Contrary to what I expected, the AE actually played nicely. The problem turned out to be the OpenWRT documentation. It describes the needed parameters, but neglects to mention, you need two wifi-iface configuration blocks; One for the Access Point conf and one for the WDS conf. Once I figured that out, the rest was gravy.

The config in Kamikaze (Configuration using Webif² worked as well):
config 'wifi-device' 'wl0'
option 'type' 'broadcom'
option 'channel' '5'
option 'disabled' '0'


config 'wifi-iface'
option 'device' 'wl0'
option 'network' 'lan'
option 'mode' 'ap'
option 'ssid' 'ssidname'
option 'encryption' 'wep'
option 'hidden' '0'
option 'key' '1'
option 'key1' 'xxxxxxxxxx'
option 'wds' '0'


config 'wifi-iface'
option 'device' 'wl0'
option 'network' 'lan'
option 'mode' 'wds'
option 'ssid' 'ssidname-wds'
option 'encryption' 'none'
option 'bssid' 'Airport Extreme's mac address'
option 'hidden' '0'
option 'wds' '0'

The AE settings were as one would expect:
Wireless Mode: Participate in WDS network
Channel: 5 (Same channel as the OpenWRT router)
Wireless Security: Wep (Also works with none)
WDS Mode: WDS remote
WDS Main: The wireless mac of the OpenWRT router

That’s all. The rest of the settings should be fine with the default.

As I said, I tested this with no security and WEP. I’d be interested to hear if the other security methods work so please post a comment. Cheers.

First, I installed GRUB while logged into Windows. There are great instructions here on how to do that. In summary:

• Download GRUB
• Append C:\grldr="Start GRUB" to C:\boot.ini
• Create a GRUB menu file C:\menu.lst

Create the following two boot blocks in the above menu.lst file.
title Boot GParted CDROM
cdrom --init
map --hook
chainloader (cd0)
root (cd0)
kernel (cd0)/boot/gparted root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/loop0 looptype=squashfs loop=/gparted.dat udev dokeymap scandelay=6 cdroot dodmraid nosound docache
initrd (cd0)/boot/gparted.igz

title Install Feisty
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/linux append vga=normal
initrd=(hd0,0)/boot/initrd.gz


The first boot block is for booting off a live GParted CD. GParted is a great open source live CD for re-sizing your partitions. Download it and burn it to a CD.

The second boot block is to boot of a Linux installer. I used Ubuntu Feisty here but you can use any distribution. For Ubuntu, you need to download the ‘linux’ and ‘initrd.gz’ files and put them on your windows drive at C:\boot\. See here for more info about other distributions.

Now reboot and, when GRUB comes up, select GParted and partition your drives however you like. After that, reboot and choose the Linux installer in GRUB. Install, reboot and you should have yourself a shinny new distro on your work PC.

The 802.11n networking does not yet work. There is a new version of the proprietary broadcom driver in the Asus firmware. It hasn’t been included in the Openwrt CVS but I think this could be the ticket. I’ll give it a shot if I have some spare time in the future.

If you would simply like me to send you the version I complied, give me a quick email at
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Update:
I updated the docs to include building of the Webif² package. Works pretty well but not perfectly. I still couldn’t get the wireless working with anything other than the wl_mimo driver which means only 802.11g works.

1. Download and install Eclipse. I used version 3.3 but I think anything above and including 3.2 should work.

2. Install MPowerPlayer. It is a pure java emulator so it runs on OS X. Version 1185 can be downloaded here.

3. Follow the instructions to install Mepose. The instructions are pretty good except don’t mention to also set the MPP (MPowerPlayer) directory. I installed it at /opt/mpp-sdk

4. Setup one of their sample applications using the provided instructions. Contrary to the instructions, they now have many sample projects. I chose to import (not install and copy like the instructions say) the project called ‘chartitem’.

• Select ‘import’ and ‘Existing Projects into Workspace’
• Select ‘chartitem’ from the samples directory
• Click the checkbox called ‘Copy project into workspace’

5. Now create a new ‘J2ME Polish Project’ with the exact same name as the project your just imported. See these instructions here. This will update the imported project to be a Mepose project.

When you get to ‘Select Target Devices’ section, select ‘Devices > Virtual > Generic/MppPhone’

6. Now run your new app. Ctrl click on your MidLet file (Should be called ChartMidlet.java) and select ‘Run As > J2ME Polish MIDLet’

7. If you’re just like me, you got an error. My env was looking for the preverify executable at /opt/j2me/bin/preverify. Rename the previous previous bin to preverify.old and make a symbolic link to the preverify for mmp-sdk: ln -s {mpp-sdk home}/osx/preverify/preverify preverify.

Now build again and you should be golden. Enjoy.

It might be necessary to install the linux version of J2ME Wireless Toolkit in order to use JSR75. I’ll look into it and update this post when I know more. Related links:
http://www.markus.brosch.net/?p=107
http://blog.litux.org/2007/02/06/j2me-development-in-mac-os-x