<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Jeff Nelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stutterstutt@comcast.net">stutterstutt@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Florin Iucha wrote:<br>
> My Linksys WRT54G is dying on me and I'd like to replace it with a<br>
> real router/access point based on Linux and using only free software<br>
> drivers.<br>
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Define "real".<br>
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Don't give up on the Linksys just yet. You can run open source on it<br>
just fine if you have the right model (DD-Wrt, OpenWRT, others). THe<br>
price of a new WRT54GL (sold specifically for Linux hacking) is still<br>
cheaper than some of the options you're considering.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>I can vouch for the DD-WRT distro's effectiveness on the WRT54G. <br>The Linksys firmware had me wanting to take the WRTT54G ice<br>
fishing so I could show it the bottom of the lake. DD-WRT has been<br>rock solid. With Linksys conceding there's money to be made<br>just by selling the hardware with full knowledge their firmware is going to get <br>
blown away (in the GL line)... It's a pretty decent value proposition. <br><br>That said, these router board kits look like they could be fun.<br><br>-Rob <br></div></div>