[CUWiN-Dev] WRT54G vs. Linksys WGT634U:

[Aaron Huslage]

This is something I was thinking about. Commodity consumer grade  
hardware is fun as a test bed for new ideas and deployments, but the  
longevity is not assured. I've been talking to product management at  
Linksys about this sort of thing a fair bit lately for some other  
work I'm doing.

Also in speaking to the people who designed the Netgear box (a  
different company, I might add) they have assured me that the mPCI  
route was taken because of a temporary shortage in the newest BCM  
processor (which has USB controllers on it). This box will be  
replaced in about 6 months with the latest BCM chipset and will still  
run Linux. I have a WGT and it's working fine. A great little server  
with linux, etc.

I think that this group's time, money and energy would be better  
spent getting things solid in the core distribution for x86  
processors (Soekris, WRAP, PC, etc) and then later on go down the low- 
cost route when we have proven technology and can get actual vendor  
buy-in and resale agreements with someone. I think proving the  
technology in the field at V1 is more important to the sustainability  
of this project than porting to everything in existence that could  
run it.

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On Nov 22, 2005, at 2:20 PM, David Young wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:48:51PM -0600, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>> Has anyone had any experience (or have any thoughts about) the  
>> WGT634U?  Is
>> this a better platform for CUWiN porting than the WRT54G?
>
> It is, especially since it's semi-open Atheros instead of a closed
> Broadcom radio.  However, important questions are:
>
>         Who will fund a port, any port?  Will they fund a second port?
>             And a third?
>
>         Is it cost-effective to adapt the device for our
>             application---adding PoE, outdoor enclosure, etc.?
>
>         For how long will there be a good supply of WGT634U's (or
>             whatever)?  I.e., what's the "ROI" of a port?
>
>         How long will the device last before breaking?  (Both Netgear
>             APs I have bought bit it after about six months.)
>
> Dave
>
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