admittedly a trivial question, but i just want to make sure i'm understanding this perfectly.
as i read here in section 2.1: http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Installing a .trx file is simply a firmware image in "raw" format with no extraneous vendor-specific wrapper info and, given a choice, i should prefer to install that version of the firmware image rather than the .bin if the upgrade utility handles .trx files properly. (what does "trx" stand for, anyway?) as long as the above is correct, then for my new ASUS WL-500G Premium, i would go here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/7.09/brcm47xx-2.6/ and install the image file "openwrt-brcm47xx-2.6-squashfs.trx", correct? as i read it, that's the correct file since that router uses a broadcom 4704 processor and i want the 2.6 kernel version. and that would be the correct image regardless of whether or not i swap the mini-PCI broadcom wireless card with an atheros, since the wireless setup is a configuration issue, yes? and, to summarize, depending on the router, its processor and the kernel version i want, i should go to the corresponding downloads directory and, if i don't see an exact .bin file for that router, i might start by assuming that the .trx file will work. put another way, in a perfect world, every router upgrade utility would be able to handle a .trx file, and .bin files are created only when that's not true. am i understanding this even remotely correctly? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
