Am Mittwoch 13 Februar 2008 schrieben Sie: > Martin Steigerwald schrieb: > > Hello! Hello Tomasz! Thanks for your detailed answers. I am CC'ing to you personally as well since you did too. > > I read your article about Debian on Asus WL-500g Deluxe and I found > > it quite interesting[1]. I would like to run pure Debian as my ADSL > > router to have that well known very good package management, be able > > to upgrade and stuff. And I expect that routers will only get more > > flash and more memory in the future... > > FYI, I'm running Asus WL-500g Deluxe with Sagem f at st 800 ADSL modem (it > uses ueagle_atm kernel module) - it doesn't need any external power and > is connected to Asus using USB only. > Too bad it doesn't support ADSL2 and ADSL2+, so it can't be used just > everywhere. Well I plan on using the DSL modem from my provider via pppoe, but that should work via the WAN port ;) > > From what I read the Asus WL-500g Premium would be a good choice, but > > I am wondering a bit about the memory footprint of Debian on it. On > > the VIA machine with iptables, pppoe, openntpd, of course SSH and > > more getty's than I would need on the Asus (or even on the VIA;) it > > requires about 10-12 MB which seems quite comfortable for me. > > It uses the same for MIPS - 10-12 MB for basic setup (SSH, iptables, > web server, etc.). ntpd doesn't make much sense, as these devices don't > have hardware clock - it may be better idea to sync the clock via > crontab. But it has a system clock I supposed? So a ntpdate on boot and openntpd afterwards should work to keep the clock stable? AFAIK openntpd doesn't fiddle with the hardware clock at all > (...) > > > 1) What do you run on your Asus with Debian? > > Oh, I used o run different weird stuff on it. I should describe it > somewhere on the page, I guess. And thats just a ADSL router ;-). Well then bzr should work and if it swaps a bit on bzr usage, but not during usual operation it should be a problem. > > 2) Did you enable the additional 16 MB? Is it difficult to do? Seems > > to require a few commands only, but they have to be entered at some > > boot prompt I am not sure how to reach. Via serial? > > What additional 16 MB? The device has 32 MB, and kernel sees full 32 > MB. I read that the device indeed has 32 MB, but 16 MB are disabled somehow: - http://gersbo.dk/2006/09/wl-500gp-enable-full-32-mb-of-ram.html - http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=5270 > > Do I have to use some > > soldering to use the serial console or is a cable for that available? > > You need a 3.3V USB-serial cable, and you don't need to solder anything > (on my WL-500gP there are little holes in which I stick needles, which > are connected to the USB-serial cable). I think I could manage that. > > I > > would like to avoid hardware hacks as I am not that skilled in that. > > I feel comfortable with opening the box, but I do not like to do some > > soldering if it can be avoided, although that 128 MB memory hacks > > sounds interesting ;-). > > Hmm, what 128 MB memory hacks? See here: - http://oleg.wl500g.info/wl500gp_ram.html - http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=12962 > > 4) Is it possible to disable WLAN so that it doesn't send anymore? > > Curently, WLAN doesn't work at all (unless you replace the broadcom > card with something else), so no problem with that. Why is that? The device - well at least the Asus WL-500g Premium - is reported to be supported by FreeWrt and OpenWrt at least so I thought WLAN would work? But I think the Premium uses a slightly different WLAN chip ;-) But according to this I would have thought that even on the Deluxe it should be working: - "The device is fully supported by FreeWRT." - "Wireless: integrated Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" - http://freewrt.org/trac/wiki/Documentation/Hardware/AsusWL500GD > I have an old USB wireless device (using out of tree prism2_usb module > - see http://linux-wlan.org/). Well so it would be possible to have WLAN somehow anyway. Its not that important for me but it would be nice to have a WLAN that I could switch on / off at will ;) > For your interest: I have an old USB stick, to which I swap quite a lot > for a couple of years - works fine. > > I had two or three USB sticks, including brand names, which got damaged > after just a week or month of usage, without any swap usage. > > I had a short-circuit - USB-stick was read-only after that, and I had > to reflash the router, because it didn't boot anymore. Hmmm... any criteria to detect good versus not so good USB sticks? A backup would be in order. I have an quite old 512 MB one from Transcend which still works, but I did not use it that often. I would like to have a bit more storage for the Asus tough, I think 2GB ;). > I hope it gives you some overview ;) Thanks a lot. Looks good. I think I will order one of those instead of waiting for 64 MB variants ;-) (which I could order once they are fully supported then;-). Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/debian-non-standard/attachments/20080213/a2dfb030/attachment.pgp> |