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Hi was thinking about getting a mini PC to run as my router and making my old routers dumb APs.
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product … 95648.html
The network card in that one is a RTL8168E PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
I herd that Realtek drivers are shit in openwrt. Is this true?
How hard is it to install openwrt x86?
if it's to hard i could just use opensense.
No probs.. I used realteks in x86 (both openwrt and other distros)
thanks
This card for years had crashes in default r8169 driver. Only recently it was fixed.
Before that had to download and compile r8168 driver from realtek website.
For openwrt kmod compilation is more complex that ordinary linux.
So I'd use the latest possible kernel. In openwrt it means using latest distro (not sure if CC is unaffacted) or even trunk (kernel is very new there). If you use trunk then you cant rely on network package repo because it will update many times and will invalidate optional kmods. Have to download repo with some web bulk download software and point opkg config to local location.
If you can find intel gigabit network card. Its stable.
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