to the AP. It would even drop completely once in a while. Often enough to be problematic. The solution was to blacklist ath_pci module, loading ath5k module and [...]