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I've got a non-standard application..
I am going to install this thing in my car, alongside a trunk mounted computer.
The main reason I want to use OpenWRT is so that, at boot time(when i turn on the ignition), it will use wake-on-lan to power-on my computer. A little wardriving will be fun too though..
Is this as simple as buying a WRT54G[S], installing OpenWRT, installing the wol package, and then editing the start-up script to send the 'Magic Packet' to my computer?
I think so 
Ok, I got the WRT54G v.3 from circuit city, $40 after rebates..
I know it's listed on the ToH as experimental, is it pretty stable or not?
Currently my dad has version 1.1 or 1.0, so I could just swap them, he'd never know..
Is there any problem with unplugging this thing after openwrt is on it? I mean, it's not necessary to telnet in, and do 'shutdown -h now' or anything like that right?
It's all flash memory and circuit board, so I'm guessing it's safe to just power down..
There aren't even any shutdown scripts.. I haven't tried to see if shutdown -h now works.
It should be safe to power down at any point, as long as you don't have an important file open for writing...
As far as stability of experimental, I think you're safe. The devs are currently in the process of thinking of a new name, other than experimental to reflect the true nature of its stability. The older "stable" builds are quickly becoming obselete.
I'm running a v3 and haven't had any problems, though I haven't been using it for any wild stuff, though it looks like you aren't either.
See these:
http://openwrt.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1598
http://openwrt.org/ (mbm's 5/24/2005 release announcement saying that old releases are obselete)
Great, I'll have to attempt the upgrade tonight. I think I used tftp once, a long, long time ago.
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