On Wednesday, December 05, 2012 10:05:10, Jack Chastain wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:10 PM, dragorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's a Netgear unit - after my recent experience, I am not tempted to > > > purchase from NetGear again. I was looking at some similar-priced new > > > Linksys units though and was wondering what the current equivalent for > > > > the > > > > > WRT54g might be. > > > > Yes, but once you slap openwrt on it it doesn't matter much anymore. > > The key part is it's a fairly competent bit of hardware w/ plenty of > > processor and flash. > > That's a fair point. > > DD-WRT is listed as INCOMPATABLE for the WGR614v10 that I have and I don't > see the model class at all on openwrt.
Curious: /some/ of the WGR614 model versions are supported by DD-WRT, and others are not. The WGR614v10 apparently has a low amount of NVRAM (24k) which is thought to be one of the reasons why DD-WRT doesn't work on it. Manufacturer Model Revision Supported Activation required Netgear WGR614 v4 no no Netgear WGR614 v5 not possible no Netgear WGR614 v6 wip no Netgear WGR614 v7 not possible no Netgear WGR614 v8 yes no Netgear WGR614 v9 no no Netgear WGR614 WW yes no Netgear WGR614L L yes no Netgear WGT624 v2 wip no > That would mean that I would have to buy a new one to start with - and I am > not willing to do that with Netgear right now. Personal thing. Since Paul is > loaning me a compatible unit, I will play with (at least) DD-WRT on that and > see if it makes sense to do something else. A quick note: most of the wrt54g models are supported by dd-wrt, but not the v7 version. OpenWRT is too large to put on a wrt54g, but fits on the wrt54gl. > I may consider purchasing a Netgear later though. If I find the Linksys > adequate, it should be enough to put either DD-WRT or openwrt on that - and > then maybe pick something up later on when things get more critical. > > I'm not pushing this stuff very hard really. Where you're using the wireless router as an AP rather than as a router, the only reason to try dd-wrt would be to see if it was more reliable than the stock firmware (on whichever router you put it on). -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Dec 5 - SysAdmin Panel Jan 9 - High Performance Computing Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi
