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

[Steven Haigh]

I haven't really found this to be an issue - the entire MWRP project takes
up about a whopping 150Kb. This means that it *easily* fits on a 4Mb flash
system.

On Fri, December 2, 2005 15:37, Rob Clark wrote:
> 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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