<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:50 PM, unsolicited <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> And THAT's the advantage of OpenWRT.<br>
><br>
> If you have a black box that has a USB port, what it's used for is up to the<br>
> ingenuity of the programmers. i.e. I'll bet there are many routers out their<br>
> that the manufacturer's / software providers have enabled a usb port for<br>
> printing / storage. I doubt that they all take a 3g/gsm dongle. OpenWRT lets<br>
> the hardware be the hardware, without artificial restriction of the software<br>
> the box happens to contain.<br>
><br>
> But, without the hardware, all bets are off. I'll wait for the hardware with<br>
> OpenWRT'ability. Not ready to pay $$400, would pay $200<br>
<br>
</div>Prepare to giggle like an excited child, unsolicited.<br>
<br>
nbd is a deveolper of OpenWRT and posted recently in the comments on LWN.<br>
<br>
>From the comments at <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/369367/" target="_blank">http://lwn.net/Articles/369367/</a><br>
Posted Jan 12, 2010 11:53 UTC (Tue) by nbd (subscriber, #14393) [Link]<br>
<br>
"The WRT160NL is not on the official supported hardware list yet,<br>
because it's not supported in the last official release (8.09.2) yet.<br>
It is supported in our development tree and will be supported in the<br>
upcoming release (scheduled for February)."<br>
<br>
This is noteworthy, because there are outstanding issues, and reports<br>
of "bricked" devices. So, devs only and svn trunk as per nbd.<br>
<br>
But what is the WRT160NL you ask?<br>
It is a WRT54GL replacement.<br>
It has one USB port.<br>
It is in stock at Canada Computers for $115.<br>
<a href="http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=023687&cid=NTW.489" target="_blank">http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=023687&cid=NTW.489</a><br>
<br>
*scream*<br>
<br>
So who will race me to CC Waterloo?<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I am not sure how related the WRT160N to the WRT160NL. I assume the L is just<br>more memory so it can run Linux (or that was the convention for the WRT54G and GL?)<br>
<br>But, if they are similar, then there are some bad reviews here at BestBuy for its<br>cousin.<br><br><a href="http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10099083&catid=26055">http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10099083&catid=26055</a><br>
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