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

[Steven Haigh]

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&tid=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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>
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Steven Haigh

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