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

[Irish]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Sam Noble <sam at thepromisedlan.org> wrote:
> 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!

Exactly what I thought Sam! :) I have been surprised on occasion
digging through the thrift stores in Santa Fe & ABQ. Have also found a
APC 1U racmount with a SNMP monitoring card & hub, and HP Business
Inkjet 1200 that I thought were worth bringing home. There have been
some other finds - but if it does not power up, or if I don't think
all the cords are there I'll leave it.

[snip]
>
> 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.

Oh yea, I vaguely recall the presentation I caught at Toorcon 3 or 4
years ago that mentioned the tree forks leading up to DD-WRT.

So from one of the folks on my "old" LUG mailing list, they confirmed
that for this version 1 to use the VIN subtype .bin (the VIN subtype
is for the older radio types, like WRT54GSv1). Did not brick, and
works great.

Sadly, it dd-wrt will not work on my old BEFW11S4 Ver 3. :(

I will take at look at x-wrt - thanks for the pointer Sam.

Irish