[ale] WRT54G Firmware

[vf5 at plm.gatech.edu]

I use junk PC's for routers sure. That's what my main router is now!

I agree Linksys had no OBLIGATION to help out it's fledgling
WRT communities, but it sure would have helped.

To the point, sometimes you don't want a big box with moving parts
and lots of excess on it. You want something simple that uses
only 7 Watts with no moving parts that can do just a few tasks.
For that, the WRT is a good widget, very flexible.

That said, back to business, Sveasoft "Talisman" firmware is supposed
to be released on Monday. Hope that helps.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:46:35PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> They don't have any obligation to do that. They are trying to sell
> products to the average consumer not to the geeks who wants a cheap
> embeded Linux box. Their only obligation is to provide the GPLed code
> that they modified. I believe that if they really wanted to get nasty,
> they could remove all the proprietary binaries from the GPL package
> they provide and no one could do anything about it.
> 
> Personally, I don't understand why people even like the device. It is
> severly lacking in ability when compared with a cheap "junk" computer
> that can run a ready-made firewall like IPcop or your own set of
> iptable and QoS rules. Were I the initiator of this thread I would
> have put the thing up for sale the minute I realized the device won't
> let me use my network the way I want to.
> 
> On 4/14/05, vf5 at plm.gatech.edu <vf5 at plm.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > This V3 hardware change has really screwed over the WRT community badly.
> > Major chipset changes, and none of them presaged or released to the community
> > in advance or anything. It would have been great if Linksys had sent a few
> > dozen units out to the projects, but no they have had to wait and buy their
> > own units off the shelf like everyone else and try to port..
> 
> 
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