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Re: Dear Linksys: Your broken WET54GS5 makes me sad.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Tue Apr 12 10:20:07 2005

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:19:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF18A7E545.A5C74316-ON80256FE1.003DD580-80256FE1.003E9585@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:

> Interestingly enough, the WRT54G is capable of gigE.

Probably not at full speed, though. Its only an ARM

> First, the firmware in the device is Linux and it can be upgraded and
> changed by the owner in any way that they want. Many people have worked
> on an enhanced and open version of the WRT54G firmware.  
> http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html
> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g

You might also look at www.openwrt.org for sw.

If you are willing to solder a surface mount chip in, you can have a
serial console, too.


		--Dean


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