isn’t it more likely 16mb of ram and 4mb of flash?

Posted at 4:08 am on Jun 29th, 2008 by jan

Hey just a little head’s up: It’s 4MB Flash & 16MB RAM

*Though 16MB Flash would be natively killer…can’t say much about 4MB RAM in a to-be-hacked router ;)

Posted at 4:18 am on Jun 29th, 2008 by Scottman

Netgear is doing the same issue : too much RAM and Flash to be a really killer stuff. For 1/4 of that price you can buy a Fonera which have the same functions … and the same limited feature (due to lack of memory)

Bye

Posted at 5:16 am on Jun 29th, 2008 by Jkx

This is not an open source router. The wifi driver is closed source, binary only. The driver works with a linux-2.4.20 kernel only (yup, thats from year 2002). The result is that all the nice firewall functionality in the 2.6.xx series is not supported (eg. SIP NAT).

Someone needs to come up with a real opensource router with plenty of RAM and flash, and a reasonable wifi chip set with linux 2.6 drivers.

Please stop calling this an open source router.

Posted at 2:15 pm on Jun 29th, 2008 by gth

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153096
Small size, check
low power, check
flash memory, after a CF card, check
open wireless, (depends on the card you plug in)
linux compatible, check
“….an x86 based router… to make porting stupidly simple.”, check

Posted at 7:28 pm on Jun 29th, 2008 by B10hazard

Meh. Bring back the WGT634U at this price point and open it up a hair more software wise. The WGT634U has 8MB flash, 32MB of RAM, and most importantly, a USB port. Though, it seems you can get NSLU2s for around this price-point already.

B10hazard, that is a novel little board, but it nearly $100 more expensive than the NetGear. How powerful is the LX chip compared to a standard desktop chip?

Posted at 9:43 pm on Jun 29th, 2008 by tom61

does not wall mount…important in some circles :-(

Posted at 12:22 pm on Jul 1st, 2008 by Boby

There is a really nice and decently active community site surrounding the new open source router at myopenrouter.com. I’ve been posting every now and then. They have some cool projects going on there.

Posted at 10:22 am on Oct 27th, 2008 by Brian