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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> 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.

that's nice to know, i was actually checking out the ASUS earlier but
couldn't find a local vendor.
>
> 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.

hang on ... so you're saying that you don't have working wireless with
kamikaze out of the box for this?  or am i misreading this?

rday
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