Re: soundmodem on OpenWRT on ASUS WL-520gU router with USB audio

[Stelios Bounanos <sb-lst@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:21:00 -0300, Frank Smith <frankiansmith@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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