On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:10:44PM -0600, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> - If a company actually lists dd-wrt on the box, they might (or might
> not) charge a premium for this.
> - A company claiming dd-wrt on the box might not mean that is it "easy"
> to install the OS - there might be caveats footnoted on the HCL/wiki.
> (eg, only use TFTP to install/upgrade on Belkin, etc)
I could go along with a few bucks extra, if it was easier to install
and manage. For instance, Netgear xyz "open source" edition could
come with a serial port for a console, to help debugging and
un-bricking. They call it 'open source' because they are using the
same chipset as Linksys did five years ago and people learned how to
hack their way through it. They don't even support Linux 2.6 out of
the box, they are waiting for the 'community' to do that work for
them.
[Last night I installed OpenWRT on a WRT54GS and the first upload
bricked the box so I had to precariously short pins 5 and 6 on the
flash chip while powering on the unit, watching for ping replies in
a window and starting a tftp put in another. It worked from the third
try, but I could have spent three hours doing it. I would have spent
a buck extra for a serial header soldered on the board.]
Cheers,
florin
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