On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Alex Samad wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:18:43PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
On Jul 10, 2007, at 9:10 PM, ArcticFox wrote:
On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:06:53PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote:
I've been having a heck of a time trying to keep my internet
connection
active. It likes to drop on me for no apparent reason. I've
managed to
narrow the problem down to the router, but Linksys wants to
charge me
~$30 to troubleshoot the router. Someone I know suggested that I
try
Linux on the router and I was wondering if anyone out there knows/
has
experience/suggestions for doing something like this.
The router is a Linksys BEFW11S4 v.4 The only client system I
have is
MacOS X 10.3.9
I think that OpenWRT can be made to load on many (most?) Linksys
routers. I would start there. However, I've not personally used
it, so
I am not positive about whether it is the right thing for you.
Regards,
-Roberto
You gave me somewhere to start though, and for that I thank you.
OpenWRT being the more "open" of the options, is a good place to
start, but might be a bit more "manual" than you want to set things
up.
I have been using openWRT for over 2 years and I have had not
problems, my
setup includes 2 uplinks and load balancing between the 2.
They have 2 version 2.4 stream which they have come to end on and 2.6
there new
release.
Check out their wiki, it will have a table of hardware that work.
I personally like DD-WRT, which has a bit more effort put into it
from the standpoint of the web interface, etc...
But they're both good options.
The problem with DD-WRT is that as far as I can tell it only works on
WRT-routers, I don't have one of those I can mess with. As far as I can
tell, there isn't a Linux dest that will run on the router I do have.
