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Thank you for the writeup! I first seen it via organic Google search on Wyse 3040, and then here. I'm contemplating an idea of a similar router build based on Wyse 3040 + cheap WiFi module or a cheap POE access point capable of running OpenWRT. I'm leaning in favor of USB module because the prices for APs are rather unreasonable at my location, and maintaining another machine (=OpenWRT AP) just for wireless connectivity is extra work I'm not looking forward to. I'm not sure when/if I'll get around to actually building anything though, free time is very scarce lately. I enjoyed your article even more because you've happened to pick a Comfast module. They are cheap and are on the plug-and-play list - that's why I too was looking at them. How is your experience with the router so far? Is that module enough to cover a medium-sized apartment? 10m range you've mentioned is difficult to visualize since there are always some walls in real life and I don't know if there were any at the place where you were taking measurements. |
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Thank you for the blog. I am exploring 3040 to run openvpn. Have you come across this performance bug where a monitor or dummy plug is required? Otherwise without a connected monitor, I've observed OpenWrt on the 3040 appears to run at degraded performance. I've tested it with your basic 22.03.5 squashfs-efi image, and my own MenuConfig generated 22.03.x squashfs-efi image (for Atom), and the standard x86/64 images from OpenWrt Firmware Selector for 22.03.x. https://forum.openwrt.org/t/dell-wyse-3040-and-openvpn/181578/14 |
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So this is a bit tangential, but I submitted some shell-script patches here a while back when I was fiddling with an out-of-kernel WiFi dongle on a little Dell Wyse 3040 thin client. This led me to the supported in-kernel list and I got myself an mt-7921au dongle to play with. I had some shenanigans messing with virtualisation and recompiling the OpenWrt OS targetting the Atom-Z hardware (Based on Paul Jobson's work), so I wrote-up a series of blog posts about it all. Might be of interest to some here.
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