On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/29/2013 05:18 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: >> >> On 29/12/13 10:07, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 29 Dec 2013 07:07, "Ronald" <ronald.gadget@xxxxxxxxx >>> <mailto:ronald.gadget@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Peter, >>> > >>> > what about getting a wireless router from Dlink, Netgear etc and >>> hacking such a device? These devices are like 50$? >>> > >>> >>> Those $50 devices are generally MIPS, with 32mb of ram and a single >>> 100mb port, if your lucky the switch chip might do vlans. >> >> >> A quick look over the OpenWRT wiki shows this as only arm based option >> with 4 ports. >> >> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t >> >> There are much more powerful MIPS systems such as the new C7 Archer based >> systems like this: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr7500 >> > > Well I learned something. > > DON'T get a wnr854t; turns out they have real power problems: > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wnr854t/glod > https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=28062 > http://www.imovedtolinux.com/2008/11/fix-for-netgear-wnr854t-green-ring-of.html > > I am working with the ebay seller on a rma. :( > > after a lot of advice at openwrt, I am going with the tp-wdr3600. > > I have learned a lot about the LAN port design on these boxes, and how > really the SCO has only one or two ethernet ports; all the rest is done with > fancy drivers to handle each separately. See > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt54g for how linksys did it. It would > be nice to see such designs implemented and supported for arm. Yes, most cheap routers have a cheap 5-6 port switch chip, that in some cases can do vlans when configured via something like GPIO, but the actual router itself only has a single ethernet port. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
