Wireless Routers for Linux?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:

> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> writes:
>> 
>>> I bought a Linksys WRT54g, gave up on it and returned it.  The
>>> installation software only works with Windows ...
>>> 
>> 
>> Strangely enough, I went out and bought a wrt54g a few years ago
>> simply because it ran linux and one could administer it as any other
>> linux machine.
>>
>> 
> Only the version 3 and 4 ran linux, the version 5's went back to vsworks 
> because Linksys got GPL shy. They do still produce a version with Linux but 
> you have to hunt for it.

Actually they went back to vxworks because they could shrink the image to 
fit in 1MB of flash and 2MB of ram whereas the linux one is 4MB and 16MB 
respectivly... so their bill of materials is cheaper and they make more 
money (decide what you will about that).

the openwrt hardware table has a lot more info on the various models.

Also you will note the existance of the wrt54gl (linux version, released 
after version 5 of the wrt54g) which continues to run linux abliet at a 
$20 price premium.

>

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