never afraid to embarrass myself in public, after a discussion with a colleague, i want to make sure i understand what it is that allows a router to advertise itself as something like "3G/4G/LTE" compatible.
i want to purchase an openwrt-supported router that lets me play with both: * a raw USB GPS receiver * a 3G/4G broadband modem my colleague pointed out that, when looking at advertising material, one needed to look for the "3G/4G" label somewhere. but i had assumed that, if i'm going to configure, build and install openwrt, i have control over all the drivers/modules i'm going to install, so i can simply add whatever software features i'm going to need. as in, for GPS, as long as a router has a USB port, i can build openwrt so that it can talk to a USB GPS receiver i just bought: http://www.canadagps.com/BU353-S4.html the same for a 3G/4G broadband modem -- all i technically need is a USB port, and i can build and install openwrt with all of the functionality i need so i can plug in and use, say, a sierra wireless modem, no? one exception -- a board i'm playing with has a PCIe slot, so obviously, that's another option for a broadband modem such as, say, http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Sierra-MC7700-Mini-PCI-e-3G-HSPA-LTE-100MBP-Wireless-WWAN-WLAN-Card-GPS-Unlocked-/111045288092 but other than that, as long as the router i select has a USB port, is there anything else *physically* about a router that would make it incapable of what i want to do? am i making sense? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
