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Linuksys WRT54GL

Daniel, I also recently installed a WRT on the Linksys WRT54GL. But I used DD-WRT instructions – went to http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database, entered my model number and got direct download links to the firmware along with a README.

One very important points in flashing these routers is to clear the NVRAM by doing a hard reset BEFORE and AFTER an upgrade to a different type of software on the device. Also, starting with a micro build is strongly recommended.

In any case the hardware looks to be very solid, especially if you don’t need gigabit ethernet and n wireless, but might need some advanced networking features.

This was written by aigarius. Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at 08:03. Filed under debian, Debian-planet, hardware, linux. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.
 

5 Comments

  1. Claudio wrote:

    I know there is a readme, but can you tell me why did you do the firmware change? I have the same device and it is the first time I am happy with an original firmware. Wifi connection is stable and the router can handle lots of torrent connections, etc. Something in particular that makes the “upgrade” worthwhile?

    Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 09:03 | Permalink
  2. aigarius wrote:

    Well, I bought the hardware specifically with the purpose of using DD-WRT on it. I am used to it and happy with it working as DNS-cache, stable IPs given via DHCP, uPNP support, easy traffic priority scheduling and it is smaller leaving more RAM for all the connection info and such.

    Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 11:03 | Permalink
  3. Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:

    Btw, those DD-WRT instructions seem to install the non-free Linux-2.4.x-only wlan driver.

    If you want to use free software you can build openwrt from svn and get Linux 2.6.x with free driver. Here are my notes:

    # my hardware is wrt54gl v1.1

    svn co svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk/ openwrt
    # On 2009-11-21 I got revision 18459

    # alternatively you can use git clone git://nbd.name/openwrt.git openwrt-git

    # choose “# Broadcom BCM947xx/953xx”
    # make

    # hit enter twice (a bug, asks about kernel options but the question is not visible)

    # flash bin/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin to the device

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 00:03 | Permalink
  4. Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:

    Whoops, sorry, I meant the instructions on Daniel’s page. I have no idea which driver DD-WRT is installing.

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 00:03 | Permalink
  5. yonkeltron wrote:

    I actually run tomato on my router but I know others like other things. The hardware is really solid!

    Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 21:03 | Permalink

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