router/printserver/printer recommendations

[Tim Writer]

Tim Writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> writes:

> lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> According to the above page, the WRT54GL and WRT54G v4 have 4MB RAM and
> 16MB of flash.

Sorry, that should be 16MB RAM and 4MB flash.

> > 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 agree about the WRT54G v5. The WRT54GS v1 through v3 all have 8MB RAM,
> 32MB flash, and are supported by OpenWRT, i.e. can run Linux. I'm running
> Asterisk with decent voice quality on my WRT54GS v2.

And that should be 32MB RAM and 8MB flash.

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