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If anybody is interested in USB wireless devices - Edimax with the ralink chipsets, drop me an email. I have some on order, arriving soon for a very good price (limited quantity) thanks George 2009/4/14 Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Julian Hall wrote: >> Rob Beard wrote: >> >>> Nice feature ;-) >>> >>> >> This is one of those obscure uses of the word 'nice' I wasn't aware of >> isn't it? ;) >> >>> Are there any firmware fixes to resolve this? >>> >>> >> Not that I'm aware of... wouldn't it be a hardware issue anyway? I did >> email them but with no reply - to be fair the only time they haven't.oul >> > I dunno, I mean my WRT54G can be configured so it's WAN port can be on > either the internal or external network etc so I would assume it would > be configurable in some sort of configuration. In fact doing a quick > Google search it seems that the Edimax router uses a RISC SoC CPU which > emulates the 486 x86 instruction set. It looks like some of the guys > involved with OpenWRT have been doing bits and pieces with this chipset > although it appears that it's possibly hit and miss at the moment. > Edimax do have Linux source code available though (I guess for those who > want to have a play with it) [1]. >>> My new BT Home Hub has a NAS feature although I've yet to try it, I'm >>> hoping that it's a bit more secure than your Edimax router. >>> >>> >> I'd run it through Shields Up! - mine didn't show up until I used the >> File Sharing Ports option - the others seemed to think everything was >> OK. Not with port 139 blaring over the net it isn't! Doh! >> >> >> > Yep I haven't actually tried the NAS yet, I will look at this though > when I get around to plugging something into it. What I find at the > moment is that my BT Home Hub keeps hanging and stops any traffic > through. I haven't had the connection active on BT for 10 days yet (and > I know they'll tell me to wait) so if it doesn't resolve it after the 10 > days I'll stick my old Netgear router back in. > > [1] http://www.edimax.com/en/support_detail.php?pd_id=197&pl1_id=3 > > Rob > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html