Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-18 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 10:23 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > If you get into this, be careful not to "brick" one trying to double > > the available ram. I had two new WRTs and it worked on the one but > > I got burned on the other. I shouldn't have taken the chance :( > > My WRT54GS has 32 mb of

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Torrie
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:36 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 10:23 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > If you get into this, be careful not to "brick" one trying to double > > > the available ram. I had two new WRTs and it worked on the one but > > > I got burned on the other

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-18 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 23:07 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > I also settled on OpenWRT for all the same reasons. It is a very > hackable, cheap and reliable chunk of hardware. > > If you get into this, be careful not to "brick" one trying to double the > available ram. I had two new WRTs and it

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-18 Thread Chris Carey
--- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:01 -0700, Chris Carey > wrote: > > > Also please check out my GKrellM for WRT54G page: > > http://chriscarey.us/software/gkrellm/wrt54g/ > > Is this binary stripped? 400K seems a little big > for a very simple > daemon.

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-17 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 16:33 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > After reviewing the alternatives, I settled on openwrt[4]. I also settled on OpenWRT for all the same reasons. It is a very hackable, cheap and reliable chunk of hardware. If you get into this, be careful not to "brick" one trying to dou

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-17 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:01 -0700, Chris Carey wrote: > Also please check out my GKrellM for WRT54G page: > http://chriscarey.us/software/gkrellm/wrt54g/ Is this binary stripped? 400K seems a little big for a very simple daemon. I'd strip it myself, but my mips toolchain isn't built yet. > >

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-17 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:01 -0700, Chris Carey wrote: > Interesting. I am currently running Freeman from > TheIndividual on my v2 box and Alchemy 1 from > TheIndividual on my v1.1 box. > > The main feature I wanted for them was WDS and the two > work great together. > > Id like to look into this

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-17 Thread Chris Carey
Interesting. I am currently running Freeman from TheIndividual on my v2 box and Alchemy 1 from TheIndividual on my v1.1 box. The main feature I wanted for them was WDS and the two work great together. Id like to look into this OpenWRT though. It is able to seperate certain ports (of the four lan

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-17 Thread Michael Torrie
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 13:49 -0700, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 12:49, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > Anyone messed around with putting a different Linux on one of these > > wireless routers? What works best? What has the least risk? What are > > you doing with it now that it's ope

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-03-14 Thread Jon Gale
> Anyone messed around with putting a different Linux on one of these > wireless routers? What works best? What has the least risk? What are > you doing with it now that it's opened up? For those XBox gamers out there, the XLink KAIStation firmware is awesome: http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/ I be

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-03-14 Thread Peter Bowen
I don't generally say - Me too... but I'll make an exception in this case. I'm running an older WiFiBox. I used the openWRT and was one of the early beta testers. The coolest thing is that you can set the router to tftp a new image on boot so that if you mess up you haven't created a brick -

RE: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-03-14 Thread JStay
I currently run a hacked WRT54G at home. I have tried various distros, from WifiBox to Sveasoft, to generic Linksys, but I have ended up on openwrt (http://www.openwrt.org). This firmware is very stable, and also starts out very basic. You can then add components as needed down the road via it's

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:49:46PM -0700, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > Anyone messed around with putting a different Linux on one of these > wireless routers? What works best? What has the least risk? What are > you doing with it now that it's opened up? I haven't even bought one yet. But this lo

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-03-12 Thread Corey Edwards
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 12:49, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > Anyone messed around with putting a different Linux on one of these > wireless routers? What works best? What has the least risk? What are > you doing with it now that it's opened up? There was a discussion on the list a while ago starting

Re: Hacking the Linksys WRT54G

2005-03-12 Thread Stephen Shaw
I had done some search on this once before. There is a lot of info out there. Unfortunately it seemed like the bigger one you had to pay for. You always have to option of downloading the source ( never personally done so, so I don't know what is exactly in the source, etc). -Stephen Gabriel