Hi all, I’m wondering if that old linksys router can be repurposed as a Linux machine and patched, and if anyone has done cool things with that “Woody" hardware. Eric
On 03/24/2018 01:03 PM, Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi all, I’m wondering if that old linksys router can be repurposed as a Linux machine and patched, and if anyone has done cool things with that “Woody" hardware.
If you mean the WRT54G, folks have OpenWRT on it and have done some interesting things. But most use it as a router :-). I recall Asterisk being put on it. I use it as a Wireless Access Point and not much more. But I have a lot of other things running Linux (the Pis, the NSLU2, the Pogo Plug and 586 SBC). Woody hardware? -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
It already put OpenWRT on it. I would not use that router without it. On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 1:23 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 03/24/2018 01:03 PM, Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi all, I’m wondering if that old linksys router can be repurposed as a Linux machine and patched, and if anyone has done cool things with that “Woody" hardware.
If you mean the WRT54G, folks have OpenWRT on it and have done some interesting things. But most use it as a router :-). I recall Asterisk being put on it. I use it as a Wireless Access Point and not much more. But I have a lot of other things running Linux (the Pis, the NSLU2, the Pogo Plug and 586 SBC).
Woody hardware?
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
Thanks Neil and Dean for the suggestions. Woody is a Toy Story reference because there was a reference to that movie when the pictures of the router were shown. (If any of you were thinking anything else, you need to get your mind out of the gutter - and I didn’t realize the innuendos until after I sent the note).
On Mar 24, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola@gmail.com> wrote:
It already put OpenWRT on it. I would not use that router without it.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 1:23 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>> wrote: On 03/24/2018 01:03 PM, Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi all, I’m wondering if that old linksys router can be repurposed as a Linux machine and patched, and if anyone has done cool things with that “Woody" hardware.
If you mean the WRT54G, folks have OpenWRT on it and have done some interesting things. But most use it as a router :-). I recall Asterisk being put on it. I use it as a Wireless Access Point and not much more. But I have a lot of other things running Linux (the Pis, the NSLU2, the Pogo Plug and 586 SBC).
Woody hardware?
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com <mailto:ncherry@linuxha.com> http://www.linuxha.com/ <http://www.linuxha.com/> Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ <http://linuxha.blogspot.com/> My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
Yup... see Stephen Cass' comment to our Tweet: https://twitter.com/vcfederation/status/977201683590778880?s=19 On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 5:26 PM Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Thanks Neil and Dean for the suggestions. Woody is a Toy Story reference because there was a reference to that movie when the pictures of the router were shown. (If any of you were thinking anything else, you need to get your mind out of the gutter - and I didn’t realize the innuendos until after I sent the note).
On Mar 24, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola@gmail.com> wrote:
It already put OpenWRT on it. I would not use that router without it.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 1:23 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org <mailto: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>> wrote: On 03/24/2018 01:03 PM, Eric Rangell via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hi all, I’m wondering if that old linksys router can be repurposed as a Linux machine and patched, and if anyone has done cool things with that “Woody" hardware.
If you mean the WRT54G, folks have OpenWRT on it and have done some interesting things. But most use it as a router :-). I recall Asterisk being put on it. I use it as a Wireless Access Point and not much more. But I have a lot of other things running Linux (the Pis, the NSLU2, the Pogo Plug and 586 SBC).
Woody hardware?
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com <mailto:ncherry@linuxha.com> http://www.linuxha.com/ <http://www.linuxha.com/> Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ <http://linuxha.blogspot.com/> My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
If anyone wants to play with Asterisk as a project for VCF, let me know *off list*. There will be another mini-server (identical to the tablet server) available shortly. Same deal, would need a hard disk and memory I may even have a T1 card for it to use with the rack-mount ADIT600 channel banks I gave VCF a while back (if you don't want to mess with the Ethernet router card) Martin Flynn On 3/24/2018 1:22 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
If you mean the WRT54G, folks have OpenWRT on it and have done some interesting things. But most use it as a router :-). I recall Asterisk being put on it. I use it as a Wireless Access Point and not much more. But I have a lot of other things running Linux (the Pis, the NSLU2, the Pogo Plug and 586 SBC).
If anyone wants to play with Asterisk as a project for VCF
VCF has no need for an Asterisk installation. On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 6:34 PM Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
If anyone wants to play with Asterisk as a project for VCF, let me know *off list*. There will be another mini-server (identical to the tablet server) available shortly. Same deal, would need a hard disk and memory
I may even have a T1 card for it to use with the rack-mount ADIT600 channel banks I gave VCF a while back (if you don't want to mess with the Ethernet router card)
Martin Flynn
On 3/24/2018 1:22 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
If you mean the WRT54G, folks have OpenWRT on it and have done some interesting things. But most use it as a router :-). I recall Asterisk being put on it. I use it as a Wireless Access Point and not much more. But I have a lot of other things running Linux (the Pis, the NSLU2, the Pogo Plug and 586 SBC).
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2018, at 6:41 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
If anyone wants to play with Asterisk as a project for VCF
VCF has no need for an Asterisk installation.
Perhaps we don't, but thanks for the offer Martin!! And for the server, and and and the list goes on!! Tony :-)
I have a large number of old Polycom IP phones sitting around from upgrades at work. If you could use a couple drop me a line... On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:50 PM Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 24, 2018, at 6:41 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
If anyone wants to play with Asterisk as a project for VCF
VCF has no need for an Asterisk installation.
Perhaps we don't, but thanks for the offer Martin!! And for the server, and and and the list goes on!!
Tony :-)
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
I have a large number of old Polycom IP phones sitting around from upgrades at work. If you could use a couple drop me a line...
Thanks but I don't think we need those. Even if we do have to use Asterisk vs. our simple PBX, we would still connect 1980s-era simple telephones so museum visitors get the real(ish) experience. Bill Lange donated some of those.
I have a black wall mount rotary phone. But I guess that’s more 60’s and 70’s. On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:28 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I have a large number of old Polycom IP phones sitting around from upgrades at work. If you could use a couple drop me a line...
Thanks but I don't think we need those. Even if we do have to use Asterisk vs. our simple PBX, we would still connect 1980s-era simple telephones so museum visitors get the real(ish) experience. Bill Lange donated some of those.
-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
That was more a message to the rest of the group. If the museum needs any 2500 desk phones, I have a box of ~20 sitting at my parents I'd be happy to donate. -J On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan@vcfed.org> wrote:
I have a large number of old Polycom IP phones sitting around from upgrades
at work. If you could use a couple drop me a line...
Thanks but I don't think we need those. Even if we do have to use Asterisk vs. our simple PBX, we would still connect 1980s-era simple telephones so museum visitors get the real(ish) experience. Bill Lange donated some of those.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085
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