[lug] tips on upgrading a WRT54G

[Brian Talley]

I installed DD-WRT on a WRT54GL a few weeks ago.  It's been running
great.  I was also looking at OpenWRT, but it looked like it might
take a little more time to get configured - which I didn't have.

DD-WRT was forked from Sveasoft - I'm not sure how long ago.

I also found Tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato/) although I
didn't try it.

The DD-WRT has pretty good firmware installation instructions on it's
wiki.  However, whenever you are flashing new firmware, you run the
risk of "bricking" the device.  It's a chance you take.  In this case,
just make sure you have a stable power connection to the router and a
stable Ethernet connection between the computer you're flashing from
and the router.

Just an FYI: I'm not sure if it's still the case, but when I installed
DD-WRT they were recommending NOT using FireFox because of some bug.

Have fun,
BST

On 3/9/07, Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
> I've got one of these at home, it's about 2 years old now I think, that
> is giving us some problems (seems to lock up loading pages with lots of
> thumbnails from my wife's website).  I want to upgrade it - never done
> it before.  Not sure which model I have since I'm at work but I'll check
> it when I go home for lunch.  Looking for tips on doing an upgrade
> without turning it into a doorstop.
>
> I found the following sites related to this box.  Anyone got any others
> they can recommend?  Anyone have a recommended firmware distribution?  I
> see OpenWRT and DD-WRT, not to mention the commercial Sveasoft option.
> I'm sure there are others.
>
> http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php
> http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php
> http://www.wrt54g.net/
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Michael J. Hammel                                    Senior Software Engineer
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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