<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Ehud,<br><br>A few months back I got a V 6.0 router at a flea market. I was convinced it would be a better use of my time to buy a different unit from Newegg. (Which is still on my to to list.)<br><br>Maybe I should try flashing it as a "science project" and not feel disappointed in the results.<br><br>Paul<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 11/19/11, Rick Moen <i><rick@linuxmafia.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com><br>Subject: Re: [conspire] re-flashing Linksys WRT54gV5 with open source<br>To: conspire@linuxmafia.com<br>Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 11:40 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Quoting Ehud Kaldor (<a ymailto="mailto:ehud.kaldor@gmail.com"
href="/mc/compose?to=ehud.kaldor@gmail.com">ehud.kaldor@gmail.com</a>):<br><br><br>Other people's view may differ from the following, but these are mine.<br><br>> Linksys WRT54gV5 <br><br>My view: 8 MB RAM and 2 MB of flash is unacceptably anaemic for a<br>Linux-based WAP / ethernet / gateway device. Period. If I had one of<br>those -- a WAP so anaemic they had to preload it with VxWorks -- I'd<br>sell it. In my view, the bare minimum acceptable hardware for such a<br>device, the floor below which you should not bother, is twice that<br>amount of each metric.<br><br>Yes, there are ways to shoehorn severely pared down and barely<br>functional 'micro' or 'micro-plus' versions of things like DD-WRT into<br>it. No, you should not do that, because it will be a huge hassle,<br>because the results will not be satisfactory, and because you should<br>spend your time and effort in better ways.<br><br>But you're a masochist who has
boundless time and who doesn't mind<br>living through huge amounts of frustration and disappointment? OK, go ahead.<br><br><a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Version_5_And_6_Router_Information" target="_blank">http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Version_5_And_6_Router_Information</a><br><a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT54G_v5.0_%26_5.1_%26_6.0" target="_blank">http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT54G_v5.0_%26_5.1_%26_6.0</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>conspire mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="/mc/compose?to=conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br><a href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>