[NCSA-discuss] wrt54gs and openwrt, rfc1918/dhcp question

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> It might not be an option if you recently bought it. What's the
> firmware version?  If its >= Version 5 you've got one of the new
> slimmed down boxes which are running VxWorks instead of Linux and
> don't have enough RAM to support OpenWrt.  There's a special "classic"
> WRT54GL" which was put into the product line after they switched, but
> I don't believe that brick and mortar retailers are stocking it.

According to Tom Billman who spoke at the recent NCSA 
meeting, people in Europe wouldn't buy the VXWorks version
and Linksys had to bring back the Linux version (as the "L")
with the original amount of memory etc, but now charging a 
premium since it was the Linux version.

Joe

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