[nmglug] DD-WRT on a Linksys WRT54GS version 1

[Sam Noble]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 20:03 -0600, Irish wrote:
> Linksys WRT54GS for $8 from Goodwill? Score! Now I have a spare
> router/WAP to put DD-WRT. W00tness!

Nice find!

> Not that I have figured out that it is a version 1 of the router/WAP;
> I am in DD-WRTs wiki trying to determine which firmware I should be
> using. It mentions using VINTage - which I assume is different than
> the latest firmware?
> 
> Anyone else gone down this path and can give some pointers so I don't
> create a brick? TIA!

I've not used DD-WRT, but I'm sure you're aware that it's a fork of
openwrt. I have been super pleased with Kamikaze branch of OpenWRT, it
operates much more like a normal little GNU/Linux distribution than the
older White Russian releases. Lots of people used forks like DD-WRT just
for the web interface, so I'll point out that there's a pretty good web
interface for openwrt these days that you can find at x-wrt.org

I have a coworker that installed x-wrt about a month ago and got a
pretty buggy version of the gui, But I've installed it lots of other
times and been very pleased.