WRT54G(S) (was Re: [plug] Wireless Linux + A good linux book!)

[Matt Kemner]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, quoth Chris Caston:

> So I imagine you could plug a number of SIP phones in for a inexpensive
> PABX that connects to an upstream SIP proxy such as a Cisco Call manger
> or Asterisk super server.

Right, that was my plan. Of course I don't actually have any use for it
right now, but it was an interesting excercise.

> Would probably be to much overhead for the AMP
> (http://amp.coalescentsystems.ca/) interface and all its requirements?

Umm, yeah. :) but why would you want to?

> Cool, but why?

Cigar to Leon for guessing the answer.
The other option was paying $15,000 for a trench underneath the very busy
road that seperates the two buildings.

The serial data is to control some automatic equipment in a carpark, eg
boomgates etc.

> Any way of hacking some external storage into it?

Not on the Linksys WRT*, but there are some "compatible" devices by other
manufacturers that have USB ports etc - of which the ASUS WL-500G appears
to be the most popular.

See http://www.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware

 - Matt