After receiving an alarming amount of Avalon's that are being mutilated during shipment with stripped screw holes and broken TPLINK routers, I am offering a $500 USD Bounty for a tutorial to run Avalon directly from a linux machine. There simply must be a way to do this.
These TPLINK routers are very cheaply made and break extremely easy. I have bought replacements from here:
http://www.cutedigi.com/wireless/wifi/tl-wr703n-clone-with-openwrt-usb-camera-support-ttl-uart.html
I was able to hook it up to the Avalon in the usual way and even update the firmware to the latest Avalon firmware and set up all the settings. However It never connects to any pools.
I am told Avalon modified their TPLINKs so replacements wont work. I do not know if this is true or not. However this is going to become more and more of a problem as more Avalons come into the wild.
There must be a way to just run this from linux through the USB hub. There must be.
$500 USD paid in Bitcoin to the gentleman who ends my pain.
-JJ
C. Ethernet connection
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Avalon#WIFI_or_Ethernet_Cable_.3F
You plug in a ethernet cable, browse to 192.168.0.100, reconfigure network and add your mining pools.
/sleep