On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 21:29:32 Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:36:38 -0500 (EST)
> > "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > i've noticed a few postings related to openwrt on the asus wl-500gp
> > > v2 and, coincidentally, someone just handed me one and asked me if i
> > > can get openwrt 8.09 on it.
> > >
> > > the situation is that it should run the 2.6 kernel, USB support
> > > would be useful in the very near future and, at least for now,
> > > wireless is *not* an issue -- it would be installed in an area in
> > > which wireless is not allowed, anyway.
> > >
> > > so, does this exist? i checked the downloads directory and, given
> > > that the v2 of that router uses the BCM5354 CPU, i sort of figured
> > > that there would be a brcm53xx directory or something like that if an
> > > image already existed.
> >
> > I have the 520gu, which has somewhat similar hardware, and I can run
> > either 2.4 with (proprietary) wireless and USB (although many sites
> > warn against using 2.0, so I haven't tried it) or 2.6 without USB or
> > wireless, and even that only with manually modifying the sources, as
> > per sbrown's patch. If anyone gets USB working with 2.6, I'd like to
> > see your config, and anything special that you had to do.
> >
> > http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Asus/WL520GU
>
> Attached is my current config.
> An USB sound device is detected, so I assume USB is working.
> Wireless doesn't work, of course. b43 doesn't support the device, yet.
i notice that that config file selects b43 wireless, even though i
have to believe that selection has no value and could just as well be
set to "none", correct?
rday
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