High-Power Ceiling Mount Wireless 300N PoE Access Point
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Prerequisites
3.2.1 Firmware
TheIntellinetHigh‐PowerCeilingMountWireless300NPoEAccessPointmodel525800isbaseduponthe
firmwareOpenWRTBarrierBreaker14.07,withLuCIutilizedasthefrontend.Thesecomponentsareopen
source.
AboutOpenWRT:
OpenWrtisahighly extensibleGNU/Linuxdistributionforembeddeddevices(typicallywirelessrouters).
Unlikemanyotherdistributionsfortheserouters,OpenWrtisbuiltfromthegrounduptobeafull‐featured,
easilymodifiableoperatingsystemforyourrouter.Inpractice,thismeansthatyoucanhaveallthefeatures
youneedwithnoneofthebloat,poweredbyaLinuxkernelthat'smorerecentthanmostotherdistributions.
(Excerptfromwiki.openwrt.org)
AboutLuCI:
Thisopensourceprojectresidesathttps://github.com/openwrt/luci/wiki.LuCIisanopensourcefrontend
and a “[…] collection of several libraries, applications and user interfaceswithgeneralpurpose forLua
programmerswhilethefocusstillremainsonthewebuserinterfacewhichalsobecameanofficialpartof
OpenWrtKamikaze.[…]
NotethattheIntellinetfirmwareissettousetheBOOTSRAPtheme.Youcannotchangethis.
3.2.2 UsingtheWebInterface
Wheneveryouwanttosavetheconfigurationandactivatethenewsettings,youmustclickon“Save&
Apply”.
Theaccesspointwillthensavethesettingsandactivatethemrightaway.