On 27/09/2007, James Polley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The WRT54G does support WPA.
>
> The WRT54GL (http://www.ht.com.au/N/0/keyword/wrt54gl/part/T6018/detail.hts)
> will do everything you want, and also runs linux. If you feel like
> getting your (virtual) hands dirty, there's a slew of distros for it -
> http://openwrt.org, http://www.dd-wrt.com/, http://www.thibor.co.uk/,
> etc. These can give you fantastic features, like being able to set up
> a WDS, configuring multiple SSIDs, assigning all switch ports on
> different vlans, etc. Also, because it's running nice stock linux
> things, you can do stuff you'd do on any other linux firewall, like
> ssh in and twiddle iptables rules. Of course, you've only got 16Mb ram
> to play with, and the CPU is only 200Mhz...
>
Hi,
Thanks ... so the consenses seems to be the WRT54GL. I did not realise
you can ssh to it can update the iptables internally. I presume you
run the risk of not being able to use the wireless router if you mess
things up ??
The only thing that I have to figure out is if it will work with my
Broadcom wireless adaptor that is built-in my notebook. Here is the
lspci output:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1361
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at b3200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 00000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0
Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag+
Device: Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd-
Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Port 0
Link: Latency L0s <4us, L1 <64us
Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 64 bytes CommClk- ExtSynch-
Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
According to the above, it is a broadcom 4310, but according to b43
kernel modue, it is a broadcom 4311:
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found
The docs for this notebook is not clear either, as it does not specify
the exact model of broadcom wireless adapter.
Funny that a lot of ppl ( including myself ) have had trouble using a
broadcom on a notebook but the wireless routers such as LinkSys all
seems to work.
John
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