On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 04:43 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > you can never get a simple answer to a simple question, > that question being: > > "which routers work with openwrt"?
Indeed, I tend to agree. > while there is copious information at openwrt.org and in sub-pages and > in the wiki, there is *nothing* that will help a beginner who wants to > get started with openwrt and would simply like to know what router to > buy that will ***work***. Yes. It seems the entire wiki is geared around the idea of "OK. so I have this router... how well does it work with OpenWRT and what do I need to do to/with it?". It completely fails to address the other class of potential OpenWRT user, as Robert points out: "OK. So I have cash and am going to buy a router. But I don't have enough money to also buy a bottle of asprin or bourbon, so which router should I buy?". > * runs the latest 2.6 version of kamikaze (perhaps needing to wait > for the imminent 8.09.1) > * wireless works out of the box, no screwing around > * ideally has at least one 2.0 USB port, preferably two Perhaps that simply doesn't exist. The closest I know of, and which I use personally is the ASUS wl500gp. It does have broadcom wireless, but it's a mini-PCI card so replaceable with something that does work. I didn't actually replace my wireless card as buying another wireless router and simply making it a wired/wireless bridge (running Tomato) was cheaper[1]. I do all my Openwrt stuff on the ASUS as my firewall without wireless. > does such a thing exist? NTMK. > seriously, is there a single commercial > router out there that i can pull out of its shrinkwrap, load with > openwrt and have it do what it's supposed to, perhaps with 8.09.1? I'd love to know too. b. [1] Before you go and tell me how cheap they are on ebay, I don't shop on ebay thanks. Been burned there too many times. IMHO, ebay is in a conflict of interest (they get paid more when an item sells for higher, whether that's by fraud or not) and doesn't protect buyers from fraudulent sellers well enough. For example, they allow bidders to retract a bid, which is prime playground for sellers to obtain a second account and bid up buyers and then retract their last bid when they've figured out how much a seller is [not] willing to pay. Don't tell me it can't happen. It does and it has -- to me. E-bay didn't even have the courtesy to respond to my complaints. They just went on silently collecting their highest possible commission on that item (courtesy of the, uhm "other" bidder driving the price up and bailing). You know, they could curb that problem and still allow bidders to retract bids. But when a bidder retracts a winning/highest bid, all of his bids, and the intervening bids of the other bidders should be rolled back to the last bid before his first bid and he should be refused permission to bid on that item -- or perhaps any other item for 7 days maybe. I dunno. It just stinks to have lost a bidding war, moved on to another item, win it and then be held as the highest bidder on the previous item (that you were only second highest bidder) just because some turd got cold feet. A bid is contract. e-bay should uphold the contract.
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