[Eug-lug] Linksys router WRT54GL (was AVG)

[LinuxRocks!]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:12:19AM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:12:19 -0800
> From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linksys router WRT54GL (was AVG)
> 
> I don't know, but I don't think you can do much with Linux in most of the
> extra firmwares,
> I don't know, again, but I group them into two sets, by purpose:
> 1) get more out of the hardware (capabilities, security, etc)
> 2) have fun tinkering and see what you can do yourself
> 
> Can you SSH into the DD-WRT, for instance?

Sure! I'm not positive, but i think you can do this with all the 
firmwares. wanna run a webserver on your router? no problem. like to 
write your own scripts to do custom things? no problem. 

Jamie

> 
>    Ben
> 
> 
> On 12/7/06, LinuxRocks! <linux at rocksolidnetworks.com> wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:48:55AM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:48:55 -0800
> >> From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Linksys router WRT54GL (was AVG)
> >>
> >> And if you're just going for aftermarket firmware, not Linux in
> >particular,
> >> then you can find a much cheaper model, too :)
> >> See the lists of supported hardware for DD-WRT and others...
> >
> >is there a non-linux firmware? I know the newwer units us vxworks, but I
> >belive all the aftermarket firmwares are linux. I dont see how you cant
> >load up your own firmware on any of the units that you can install a
> >firmware on.
> >I havnt built my own firmware yet, but i might... its just that ddwrt,
> >and hyperwrt, and all the others work so well that its easier to use one
> >of them.
> >
> >Jamie
> >
> ...

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