[Gllug] ADSL modem -- WTF?

[Ian Norton]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:09:27AM +0100, neil chambers wrote:
>                              From: 
> Chris Bell
> <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk>
> <snip>
> > 
> > > Incidentally, has anyone else noticed how hard it is to buy a
> > > non-wireless ADSL router these days?
> <snip>
> 
> I've had this pain recently. However, I've been looking at
> http://www.sveasoft.com/ who provide an alternate firmware for the
> WRT54G & WRT54GS linksys ADSL routers. The multitude of features that
> have been added to the stock firmware include, apparently, an option to
> disable wireless. The latest firmware is available under support only
> which is $20 per year. I've loaded a public release which doesn't offer
> the option of disabling the wireless, but there are other excellent
> add-ons such as pptp,ipsec,OPENVpn Server & Clients, tftfp server,
> enhanced dhcpd, bandwidth management, OSPF...loads of goodies.
> 
> But it is still only a router and does require an additional modem to
> handle the ADSL ATM link.

surely, if the wrt54g can run linux, then simply doing 'ifconfig wlan0 down'
would do the trick? :-)

> 
> All the best,
> neil
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