From: Stelios Bounanos <sb-lst@enotty.net>
To: Frank Smith <frankiansmith@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: soundmodem on OpenWRT on ASUS WL-520gU router with USB audio
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:45:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eiptgqqs.wl@logrus.enotty.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e741d6300909260821g729d736el1bbde395fd2a6c24@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:21:00 -0300, Frank Smith <frankiansmith@gmail.com> said:
> That's one of the first things I discovered when I started playing
> with these routers, aprs4r just didn't fit.
> As much as I would love to develop Python-based software for this, in
> order to make this thing as useful to as many as possible I don't
> think any scripting-language-based software like Perl, Python or Ruby
> is practical, at least for now, until 8M-flash routers become the
> norm.
The Netgear WGT634U is a somewhat older router but has more flash and
RAM than many newer ones. 200 MHz MIPS CPU, 8MB flash, 32MB ram, USB
2.0 port, serial port, Atheros mini-PCI card, programmable 5-port
switch.
> Adding a USB flash stick is a possibility, but too clunky I think.
> Just another potential point of failure.
Yes, but then you can run a real distro. I used to run Debian (vanilla
kernel + some openwrt patches) on a wgt634u. It happily booted and ran
off a cheap USB flash drive for several years. Never had to use more
than 50% of the 512MB available IIRC, no problems with the ext3
filesystem on the drive.
This little box was running bind, exim4, dhcpd, a netfilter
nat/firewall, and some other stuff, with about 12MB free ram. I did
have to run exim in queuing mode so that it wouldn't fork to deliver
incoming mail immediately and run out of memory :)
73,
Stelios, M0GLD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-27 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-26 15:08 soundmodem on OpenWRT on ASUS WL-520gU router with USB audio Chris Kantarjiev
2009-09-26 15:21 ` Frank Smith
2009-09-27 0:45 ` Stelios Bounanos [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-26 15:22 Chris Kantarjiev
2009-09-26 15:26 ` Frank Smith
2009-09-26 15:12 Chris Kantarjiev
2009-09-26 12:13 Frank Smith
2009-09-26 13:22 ` Alan Crosswell
2009-09-26 13:48 ` Frank Smith
2009-09-26 14:28 ` Alan Crosswell
2009-09-26 14:42 ` Alan Crosswell
2009-09-26 14:50 ` Curt, WE7U
2009-09-26 15:00 ` Frank Smith
2009-09-26 15:25 ` Alan Crosswell
2009-09-26 14:44 ` Curt, WE7U
2009-09-26 14:42 ` Curt, WE7U
2009-09-26 14:48 ` Alan Crosswell
2009-09-26 15:13 ` Frank Smith
2009-09-26 16:14 ` Bob Nielsen
2009-09-26 16:27 ` Christof Bodner
2009-09-26 17:05 ` Bob Nielsen
2009-09-26 22:29 ` Curt, WE7U
2009-09-26 14:39 ` Curt, WE7U
2009-10-03 22:54 ` Ken Koster
2008-10-03 16:13 Frank Smith
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87eiptgqqs.wl@logrus.enotty.net \
--to=sb-lst@enotty.net \
--cc=frankiansmith@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-hams@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox