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Re: [How to] Install Asterisk on an Asus WL-520GU router At Newegg about 6 weeks ago, I looked at the WL-520GU and it was $49 with free shipping. The WL-500gp was $69 and there are mega versions of DD-WRT which already have Asterisk installed. Wouldn't it have been easier to pop for another $20 and install the mega version of DD-WRT with Asterisk?
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maziloFrom MaziloPremium
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kudos:1 | said by pandora:At Newegg about 6 weeks ago, I looked at the WL-520GU and it was $49 with free shipping. The WL-500gp was $69 and there are mega versions of DD-WRT which already have Asterisk installed. Wouldn't it have been easier to pop for another $20 and install the mega version of DD-WRT with Asterisk? If that is the case, I definitely will go with a WL-500GP v1 for additional $20. Not only the CPU is clocked to 266MHz, but also the unit comes with a built-in 32MB RAM as compared to a 200MHz with a 16MB RAM on WL-520GU.
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said by pandora:Wouldn't it have been easier to pop for another $20 and install the mega version of DD-WRT with Asterisk? You can get the mega version of DD-WRT to run on the WL-520gU with a USB flash drive. The idea is that you flash the router with the mini/standard version of DD-WRT and then mod it so it boots from the flash drive (which has the mega version on it). I've been doing this since the beginning of the year and it's been working great! See this thread for details:
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said by mazilo:If that is the case, I definitely will go with a WL-500GP v1 for additional $20. Not only the CPU is clocked to 266MHz, but also the unit comes with a built-in 32MB RAM as compared to a 200MHz with a 16MB RAM on WL-520GU. It's not only RAM and CPU speed, but the WL-500gp has 8MB of flash while the WL-520gu has only 4MB. You can flash meta DD-WRT to the 500-gp, but not to the 520gu.
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said by Boolah:You can get the mega version of DD-WRT to run on the WL-520gU with a USB flash drive. The idea is that you flash the router with the mini/standard version of DD-WRT and then mod it so it boots from the flash drive (which has the mega version on it). I've been doing this since the beginning of the year and it's been working great! See this thread for details: » www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=44448 That is very clever, and could be used by developers to build test firmwares without bricking routers.
Thanks for the link!
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said by pandora:Wouldn't it have been easier to pop for another $20 and install the mega version of DD-WRT with Asterisk? As I mentioned before, I opted for Tomato because of its QoS reputation and also because USB support in DD-WRT is rumored to be very tricky (though Boolah didn't mention having any problem with it.)
The reason I chose the WL-520GU is that the main purpose of the exercise was to build a functioning Asterisk box that used as little power as possible, for as little cost as possible. I got my router for CA$37 (about US$34). So far, I've had five simultaneous calls in progress at once and the unit didn't even break a sweat. For a home PBX, a unit this size is ideal, at least until my wife figures out how to talk to more than six of her friends at once 
said by phdeez:Do you think you could install Asterisk on CIFS if your router doesn't have a USB port? I would think that would be very possible. I did have music-on-hold files on a CIFS mount while I was testing something, and it worked perfectly well. So, I don't see why not!
said by wifi4milez:Does this install allow for the GUI to be used? I didn't install the GUI in an effort to use as small a footprint as possible. Actually, I found the syntax for the config files quite easy to learn so I haven't even tried. I will post what I used once I've tested them a bit more.
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kudos:1 | said by wifi4milez:Do you know if it would even be possible to load the GUI on this device? AFAIK, I haven't seen the GUI part from any asterisk distro ported to an asterisk for an embedded device, yet. I can only speculate the reason is perhaps most Linux embedded devices come with a limited Flash space that may not be sufficient to hold the GUI codes. OTOH, DD-WRT has a built-in simple GUI editor to edit asterisk *.conf files.
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kudos:1 | said by global_dev:I vaguely remember that my NSLU2 had a port of AsteriskNOW! or something like that and it sort of worked. Cool. Then, it shouldn't be hard to port it to OpenWRT to run on a device with a USB2 port. |
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New York, NY | said by mazilo:said by global_dev:I vaguely remember that my NSLU2 had a port of AsteriskNOW! or something like that and it sort of worked. Cool. Then, it shouldn't be hard to port it to OpenWRT to run on a device with a USB2 port. How much flash is required for a new version of Asterisk with a GUI anyway?
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