Linksys EA6500 with DD-WRT

The EA6500 (Version 2) is a very high quality router. In fact, it's almost as powerful as a Raspberry PI 3 -- if it had one gig of memory and more disk space, it could be used as a cheapo computer.

DD-WRT has very good firmware for the EA6500. The install was very painless and the performance of the firmware has been great.

root@ea6500:~# uname -a
Linux ea6500 4.4.6 #565 SMP Mon Apr 4 05:06:33 CEST 2016 armv7l DD-WRT

It seems that the wireless supported is limited on OpenWRT (which is such a shame). 

Shibby Tomato also supports the EA6500. 

CPU:

root@ea6500:/proc# cat cpuinfo

model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)

processor : 0

BogoMIPS : 1594.16

Features : half fastmult edsp tls 

CPU implementer : 0x41

CPU architecture: 7

CPU variant : 0x3

CPU part : 0xc09

CPU revision : 0

model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)

processor : 1

BogoMIPS : 1594.16

Features : half fastmult edsp tls 

CPU implementer : 0x41

CPU architecture: 7

CPU variant : 0x3

CPU part : 0xc09

CPU revision : 0

Hardware : Northstar Prototype

Revision : 0000

Serial : 0000000000000000

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_EA6500_v2

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=44218 (OpenWRT discussion about the EA6500)

Note: the EA6500 has no fan and the CPU can run very hot -- make sure that room temperature is not that hot, otherwise the router will crash.