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Chuck Munro wrote: > > > Ed Chatlos ............ > > > > There really is NO comparison between a Linksys WRT and > > any hardware running M0n0. Which is best depends on what > > you need. To be honest none of the WRT series routers > > are very good. The big deal with the WRT's is the ability > > to load aftermarket firmware's that include some features > > Linksys never intended to run on those boxes and the WiFi > > power boost feature. If it wasn't for that the WRT would > > be just another run of the mill wireless router. You > > really do get what you pay for. > > > And to make matters worse, Cisco's takeover of Linksys has > resulted in even more problems. The latest versions of the > WRT54 series don't run Linux any more ... they've switched > to VxWorks so that they no longer have to publish their > source code under the GPL. See item 1) at the following: > > http://www.nwc.com/mobile/archives/mobile_archive_113005.html > > I don't know if this means you can't retrofit the old Linux > code into the new router models, but I've heard there are > many sad tales of unstable operation ever since the switch > to the new operating system. > > Has anyone tried to downgrade the firmware (back to Linux) > or is there some sort of code in the new versions to > prevent this? > > I use my WRT only as a wireless access point now, and use > m0n0wall as the firewall. M0n0wall is much more versatile > (despite its inability to loop back through itself without > using DNS redirection). > > Chuck > I know this is getting off-topic, but it just so happens that I recently did a bit of research on this ;-) The Linksys WRT54G version 5 hardware does not support the custom firmwares. See http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Linksys/WRT54G for some good info. However, Linksys has come out with a new model, the WRT54GL, which does support the custom firmwares. See: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4729641740.html For OpenWRT (not sure of the other firmwares), you can also use the WRT54GS, along with many other models from various manufacturers. See: http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware |