linux on hw router?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>   
>>> Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Interesting. Much better than using a crappy secrete fishy proprietary
>>>> OS.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Caution: I mistakenly bought a linksys wrt54g, which turns out to use
>>> some fishy OS, not linux. In the recent models, I think you need the
>>> wrt54gl to get the linux option.
>>>     
>> Actually, I seem to remember reading that someone found a way to hack the 
>> WRT54G to run Linux too.  I've got a WRT54GL at home though, and I'm quite 
>> pleased with it, but its not a DSL modem.
>>
>>   
> 
> I'm not sure, but I read that the older 54g's would run linux, but 
> v.5(?) can not.

The v.5 and above routers cut the flash in half.  Linux was already a
tight squeeze.  Wiki has a very nice table of all the current Linksys
routers and what they are capable of.  Wiki also lists the versions of
linux that will run on those routers.

I used to run sveasoft on a Linksys router until a poser surge took out
the WAN port.  Linux still runs fine, it just will not connect to the
outside world.

    -- Alma