[OpenWrt-Users] full 2.6 kamikaze functionality on a WRTSL54GS?

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 18:02 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> whoops, i should have mentioned a couple other things.  i'd also like
> to verify that x-wrt works on this unit, but i'm also willing to
> consider other routers that have similar features in that price range
> (about $100 cdn. locally) that are also fully functional with a 2.6
> kernel.  thanks again.

I'd buy (and did!) an ASUS WL-500G Premium over any of those WRT54*
routers any day hands down.  They are everything the Linksys routers are
(including Broadcomm wireless) PLUS two USB ports.

So you can put a thumb drive in and make that your root filesystem:

root at gw:~# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/sda1               964.6M     30.2M    885.4M   3% /

For example.

You can put whatever Linux supported USB devices you want in there.

Also, the wireless is provided via a minipci card so if you really want
working wireless with Kamikaze, you can simply open 'er up and replace
the minipci card with something supported like an Atheros.

I have not done this latter part myself yet as I don't really need
wireless around here but even if/when I do, given that I replaced a
Linksys WRT54GS with this ASUS, I'd probably just stick stock firmware
or White Russian back on that and use it for wireless.

At least until the AP support for the Broadcom chip is working.

b.


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