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The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 26, 2006 17:43 UTC (Thu) by carcassonne (guest, #31569)
Parent article: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

"I procured a Linksys WRT54G-v4 router, borrowed a Windows XP box to get the router going, ..."

What did they do to the router ? I bought a WRT54GS last year and there was absolutely no need of using Windows to get it going. Just hook a network cable to it, look into the user manual for the default IP and password and there you are, isn't it ?

I bought a Linksys NSLU2 yesterday and although it comes with a Windows Wizard (or such) CDROM I expect the same approach to use it with Linux: all configuration is done through the network web interface. The Wizard is just candy.

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The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 29, 2006 11:55 UTC (Sun) by carcassonne (guest, #31569) [Link]

Moreover for large-enough devices that can host a simple http server. There's no need then to have a Windows/IE-only path to configuration.

At least the Linksys WRT54GS I bought last year has a direct way to configure it through the web pages it serves and now I can say that it's the same for the Linksys network storage unit NSLU2 I bought last week.

Since both of these devices runs Linux, it is no surprise that both has Linux alternatives (and many alternate packages to run) one can use. For the NSLU2 there's unslung/OpenSlug (with some 6697 packages available ! - I still think they made a typo with the number and/or that there's a catch somewhere) and for the WRT54GS there's at least OpenWRT.

Both of these adds to the devices quite a few possibilities and uses. Nice little under-$100 projects for sure, that also can be useful for corporate environments.

NSLU2 packages

Posted Feb 3, 2006 11:23 UTC (Fri) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048) [Link]

Certainly it depends on the enabled package feeds, but just now I typed "ipkg list | wc" on my beloved NSLU2 running OpenSlug, and got 5529 lines.

So the 6697 figure is not that wrong, it certainly depends on the feeds you use.

And btw, I strongly recommend the NSLU2 if you need a cheap and versatile server at home, which will not be noticed on your electricity bill even if you keep it on line 24/7 :-)

NSLU2 packages

Posted Feb 4, 2006 2:43 UTC (Sat) by carcassonne (guest, #31569) [Link]

To be fair, I think the list should boil down to:

ipkg list | grep -v locale | grep -v unicore | wc -l

For instance, I've installed Perl quite a few times (Perl standard distribution) and there were none of these unicore single packages. In fact, CPAN turns out almost nothing on 'unicore'. Why are all those little packages present under Perl in the ipkg list for the NSLU2, I don't know. Maybe this has to do with building for this type of CPU architecture.

Still, there's a lot of packages available. Next, I'll try emacs ;-)