[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G bridging

[Greg Brown]

I have about a dozen of these units running at various locations all are
flashed with OpenWRT.  The benefits for me are the ability to run a single
antenna and reduced power (both necessary to use amplification).  The GL
routers are a snap to upgrade, just boot the Linksys firmware and use the
Linksys web interface to upgrade the code.  Very nice and easy.  No hacking
to set boot_wait or anything like that.

OpenWRT is also a snap to set up in mesh and repeater modes.   Bridge mode
is fairly straight-foward as well, just read up on the "wet" or "sta" modes.

Greg

On 11/6/06, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 06 November 2006 10:32 am, Brian Henning wrote:
> > Hiya Gang,
> >    If I pick up another WRT54G[L] and manage to successfully flash it
> > with OpenWRT,
>
> Curious -- what's the benefits of flashing the access point with new
> firmware?
> In my situation, it looks to me like the problems are in the wireless
> NICs,
> not the access point (of course I could be wrong). Isn't flashing your
> hardware rather risky? If you didn't like OpenWRT, could you put it back
> to
> the factory firmware?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
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