[PLUG] Recommended wifi router for OpenWRT?

m0gely m0gely at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 01:41:39 UTC 2010


Mike Connors wrote:
> Scott Garman wrote:
>> In my cursory Google searches on this topic it appears that not all
>> hardware revisions of the WRT54GL have the same processor and work with
>> OpenWRT. Is that true?
> - I don't know about the "GL" series, but version 5 WRT54G and WRT54GS cannot be flashed to OpenWrt
> (they have less memory, and run a version of VxWorks, rather than linux).

Why can't it? You can put DD-WRT on them. There is a method to remove 
VXWorks. The reasons not to get the non-L version is the limited memory 
and the fact that the antennas are now non-removable.

At this point however it's probably time to start looking at N capable 
hardware.

-- 
m0gely



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