Dynamode R-ADSL-C4W-EG ADSL wireless router.

Armijn Hemel armijn at uulug.nl
Tue Feb 27 23:09:25 CET 2007


hi,

> I recently(ish) purchased an ADSL router made by Dynamode: the 
> R-ADSL-C4W-EG.
> 
> http://www.nirox.co.il/dynamode/www/details.asp?id=239

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> Therefore, it seems to me that they're in violation of their 
> obligation to provide source code for the GPL components. What 
> should be my next step?

Looks like it. From the looks of it: Texas Instruments AR7. There are
quite a few issues with machines with this chipset and the software on
it. I will add it to the gpl-violations.org request tracker.

> If you need more information about the software on the device as 
> bought, let me know ... otherwise they're cheap to buy if 
> somebody else wants to buy one and have a poke around (£37 here 
> in the UK). It's a pretty good router so far, especially for 
> the money, but has a couple of bugs which I want to fix 
> (reverse DNS and something else I don't recall...), hence the 
> need for buildable source code!

If I may suggest, I would see if it would be possible to run OpenWrt on
it, it will probably give you a nicer router.

armijn

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