[OpenWrt-Users] ASUS WL-500g Premium -- tying up some loose ends

[Robert P. J. Day]

  if i might just summarize the responses i got here regarding a
replacement for my current linksys WRT54GL running white russian 0.9,
what i wanted was a unit with as much functionality as i could get in
terms of not just working but in terms of recreational hackability.
to that end:

  * kamikaze-based, 2.6 kernel
  * full wired and wireless operation
  * at least 1 USB 2.0 port
  * the ability to build the images myself and customize them
    along the way if need be (with the SDK and ImageBuilder)
  * JTAG would be nice, but not essential

  from what i've been told, the ASUS WL-500g Premium sounds like a
good choice, provided i replace the mini-PCI Broadcom 4318 with an
Atheros chipset.  apart from that, everything else looks good:

  * 8MB flash
  * 32MB RAM
  * 2 USB 2.0 ports
  * no JTAG, but i'll live without that

(and i'm assuming that those USB ports will support my USB external
hard drive, right?  so i can turn that router into an in-house network
storage device.)

  and given that the CPU chipset is a broadcom 4704, i'm assuming that
the images i'm interested in would be here:

  http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/7.09/brcm47xx-2.6/

right?  the fact that i'm replacing the broadcom wireless with atheros
shouldn't affect the flashable image, that will be a configuration
change, yes?

  and that unit appears to even be available locally:

http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=013038&cid=NT.489

have i missed anything important?  unless there are any gotchas i
don't know about, this looks like the best choice for me.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

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