[OpenWrt-Devel] Has OpenWrt suport for Powerline devices

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

Hi,

I've a device with PowerLine. It's the devolo dLAN pro 500 wireless
plus.

It has an ath9k compatible WiFi (2.4GHz + 5GHz), and a free
software bootloader, which is an old vendor fork of u-boot.

The PowerLine part doesn't work out of the box and require a nonfree,
non-redistributable firmware to work, however there is some
documentation on it on the wiki[1].

A really good way to fix that, and integrate everything would be to
have people working on free software replacements for such nonfree
firmwares, however I've no idea if anyone has started working on that
yet.

There is also a tag called 'plc' (Power line communication[3]) on the
wiki for device with PowerLine. 

References:
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[1]https://openwrt.org/toh/devolo/devolo_dlan_pro_wireless_500_plus
[2]https://openwrt.org/tag/plc?do=showtag&tag=plc
[3]Note that the PLC acronym is also commonly used for "Programmable
   logic controller" which has nothing to do at all with PowerLine.

Denis.
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