Just found the TL-WR703N. It looks good and is cheap, though still only 4MB Flash.
On 13/10/11 9:32 PM, Daniel Petre wrote: > hello, iirc tp-link mr3220 has only 4 megs of flash so your only option > is to try squeezing > stuff with openwrt buildroot kit, building your own customized image.. > but thats risky if you > go for kernel and package customizing, might leave you locked out > without a serial console.. > > i managed to put ipv6, pppoe and luci on a 4 mb tp-link wr740 (same as > wr741), a small router > of around 20-30 usd, and i also adapted a serial output from its board > to an external phone CA-42 clone (from Arkmicro).. > so maybe if you can afford it and also link the serial to it you can go > play with the buildroot :) > > On 13.10.2011 13:22, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote: >> I have a project that requires a low powered internet appliance that has >> a serial port to continually read some information from a data logger. >> The performance requirements are very modest. Just need to read from >> the device every second (roughly), accumulate some data, and be able to >> send it to to a fixed ip address on the internet (probably using SOAP). >> Oh, and I prefer to use Python rather than C/C++ (but can compromise if >> that's the only option). >> I need it to be really really cheap (sub $50), so a commodity device is >> probably the best way to go. >> >> Are there any openwrt platforms that would be suitable ?? >> >> I do have a TP-Link MR3220. It works great and I'm sure I could use a >> USB-to-Serial cable (but it's and added expense that's not really >> warranted). >> Ideally I'd like one ethernet port (10Mb is ok), one external serial >> port (and one internal would be cool too for root console). An internal >> SD slot would also be cool for larger custom filesystems. >> >> Also, I tried doing an "opkg install curl" and "opkg install python" but >> they wouldn't fit on the device. Does it not really have enough space >> for these apps, or is using opkg the wrong way to go about things ?? >> Maybe creating a new filesystem and flashing it is the way to go ?? I >> don't really know as I'm very new to openwrt :) >> >> Thanks for any advice/pointers. >> Brendan. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openwrt-users mailing list >> openwrt-users-ZwoEplunGu0+xA9t4nZiwti2O/[email protected] >> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
