Installation in a router?

[sironitomas]

Hi people. I heard most of the home routers and access points have a ARM processor inside. Pardon me for the ignorance, but is it possible to install this distribution in one of those devices? Something like ddwrt.

Thanks.

[tritron]

What wireless router do you have ? You need to install distribution designed for your router. Now is posible to install many aplications to router such as asterisk, MiniDLNA
and many others.

[sironitomas]

I asked because it's more accessible to buy a router and experiment with it, than buying a development board. Believe me, getting a Panda Board or something similar in Argentina could be more expensive than a complete computer.

I think the best home routers out there are Linksys, but I don't know any with more than 16 mb of flash memory, which is too little to install a whole Arch. May be we can use a USB port to plug a pen drive and install there?

[kmihelich]

Routers run extremely limited software on extremely limited hardware. They are purpose-built for running the tiny amount of software they have designed for it to accomplish routing tasks. In your average retail router, there isn't enough horsepower to run a full Linux OS.

[kmihelich]

The nicer routers generally have a MIPS core though, not ARM. So they're out.