openwrt: what routers just plain ***work***?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday-L09J2beyid0N/H6P543EQg at public.gmane.org
Thu May 14 09:01:36 UTC 2009


  i'm currently waxing philosophical on the openwrt users mailing
list, bitching about the fact that there's no simple list of
commercially available routers that just plain *work* with a 2.6-based
build of openwrt.  and by "work," i mean out of the box, install
openwrt and wireless magically comes up and works properly and you're
off to the races.

  there always appear to be some caveats:

  * a linksys wrt54gl is great, as long as you run a 2.4 kernel to
    get wireless

  * another router might have working wireless but it's not stable,
    which i interpret as "not working".

  * another router will work fine as long as you replace the broadcom
    wireless card with an atheros

  * the router comes with USB ports, but USB support isn't quite there

and so on, and so on.  which inspires a simple question -- can anyone
here point to an off-the-shelf router on which you can install openwrt
that just ***works***?  ideally, i'd like:

  * a router that takes the latest 2.6 version of openwrt -- i have no
    interest in regressing to 2.4 to get working wireless, as you need
    to do on the wrt54gl

  * has at least one USB 2.0 port that works

there's supposed to be a new release -- 8.09.1 -- out tomorrow and
that might solve a bunch of issues but has anyone on this list found a
router that works?  thanks.

rday
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