Looking for a new wireless router

[wyred]

warriorfan808,

The newer v5 Linksys routers are no longer Linux based, last I heard it was VxWorks. You might still be able to find an older version at the store. I know I was fooled by the new version. I went down to the local BestBuy because they had them onsale for $40 after rebates. Got it home and couldn't flash it. This wiki has a ton of info on it WRT54G. If you don't mind looking at the serial number of all the routers in the store, here is a nice list of version numbers and the first 4 characters of their serial number. I also saw a WRT54G on eBay about a week ago that someone had already preloaded Sveasoft's Talisman firmware onto, so that might be somewhere else to look.

[warriorfan808]

Your netgear is from a while ago, so it might not have the same issues as the newer ones. I have a netgear at work that works just fine. Nothing ridiculous about a bad product. Like I said, I'm going to update the firmware tonight and see how it goes. If it doesn't work well, then it could either be a bad design or more likely a bad individual router. Just because one router works, doesn't mean all of the ones of the same model will. Defections exist.

[WolfRune]

Linksys Not Pulling Linux Entirely

Courtesy of Slashdot

[g3neration]

Yea, the Linksys WRT54G v5 runs VxWorks, previous versions run Linux. I got my hands on a WRT54G v4 really easy. Just went down the nearest computer store ( J&R ) and got one. Of course they had no idea what version firmware was running. But I guess I lucked out. I'm sure there are still lots of version 4's on shelves. I think the version 2's and 3's are better because theres a trick to downgrading the firmware.

[WolfRune]

True, but they're still offering the v4, rebranded as model WRT54GL. That was the point of the article. Also, the v5 has less flash memory and RAM.

[d0pp]

I've only had 2 problems with my linksys.

1. It overheated occasionally. I fixed this by unburying it.

2. I had to change the MTU.


I have never had any real problems with Linksys... Love their products.

I'd go for the WRT54G. I love it.

[Kjelltr]

Hello to the forum!

I have had very good experiences with ASUS WL500 Deluxe which is also OSS. It has all the capabilities I need like VPN traversal, Bandwidth allocation (with updated firmware) and, of course, SPI.

The only, but big, drawback is customer support. ASUS usually makes good stuff, but their support is non existant

[SirDice]

I recently build my own AP using FreeBSD 6.0's new wifi support and a linksys WPC-55AG dual band PCI card.. You can use 5.x too but it'll only support WEP. 6.0 also supports WPA.

http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/e...s/article.html

The added bonus is I can use any one of FBSD's firewalls, you can make it as clean or as feature rich (dhcp, dns, vpn etc) as you want it... and tcpdump gives some nice info :
tcpdump -i ath0 -y IEEE802_11 -n
tcpdump -i ath0 -y IEEE802_11_RADIO -n

Haven't figured out how to run kismet and still keep the AP's functionality though..