Kimball Larsen wrote: > I know that recently Linksys began selling the WRT54GL, which is > supposed to be intended for this use - but I thought I read somewhere > that the old 2 or 2.2 series was better for some reason.
No. The WRT54GL (and any other broadcom wireless chipset) runs the 2.4 kernel since you have to use a binary, proprietary blob driver for the wireless. Any other wireless can use the 2.6 kernel. > > Based on what I find here [1], they appear to be very similar. The WRT54G has only 16 MB of ram and 2 MB of flash, so it's a lot more cramped. OpenWRT can still run on it, but it's a tight fit! No web UI. the WRT54GL has 4 MB of flash and 32 MB of ram, enough to run the fill system and get decent functionality out of it. The Asus 500G Premium is another good choice. It has 8 MB of flash and 32 MB of RAM. It also has 2 usb ports. The only downside is the broadcom wireless card which limits you to the older kernels. If you swap out the wireless (it's miniPCI) you can get atheros, which works very well. You can even have multiple SSIDs and encryption schemes with Atheros, which makes for some really neat vlan routing scenarios with unencrypted, restricted DMZs, etc. In response to comments on DD-WRT, I must say that I recommend against using it. Mainly on philosophical grounds. It is not an open source distro, and in fact you have to actually use a license key on any hardware other than the MIPS/Broadcom stuff. It's a bit sad to see someone making money off the backs of so many open source contributors without contributing back, but that's life. He's withing his rights, I guess, but it just reeks of Sveasoft all over again. He promised he would never close dd-wrt, but he has reversed his word on that. The web interface and many other parts of DD-wrt are closed and proprietary. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
