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

[Chris Caston]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 15:59, Matt Kemner wrote:
> 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.
> 

Looks like one could quite easily add a 1gb USB memory stick for voice
mail storage.

Any idea what the CPU/RAM/solid storage specs for the WL-500g? I
couldn't find much on the product page
(http://au.asus.com/products/communication/wireless/wl-500g/overview.htm) and their forum is down for maintenance.


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

Quite a list. I'd love to see a OpenWRT loadable Pre-802.11N or 802.16,
802.20 router :)
>  - Matt
> 
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