On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Anton <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me try it again ;-) > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt160nl > WORK IN PROGRESS DO NOT FLASH IF YOU LACK SERIAL CONSOLE > > http://www.myopenrouter.com/category/40/WNR3500L-Open-Source-Router > The power of open source combined with the newest in Wireless-N > WNR3500L, adds the additional ability to customize your router with > third party open source firmwares such as DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and Tomato > - along with gigabit port speeds.
Followup: LWN has made the following article on using Tomato on the WRT54 router generally available. A thread in the article mentions that the development version of OpenWRT works with the WRT160NL. BTW, Mike, have you decided and bought your router yet? [http://lwn.net/Articles/369367/] ===== The Grumpy Editor's Tomato review By Jonathan Corbet January 11, 2010 Your editor has just completed an important transition: moving his Internet connectivity from one evil branch of the local telecom duopoly to the other, equally evil branch. This change required the acquisition of a new router; that, in turn, provided the opportunity to play with Linux-based router software, and Tomato in particular. Read on for your editor's impressions of this impressive bit of (mostly) free software. [...] Tomato is also not 100% free software. The core Linux system is, of course, free, but the user interface code carries a "for use with Tomato only" copyright notice. There is also the issue of the proprietary Broadcom network driver, but that's a problem any 2.4-based firmware for this router will have. These concerns are strong enough that, despite Tomato's many qualities, your editor is not yet sure that he has found the final distribution for his router. In particular, OpenWRT - which offers a 2.6 kernel, a seemingly larger and more active development team, release notes with CVE numbers included, and a packaging system allowing others to add features to the router - seems worth a detailed look. The good news is that this choice exists and is easy to execute. That, in turn, is the result of the GPL and the developers who made an effort to enforce it. ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
