[wellylug] Linux on Linksys WRT54G

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <20050105134414.GF4072 at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>, Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E4hr?= writes:
>On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:45:27PM +1300, Ewen McNeill wrote:
>>     [Linksys WRT54G] After some persuasion Linksys made
>>     _most_ of the source code available; there are some hardware drivers
>>     which are binary only, alas -- hence Linux 2.4.20.
>
>which are those?

As I understand it the wireless driver is binary only (or at least a
significant part of it), and possibly also the ethernet driver (both
Broadcom devices).

>i have the same machine btw, uing it now as a 5-port router (different
>subnet on each port).  works nicely.

Yes, I considered doing that too.

Do you find that you need to set up the VLANs in the switch every
time you boot the router (eg, with admcfg) or can they be programmed
once and then retain their settings?

Ewen