router/printserver/printer recommendations

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:26:47PM -0500, Tim Writer wrote:
> Unfortunately, Cisco chose to "upgrade" the Linksys WRT54GS so that it's no
> longer compatible with Linux. Instead, they came out with the WRT54L with
> half the flash and half the RAM so that it's nowhere near as versatile.
> Fortunately, there are other manufacturers that make routers which are
> compatible with the OpenWRT firmware. See this page for complete list:
> 
>     http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware
> 
> Note that I'm still using an older WRT54GS and have no direct experience
> with some of the other models.

The WRT54GL is identical to the WRT54G v4, which had full ram, and such,
and it still runs linux and is still flashable to whichever you want.

The WRT54G v5 and above, and I believe the WRT54GS v2 and above are both
stripped down, and running vmworks, and according to reviews they are
amazingly crappy routers compared to the linux based versions.

I am amazed that a few MB or ram and flash can save enough money to pay
a license for vmworks, and still supposedly come out cheaper to produce.
Weird.

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