Wireless Routers for Linux?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Apr 23 02:05:12 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 21:05 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Erik Hemdal wrote:
> > Here's another vote against Linksys, whether you run Linux or Windows.
> 
> Sorry to hear about your troubles Erik.  I've only had experience with
> the Linksys WRT54GX2 and it's worked quite well for me.  I had to
> update the firmware in order to get it to function as a simple AP,
> but aside from that it has run well and performed without failure for
> months now.  I connect to it all day every day using an Intel PRO
> Wireless 3945 and I've set up another wireless client using windows,
> though that was for a friend to access and I've not tested that much
> at all.
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I've got one of their WRT54G v1.1 and it locks up from time to time too.
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> > My tech support experience with Linksys has been so bad, I won't
> > describe it in public.  
> 
> I wouldn't argue with you on that point. :)
> 
> I've given up on calling anyone for tech support these days.  If there
> is a company that does it well, I've never dealt with them.  I find
> it's far more productive to use google to solve the issues I
> encounter.
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I wouldn't expect much more from them other than telling you to update
the firmware or do a factory reset (or both)

Craig




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