[Tfug] Routers

Eric Gearhart eric at nixwizard.net
Fri Jan 23 08:34:47 MST 2009


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
<angussf at geoapps.com> wrote:
> Actually the WRT54Gv5 is NOT flashable -- not enough flash storage (2mb instead
> of 4mb).  After they "upgraded" the v4 to the v5, the dd-wrt people discovered
> they could no longer "upgrade" the native OS to their own distro.  The 54GL was
> brought out in response to demand for the older versions with more RAM as sales
> dropped off significantly enough to get Linksys's attention.

Angus,

The two v5 WRTs at my house that are running DD-WRT micro disagree.

The procedure is more involved, but it's doable:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php?title=Flash_Your_Version_5_WRT54G

--
Eric
http://nixwizard.net




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