On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:18, Tortise <tort...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > Check out the Linksys wrt54g3g which I use with a 3G XU870, (cheap 2nd hand) > works well for portable Internet connections for a > battery of wireless notebooks. It runs from 12V so car battery power is also > an option.
Actually the best 3G router option I've found is an Alix 6b2. It has a miniPCI Express slot you can use for the cellular connection (no miniPCI solutions exist AFAIK) and an LX800 with 256MB of memory. $113 for the board, $10 for the case, and $??? for a card and continued connectivity. I also thought the wrt54g3g would be nice and have actually spend a considerable amount of time working with it and getting better support for it into OpenWRT. For the price, the hardware is anemic compared to the 6b2. Their implementation of a TI cardbus on the mipsel architecture is buggy to say the least, and added to the rather awful "open source" releases they made it's been impossible to get a 2.6-series linux kernel running on it. It is one of the two remaining piles of Broadcom fail that force *WRT to continue to support 2.4-series kernels. Linksys' releases are generically okay, but largely just pay lip service to the open source concept. Once you start digging into model-specific features (like the G3G cardbus or the AG310's SIP interface) you run into a brick wall of binary lumps that "happened" to get shipped with the release instead of the source you were looking for. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
