The trick being finding an OpenWRT-capable device that supports ADSL and WiFi. The WiFi situation is pretty much sorted with the Broadcom-based units like the NB6 but there's no driver for the ADSL core in the Broadcom chips. The only units I could find that had OpenWRT support for ADSL and WiFi were the AR7-based devices but they're both no longer on the market and their WiFi support was flakey, at least according to reports.
The only FOSSgeek solution that really works at the moment is to get the cheapest ADSL-capable device you can find, whack it in bridge mode and run it into something running the OS of your choice and getting it to talk PPPoE. Given I've got the NB6 (gateway + 802.11g), an AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and a Sipura SPA3000 (VoIP) clustered around my phone point I didn't really want to add extra boxes.
The other facet is that I've grown averse to blowing spare time dicking around with things when I feel I don't need to. Part of that is reflected in me being a Mac geek these days (no more Xorg.conf, wpa_supplicant.conf, hunting specific driver sources, etc, etc, etc) but also being quite happy to use devices like the NB6 et al instead of hand-rolling kit like I used to. The potentially strange thing is that I'm not overly upset by this. I used to care about it but now I have other things I want to work on and mucking around with those things would just take time away from those.
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Date: 2010-11-03 09:41 pm (UTC)The only FOSSgeek solution that really works at the moment is to get the cheapest ADSL-capable device you can find, whack it in bridge mode and run it into something running the OS of your choice and getting it to talk PPPoE. Given I've got the NB6 (gateway + 802.11g), an AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and a Sipura SPA3000 (VoIP) clustered around my phone point I didn't really want to add extra boxes.
The other facet is that I've grown averse to blowing spare time dicking around with things when I feel I don't need to. Part of that is reflected in me being a Mac geek these days (no more Xorg.conf, wpa_supplicant.conf, hunting specific driver sources, etc, etc, etc) but also being quite happy to use devices like the NB6 et al instead of hand-rolling kit like I used to. The potentially strange thing is that I'm not overly upset by this. I used to care about it but now I have other things I want to work on and mucking around with those things would just take time away from those.