On Friday 13 July 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 13 July 2007, Itamar Reis Peixoto wrote: >>> Linksys WRT54G router with dd-wrt is 100x more best than d-links >> >> Or, dd-wrt for x86 installed on an old 400mhz x86 box with a couple of >> nics and an atheros based wireless card will blow all the rest of them >> into drydock for a refurbishing. Any old x86 box, k6 or better, 32 megs >> of dram and a $3 cf adaptor on the end of an ide cable, no hard drive or >> floppy, runs headless. Download the image, dd it to a cf card, plug the >> cf card into the adapter and power it up. Configures from a web page at >> (resetable) 192.168.1.1 with any browser. Whats not to like? > >Big case, noisy fan, too much power consumption... PSU fan, smallish cpu fan on a k6-III, might use 50 watts. No hard drive or other noisemakers in it. Its sitting open to the world and I can't hear it over the fans etc in the big tower under the next desktop. >> There are some versions of that which will fit in the WRT54G, but some >> services will be stripped due to a lack of resources in some versions of >> the WRT54G. The best was the WRT54G-L, but those are under armed guard >> paid for by whoever was lucky enough to find one. > >Is this the good one? > >http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1 >820385&sku=L48-2468 Yes, and I stand corrected, I looked for one high and wide a year ago. Be aware that it is now at least 3 year old stock, and may need to be resuscitated from brick status, although I'd be surprised if Tiger shipped a brick. Very surprised. And at that price, don't break their mailbox putting a check in it. >-- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Never make any mistaeks. -- Anonymous, in a mail discussion about to a kernel bug report
