OT linksys wrt54g third-party firmware

[Stephen J. Smith]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 09:30, Dave Reed wrote:
> Please report back (at least to me if not the list). I've got the same
> router (never touched the firmware so it's got whatever it came with)
> but have been toying with using the sveasoft firmware since it
> supports QoS which I'd like to use with my voip service. I'm currently
> using a Coyote software router but this would probably reduce
> electricity usage.

Hi Dave.  There are several third-party firmwares available for the
Linksys wrt54g.  A web page that catalogs several of them is
http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=2.

I decided to go with firmware from wifibox's project, which is hosted on
sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/.

I installed his latest firmware (2.02.2.1pre) first, but it also had the
stp message spamming problem.  Now I am running version 2.00.8.1h of his
firmware, and the stp problem is gone.

Wifibox's firmware adds a reboot button to the admin interface, which is
very handy.  Now I can feel a little more confident that the wrt54g is
really doing what I told it through the admin interface, just by
pressing the reboot button.

I also had to turn the transmit power up from 25% to 100% (another
feature of the new firmware).  I just couldn't resist!  I haven't had a
chance to measure the benefits (if any) of the increased power yet.

ESR wrote a howto on these Linksys beasties that you might be interested
in: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/index.html.

Do you know if your router is version 2 or 1?  I think it matters but
I'm not sure.  Mine is version 2.  It says "WRT54G ver. 2" under model
number on the bottom side of the case.

As far as upgrading the firmware, I just used the web admin interface
and it seemed to work fine.  I have seen it recommended to use tftp
instead.  I think tftp used to be the _only_ way from Linux.

That's about all I know.  Good luck!

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