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OpenWRT on a TL-MR3020 or TL-WR703N. They're broadly similar, although the 703 is physically slightly smaller, cheaper, and Chinese (but easily acquired via eBa

OpenWRT on a TL-MR3020 or TL-WR703N. They're broadly similar, although the 703 is physically slightly smaller, cheaper, and Chinese (but easily acquired via eBay). They have ethernet, WiFi, and USB. I'm using a TL-MR3020 with OpenWRT as the basis of a telepresence robot I'm working on. It has a USB hub connecting it to a flash drive (mounted as a filesystem), camera, and a microcontroller for motor control etc. It works really well. http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020 http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020 http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n

Yaa101 14y ago
Thanks for replying, I got a similar option down this thread on tomatousb. The hardware specs of these are a little bit too lightweighted for me, like I said below, in itself the idea to put that functionality into a router is great.
- threedaymonk 14y ago
  Ah, I thought your concerns were about outdated hardware or software (the TL-MR3020 is on sale now, and I'm running Linux 3.3.8 on mine). It's definitely not a powerful machine, though, you're right. You can hardly fit anything on the internal flash, and you can only recover flash space by setting it all back to first boot state again, so setting up an external overlay is the first thing you have to do. I think I only have about 10MB of RAM free, too. It sounds like the Raspberry Pi would actually suit you better than most of the alternatives.
  - Yaa101 14y ago
    The reason I asked here is mainly because for my usage, the RaspberryPI is unbalanced towards graphical usage, where as I want to see less graphical power and more cpu power and more memory instead of flash. All these projects seem to want to either move your desktop to it or make it a media center. I just want it to be a SSH and webserver that can handle occasional spikes of usage, like for instance private music streaming. For that I now have a Dell with duo xeon processor, each with 2 cores, which is pure overkill, and it makes noise too.

Yaa101 14y ago

Thanks for replying, I got a similar option down this thread on tomatousb. The hardware specs of these are a little bit too lightweighted for me, like I said below, in itself the idea to put that functionality into a router is great.

threedaymonk 14y ago
Ah, I thought your concerns were about outdated hardware or software (the TL-MR3020 is on sale now, and I'm running Linux 3.3.8 on mine). It's definitely not a powerful machine, though, you're right. You can hardly fit anything on the internal flash, and you can only recover flash space by setting it all back to first boot state again, so setting up an external overlay is the first thing you have to do. I think I only have about 10MB of RAM free, too. It sounds like the Raspberry Pi would actually suit you better than most of the alternatives.
- Yaa101 14y ago
  The reason I asked here is mainly because for my usage, the RaspberryPI is unbalanced towards graphical usage, where as I want to see less graphical power and more cpu power and more memory instead of flash. All these projects seem to want to either move your desktop to it or make it a media center. I just want it to be a SSH and webserver that can handle occasional spikes of usage, like for instance private music streaming. For that I now have a Dell with duo xeon processor, each with 2 cores, which is pure overkill, and it makes noise too.