Once upon a time Jerome BENOIT said... > > I am envisaging to buy a (cheap) wireless router (at least b compatible) > which can run (Debian) Linux ?
I have two Linksys WRT54G's. They run Linux but by default you wouldn't know since they are configured through web pages. I have since flashed them with OpenWRT (openwrt.org) and now they're basically a command line linux system, using standard networking, firewalling and traffic shaping commands. There is a large amount of activity around them (probably more so than any other wireless router). There also seem to be a bunch of compatible models from other manufacturers (well, OpenWRT runs of a bunch - check out the forums on the website). There are two models - WRT54G and WRT54GS. The 54GS has an extra 4MiB of flash ram (8MiB instead of 4MiB on the 54G), and also has some speed boost mode I think (where you need another linksys product at the other end and it uses more spectrum to achieve 108MB/s). If you want to load more software, the 54GS will be better, but I find the 54G suitable for my needs. The 54G will be cheaper. No wireless router is going to run Debian - it's simply too large for such an environment. OpenWRT does have a command to install packages from repositories on the net, though (so you can run "ipkg install dropbear" to install dropbear [ a small ssh server ] ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
