Router as embedded Linux?

[Neil Cherry]

Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Neil Cherry wrote:
> 
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>> Neil Cherry wrote:
>>>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone considered using a cheap router as a cheap embedded
>>>>> Linux machine? Or are the peripherals present just too skimpy?
>>>>
>>>> You mean like a Soerkis box? Or the WRT54G (a MIPS processor, I
>>>> think). I had a working setup on a PC running at 333MHz, no hard
>>>> drive, net booted, 64M RAM (only needed 12M).

> There is also the WRT54GL. Linksys stopped making the linux based
> WRT54G and WRT54GS. They went the closed cheapo route with the box
> but the GL is supposed to be the same as the WRT54G used to be.

I have the WRT54GL and I use the same software a WRT54G V4.0
uses. BTW, some folks have gone to great effort to get Linux
running on the WRT54G V5.0 (the one that runs VxWorks). I don't
think it's worth it but someone did it. It's difficult to do
and definitely not for everyone.

And sorry for the lumping of the WRT family into the reference
WRT54G, I get lazy.

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