You might want a more open environment... look at tomato which was discussed in euglug threads earlier this year about custom router firmwarzen, mostly netgear and linksys hw but a variety of firmware topics :) http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato/
Good prior posts: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12282.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11826.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11746.html (props to Allen Brown for these posts!) ~ben On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Dave Compton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > No, I'm not doing anything at all with the "n" part. For that matter, I'm > not doing anything interesting with the "b/g" part other than verifying that > it works. My reason for getting this router was to try out the development > environment for dd-wrt and/or other open source router firmware. > > I don't know of *any* similarly-priced models, new or refurb, with or > without 802.11n, that support dd-wrt. There are cheaper routers but I have > not seen any that support dd-wrt. This might just show that I'm not too > good at searching but it's hard to beat $35 by much. If you or anyone else > out there knows of a cheaper dd-wrt compatible router, please let me know. > > One reason that I didn't want to spend a lot on this router is that there > is some chance that I might ruin it. Hopefully that will not happen but if > it does, I don't want much cash invested in a paperweight. > > On the subject of writing code to run under dd-wrt, does anyone reading > this have any experience along those lines? Most of the instructions I have > seen are about recompiling/rebuilding the dd-wrt O/S but I would rather > start with a "hello world" program. > > - Dave > > > > Ben Barrett wrote: > >> So are you doing anything interesting with the "n" part? Or just b/g? >> ...and, since you've done your homework, does this model provide >> substantially more RAM & CPU than similarly-priced new models (not refurb)? >> >> ~ben >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Dave Compton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> I am interested in router hacking but didn't want to pay too much >> for a open source compatible router. This week, frys.com >> <http://frys.com> has a refurbished Netgear WNR834B(v2) 802.11n >> router for $35 - shipping included. I got one of these a couple of >> days ago and now have dd-wrt running on it. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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