[MLB-WIRELESS] The Linksys WRT54G era comes to an end.

[Rob Clark]

But...

Linksys no longer makes any WRT of any flavour with the 8 MB flash
(virtual disk)/16 MB RAM as found in the WRT54GS V1.1. They biggest they
make now is 4 MB flash (virtual disk)/8 MB RAM.

So if you want to customise your WRT54G(S) with lots of packages...you
would need the extra space of the WRT54GS V1.1

Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au 
> [mailto:melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of 
> Steven Haigh
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 10:24 AM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] The Linksys WRT54G era comes to an end.
> 
> 
> Further to my post on this topic, Linksys has released 
> another model in the WRT54G series that DOES run linux, and 
> therefore continues the WRT54 hackable project front for 
> projects such as the MWRP (Melbourne Wireless Router Project).
> 
> Details are on Slashdot: 
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/2326222&t
id=193&tid=106
> 
> Good to see they've decided to support people like us making 
> their own firmware distribution to do what we want! Of 
> interest, is that Linksys' Product Director states that Linux 
> sales represent a few percentage points of their overall 
> volume. Hopefully, the WRT54 era will be sticking around for 
> quite some time!
> 
> On Sun, November 27, 2005 15:42, Steven Haigh wrote:
> > Most of you would be familiar with myself and others in the group 
> > pimping the Linksys WRT54G/GS routers as great little boxes 
> for doing 
> > what we want to do with wireless. For the most part, they have been 
> > great.
> >
> > As with all good things though, it must come to an end. The latest 
> > revision of the Linksys WRT54G/GS is NOT capable of running OpenWRT 
> > (which made them so great). It looks like the new ones 
> (version 5 and
> > above) will be running a custom VXWorks firmware and not capable of 
> > running OpenWRT due to severe lack of resources.
> >
> > There are still companies who are making equipment based on the old 
> > WRT54G/GS hardware, however these are usually not as commonly 
> > available.
> >
> > If you are looking to get something to run OpenWRT, I 
> suggest that you 
> > take note of the revisions of hardware table at: 
> > http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware
> >
> > Most of the units that I have seen now for sale are version 5. I 
> > highly recommend to stay clear of these devices if you wish to try 
> > OpenWRT or customising your hardware.
> >
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> > Steven Haigh
> >
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