From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stelios Bounanos Subject: Re: soundmodem on OpenWRT on ASUS WL-520gU router with USB audio Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:45:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87eiptgqqs.wl@logrus.enotty.net> References: <200909261508.n8QF806T030693@moose.dimebank.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Frank Smith Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:21:00 -0300, Frank Smith 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.